The Election Commission (EC) has issued a gazette redefining the boundaries of four parliamentary constituencies in Pabna and Faridpur districts, reports bdnews24.com.The four seats are Pabna-1, Pabna-2, Faridpur-2 and Faridpur-4.The decision follows an order from the High Court division to...
Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) Chairman and former lawmaker Barrister Andaleeve Rahman Partho on Friday said he had stated in parliament nearly 15 years ago that BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman would return to the country and the people of Bangladesh...
MUNSHIGANJ, Dec 26 (BSS): BNP has nominated Sheikh Md Abdullah, Md Abdus Salam Azad and Md Kamruzzaman Ratan to contest the upcoming 13th national parliamentary election in Munshiganj's three constituencies.Member of the district BNP convening committee Sheikh Md Abdullah received...
NARSINGDI, Dec 26 (BSS): Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested the General Secretary of the Narsingdi district unit of the Bangladesh Krishak League, an affiliate of the Awami League whose activities have been banned, on murder charges. Acting on a...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Friday said his party would priorities employment generation for young people instead of providing unemployment allowances, stressing that youths should become active builders of the nation rather than recipients of stipends, reports BSS."We...
The three-day Bangladesh Model United Nations (BANMUN) 2025 began in the capital on Friday under the theme "Just Energy Transition".Foreign Secretary Asad Alam Siam attended the conference as the chief guest. The 11th edition of the conference was organised on...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) authorities along with BNP leaders and activists have removed a total of 148 tonnes of waste from city's Purbachal 300-feet road, following a mass gathering organised by BNP on return of Bangladesh Nationalist Party's...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
A total of 767,591 individuals have registered with the 'Postal Vote BD' system to exercise their voting rights remotely for Bangladesh's parliamentary election scheduled for 12 February 2026. Of the total, 5,42,942 are Bangladeshis living abroad (NRB) while the remaining...
After announcing candidates for 243 constituencies in the general election, the Jatiya Party faction led by GM Quader has threatened to withdraw from the election if their two conditions are not met, reports bdnews24.com.The threat came at a press conference...
Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Friday said Bangladesh bears deep wounds-an ever-widening fracture that only a truly credible election can heal, reports UNB.In a post from his verified Facebook account, he said the general election and the referendum...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday expressed the hope that Bangladesh will become a truly democratic state under the leadership of BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, reports UNB."The country will move forward on the democratic path through...
Election Commissioner Abdur Rahmanel Masud today said there is no legal obstacle for BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman to be enlisted as a voter, reports BSS.Talking to BSS today, the election commissioner said the Election Commission has the authority to...
Authorities have cancelled the route permit of the MV Adventure-9 launch following a collision between two passenger vessels on the Meghna River in Chandpur that left four people dead, reports bdnews24.com.Barishal Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) Assistant Director Md...
PALM BEACH, United States, Dec 26 (AFP): President Donald Trump said US forces conducted "powerful and deadly" strikes Thursday against Islamic State group militants in northwestern Nigeria, weeks after he warned against any systemic assault on Christians in the country.The...
Investigators in the Sharif Osman bin Hadi murder case have told a Dhaka court "sensational" information has been gleaned during interrogation from two suspects arrested in a border area, reports bdnews24.com.Sibyoun Diu and Sanjay Chisim were produced before court on...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
A fire broke out at the top floor of eight-storeyed Khaddar Bazar Shopping Complex near Zero Point of Gulistan area on Friday evening.The Bangladesh Fire Service & Civil Defence (FSCD) received information about the fire at 5:28 pm, then rushed...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
The large-scale manufacturing (LSM) sector contracted by 0.78 per cent in October year on year due to a sharp slowdown in the garment industry, according to the latest Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data. LSM, which accounts for about 11...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
Tarique Rahman, the acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has emerged as a galvanising figure in the political arena after his return to the country on Thursday following 17 years in exile, drawing vast jubilant crowds wherever he...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
The prices of vegetables, potatoes, and onions declined more over the past week, while those of chicken and eggs saw a small increase.Most other commodities remained static at their previous highs, according to market sources.Newly harvested seed onions (murikata) were...
CHANDPUR, Dec 26 (BSS): At least four people were killed in a collision between two passenger launches -- Zakir Samrat-3 and Adventure-9 -- amid dense fog on the Meghna River in the Harina area of Chandpur Sadar.The accident occurred around...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
The capital on Friday experienced a fall in the mercury, while a mild cold wave swept over some parts of the country, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department.As temperatures fell in Dhaka, people thronged shopping malls and makeshift roadside stalls...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
A Dhaka-Tamabil highway project for sub-regional connectivity remains subdued as nine years got lost in land-acquisition hassles, thus raising the overall cost to Tk 284.016 billion, officials say. Roads and Highways Department (RHD) couldn't complete acquiring land during this long...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
Tears welled up in Tarique's eyes as he Friday prayed for his father on a visit to the latter's grave in Dhaka after 19 years a day after a historic homecoming of the exiled BNP leader. After crowd-retarded visit to...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
Banks are increasingly sourcing deposit from the countryside but their focus on rural Bangladesh keeps fading following tightfisted disbursement of formal credits, widening urban-rural financing gaps, sources say.At the same time, the number of bank branches in the least-developed but...
Indian IT services provider Coforge said on Friday it would acquire artificial intelligence firm Encora at an enterprise value of $2.35 billion to boost its in-house AI capabilities and expand its presence in the US and Latin America, reports Reuters.Indian...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 26: The Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) is working to prepare a new master plan for the port city now. The new Master Plan for Chattogram will be finalised by June next as the primary plan has already been...
The 32nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Bangladesh Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association (BAFEDA) was held at a city hotel on Wednesday. Md Shawkat Ali Khan, Chairman of BAFEDA and MD and CEO of Sonali Bank, presided over the meeting. BAFEDA...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to reduce the number of SIM cards that can be registered under a single National Identity Card (NID), setting a new ceiling of five per individual, to be effective from 1 January...
JASIM UDDIN | 2025-12-27 00:00:00
Apparel exporters have called for the restoration and re-fixing of cash incentives on the use of local yarn, citing the deteriorating condition of domestic spinning mills and the need to improve export competitiveness.They have proposed restoring the cash incentive on...
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