Anti-graft watchdog urges govt to disclose Humaiun Kobir’s citizenship status, says his technocrat appointment would be unconstitutional if he retained foreign citizenship when taking office

The minister said Denmark can play an important role in key sectors such as water supply and waste management in Bangladesh

Says barrages or switchgates could help control flooding and support agriculture

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir yesterday avoided a question about whether he had renounced his British citizenship, instead asking who raised the issue and why the media was so concerned.

The International Crimes Tribunal‑2 yesterday sent three journalists to jail after showing them arrested in a crimes against humanity case linked to the July uprising.

The draft National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Act will not pave the way for an independent and effective commission, speakers told a discussion yesterday.

A businessman was hacked to death near his home in Sylhet’s Shahparan Islamabad on Sunday night, police said.

The High Court yesterday upheld the death sentences of two of the 16 convicts -- then Sonagazi Islamia Fazil Madrasa principal SM Siraj-Ud-Dowlah and his aide Shahadat Hossain Shamim -- in the murder case of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi in 2019.

Today marks the sixth death anniversary of Dr Sheikh Maqsood Ali, former member of the Bangladesh Planning Commission, said a press release.

The government is showing a lack of political courage in carrying out long-delayed and much-needed institutional reforms, said Debapriya Bhattacharya, a distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue.

The Khowai river embankment in the Kaliganj area of Habiganj Sadar upazila collapsed again on Sunday, inundating at least 22 villages and affecting around 4,500 families.

A former ward councillor of Bhairab municipality was hacked to death by miscreants yesterday, said police.

Editors of national newspapers have advised Jamaat-e-Islami to ensure that opposition street protests do not destabilise the country, Jamaat Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar said yesterday.

A DNA test has confirmed that accused madrasa teacher Aman Ullah Mahmudi Sagar is the biological father of a newborn delivered by an 11-year-old rape victim in Madan upazila of Netrokona, according to the prosecution.

Economist Prof Anu Muhammad yesterday criticised the US trade agreement signed by the interim government shortly before the election, saying it had put Bangladesh in “great danger”.

The health authority in Faridpur upazila of Pabna yesterday temporarily closed the operating theatre of Al-Modina Lab and Hospital, a local private clinic, after 12 post-surgery patients contracted tuberculosis (TB) over the past few weeks.

Human Rights Support Society (HRSS) yesterday demanded that Miraj Sheikh, a Bagerhat fisherman allegedly forcibly disappeared by Coast Guard members, be found alive and produced before the court in line with a High Court directive.

The government is preparing to establish a clear “red line” backed by credible deterrence along its eastern border, said Brig Gen (retd) AKM Shamsul Islam, adviser to the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Division, yesterday.

At least three dengue patients died and 994 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

One in five people aged over 40 in two coastal upazilas with high drinking-water salinity face a moderate-to-high risk of cardiovascular disease, according to preliminary findings of a new study.