BUET Professor Nazrul Islam no more
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Obituary
22,500 yaba pills seized from private car in Bandarban
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Bangladesh
2,150kg illegally stockpiled fertiliser seized in overnight raid in Kurigram
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Bangladesh
Bank resolution bill placed in Sangsad
4 September 2026
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Bangladesh
Govt to expand cancer screening, kidney care
4 September 2026
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Bangladesh
3 Public Universities: VCs’ greetings to BNP leaders raise ethical questions
4 September 2026
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Bangladesh
Faulty valves delay Rooppur commissioning
4 September 2026
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Bangladesh
Janmashtami today
4 September 2026
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Bangladesh
In Sangsad / 402 RMG units closed in 3yrs
4 September 2026
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Bangladesh
In Sangsad / Bill placed to abolish RAB, form its replacement
4 September 2026
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Bangladesh
BNP switches to election mode
As the interim government eyes February for the national election, the BNP has shifted its focus to finalising its candidate selection process and completing local-level groundwork.
16 June 2025
13th national Election: EC moves forward with preparations
Ahead of the 13th national parliamentary election, the Election Commission (EC) has requested updated information on minor repairs at educational institutions used or likely to be used as polling centres.
16 June 2025
ACC asks UK to seize assets of 2 Bashundhara Group top execs
The Anti-Corruption Commission has written to the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA), requesting it to seize the assets of Bashundhara Group Vice Chairman Shafiat Sobhan (Sanvir) and Co-Chairman Sadat Sobhan.
16 June 2025
Chief RO appointed for Ducsu polls
Dhaka University has appointed Prof Mohammad Zashim Uddin of Department of Botany as the chief returning officer for the upcoming Ducsu (Dhaka University Central Students' Union) election.
16 June 2025
Tk 1.08Cr heist: Police yet to ID suspects, hint at inside job
Police have yet to identify or arrest any of the suspects involved in Saturday’s daring robbery in Dhaka’s Uttara, where criminals disguised as Rab personnel snatched Tk 1.08 crore from a Nagad representative.
16 June 2025
Inform EC of Yunus-Tarique talk outcome
BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed urged the government to immediately inform the Election Commission of its decision to hold the national polls in February next year.
16 June 2025
Ishraque crowns himself Dhaka South mayor
BNP leader Ishraque Hossain has begun discharging duties as the “self-declared” mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), despite not having taken an oath of office.
16 June 2025
Türk criticises legal changes to ‘ban entity, activities’
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has expressed concern over recent legal amendments that allow “banning political parties, organisations and their activities” in Bangladesh.
16 June 2025
Man found dead on roadside
Police recovered the body of an unidentified youth, aged around 35 years, from the roadside in Chashara area of Narayanganj city yesterday morning.
16 June 2025
JUST ex-VC Abdus Sattar sent to jail in graft case
A Jashore court yesterday sent Prof Dr Abdus Sattar, former vice-chancellor of Jashore University of Science and Technology (JUST), to jail in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2023.
16 June 2025
Child’s body recovered in Netrokona
Police yesterday recovered the body of a six-year-old boy from a slaughterhouse in Madan upazila of Netrokona.
16 June 2025
Travel ban on Shakib Al Hasan, family
A Dhaka court yesterday issued travel ban on 15 people, including cricketer and former Awami League lawmaker Shakib Al Hasan and his mother Shirin Akhter in connection with corruption allegations.
16 June 2025
Maldah river erosion threatens vital road, bridge
A vital road and a bridge along the Bangladesh-India border in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila are at risk of collapsing as erosion of the Maldah river has intensified.
16 June 2025
Dengue cases rising nationwide
Sourav Chakrabarti, an HSC student from Noakhali, came to Daudkandi in Cumilla to spend his vacation with relatives. However, his holiday turned into a period of suffering after he was diagnosed with dengue.
16 June 2025
5-yr-old electrocuted to death in Netrokona
A five-year-old boy died after being electrocuted in Durgapur upazila of Netrokona today.
16 June 2025
UN rights official raises concerns over allegations involving army personnel
Grażyna Baranowska, vice chairperson of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), paid a courtesy call on Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman at the army headquarters
16 June 2025
Iran condemns Israeli attack on its territory: embassy
"The Zionist regime must bear full responsibility for the consequences of this aggression"
16 June 2025
Trawlers forced back by rough seas in Cox’s Bazar
Low hilsa catch, turbulent weather frustrate fishers days after ban ends
16 June 2025
BCL leader found dead in Mymensingh
The deceased, Ruhul Amin Akash, 30, was the joint convener of the Kalmakanda upazila unit of the BCL
16 June 2025
Former JUST VC Abdus Sattar sent to jail in graft case
Court rejects bail in case over 'illegal recruitment, Tk 61 lakh embezzlement'
16 June 2025