Bandar rokkha parishad alleges harassment, arrests and forced meeting amid ongoing port strike

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday said if his party comes to power, the army will remain free from political influence and its dignity will be upheld.

Two schoolboys were killed and another was injured in a motorcycle accident in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia yesterday morning.

The relationship between Bangalee Muslims and the Bangla language during the British colonial period was not just a simple connection to a mother tongue. Instead, it was a complex and often “fractured” bond involving identity, religion and colonial power, speakers said yesterday.

Nine-year-old Huzaifa Afnan, who was struck by a stray bullet fired from Myanmar on January 11, died yesterday morning while undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital (NINS) in Dhaka.

Ramesh Chandra Sen, former Awami League MP from Thakurgaon-1 and  water resources minister, died yesterday morning after falling ill at Dinajpur District Jail.

Riazul Islam Rizul, president of the Purbabirgaon Union Awami League in Sunamganj, was arrested at his home on March 30 last year during Operation Devil Hunt, a joint forces drive launched to maintain law and order across the country.

Despite repeated assurances and initiatives by the government and operators ahead of Ramadan, the shortage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), widely used as cooking fuel, is unlikely to ease anytime soon.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Mehedi Hasan alias Dipu, a close associate of top criminal Subrata Bain, on a five-day remand after a team of joint forces arrested him and recovered a large cache of firearms and ammunition in the capital’s Middle Badda area on Friday.

Bangladesh recorded its first Nipah virus (NiV) death this year when a woman from Naogaon died on January 28 with symptoms of the virus, according to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research.

Chattogram port workers and employees have called another round of indefinite strike from today, adopting a more hardline approach this time as they threatened to halt cargo handling at the outer anchorage, which remained out of the purview of last week’s six-day work abstention.

The interim government succeeded in preventing a deeper economic and geopolitical slide during a highly volatile period, but failed to translate that stability into meaningful institutional reform, transparency and inclusive governance, said speakers at a policy dialogue yesterday.

The Chevron Bangladesh Employees’ Union has demanded the withdrawal of all initiatives to amend the Labour Act, which seeks to exempt foreign-invested energy companies from the statutory obligation to provide a 5 percent Workers’ Profit Participation Fund (WPPF).

Bangladesh Times official says detention unjustified, calls it attack on independent journalism ahead of polls

Court places him on 5-day remand

It was created by placing a fake quote on his photo

Anam’s opinion misrepresented in media reports, says Dismislab

NCP’s Asif criticises Tarique Rahman for 'offering political space to Hasina’s children'

Police find child’s body after 17 days

Victim’s father files case