Can't stop crimes overnight like magic: Home adviser

Blames media for people's apprehension about election being held on time
8 December 2025, 08:52 AM

Wangala festival brings Garo harvest traditions to life in Sreemangal

Celebrated at the end of monsoon, Wangala combines prayer, music, and harvest rituals
8 December 2025, 07:39 AM

Jamaat delegation in meeting with EC on upcoming polls, referendum

The meeting began around 11:30am at the EC headquarters in Agargaon
8 December 2025, 06:19 AM

Red Crescent Society gets new managing board

The health ministry yesterday reconstituted the managing board of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, appointing global health expert Dr Halida Halum Akhter as the new chairman.
7 December 2025, 21:01 PM

DIG faces inquiry over obscene messages to junior colleague

The home ministry has launched a departmental inquiry against Deputy Inspector General Mohammad Abu Sufian over allegations of sending an obscene video clip and disturbing messages to a junior female colleague through his Facebook Messenger.
7 December 2025, 20:07 PM

Rokeya Padak: Ruvana, Kalpana, Nabila, Ritu Porna to get it this year

The government has decided to award four women the Rokeya Padak in recognition of their significant contributions in their respective fields.
7 December 2025, 20:07 PM

July uprising victims: Families await closure as CID exhumes bodies

For the past year and a half, 60-year-old Rasheda Begum visited the Rayerbazar graveyard every Thursday. As she stood near the rows of unnamed graves, she prayed for the souls of the 114 unidentified victims of the July uprising.
7 December 2025, 18:36 PM

Corruption persists despite the end of authoritarian rule

Despite the fall of the authoritarian government on August 5, people expected corruption to come down, but it continues in different forms, said Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of Transparency International Bangladesh.
7 December 2025, 18:32 PM

ACC launches probe into Abdul Hamid

The Anti-Corruption Commission has launched an investigation against former president Abdul Hamid over allegations that he caused a loss of Tk 24 crore to the state through spending on decoration and beautification in Dhaka’s Nikunja-1 area.
7 December 2025, 18:31 PM

River erosion now a major cause of migration

Slow-onset shocks like river erosion are now a major driver of full household migration in coastal areas, with 27.41 percent of complete relocations linked to erosion, according to new research by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).
7 December 2025, 18:31 PM

Shibpur: A leftist fortress built by the Mannan Bhuiyan Bahini

Across the villages in and around Shibpur in Narsingdi, a fierce guerrilla force rose during the Liberation War. Formed at the initiative of the Purbo Bangla Somonnoy Committee of communist revolutionaries and led by leftist student leader Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, it came to be known simply as the Mannan Bhuiyan Bahini.
7 December 2025, 18:24 PM

Khaleda undergoes several tests

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s condition remains unchanged, with her medical board keeping her under close observation at the capital’s Evercare Hospital.
7 December 2025, 18:22 PM

Three killed in Faridpur road accident

Three people were killed after an unidentified vehicle hit their motorcycle on the Dhaka-Barishal highway in Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila early yesterday.
7 December 2025, 18:00 PM

Mobile traders call off blockade as regulator agrees to NEIR reforms

However, traders said all mobile phone shops across the country will remain closed until a final decision on the reforms is made
7 December 2025, 18:00 PM

Two more die of dengue, 516 get hospitalised

At least two dengue patients died while 516 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.
7 December 2025, 18:00 PM

Thalassaemia takes heavy mental toll on mothers: study

Mothers of children with thalassaemia experience depression at twice the rate of the urban Bangladeshi adult population, along with significantly higher levels of anxiety and stress, according to a cross-sectional study.
7 December 2025, 18:00 PM

Coalition formed to push women, children’s rights in poll manifestos

Seven national and international organisations have formed a coalition to advance equality and justice, creating a countrywide platform aimed at ensuring that the rights, protection and well-being of women and children feature prominently in election manifestos of political parties.
7 December 2025, 18:00 PM

Cucsu hosts free medical camp for 1,700 students

A daylong free medical camp, organised by the Chittagong University Central Students’ Union (Cucsu) with support from Chattogram Metropolitan Hospital, was held on the university campus yesterday.
7 December 2025, 18:00 PM

Frame charges against Hasina and 12 others

The prosecution yesterday urged the International Crimes Tribunal-1 to frame charges against 13 accused, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, over their alleged involvement in a series of enforced disappearances carried out between 2015 and last year.
7 December 2025, 18:00 PM