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Tentulia records season’s lowest temperature at 8.9°C as mild cold wave grips north
Despite bright sunshine, bone-chilling cold persists as temperatures plunge across northern districts
11 December 2025, 06:29 AM
Traffic resumes after students leave Farmgate around 1:00pm
Roads gridlocked for hours due to demo protesting Tejgaon College student's death
11 December 2025, 05:35 AM
Rescue of 2-year-old in Rajshahi shaft continues as dig reaches 42 feet
Fire service continues efforts over 24 hours after child fell into abandoned tube-well shaft
11 December 2025, 05:19 AM
Two mild quakes jolt Sylhet early today
Tremors at 2:50am and 2:55am cause no reported damage or casualties
11 December 2025, 05:13 AM
Khaleda is ‘responding to treatment’
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of Evercare Hospital, and she is getting the care her condition requires, said her personal physician Dr Zahid Hossain last night.
10 December 2025, 20:16 PM
Finance adviser confined at Secretariat for over 5 hours
Employees of various ministries and departments staged a protest at the Bangladesh Secretariat yesterday, demanding a 20 percent allowance for Secretariat staff, during which they confined Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed.
10 December 2025, 20:12 PM
Franco-German: Sumaiya Islam wins human rights award
Human rights defender and Executive Director of Bangladesh Nari Sramik Kendra (BNSK), Sumaiya Islam, has been awarded the 2025 Franco-German Award for Human Rights and the Rule of Law.
10 December 2025, 20:01 PM
Gazette out on the police commission
The government has finally issued the long-awaited gazette on establishing a Police Commission empowered to recommend measures to strengthen discipline, accountability, and overall effectiveness within the force.
10 December 2025, 18:18 PM
Guerrillas blow up 85 targets in Chattogram
Chattogram woke before dawn to the roar of fire and shuddering steel -- an electric transformer here, a petrol pump there -- until, within an hour, it became a city of explosions.
10 December 2025, 18:15 PM
Asif, Mahfuj quit advisory council
LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain and Information Adviser Mahfuj Alam submitted their resignations from the advisory council yesterday.
10 December 2025, 18:10 PM
UN proposals saw ‘mixed response’
Outgoing head of the UN Human Rights Office in Bangladesh, Huma Khan, expressed dissatisfaction with the government’s failure to disband the Rab and implement key institutional reforms, while also acknowledging progress on several recommendations, including the swift enactment of a law on enforced disappearances.
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Issue notice for Joy to appear by Dec 17
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday ordered notices to be published in two national dailies, asking absconding accused Sajeeb Wazed Joy to appear before it by December 17 in a case over alleged crimes against humanity committed during the July uprising.
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Apprehension over fair polls persists
Despite a clear national consensus for the upcoming national election, the persistent public apprehension regarding the capacity to hold a credible and fair election has not been dispelled, said Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue, yesterday.
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Star journo among 10 wins NIMC-UNDP media award
For in-depth reporting on judicial indepen-dence, ten journalists -- including The Daily Star’s Senior Reporter Baharam Khan -- have been honoured at the “Media Award on Judicial Independence 2025,” organised by the National Institute of Mass Communication (NIMC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM
‘We still lack space for rights to flourish’
Bangladesh still lacks a space where human rights can truly flourish, said rights activist Sultana Kamal yesterday. She expressed hesitation in speaking on the topic, stating that the country has lost the moral ground needed to uphold these values.
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM
22 smugglers held with 1,500 sacks of cement
Bangladesh Navy has detained 22 alleged smugglers and seized two engine-run boats carrying 1,500 sacks of cement near Saint Martin’s Island, said a BN press release yesterday.
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Two Jubo Dal men shot in Cox’s Bazar
Unidentified assailants shot two activists of Jubo Dal, the youth wing of BNP, in the Uttaran Residential Area of Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday night.
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Bullet-hit body recovered in Lohagara
Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a man in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram yesterday morning.
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Clinical trial of Nipah virus vaccine launched
The University of Oxford has launched the world’s first Phase II clinical trial of a Nipah virus vaccine.
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Child drowns in bucket in Netrakona
An 11-month-old girl died after falling into a water-filled bucket at her home in Kalmakanda upazila of Netrakona yesterday morning.
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM