Several hall union leaders join Chhatra Dal

Jamaat-e-Islami may be accused of many things but low ambition cannot be among them, at least not according to its election manifesto.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to Bangabhaban employee Sarwar-e-Alam, who was arrested in connection with the alleged hacking of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman’s X (formerly Twitter) account.

The interim government has decided to propose an investigation by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights into the killing of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi.

The government has reconstituted the five-member National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), appointing former High Court justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury as the new chairman. He was previously the chief of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances.

Police yesterday recovered the bodies of a couple and their two children from their home at Wapda Bihari Camp in the capital’s Pallabi.

It takes a special kind of self-centred mindset to be the player, the referee, and the rule-maker all at once. In March 2025, a video conference was convened by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh to vet an applicant for a new aviation licence.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday sentenced six people, including a former lawmaker, to death for the killing of seven people during the July 2024 uprising in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital, where the victims were loaded into a vehicle and set on fire, with at least one still alive.

Operational activities at Chattogram port finally resumed yesterday afternoon after a six-day impasse, as protesting employees postponed their ongoing work abstention until Saturday following assurances from Shipping Adviser M Sakhawat Hussain that steps would be taken to meet their demands.

The interim government has struggled to maintain law and order and deliver promised human rights reforms, with thousands of people arbitrarily detained and routinely denied bail, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its 2026 annual report released yesterday.

Authority cites ‘anti-state activities’ during recent protests

Over 37,000 BGB personnel deployed nationwide, he says

Police recovered the body of a man from a cornfield at Tangrakhali village in Harinakundu upazila of Jhenaidah on Wednesday night.

Law enforcement agencies detained 348 Rohingya individuals from the Dohazari area of Chandanaish upazila in Chattogram early yesterday.

Two people were detained early yesterday in a joint operation by the Bangladesh Army and the Rab in Lakshmipur, with a large cache of illegal weapons and explosives seized.

Health experts and campaigners yesterday said poor governance and inadequate funding continue to challenge the health sector, and overcoming them to achieve Universal Health Coverage by 2030 will require strong political will from the next government.

The trade and defence deals being signed at the far end of the interim government tenure are meant to make things easier for the next government, not to leave behind any burden, said Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain yesterday.

The government yesterday approved revised office hours for the upcoming month of Ramadan, setting the workday from 9:00am to 3:30pm for all public institutions.

The month-long Amar Ekushey Boi Mela, organised by Bangla Academy, will start on February 20 this year.

Continued election-related violence, attacks on cultural institutions, shrinking civic space, and administrative inaction are raising fears ahead of the national election, prompting doubts about whether a peaceful and credible democratic transition is possible, speakers said at a dialogue yesterday.