'Failed to find indelible ink across the country,' says Cucsu CEC

Calls the shortage of indelible ink a sign of 'national incompetence'
15 October 2025

Rupnagar chemical warehouse still smoulders a day after deadly fire

Heavy smoke, chemical hazards hampering rescue operations
15 October 2025

Cucsu polls: Students express excitement for casting their first-ever votes

Voting underway in long-awaited Cucsu elections after 35 years
15 October 2025

Man held for killing wife, hiding body in freezer: Kalabagan police

Victim had long-standing domestic disputes with her husband, relatives say
15 October 2025

CA returns home after Rome visit

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying the chief adviser landed at HSIA around 8:20am
15 October 2025

Around 35% votes cast in Cucsu polls till 1pm: EC official

Shibir-Backed VP candidate urges CU authorities to ensure fairness
15 October 2025

‘We‘re trapped, we can’t get out’

When the fire broke out at the Arian Fashion factory yesterday morning, 18-year-old Marzia Sultana Alo’s father called her.
14 October 2025

Final version of July Charter sent to all parties

The National Consensus Commission yesterday sent the final version of the July Charter to political parties, seeking their firm commitment to its full implementation.
14 October 2025

Cucsu polls return today after 35yrs

The Chittagong University Central Students’ Union (Cucsu) and hall union elections are set to take place today after a gap of 35 years, becoming the third public university to hold such polls after the political changeover in August last year.
14 October 2025
14 October 2025

BNP announces Tk 1 lakh assistance for families of Mirpur fire victims

Rizvi visits the site, calls for strict action against chemical warehouses in residential areas
14 October 2025

ICT case: July attacks were systematic crimes against humanity

The prosecution yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that the attacks on protesters during the July uprising were not isolated incidents but part of a coordinated and systematic campaign of atrocities directed against civilians.
14 October 2025

'No rank above justice'

Transparency International Bangladesh has raised concern over the government’s decision to keep military officers, accused by the International Crimes Tribunal of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and torture during the fallen authoritarian regime, in military custody in the cantonment area.
14 October 2025

Some critical antibiotics now show 79-97% resistance

Health experts say higher AMR rates can lead to more critical illnesses, increased treatment failures
14 October 2025

Some advisers trying to turn admin partisan

Several advisers to the interim government are conspiring to turn the administration partisan, claimed Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher yesterday.
14 October 2025

‘Jamaat shadow over EC’s polls plan’

BNP policymakers say; party to meet CA, CEC to warn them
14 October 2025

Toxic blaze at warehouse, RMG unit claims 16 lives

At least 16 people were killed and several others injured after a devastating fire broke out at a chemical warehouse and an adjacent garment factory unit in the capital’s Mirpur yesterday.
14 October 2025

Candidates make last-minute push as campaigning ends

Campaigns for the Rajshahi University Central Students’ Union (Rucsu), hall union, and Senate elections ended at midnight today across the Rajshahi University campus.
14 October 2025

Court summons Hasina, 261 others in sedition case

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the relevant authorities to publish a gazette asking ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 261 others to appear on November 11 in a sedition case.
14 October 2025

Rusty bell rings again

For two long years, an eerie quiet hung over the schoolyard of Bawani Tea Garden Primary School in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila. The bell that once rang every morning had gathered rust.
14 October 2025