UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has declined a request to meet Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, who is visiting London to garner support for efforts to recover billions allegedly laundered abroad by the deposed Sheikh Hasina regime, reports the Financial Times.

The Nagorik Coalition has proposed that the next national election be held in the first week of February.

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen properties in the United Kingdom owned by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed, Bangladesh’s former minister of land, reports Al Jazeera.

Train services on the Rajshahi–Dhaka route were briefly disrupted yesterday morning after residents of Rajshahi’s Charghat upazila staged a blockade, demanding an intercity train stop at Nandangachhi Railway Station.

The government’s 58-day fishing ban in the Bay of Bengal came to an end at midnight yesterday, paving the way for a resumption of marine fishing after nearly two months.

At least four people, including a mother and her infant daughter, were killed, and 20 others were injured in road crashes in Pabna and Mymensingh yesterday.

Thousands of patients have been deprived of treatment as most services at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital (NIOH) in Dhaka remained suspended for two weeks until yesterday.

The interim government proposed a new framework for social safety net programmes, under which 7.68 crore poor people would receive Tk 37,076 crore next fiscal year to help them cushion the blow from high inflation over the last three years.

At least 614 people died and 1,196 were injured in 597 road accidents across the country in May, Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity said yesterday.

One person was killed and at least five others injured in a clash triggered by an incident of alleged sexual harassment in Dhanachapur village of Netrokona’s Kendua upazila on Tuesday night.

Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus said in a question-answer session at Chatham House in London.

The Met office forecasts the onset of sustained monsoon rains starting tomorrow, with heavy downpours likely after Sunday.

The health authorities yesterday issued an 11-point directive for the general public and suspected Covid-19 patients amid a rise in cases both within the country and in neighbouring nations.

The Chief Adviser and BNP Acting Chairman are scheduled to meet on June 13

A teenager was killed after a private car hit his bicycle in Halishahar area of Chattogram city this afternoon

The incident occurred around 11:00pm

One of them included a university student

The arrestee will be sent to court tomorrow

60 liters of insecticide will be sprayed by fogger machines

The attackers claimed ownership of the land and tried to evict them