Road Transport and Bridges Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan was stuck for hours in a 15km-long traffic jam in Brahmanbaria while visiting the Dhaka–Sylhet highway yesterday.

Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain yesterday described the recent comment made by Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri regarding the upcoming national election of Bangladesh as “completely unwarranted”.

The prosecution yesterday formally charged 28 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 23 top and mid-ranking current and former army officers, at International Crimes Tribunal-1 in two cases of enforced disappearances, secret detention, and torture in the 15 years of her rule.

Father claims to have received call demanding Tk 5 lakh

Although political parties have agreed on holding a referendum to implement the July National Charter, they have yet to reach consensus on its timing.

For the first time in two decades, the public administration ministry has been running without a secretary for more than two weeks.

Another Gaza-bound aid flotilla, this one carrying Bangladeshi photographer and writer Shahidul Alam and over 140 journalists, doctors and activists from all over the world, was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters yesterday.

Police have pressed charges against 136 people in a murder case in Pabna linked to the July uprising.

At least three dengue patients died while 700 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

Nur Khan Liton says he felt 'sick' hearing govt's statement

Residents living along the Teesta shoal areas in Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram, and Nilphamari have been gripped by fear as riverbank erosion has taken a serious turn despite a drop in the river’s water level.

The United States Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) arrived in Bangladesh yesterday on a three-day goodwill visit, according to an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) media release.

Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday said the upcoming national election would be peaceful and festive if everyone plays their part.

The European Union has decided to send election observers to Bangladesh for the upcoming national election, said BNP standing committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday.

The Ministry of Education has issued a directive on the payment of salaries and allowances for principals, headteachers, and other teachers of non-government educational institutions who were forced to resign since the July uprising.

With the reopening of campus after the Durga Puja vacation, candidates in the Chittagong University Central Students’ Union (Cucsu) election have launched their campaigns in full swing.

Police have yet to identify the armed assailants who shot businessman Md Abdul Hakim to death in Madunaghat in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila on Tuesday.

Even amid intensified monitoring to protect mother hilsa during the ongoing 22-day fishing ban, illegal fishing continues unabated across five sanctuaries.

For over a century, one of the world’s most legendary gemstones has remained hidden -- locked in silence, shrouded in myth, and cloaked in official secrecy.

Prof David Engerman tells seminar at DU