HC to deliver verdict on legality of DP World NCT contract on Dec 4

Petition challenges legality of interim government’s move
25 November 2025, 09:27 AM

Interim govt issues gazette categorising all government colleges

Among the 708 colleges, the highest number—446 institutions—have been placed in Category C
25 November 2025, 09:03 AM

E-family courts will ease suffering, curb corruption: Asif Nazrul

Family disputes must first go through legal aid office before reaching family courts
25 November 2025, 08:57 AM

Defence lawyer urges ICT-2 not to try four AL leaders only for their political identity

AL Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif among the four
25 November 2025, 07:41 AM

Purbachal plot scam: Verdict in case against Hasina, Rehana, Tulip on Dec 1

The trial of two other graft cases filed against 21 people, including Hasina, her nieces and nephew, is now pending at the Special Judge's Court-4
25 November 2025, 07:36 AM

Online recharge for metro rail cards now available

New digital top-up service aims to ease commuter queues and streamline metro and bus travel
25 November 2025, 06:41 AM

Don’t appoint politically linked people to monitor polls, CEC tells local observers

Urges journalists, observers to act as ‘CCTV cameras’ ensuring accountability, transparency
25 November 2025, 06:16 AM

Hawker stabbed to death on Ekota Express in Thakurgaon

Police suspect two other hawkers to be involved in the killing
25 November 2025, 03:31 AM

Rangabali of Patuakhali: Forestland grabbed for watermelon cultivation

Protected forestland and riverbanks are being illegally occupied in the Char Signboard area of Kachipara village under Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila, allegedly to cultivate watermelon by building an embankment.
24 November 2025, 22:32 PM

Rangpur Chest Disease hospital: TB patients left without indoor care

Patient admissions at the only 20-bed Chest Disease Hospital in the Rangpur division have remained suspended since June after the stoppage of dietary supply for inpatients.
24 November 2025, 22:29 PM

July uprising: A missing son, a buried body, and a call no parent should receive

For Shafiqul Islam and Mukta Begum, the wait began on the morning of August 5, 2024, for their only son -- and it never ended, until yesterday.
24 November 2025, 22:18 PM

Star journalist among 6 awarded Disability Equality Media Fellowship

Six journalists were awarded the Disability Equality in the Media Fellowship in recognition of their reporting on disability inclusion and rights in Bangladesh yesterday.
24 November 2025, 22:17 PM

Politicians, officials used DSA to settle ‘personal disputes’

The Digital Security Act (DSA) was widely used by politicians and government officials to settle personal disputes with journalists and to harass and intimidate them, according to a new study on the law.
24 November 2025, 22:16 PM

Political parties in Bangladesh run like businesses

There is no truly democratic political party in Bangladesh, as politics has become a business driven by nomination trade, said Badiul Alam Majumdar, secretary of Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik, yesterday.
24 November 2025, 22:16 PM

BNP pledges free media if elected

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said his party would prioritise the establishment of a free and independent media sector if voted to power in the next national election.
24 November 2025, 22:15 PM

300 Dhaka buildings ‘vulnerable’: Rajuk

Rajuk Chairman Riazul Islam yesterday announced that approximately 300 small and large buildings in Dhaka have been identified as vulnerable following the recent earthquakes.
24 November 2025, 22:14 PM

SPs for all dists finalised ahead of nat’l election

The government has finalised the list of superintendents of police (SPs) for all 64 districts ahead of the 13th national election.
24 November 2025, 21:30 PM

Port, LDC Graduation: Unelected govt can’t take long-term decisions

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday said an unelected government cannot take decisions that have long-term implications.
24 November 2025, 21:00 PM

Attack on Bauls: Govt inaction risks fuelling extremism

Outrage grew over the arrest of Baul Abul Sarkar and the attacks on other artistes in Manikganj, as citizens and rights organisations warned yesterday that the government’s inaction could institutionalise religious extremism.
24 November 2025, 20:35 PM

2 traders stabbed, mugged in Uttara

Two traders were stabbed and robbed of around Tk 1.48 lakh by a group of muggers in Dhaka’s Uttara early yesterday, police and family members said.
24 November 2025, 20:17 PM