Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus said the July Charter will be announced next month on the anniversary of the July uprising.

The first heavy downpour of this monsoon since Monday has left most areas of Khulna city under knee-deep water, while adjoining low-lying areas were submerged under waist-high water -- exposing the inefficacy of the Tk 823 crore drainage improvement project of Khulna City Corporation (KCC).

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus’ meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer could not be held, despite commitment from the UK officials, for some reasons at the last moment, said Acting Foreign Secretary Ruhul Alam Siddique yesterday.

Dhaka University has presented a proposed budget of Tk 1,035.45 crore for the upcoming 2025-26 fiscal year.

Despite not being officially sworn in, BNP leader Ishraque Hossain, for the second day yesterday, took up the role of “mayor” of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).

Four armed men yesterday snatched Tk 55 lakh from two officials of Nagad in Monirampur upazila of Jashore, in the second such incident in three days.

Political parties will allow MPs to vote against party lines except on no-confidence motions and finance bills.

At least six people, including a mother and her three-year-old child, were killed and three injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday.

The High Court, in the full text of its verdict on the Holey Artisan Bakery attack case, said it sentenced seven convicts to imprisonment until death considering the brutality of the 2016 terrorist act and the damage it caused to the country’s global image.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday skipped the National Consensus Commission’s discussion with political parties.

The body of a youth, who went missing after falling into Dhalshwari river from a pontoon at Munshiganj launch terminal on Monday, has been recovered from the river after around 30 hours.

Two children drowned while bathing in a pond on the Parbatipur Upazila Parishad premises in Dinajpur yesterday afternoon.

Police recovered the decomposed body of a ninth-grade student from a septic tank in Phulpur upazila of Mymensingh early yesterday, three days after he went missing.

Prof ABM Badruz-zaman, vice chancellor of Buet, has been elected as a Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Science at its 16th council meeting on May 18, said a press release.

Kaun (foxtail millet), a resilient and nutrient-dense grain, used to be a dietary staple in the shoal regions of northern Bangladesh.

The Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and WaterAid Bangladesh have expressed deep concern over the declining budget allocation for the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector in the proposed Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the 2025–26 fiscal year.

Economists, rights activists, and development experts have raised concerns over a decline in gender-responsive allocations in the proposed national budget for the fiscal year 2025–26, questioning the government’s commitment to women’s empowerment and gender equality.

Despite being among the most vulnerable, nearly 91 percent of the country’s marginalised population and 94 percent of street children remain excluded from the government’s social safety net, according to a recent survey by Caritas Bangladesh.

Urban Study Group (USG), a voluntary organisation campaigning for conserving the heritage of Bangladesh, has expressed concern over the destruction of historic structures in Old Dhaka and urged the government to take necessary steps to preserve those.

With the national election expected in the first half of February 2026, the BNP says it is no longer just preparing for the polls but also for governing the country if the people vote them to power.