Relief materials will be sent via a special Bangladesh Air Force flight today
It is illegal to shoot and kill protesters of any peaceful movement, former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun said while being cross-examined by the defence counsel at the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday.
Rights groups yesterday issued separate statements condemning the extrajudicial death of factory worker Md Habib in Nilphamari’s Export Processing Zone on September 2.
The Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) has made an urgent call for the creation of Asean Humanitarian Fund to deliver life-saving support and prevent mass hunger among Rohingyas in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh now has the highest non-performing loan (NPL) ratio in Asia, with defaults surging to 20.2 percent of total loans in 2024, according to a new Asian Development Bank report.
Any individual formally charged at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) will be deemed ineligible to remain an MP or contest elections.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court verdict that acquitted BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar, and 47 others in two cases filed over the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally.
The National Consensus Commission is set to propose a referendum on how the upper house of parliament would be formed.
François Valérian, chair of Transparency International, has said that Bangladesh cannot sustain reforms or fight abuse of power “in a climate of violence, harassment and threats against journalists and civil society activists.”
The Anti-Corruption Commission has initiated a process for the issuance of Interpol red notices against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, accused of corruption in the allocation of six plots in the Purbachal New Town Project.
Abdur Rasid Zitu, the vice-president candidate from the “Swatantra Shikkharthi Sammilan” panel in the Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union (Jucsu) election, has pledged to prioritise students’ interests if elected.
BNP has announced a six-day programme to press home their demands, including releasing party chairperson Khaleda Zia and jailed top leaders, reducing prices of daily commodities, and cancelling the January 7 election.
Five persons were killed in a head-on collision between a lorry and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Cumilla’s Daudkandi upazila yesterday morning.
MA Quayum, a senior BNP leader living in Malaysia on a second-home visa, has been released after nearly a month in detention.
Nine eminent citizens, in a letter issued yesterday, sought necessary measures from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to stop the filling of agricultural land with sand under the guise of establishing an economic zone in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj.
The body of a man accused in a rape case was found hanging in his cell at Bogura District Jail Saturday evening, said prison authorities yesterday afternoon.
Students of Dhaka University’s Mass Communication and Journalism Department demonstrated on the campus yesterday, demanding that Prof Naadir Junaid of the department be relieved from all academic activities.
A Kushtia court yesterday convicted a former police officer and sentenced him to death for killing his wife, step-son, and wife’s lover in 2021.
A four-year-old child was burned to death in a fire that broke out at a home in Dhaka’s Ashulia yesterday morning.
The High Court yesterday ordered the government to stop cutting hills and extracting soil at Lohagora in Chattogram within seven days.
There are around 1,027 unauthorised private hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centres, and blood banks across the country that are operating without valid licences, according to a report by Directorate General of Health Services.
