Health experts and campaigners yesterday urged the immediate formulation of a law making primary healthcare (PHC) a constitutional obligation aimed at achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Transcom Group Chairman Shahnaz Rahman, Chief Executive Officer Simeen Rahman, and three other top officials were exempted yesterday from a case filed by the CEO’s sister.

An enforced disappearance victim yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal that a guard at his secret detention centre informed him his body weight had been measured days after his abduction so that a concrete slab of the same weight could be prepared to dump his body after killing him, ensuring it would never be recovered.

As the sun set, a tea stall on the slope of Rainkhola near Mirpur Zoo buzzed with speculation. A group of young men debated whether the upcoming national election would affect personal relationships in the neighbourhood.

The government has decided to provide an additional Tk 1 crore to the family of slain Inqilab Mancha spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi as livelihood support, Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed said yesterday.

At least 219 people were killed, and 511 were injured in 409 road crashes in Dhaka last year, highlighting poor traffic safety amid mismanagement of urban transport, said Road Safety Foundation yesterday.

A four-year-old child was brutally killed during an attack over a property dispute in Zorarganj of Chattogram’s Mirsarai upazila yesterday.

Justice Farah Mahbub, a judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, has been appointed as the chairman of the Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission (BJSC).

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday indicted Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and also her former ICT adviser, and Zunaid Ahmed Palak, former state minister for ICT, in a case over allegations of crimes against humanity committed during the July uprising in 2024.

Also offers Fateha at grave of General MAG Osmani

Death was due to old-age complications

Group led by former Ghana president will monitor Bangladesh's national polls

Lawyer alleges conspiracy to file false cases to harm business reputation

This is the third consecutive day the gold prices have been hiked

Formal campaign to begin tomorrow in Dhaka-15 areas

Govt earlier allocated Tk 1 crore for purchasing a flat in Dhaka

Cites going against party policy, ideology and discipline as the reason

Joy says India will not extradite his mother

Cite apprehension of not getting justice as case continues

Govt currently spends Tk 131,000 crore on employees and pensioners, Pay Commission chair says