Secretariat employees have threatened to lay siege to the Ministry of Finance on Sunday if the Public Service (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 is not scrapped within the next 48 hours.

Md Mahmudul Haque, an assistant professor of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR), was arrested in the city in a murder case yesterday.

At least seven people were killed and several others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a human haulier in Mymensingh’s Phulpur upazila last night

The government yesterday sent five secretaries and a grade-1 official (secretary status) into forced retirement.

Further details regarding the arrest will be disclosed in due course

Bangladesh National Security Adviser Dr Khalilur Rahman on Wednesday met with US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau at the State Department in Washington, DC.

In addition to resolving land issues, he demanded the “dignified rehabilitation” of Bangalees currently living in the region to other parts of the country.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT) yesterday appointed Senior Advocate Md Aminul Gani (Titto) as defence counsel for ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in a contempt of court case filed against her.

The victims are Arafat, 18, Anis, 18, and Riaz,18

More than 31.67 percent of the people had to pay bribes to get government service in the last one year, according to a new Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics report.

Political parties remained poles apart over the presidential election process on the fourth day of the second round of talks with the National Consensus Commission yesterday.

Although not institutionally involved, the armed forces were aware of the enforced disappearances that took place during the 15-year Awami League regime, according to the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances.

Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, along with Uttara Division officials, in separate drives on Wednesday, arrested five members of a robbery gang, led by a dismissed policeman and a retired army sergeant, who posed as Rab personnel to rob four people in Uttara.

The Bangladesh Army said it has not yet received any official instructions from the government to assist in the upcoming election duties.

Jumped to 589.5m francs in 2024 from 17.7m the previous year

The government has decided to declare August 5 a public holiday, to be observed as Student-People Uprising Day.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified woman, found in the Kongsha River in Barhatta upazila of Netrokona, yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested two men accused of raping a woman in the capital’s Khilkhet area.

Md Mahmudul Haque, an assistant professor of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR), was arrested in the city in a murder case yesterday.

At least three people died and three others were injured in separate road accidents across the country in the last two days, according to reports from our correspondents.