The government yesterday sent 18 lower court judges into forced retirement.

More than 100 villages remain inundated following embankment breaches at 20 points in Feni, while a fresh threat looms in the north as the rising Teesta river may trigger temporary flooding in low-lying areas of Rangpur, Nilphamari, Kurigram and Lalmonirhat.

Leaders of major business chambers and trade bodies yesterday expressed concern to the government about the 35 percent tariff levied on Bangladesh by the Trump administration.

At least 258 incidents of attacks on minorities, including 27 murders, took place across the country in the first six months of 2025, according to the Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad (Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council).

The BNP yesterday urged the Election Commission to swiftly complete all preparations for the election and ensure a conducive environment for it.

On July 11, 2024, the anti-quota movement entered a new phase of confrontation. Ignoring police warnings and ministers’ calls to step back, thousands of protesters defied barricades and took to the streets as part of their “Bangla Blockade.”

Four people lost their lives after inhaling toxic gas while attempting to retrieve a mobile phone from a septic tank in the remote Harinchhara tea garden of Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila early yesterday.

The pass rate in this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations across all nine general education boards has dropped to 68.04 percent, the lowest in 16 years.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday framed charges against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two of her former top aides in a case related to the crimes against humanity during the July uprising.

Political parties reached consensus on two key issues, including the appointment of the chief justice, on the 11th day of the second phase of talks with the National Consensus Commission yesterday.

With preparations underway for the upcoming national polls, the Election Commission (EC) is set to propose legal amendments to restore its power to cancel the election results of an entire constituency if irregularities are found.

National Citizen Party (NCP) will take to the streets again if the government fails to publish the “July Proclamation” and “July Charter” by August 3, said the party’s Convenor Nahid Islam yesterday.

The council of advisers yesterday gave its final approval to the draft memorandum of understanding allowing the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to establish a mission in Bangladesh.

The Padma river has taken a furious turn, devouring the riverbank at Najirganj in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna, putting the Najirganj ferry ghat under serious threat of erosion.

A bridge that collapsed three years ago in Sherpur’s Nalitabari upazila has yet to be repaired, leaving thousands of residents in misery.

The Ministry of Housing and Public Works has taken up a project to provide free flats in Dhaka to those who were seriously injured during the July uprising.

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Three fishermen have gone missing, and nine others were rescued after a trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal near Patharghata upazila in Barguna.

The incident took place in front of the Shaheed Sajid Academic Building on the university campus around 4:30pm

Both sides expressed confidence in the prospects of the bilateral ties