As the afternoon sun beat down on the charred remains of Korail yesterday, one of Dhaka’s largest and most crowded slums, Shukur Ali sat quietly with his wife, children and grandson amid the dust and twisted iron sheets that once sheltered their home.

Five years after the Anti-Corruption Commission launched an investigation into the illegal release of banned memory cards, those responsible for importing and releasing the goods remain unaccountable.

Five earthquakes in a week, all originating in Narsingdi, a district near Dhaka, have rattled residents of the capital and surrounding areas.

The prosecution is preparing to appeal to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking to upgrade the International Crimes Tribunal-1’s life sentences for deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death in a crimes-against-humanity case linked to the July uprising.

The Advisory Council yesterday approved the final draft of the Anti-Corruption Commission Ordinance 2025 that aims to strengthen and enhance the commission’s effectiveness in combating corruption and make it “a more effective organisation”.

BNP has questioned the transparency, timing, and motives behind the government’s recent reshuffles of field-level officers, including superintendents of police, deputy commissioners, and upazila nirbahi officers, ahead of the national election.

A special court yesterday convicted deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her two children on corruption charges, handing them different jail terms in three cases filed over plots in Dhaka’s Purbachal.

BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia was shifted to the coronary care unit (CCU) at the capital’s Evercare Hospital yesterday, where she is being treated for lung and heart infections.

A Dhaka court has strongly criticised Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) and the Ministry of Housing and Public Works for continuous unlawful practices in public land allotment.

At least seven dengue patients died while 567 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

The Election Commission (EC) yesterday directed law enforcement agencies to strictly enforce the electoral code of conduct from the first day of the campaign.

Two labourers arrested with a sand-carrying bulkhead from the Halda river in Chattogram were sent to jail yesterday by the Chattogram Senior Judicial Magistrate Court-6.

Five students were stabbed during a clash between two groups in a madrasa in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila over a trivial matter yesterday.

More than two decades after the Teesta Railway Bridge in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila exceeded its lifespan, around 20 passenger trains continue to cross the weakened structure every day, putting thousands of commuters at risk.

A protest march and a rally were held yesterday on the Dhaka-Kishoreganj highway in Gazipur’s Kapasia upazila in protest against the proposal to abolish the Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery (DGNM) and merge it with another department.

More than 1 lakh residents of around 15 villages in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria have long been facing difficulties with connectivity due to absence of a permanent concrete bridge over the Chettra River.

Early nutritional support may play a decisive role in improving pregnancy outcomes in settings where micronutrient deficiencies remain widespread, said Prof Keith P West of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health of USA, yesterday.

A 15-day craft and cottage industry fair is being organised on the playground of Mro Residential High School in Suwalak union under Bandarban Sadar upazila without permission from the school authorities and at a time when students’ annual examinations are underway.

Secondary teachers threatened a shutdown, while government primary teachers resumed a nationwide work abstention yesterday, as both groups pressed for long-pending pay-grade reforms.

BNP yesterday announced a six-day programme, titled “Plans to Build the Country”, involving its wings and affiliated bodies, including Chhatra Dal, Krishak Dal, Ulama Dal, and Swechchhasebak Dal.