President Md Shahabuddin has issued an ordinance amending the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1898, introducing a new provision concerning the fate of suspects during criminal investigations, reports bdnews24.com.The law ministry announced the amendment in a gazette issued on Thursday.With...
Applications for re-checking the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) or equivalent exam results begins on Friday and will continue until July 17, reports BSS.To this end, the Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee day issued a press release.According to the press release, students...
KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 (AFP) : A meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his US counterpart Marco Rubio in Malaysia on Friday was "positive", Beijing said."Both sides agreed that the meeting was positive, pragmatic and constructive," the foreign...
RANGAMATI, July 11 (BSS): The noted writer and researcher Supriyo Talukder passed away on Friday while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Chattogram. He was 76, reports BSS.Supriyo Talukder, also former director of Rangamati Minority Cultural Institute, left behind his...
The 89th birth anniversary of Al Mahmud, one of the most prominent voices in modern Bangla poetry, is being observed on Friday with reverence and remembrance across literary circles in the country, reports UNB.Born on July 11, 1936, in Brahmanbaria,...
MOSCOW, July 11 (AFP) : Russian air defence systems intercepted 155 Ukrainian drones from late Thursday into Friday morning, the defence ministry said.From 11:00 pm (2000 GMT) Thursday to 7:00 am Friday, "air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed...
WASHINGTON, July 11 (AFP): US President Donald Trump flew to Texas Friday as questions swirled over the authorities' response to flash floods that have left at least 120 people dead, including dozens of children.The Republican leader and First Lady Melania...
The Wildlife Crime Control Unit (WCCU) of the Forest Department on Friday rescued 50 wild birds from different pet shops and kitchen market areas of Mirpur-1 in the capital, reports BSS.The rescued birds include three hill mynas, two crested mynas,...
Persistent rainfall over the past several days has created potholes in parts of the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway, causing a 20km tailback in the Brahmanbaria section, reports bdnews24.com.The congestion began on Friday, stretching from Ashuganj roundabout to Shahbazpur via Sarail Bishwa Road.As...
BHOLA, July 11 (UNB): Launch and sea-truck services resumed on 10 major river routes in Bhola on Friday morning after a week-long suspension following the withdrawal of local cautionary signal No-3 for maritime ports.BIWTA Bhola River Port Traffic Officer Jasim...
WASHINGTON, July 11 (AFP) : The US State Department said Thursday it will "soon" implement a plan to reduce its workforce, after the Supreme Court cleared the way for mass layoffs sought by President Donald Trump."In May, the secretary reviewed...
A woman sitting amid debris looks on as Palestinians inspect destroyed tents at a makeshift displacement camp following a reported incursion a day earlier by Israeli tanks in the area in Khan Yunis in the northern Gaza strip on Friday....
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-07-12 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, July 11: Due to heavy rain during the current monsoon season, the power generation at the Kaptai plant has increased to its highest level this year compared to the generation in the past few years. The Kaptai Hydroelectric Power...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2025-07-12 00:00:00
The cumulative written-off loans in Bangladesh's banking sector rose to over Tk 818.63 billion until March 2025, according to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) data.State-owned commercial banks accounted for a major share of such loans, amounting to over Tk 258.39 billion....
SYFUL ISLAM | 2025-07-12 00:00:00
Power-sector investors, particularly in the renewable-energy sector, get in dilemmas over government move to renegotiate tariffs as they say contract-time and current costs make a mismatch. The rate re-fixing is especially disadvantageous for those who have already started electricity generation...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-07-12 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, July 11: Heavy rainfall in the current monsoon season left most of Chattogram's roads in severely dilapidated condition, causing immense sufferings to people.Cracks, potholes, ditches and water-logging left the city unfit for traffic with the continuation of rainfall from...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-07-12 00:00:00
The Ministry of Science and Technology has sent a proposal to the Planning Commission to cancel the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Space Observatory project after spending Tk 62.27 million on construction.The project was initiated four years ago to set up...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-12 00:00:00
Nearly 0.1 million hectares of farmland have gone under water in the ongoing flood that has affected low-lying areas in 21 districts of Bangladesh.The flood, caused by heavy rainfall and water rushing in from upstream India, has submerged standing Aus...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-12 00:00:00
A Dhaka court on Friday sent Prof Abul Barkat, an economist and former chairman of Janata Bank PLC, to jail in connection with a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on charge of embezzling Tk2.97 billion through loan...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-07-12 00:00:00
A move gets underway to hire local and foreign consultants for Tk 274.20 million for operating systems automation of Pyra seaport while the port struggles for viability, sources said Friday.Besides, they said, superfluous purchases and staff training at additional costs...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-07-12 00:00:00
Tourist havens like beaches and bewitching forests across Bangladesh being overwhelmed with backpackers, potential new tourism products are now envisaged for the fast-growing economic sector. The country's tourism sector is evolving into a significant economic pillar, contributing around 4.0 per...
FE REPORT | 2025-07-12 00:00:00
Commerce Adviser Sheikh Bashir Uddin Thursday met with US Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer at his office in Washington, DC, discussing core issues related to Bangladesh-US trade relationship, including new tariffs."The two dignitaries discussed issues of mutual interest, with particular...
KHULNA, July, 11 (BSS): Unidentified miscreants shot dead an ex-Jubo Dal leader in the city here on Friday.The deceased was identified as Mahbubur Rahman, 40, ex-vice president of Daulatpur thana unit of Jubodal, the youth front of BNP.Miscreants shot dead...
Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh held a rally at the north gate of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in the capital after Jumma prayers on Friday, protesting against the move to set up the UN Human Rights Office in Dhaka. — Focus Bangla
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Professor Mia Golam Parwar on Friday said Jammat Islami must achieve desired result in the 13th parliament elections, reports BSS."We are passing through a special time in the history . . . it is the expectation...
BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia has urged the government to take immediate steps to ensure advanced treatment for folk singer and torchbearer of Lalon songs Farida Parveen, reports UNB.She also enquired about the health condition of...
The students continued blocking highways and railways even on the weekend holidays across the country on July 12 last year, protesting the police attack on the protesters on July 11 and demanding reforms to the quota system in government jobs,...
A Dhaka court on Friday sent to jail Salman F Rahman, the former adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, after end of his remand in a case filed over the killing of one Al-Amin during the July-August mass uprising,...
CUMILLA, July 11 (BSS): LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain on Friday said July 11 was the first resistance day of the 2024 mass uprising."The first blood of the 2024 mass uprising was shed at Cumilla University on July 11,...
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