NOAB honours Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rahman for INMA Global Media Award 2025

Matiur was recently awarded the prestigious INMA Global Media Award 2025
2 July 2025

EC aims to eliminate NID correction hassles

Since January 1, 2025, the EC has received 3.78 lakh correction applications
2 July 2025

Consensus Commission begins talks with political parties

Representatives from BNP, Jamaat join discussions
2 July 2025

BB cyber heist: Court directs CID to submit probe report by July 24

A Dhaka court today directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit the probe report in the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist case by July 24.
2 July 2025

July atrocities: Charges filed against 16 at ICT-2

Prosecution is scheduled to press the formal charge before the tribunal today.
2 July 2025

10 injured in clash between police, SAD activists in Ctg Patiya

Clash followed an incident around 9:00pm when activists of SAD detained a leader of the banned Chhatra League in front of the central Shaheed Minar
2 July 2025

Fire at Wari chemical warehouse brought under control after 2 hours

Seven fire engines managed to bring the blaze under control around 7:00am
2 July 2025

When there is harm hidden behind help

'Biggest threat to animal welfare in Bangladesh are overenthusiastic activists'
2 July 2025

2 PIO staffers held over corruption

Police yesterday arrested two employees of the Project Implementation Office (PIO) in Narsingdi's Shibpur upazila for allegedly embezzling around Tk 5.278 million through falsified bills under the government's Kabikha (Food for work) and TR (Test Relief) projects.
1 July 2025

‘Rights abuses persist under this govt too’

Even after 11 months in power, the interim government has failed to bring about any fundamental changes or progress in the situation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (PCJSS) has alleged.
1 July 2025

Muradnagar rape: Hounded by media, survivor forced to leave father’s home

The survivor of the June 26 Muradnagar rape left her father's home yesterday following relentless harassment by media workers and YouTubers.
1 July 2025

HC stays fine on death-row convict

The High Court yesterday admitted the appeal filed by death-row convict Hitu Sheikh against the lower court verdict in the rape and murder case of an eight-year-old girl in Magura.
1 July 2025

Man sent to jail over sexually harassing 6-yr-old in Netrokona

A Netrokona court yesterday sent a 60-year-old grocery shopkeeper to jail for allegedly sexually harassing a six-year-old girl in the district's Khaliajuri upazila.
1 July 2025

One dead, 2 missing as boat capsizes

A student died and two others went missing as a boat carrying nine students capsized in the Brahmaputra river in Pakundia upazila of Kishoreganj yesterday morning.
1 July 2025

Lawyer alif murder: Charges pressed against Chinmoy, 37 others

Police pressed charges against 38 people yesterday, including Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, a former ISKCON leader, in connection with the murder case of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif, who was hacked to death on November 26 last year.
1 July 2025

Deaths at hotel: Murder case filed, one arrested

One person was arrested in a murder case filed yesterday over the death of a couple and their son in a hotel in Dhaka's Moghbazar on Sunday morning.
1 July 2025

‘Padma bridge graft’: Ex-ACC top brass forcibly closed probe

Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Mohammad Abdul Momen yesterday said the ACC's own leadership in 2014 closed the investigation into the Padma Bridge graft allegations without giving any clear explanation.
1 July 2025

Three killed as balcony collapses

Two engineers and a worker were killed as a balcony of an under-construction building collapsed in Jashore's Circuit House Para area yesterday.
1 July 2025

Five graft cases: Summon Rehana, 24 others thru gazette

A Dhaka court yesterday directed the government to issue five gazette notifications summoning 25 individuals, including Sheikh Rehana, sister of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to appear before it on July 20 in five cases over alleged irregularities in plot allocation under the Purbachal New Town project.
1 July 2025

Woman raped after husband bound and beaten

A woman was raped after her husband was beaten and tied up in Bhola’s Tajumuddin upazila on Sunday.
1 July 2025