Bangladesh is set to sign a landmark labour agreement with Saudi Arabia within the next two to three weeks, Adviser Asif Nazrul said yesterday.

A man was beaten to death by some members of security forces in the capital’s Khilgaon Sipahibagh area yesterday, family members alleged.

A 14-year-old girl and her family fled their home on Cox’s Bazar’s Saint Martin’s Island on Friday, after local political figures, allegedly of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, offered Tk 1 lakh to silence them over the rape of the teenager.

Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin has said the purchase of 25 Boeing aircraft from the US was not raised in the trade talks in Washington DC.

Prof Anu Muhammad said yesterday that the interim government’s actions are reminiscent of the fallen Awami League administration.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday issued a public notice advising commuters to avoid key roads in the capital today due to multiple political rallies and events scheduled throughout the day

Some 114 unidentified victims killed during the July uprising and buried at Rayerbazar Intellectuals’ Graveyard will be identified soon, said Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday morning.

Residents of Pirojpur town are suffering immensely due to the lack of adequate drainage facilities. The problem becomes particularly acute during the rainy season, when even moderate rainfall leaves roads waterlogged and impassable.

25 have no lids in 4km areas

The victim was identified as Johura Khatun, 60, of Makorjhap village in Ishwarganj

Police have arrested five people, including three local BNP leaders, in Tangail in an extortion case.

Of them, 210 have been enlisted in the critically injured "B" category, while the rest fall under the "C" category of injured fighters

Acting principal of Hatibandha Model College and Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Hatibandha upazila unit in Lalmonirhat, Hasen Ali, has been served a show-cause notice and removed from his party position following allegations of forging the UNO’s signature on official documents.

Women’s rights activists and civil society representatives yesterday rejected the National Consensus Commission’s decision on reserved parliamentary seats for women, condemning the decision-making process as exclusionary, undemocratic, and an insult to half the nation’s population.

Fatema Khanam Liza, a former coordinator of Students Against Discrimination (SAD) in Chattogram, has quit politics citing harassment by her fellow male activists.

Five people, including four of a family, died when a train hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at an unauthorised level crossing in Cox’s Bazar’s Ramu upazila yesterday afternoon.

National Citizen Party Convener Nahid Islam has announced that the NCP will hold a rally at the Central Shaheed Minar today, where the manifesto for a new Bangladesh will be read out.

On August 3, 2024, the anti-discrimination movement in Bangladesh reached a new peak as protesters rejected prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s offer for dialogue and instead placed a singular, uncompromising demand before the nation: the resignation of the prime minister and her entire cabinet.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus is likely to announce the month for the next general election in a televised address to the nation on August 5 or August 8.

Three Bangladeshis were killed and two others injured after the vehicle they were travelling in skidded off East Coast Highway (LPT) 1 near Kuantan, Malaysia, yesterday.