National Citizen Party Convener Nahid Islam yesterday warned that if the “July Charter” is not declared by August 5, they will take position at the Central Shaheed Minar to realise the demand.

Students Against Discrimination (SAD), the platform that led last year’s mass uprising, has suspended activities of all its committees across the country, except its central committee, amid extortion allegations against some of its leaders and activists.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) annual income saw a staggering surge in 2024, rising more than 15 times compared to the previous year.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed four leaders and activists of Students Against Discrimination on seven-day remand in a case filed over extortion from the family of a former Awami League lawmaker in Gulshan.

Hasina, a Rohingya woman from Myanmar, fled to Bangladesh 10 months ago with her husband and four children. Diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2020 during childbirth, she could not afford treatment back home.

Between 1980 and 2024, Dhaka's built-up area expanded sevenfold, land surface temperature increased by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius, and the city lost 60 percent of its waterbodies.

Senior BNP leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday said his party will offer coordinated cooperation to the government on US tariff and security issues, aiming to help address the tariffs imposed by the United States.

Sarowar Hossain Nannu, 60, an Awami League leader and accused in a murder and explosives case, died in custody at Munshiganj Jail early yesterday.

Mohammad Al Haroon, a former ambassador, passed away on Saturday. He was 79, said a press release.

Repair work on a six-kilometre stretch of the Pabna-Pakshey road, carried out by the Roads and Highways Department at a cost of Tk 89 lakh, has reportedly been washed away within days due to rain, leaving the road in a hazardous state.

Md Abdul Bari Sheikh, a politician, social worker, and writer, passed away at a hospital in Dhaka yesterday due to lung and cardiac complications.

The Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB) yesterday urged the government to cancel the currently gazetted Detailed Area Plan (DAP) 2022–2035.

AK Ratul, vocalist and frontman of the renowned Bangladeshi rock band Owned, passed away yesterday. He was 34.

The HC on October 24, last year, dismissed the case

Govt to speed up probes to ensure justice, he says

A delegation of 21 physicians and nurses from Singapore, China, and India met Yunus at Jamuna

KUET has been closed for 160 consecutive days since February 18

BNP stages a protest march

Dhaka University is set to get new student dormitories and academic buildings

Human rights were violated during the tenure of the previous government, the adviser says