Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin yesterday directed local election observer organisations not to appoint anyone with political links to monitor the upcoming national election.

The Central Intelligence Cell of the National Board of Revenue has recovered 832.51 bhori gold ornaments from two lockers registered under the name of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina at Agrani Bank’s principal branch in Motijheel.

Leading British lawyers, including a former Conservative justice secretary, have described the trial in Bangladesh of former UK city minister Tulip Siddiq as “contrived and unfair.”

As a devastating fire swept through the capital’s Korail slum last night, 45-year-old Bokul Begum was trapped alone in her small room.

The BNP, in its election campaign, will pledge to create one crore jobs within 18 months if voted to power

The verdict of the graft case filed against 17 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and niece British MP Tulip Siddiq, will be delivered on December 1.

Nestlé disputes allegations, says test was done in non-accredited lab

He wished quick recovery for the injured and conveyed heartfelt sympathies to the affected families

Say NBR officials

Eleven BNP leaders have tendered their resignations in protest, accusing the party’s Tangail-8 (Sakhipur–Basail) nominee, Ahmed Azam Khan, of making arbitrary organisational decisions and attempting to rehabilitate Awami League activists.

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her two children in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila yesterday.

The High Court has set December 4 for delivering its verdict on a rule that questioned the legality of the government’s move to initiate the process of awarding container-handling operations at Chattogram’s New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) to UAE-based DP World.

The Advisory Council yesterday approved the draft of the Referendum Ordinance, 2025, which includes a provision allowing expatriates to cast their votes in the referendum.

At least five people were injured yesterday as police baton-charged and used water cannons to disperse candidates of 47th BCS examination, demanding postponement of their written test, in the capital’s Shahbagh area.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) failed to build the capacity needed to prevent or fight fires at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, despite seven major incidents since 2013, a probe committee has found.

The interim government wants to implement a portion of the recommendations made by the commission during its tenure.

Experts said several of these pesticides are linked to cancer and long-term health effects

A fire broke out at a garment warehouse in the Kalurghat area of Chattogram on Tuesday night

Nearly two million people are estimated to have fallen into poverty in 2025 as Bangladesh grapples with an economic downturn almost comparable to the Covid-19 pandemic period, according to a new World Bank report published yesterday.

A massive fire tore through the Bou Bazar area of the capital’s Korail slum yesterday evening, reducing hundreds of homes to ashes.