Around 200 supporters intercept police

Protests by BNP men continued in several constituencies against their preferred leaders not getting the party tickets for the next national election.

Voters in Kurigram-4 (Chilmari, Roumari, and Char Rajibpur) are in a spot of bother as two brothers are set to run against each other, with BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami tickets.

Days after police firing left two people dead and two others injured in the capital’s Rampura on July 19 last year, former DMP chief Habibur Rahman rewarded the then Rampura police OC with Tk 1 lakh for “crushing student protests”, a police officer told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday.

All six people on a CNG-run auto-rickshaw were killed after a truck hit the vehicle in Noakhali’s Kabirhat yesterday.

Once the new bank is launched, depositors will get a maximum of Tk 2 lakh from the deposit insurance fund.

The government has issued a gazette on the amendments to the Representation of the People Order, 1972, making it mandatory for candidates contesting polls under an alliance to use the electoral symbol of their own party, rather than that of a coalition partner.

More than half of Bangladesh’s climate fund has been lost to corruption, according to a new study by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).

With barely a month to go before the announcement of the election schedule, many critical issues remain unresolved

The government has finalised a draft ordinance for forming an independent police commission, aiming to ensure accountability within the force and make policing fair, transparent, and free from undue influence.

Dhaka-13 has been kept for BNP ally Nationalist Democratic Movement (NDM) Chairman Bobby Hajjaj

Green activists, city planners and professionals yesterday urged the government to halt its move to amend the Detailed Area Plan (DAP), calling it faulty and harmful to Dhaka’s liveability.

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has predicted rains or thunder showers in three divisions including Chattogram in 24 hours commencing 9:00am yesterday.

For the past 28 years, residents of Purba Barandipara area in Jashore Sadar upazila have been waiting for a concrete bridge over the Bhairab river.

The 29-kilometre rail link between Kurigram Sadar and Chilmari’s Ramna has long been in a dilapidated state, forcing trains to move slowly and causing frequent delays.

Dhaka University authorities have show-caused 403 leaders and activists of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) over their alleged involvement in attacks on protesting students during the July uprising, between July 15 and August 5, 2024.

Four more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till yesterday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease to 292 this year.

The Supreme Court yesterday decided to promote more than 1,000 lower court judges in various posts, including over 300 ones to the posts of district judges.

Mediceram, a Malaysian gloves company which had terminated about 190 Bangladeshi workers on October 31, deported at least 10 of them on Monday night and was in the process of doing the same for others.

Political leaders, academics and civil society members yesterday said the next seven days will be crucial in determining the future of constitutional reform, depending on whether political parties can reach a consensus.