BNP has called on the Muslim-majority countries to take strong, united action to halt the mass killings and atrocities committed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said yesterday that no country wishes Bangladesh well more than India.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against 18 people, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her daughter Saima Wazed Putul, on charges of irregularities in plot allocation in Purbachal New Town.

The 90-day suspension of reciprocal tariffs by the US has brought a much-needed reprieve for Bangladesh’s readymade garment sector, which had been preparing for a potential slowdown in orders and pricing pressures.

The four-day Bangladesh Investment Summit concluded yesterday, creating interest among foreign investors, but they raised concerns over access to resources, policy continuity and corruption.

Exporters in Bangladesh’s garment sector face a moment of reckoning over how they will manage urgent international shipments after India abruptly closed a transshipment route that had grown popular for air cargo.

A mob beat two men to death in the capital’s Kamrangirchar on Wednesday while a neighbour allegedly tortured a rickshaw-puller to death in Kushtia yesterday.

Four lorries carrying garment products were refused access to Petrapole Port on Wednesday, hours after India cancelled a transit facility that allowed Bangladesh to export goods to third countries through its airports.

Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday said that people are telling them to stay for five more years.

Islami Andolan Bangladesh (IAB) has formally proposed renaming the country to the “People’s Welfare State of Bangladesh” or in Bangla, “Bangladesh Jonokalyan Rastro” as part of a broader push for political and constitutional reforms.

The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal yesterday requested the home ministry to seek Interpol red notices against nine ministers and an adviser of the previous Awami League government.

Hospitals across Barishal are witnessing an alarming rise in diarrhoea cases, prompting serious concern among health officials over the increasing number of patients.

The High Court has refused to grant anticipatory bail to Sharmin Akhter Tamanna, wife of Chattogram’s one of the most wanted criminals Sazzad Hossain alias Choto Sazzad, and ordered her to surrender before the lower court concerned in four weeks in connection with a murder case filed in Chattogram.

The government should take steps to save the lives of abandoned newborns and ensure their welfare, said speakers at a press conference yesterday.

The National Citizen Party (NCP) has called for the entire process of government job recruitments through the BCS examination -- from issuance of the circular to publishing the final results -- to be completed within one year.

Police Week 2025, the largest annual gathering of the Bangladesh Police, is set to begin on April 29, following months of uncertainty.

Eighteen medical staff, including three doctors, provide services there

The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) yesterday announced that investigations into four major cases of crimes against humanity, committed during the July uprising, are either completed or nearing completion.

A school playground in Shialkhowa village under Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila has been leased out for setting up a haat (rural market), angering students, teachers and guardians.

On November 26, he was made an ambassador