Roads gridlocked for hours due to demo protesting Tejgaon College student's death

Fire service continues efforts over 24 hours after child fell into abandoned tube-well shaft

Tremors at 2:50am and 2:55am cause no reported damage or casualties

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of Evercare Hospital, and she is getting the care her condition requires, said her personal physician Dr Zahid Hossain last night.

A massive rescue operation is underway in Rajshahi’s Tanore upazila as a two-year-old boy, Sazid, fell into an abandoned deep tube-well shaft about 30 feet deep yesterday afternoon.

Employees of various ministries and departments staged a protest at the Bangladesh Secretariat yesterday, demanding a 20 percent allowance for Secretariat staff, during which they confined Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed.

A Tejgaon College student died yesterday, four days after he sustained injuries in an attack at a dormitory.

Human rights defender and Executive Director of Bangladesh Nari Sramik Kendra (BNSK), Sumaiya Islam, has been awarded the 2025 Franco-German Award for Human Rights and the Rule of Law.

Award presented at High Commissioner’s residence in Dhaka with diplomats, UN and civil society in attendance

The victims were beaten, and the gang looted 145 bhori gold ornaments, two mobile phones, cash, two ATM cards and a national ID card

The government has finally issued the long-awaited gazette on establishing a Police Commission empowered to recommend measures to strengthen discipline, accountability, and overall effectiveness within the force.

Nearly 4.96 million people are currently internally displaced persons (IDPs) due to natural disasters in Bangladesh, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), in its first comprehensive nationwide estimate.

Bangladesh can do nothing if India does not extradite the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, except for continuing the efforts to persuade India, Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain said yesterday.

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday said his party, despite facing the most repression over the last 16 years, does not want revenge and is instead committed to ensuring accountability, reconciliation and democratic rights.

House help Ayesha planned to steal valuables from the house in Mohammadpur and after working for three days, she carried a sharp knife with her, intending to use it if anyone noticed.

Chattogram woke before dawn to the roar of fire and shuddering steel -- an electric transformer here, a petrol pump there -- until, within an hour, it became a city of explosions.

LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain and Information Adviser Mahfuj Alam submitted their resignations from the advisory council yesterday.

National Citizen Party yesterday announced nominees in 125 constituencies, pitting its top leaders against rivals from BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami in key Dhaka seats in the upcoming national election.

The Election Commission will unveil the schedule this evening for the country’s first-ever twin polls -- the national election and the July charter referendum -- to be held on the same day in mid-February.

Speakers discuss edcuation system at IID roundtable