CHATTOGRAM, Dec 11 (UNB): An activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was killed in a clash reportedly between two factions of BNP in Baraiyarhat municipality under Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram district in the early hours of Thursday.The victim, Gazi Tahmid...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
AKM Jamal Uddin, a professor of Sociology Department at Dhaka University (DU) and a teacher aligned with Neel Dal backed by Awami League (AL), has fled the campus after being chased by a group of students.Pro-AL teacher Prof Zinat Huda...
The High Court(HC) has declared illegal the Election Commission's gazette that had detached Algi and Hamirdi unions under Bhanga upazila from Faridpur-4 constituency and attached them to Faridpur-2, reports BSS.A HC bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice...
JU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
Jatiya Chhatra Shakti has announced a new committee for its Jahangirnagar University (JU) unigt, naming Zia Uddin Ayan and Nadia Rahman Anvesha as president and general secretary respectively.Zahid Ahsan, president of the organisation's central comittee, made the announcement was at...
The Supreme Court (SC) has adjourned until March 5 the hearing on the appeals filed against the High Court (HC) verdict that declared parts of the 15th amendment to the constitution 'unconstitutional and void', reports BSS. "Adjourned to March 5,...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
A Dhaka Court on Thursday placed Shaukat Mahmood, senior journalist and former president of Jatiya Press Club, on five-day remand in a case filed with Ramna Model Police Station in Dhaka under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Judge of the Chief Metropolitan...
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday once again warned his party leaders that the next election will be a tough one amid a constant spread of lies and false campaigns, urging them to be serious and reach out to...
Police blocked a procession of 'Shaheed Pintu Smriti Sangsad' in the capital's Bangabazar area while trying to reach the Police Headquarters on Thursday. The protesters demanded the removal, arrest and trial of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Baharul Alam for...
Two mild tremors were felt in Sylhet's Beanibazar and Moulvibazar's Barlekha within a span of five minutes on Wednesday midnight, according to Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), reports BSS.The first tremor occurred at 2:50:31...
The northern tip of Bangladesh is reeling under a biting cold as Tetulia in Panchagarh district on Thursday recorded the season's lowest temperature at 8.9 degrees Celsius, marking for the first time the mercury dipped below the 10-degree mark, reports...
The High Court has ruled that marriage and divorce registration has to be digitalised.The bench of Justice Fahmida Quader and Justice Md Ashif Hasan delivered its verdict on Thursday after the final hearing of a petition over the matter.Advocate Ishrat...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Thursday approved five separate cases against multiple S Alam Group entities and their officials, as well as Janata Bank officials, for allegedly embezzling Tk 94.28 billion through loan irregularities, misuse of authority, and criminal breach of...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
A special court in Dhaka on Thursday ordered the attachment of 1,936.5 acres of land in Chattogram owned by S Alam Group Chairman Mohammed Saiful Alam and several individuals associated with him. Judge of the Metropolitan Senior Special Judges Court...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) recorded a 9.46-percent rise in profit in the last fiscal year (FY 2024-25), driven by the automatic fuel-pricing formula introduced in March 2024. The state-run organisation posted earnings of Tk 42.16 billion, up from Tk 39.43...
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters): President Donald Trump's administration officially launched his "Trump Gold Card" visa programme on Wednesday to provide a pathway, with a steep price, for non-US citizens to get expedited permission to live in the United States.The website...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh's long-standing dependence on overseas labour migration may have helped cushion external shocks, but it cannot deliver a sustainable path to middle- or high-income status without significant investment in skills and human capital, experts have warned.While remittances support consumption, foreign-exchange...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
The allocations for health, education, and social protection - the key pillars of human-capital development - have been sharply reduced, by as much as 63 per cent, in the Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the current fiscal year.Amid an...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
The central bank purchased US$149 million through auction from 16 banks on the interbank spot market on Thursday, aiming to keep the exchange rate of the US dollar against the local currency stable.The amount was bought under the Multiple Price...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
Today's metro-rail operations remain uncertain as the operator on Thursday said services would run as usual, even though the striking staff did not withdraw their work stoppage that begins today.The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) employees of grades 10...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Thursday approved a charge-sheet against British MP Tulip Rizwana Siddiq and former RAJUK official Sarder Mosharraf Hossain, accusing them of illegally possessing and transferring a flat at Gulshan in Dhaka.According to the ACC investigation report, Ms...
BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia remains in critical condition at Evercare Hospital, report agencies.She is on ventilator support and receiving intensive care for multiple serious complications, according to the medical board overseeing her treatment.In its latest...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
An interim government pointsman proposes the formation of a truth commission for rectifying economic crimes and examining how non-performing loans were created under the ousted previous regime."We have to form a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on economic crime and see...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
The baby rescued from a borehole in Tanore of Rajshahi on Thursday night was declared dead by doctors at a health complex.Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Tajul Islam, Director (Operation and Maintenance) of the Fire Service, confirmed the news, citing doctors at...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
Political parties active through the student-mass uprising instantly welcome the much-envisaged election schedule, saying that the people will be able to exercise their franchise after the end of a decade-and-a-half-long "fascist regime".BNP Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir describes the just-announced...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh gets in the process of democratic transition from the post-uprising interregnum with the rollout of poll schedule Thursday for general election and reform referendum to be held on February 12 next.Political parties active through the 5th-August 2024 student-mass uprising...
Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin said on Thursday he plans to step down midway through his term after February's parliamentary election, telling Reuters he has felt humiliated by the interim government, led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.As head of state, Shahabuddin...
MUNSHIGANJ, Dec 11 (UNB): Police have arrested five people, including a police sub-inspector, a TV journalist and a Krishak League leader, over a major gold robbery on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Gajaria upazila of Munshiganj.Police also recovered about 95 bhori...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Dec 11 (UNB): The body of a Bangladeshi man, who went missing after illegally crossing into India, was recovered from a river in West Bengal on Wednesday.The deceased, Tasir Ali, 31, son of Ibrahim Haque from Bakher Ali Westpara...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-12-12 00:00:00
SYLHET, Dec 11: Farmers in the Sylhet region are in the midst of a busy and successful Aman paddy harvest. Over 80 per cent of the crop has already been harvested, according to farmers and officials from various upazilas.Ataur Rahman...
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