The government is taking measures to ensure that no one is arrested or sued under the Digital Security Act (DSA) before investigation, Law Minister Anisul Huq has said.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has urged the Bangladesh government to ensure an investigation into the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in custody is prompt, transparent and independent, and suspend application of the Digital Security Act.

There will be a number of high-profile visits to Bangladesh later this month, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari, to attend the country’s celebrations of 50 years of independence.

Annual allocations for four of the seven ADP-funded first-track projects have either increased or remained the same, a sign that those are coping well with the pandemic fallout.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday came down on Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar after the latter said level playing field was not being ensured for all in polls.

In the face of depleting food stock and sluggish public procurement of foodgrains, the government has started providing cash instead of rice or wheat to implement its Test Relief and Food for Work programmes.

The government will not provide Covid-19 vaccines for the private healthcare sector, Prof ABM Khurshid Alam, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services, said yesterday.

Is this just a coincidence? When the BNP tries to organise a large political programme, it faces obstacles to mobilising its leaders and activists as transport services become unavailable all of a sudden.

There are two realities of today’s Bangladesh – the reality of graduation to a developing country and that of the repressions of digital security act, the former we celebrate and the latter we condemn. Today, however, we only celebrate.

Mohammad Erfan Salim, son of Awami League lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim, has been cleared of drug charges, days after officers dropped the charges of possession of illegal firearms in another case.

Four important examples of the country’s modern art -- a sculpture by Novera Ahmed and three murals by Hamidur Rahman -- have been decaying on the walls of Dhaka University Central Library.

The government has decided to lease out all 25 state-run jute mills to the private sector despite initial plans of reopening them either through joint venture, public-private partnership, or a government-to-government (G2G) agreement.

Former NRB Global Bank managing director Proshanta Kumar Halder fled the country through Jashore’s Benapole land port less than an hour before immigration police received his travel ban notice, Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik said yesterday.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said police will be deployed in the camps left by the army in Chattogram Hill Tracts.

At least 40 people, including cops, were injured in a series of clashes between the activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and police in front of the National Press Club after police foiled a protest rally yesterday morning.

Myanmar police fired on protesters around the country yesterday in the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least 18 people were killed, the UN human rights office said.

Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore was subjected to inhumane physical and mental torture in custody after Rab members picked him up from his Lalmatia house on May 5 last year, Kishore’s lawyer told a Dhaka court yesterday.

Steam goes off, lid in the handle slides down to be in airtight mode, and pressure starts to mount again within the sealed pot before the next hiss.

The government is going to prepare a roadmap soon for Bangladesh’s smooth transition from a least developed country to a developing one in the next five years.

At the age of only 20, Shyam Murmu joined the Liberation War to free the motherland, reportedly as the only Santal freedom fighter from Chapainawabganj’s Sadar upazila.