The Election Commission is set to adopt a stricter electoral code of conduct with a provision to disqualify any candidate for serious breach of conduct.

A one-and-a-half-year-old boy died hours after a wild elephant attacked a house in Ramu upazila of Cox's Bazar Tuesday night

Local public representatives said the measure was taken in the interest of tourist safety

They were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for treatment

Pakistan has named Imran Haider as its new high commissioner to Bangladesh, indicating that Syed Ahmed Maroof is not returning to Dhaka.

Amid protests by students and cultural activists, Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University authorities yesterday suspended the demolition of the “Anjali Laho Mor” sculpture in Mymensingh

Inspector General of Police Baharul Alam yesterday called upon police officials to remain mentally prepared to ensure a free and fair national election, according to a DMP press release.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday called upon Special Security Force personnel to uphold professionalism and rise above political ideologies.

The proposed budget for fiscal 2025-26 failed to meet people’s huge expectations, said economists, entrepreneurs and representatives from marginal people.

If perpetrators remain in positions of authority, there can be no victim-centred prosecution, said the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) at a briefing in the capital yesterday.

The bodies of two girls -- who had been missing since Tuesday noon -- were recovered from a pond in Bottala Chhankanda area of Sribardi upazila, Sherpur yesterday morning.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia returned home shortly after midnight following a scheduled medical check-up at Evercare Hospital in the capital

Some 13 wards across the two city corporations in the capital have been identified as high-risk zones for dengue, with seven under Dhaka South City Corporation and six under Dhaka North.

Twenty individuals were detained from Masudpur border under Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj early yesterday after they were pushed into Bangladesh allegedly by India’s Border Security Force.

The loan utilisation period for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant is set to be extended by three years, as about $3.38 billion of the Russian credit remains unspent after the original deadline expired in December 2024.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday criticised the Jamaat-e-Islami for skipping Tuesday’s National Consensus Commission meeting.

LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain and BNP leader Ishraque Hossain yesterday sparred over the latter’s push to be sworn in as the mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation.

The BNP and like-minded parties are at odds with other political parties, including Jamaat-e-Islami, National Citizen Party, and Islami Andolon Bangladesh, over the proposal for forming a National Constitutional Council (NCC).

Asif said the govt could not administer Ishraque's oath within the constitutional one-month timeframe as the matter became sub judice following a writ petition

As the country grapples with rising cases of coronavirus and mosquito-borne dengue, there has been a resurgence of another mosquito-borne disease, Chikungunya, in Dhaka.