Filling stations instructed to verify motorcycle’s registration number and driver’s details

Rab arrests prime accused in Sunamganj; two others in Netrokona

Foreign minister, PM's foreign affairs adviser meet UK officials in London

The absence of bridges over key rivers continues to disrupt patrols, travel and local development

Victims were returning to Shantinagar from Kaptan Bazar when the accident occurred

Family alleges local drug dealers behind the killing; police investigating

Container handling at private inland container depots (ICDs) and transport of import cargo on inland waterways risk disruption due to a shortage of diesel from state‑owned oil depots, say operators.

Two people were killed in a fire broke out at a commercial building named LA Plaza in Dhaka’s Mirpur-2 yesterday.

A Dhaka University student was beaten and later handed over to police by activists of Jatiya Chhatra Shakti, the student wing of the National Citizen Party, early yesterday.

Achieving gender equality requires more than strong legal provisions; it demands institutional accountability, inclusive reforms, and the dismantling of colonial-era loopholes that leave women and marginalised groups vulnerable, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday.

Opposition Leader and Jamaat Ameer Shafiqur Rahman yesterday alleged that people’s voting rights were violated in the national election and claimed that his party had been “made the opposition in a calculated way”.

Some 37,567 women-headed households in 14 areas, including two in the capital, are going to get Tk 2,500 each against the family cards through their bank accounts or mobile wallets before Eid.

Joint forces yesterday launched a large-scale operation in the Jungle Salimpur area of Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram, deploying around 3,200 personnel from the army, police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).

With the government struggling to manage growing panic over fuel amid the US-Israel war on Iran, the key commodity surged beyond $100 a barrel yesterday, raising fresh concerns for highly import-dependent Bangladesh.

Farmers across the country are struggling to irrigate paddy and other crops after the government restricted fuel supply amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, raising fears of disruptions to Boro cultivation.

Bangladesh is seeking cooperation from India to obtain consular access and pursue the extradition of two suspects in the murder of Sharif Osman Bin Hadi who were arrested in West Bengal, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed said yesterday.

Government efforts to strengthen monitoring of the fuel supply chain appear to have done little to ease sufferings, as shortages and long queues at filling stations continued across the country yesterday.

The piling up of freight at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) has been increasing as some of the Middle East-based airliners suspended cargo flights due to the US-Israel war on Iran.

Bangladesh has floated tenders to buy three more liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes from the spot market for April delivery in a desperate race to secure gas amid deepening turmoil in the Middle East.

A Dhaka court yesterday denied bail to Sheikh Tasnim Afroz Emi, former vice-president of Shamsunnahar Hall Union at Dhaka University and a central vice-presidential candidate in the 2025 Ducsu election, and two others in an anti-terrorism case filed over playing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s March 7 speech on loudspeaker.