National Citizen Party Convener Nahid Islam yesterday said those who want to “do politics of extortion” will have to leave, like the fallen prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

On July 14, 2024, tensions flared as hundreds of students poured out of their DU dormitories to protest a “disparaging comment” made by then–prime minister Sheikh Hasina regarding quotas in government jobs.

National Citizen Party leaders yesterday said they want the “Shapla” (water lily) as the party’s electoral symbol, with no alternative.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said that the propaganda against the party is part of a conspiracy to destroy nationalist forces in the country.

The National Consensus Commission, BNP, and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami have each proposed separate methods for appointing the chief adviser to caretaker government.

A restaurant staffer was stabbed to death allegedly following an altercation over delay in serving tea at Kazirbazar in Sylhet city yesterday.

The clemency of Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, the former police chief accused of crimes against humanity during the July uprising, depends on the condition that he will fully disclose the truth and the whole of the circumstances.

Today is the fifth death anniversary of Shajahan Siraj, a key organiser of the 1971 Liberation War.

The chairman of International Crimes Tribunal-2, Justice Nozrul Islam Chowdhury, yesterday asked the prosecution whether they were going slow in handling cases filed over crimes committed during last year’s July uprising.

Experts have sounded the alarm over a potential nationwide dengue crisis, warning that without urgent, targeted intervention, the outbreak could worsen across all 64 districts.

Gripped by fear, many residents of Haddipatti in Dhaka’s Darus Salam area have fled their homes, even after the arrest of a notorious gang leader, Babu Khan -- locally known as “Tunda Babu”.

Floodwaters have begun to recede from most areas in Feni, where continuous rainfall and hilly run-off since June 8 caused embankments to collapse at 12 points along the Muhuri, Kahua, and Silonia rivers, inundating large parts of Parshuram, Phulgazi, and Feni Sadar upazilas.

The Water Development Board (WDB) has reclaimed over 10 acres of government land on the first day of an eviction drive in Chattogram, as part of an effort to recover nearly 40 acres of land allegedly encroached upon by influential individuals and institutions.

Continuous rain and strong tidal currents have left residents in panic as more than 80 spots in Barishal district face the threat of severe river erosion.

Hundreds of residents in three villages of Siddhipasha Union in Jashore’s Abhoynagar upazila are living in fear as a severely damaged embankment along the Muzutkhali river could collapse at any moment.

The government has finally formed the Press Accreditation Committee for journalists, more than four and a half months after introducing the relevant policy.

This needs to be stopped immediately, says a truck driver

Sabuj hopes to turn Signboard Bazar into a hub for local agribusiness

People of Bangladesh are dreaming of building a new nation, he says

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury, former lawmaker of the Raozan constituency in Chattogram, for accumulating Tk 114.59 crore through bribery and corruption during the Awami League regime