Bangladesh and Russia are in talks to increase labour recruitment from Bangladesh to up to 100,000 workers within the next year.

Two people were killed in separate incidents of violence in Pabna town on Monday.

The BNP has assigned its reserved-seat women MPs to constituencies won by opposition parties as part of a strategy to keep the ruling party active in areas where it has no elected lawmaker.

A capped langur and 12 turtles were rescued, and a suspected wildlife trafficker was arrested during a raid in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Monday, forest officials said.

The Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday presented a Tk 8,39,505 crore shadow budget ahead of the national budget for fiscal year 2026–27, which is scheduled to be placed in parliament tomorrow.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested a former bank official on allegations of using a customer’s returned credit card for years and carrying out transactions worth more than Tk 17 lakh.

The government has taken up a Tk 344 crore project to expand the Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and Institute, as the country’s largest children’s hospital struggles to meet rising demand for treatment, particularly during measles and dengue outbreaks.

Labour Minister Ariful Haque Choudhury has reaffirmed the new government’s commitment to labour rights, social justice, human rights, and the rule of law.

Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC has sought a special liquidity support of Tk 10,000 crore from Bangladesh Bank as the country’s largest Shariah-based lender reels from deposit withdrawals amid unrest over its chairman’s appointment.

State Minister for Land and Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Barrister Mir Mohammad Helal Uddin yesterday inaugurated Bangladesh’s first satellite ocean observation facility at Chittagong University (CU).

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) yesterday condemned the hateful, abusive, and degrading online campaign targeting lawmaker Barrister Rumeen Farhana.

A highway police vehicle was vandalised after a clash broke out between police and local three-wheeler workers in Cumilla’s Burichang upazila yesterday, following the reported injury of an auto-rickshaw driver during an altercation with a police officer.

A prosecution witness yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal-2 that police prevented him and another youth from taking injured student Imam Hasan Bhuiyan Tayim to the hospital after he was shot in Jatrabari during the July 2024 uprising.

Police have arrested two individuals, including a local Jubo Dal leader, in connection with the killing of Swechchhasebak Dal leader Billal Hossain Talukdar.

The Supreme Court yesterday received the death reference of the case filed over the rape and murder of eight-year-old schoolgirl Ramisa Akter.

Steps are underway to gradually expand the fund of Bangladesh Startup Investment Company PLC (BSIC) to Tk 1,000 crore to strengthen the country’s venture capital industry and attract greater private and international investment, said ICT Minister Faqir Mahbub Anam yesterday.

Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday said the oil, gas, electricity, and fertiliser sectors alone will require an additional subsidy of about Tk 42,600 crore by June as per preliminary estimates due to the recent unrest in the Middle East.

Rape survivors will continue to be denied justice unless rape laws are reformed, evidence rules enforced, the ban on the two-finger test implemented, and justice-sector professionals trained to handle survivors with sensitivity, speakers said yesterday.

Bangladesh’s climate policies recognise gender concerns, but weak implementation, poor coordination, limited data and inadequate financing continue to keep women and marginalised communities away from climate decision-making processes that directly affect their lives, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday.

Family says 69-year-old Mobarak Hossain has cognitive problems; police are trying to trace him