The authorities of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have finalised a draft act to rename the force as the People’s Protection Forces (PPF) and establish an independent complaint management body to strengthen accountability amid longstanding criticism over human rights violations.

Four more children have died showing symptoms consistent with measles in the last 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday, raising Bangladesh’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 652.

The gas subsidy has more than trebled this fiscal year, along with subsidies for electricity and fertiliser, due to costly purchases from the international spot market as a result of the Iran war.

The Local Government Division has formed two committees to identify and demarcate the boundaries of all canals under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) to expedite canal recovery and restoration efforts.

Bangladesh Bank last night dissolved the entire board of directors of Islami Bank, including newly appointed chairman Md Khurshid Alam, after protests, controversy, and liquidity stress at the bank.

Econo-mist Prof Abul Barkat was shown arrested yesterday in a fresh murder case linked to the July uprising.

The test operational process of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant has been temporarily halted after a technical fault was discovered following fuel loading at Unit-1 of the country’s first nuclear facility.

A woman was raped on Friday after a perpetrator cut through the tin wall  and entered her house in Noakhali’s Companiganj upazila.

The government plans to convert all primary schools into single-shift institutions within five years to improve learning outcomes and ensure adequate classroom time, State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Bobby Hajjaj said yesterday.

Heated exchanges erupted twice in the parliament yesterday -- first over Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed’s statement on an expelled Islami Chhatra Shibir leader facing a rape case, and later over remarks by treasury bench MP Manirul Haque Chowdhury over women MPs’ attire.

The government will need an additional one-time allocation of Tk 3,150 crore to clear nearly 44,000 pending applications for benefits from the Teachers’ Welfare Trust and Retirement Board, Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon told parliament yesterday.

Dhaka-14 Jamaat-e-Islami MP Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem voiced dissatisfaction in the parliament yesterday, demanding an explanation as to why his motion on “illegal push-ins and border killings by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF)” was withheld from discussion despite being scheduled.

LGRD Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said media houses have become “representatives of business houses.”

Speakers tell discussion

Two accused give confessional statements, while a medical board examines Jisan’s condition

Two injured as sand-laden truck, easy bike and bicycle plunge into canal

Joynab was reunited with her parents after a flag meeting confirmed she had mistakenly crossed into India

Thakurgaon woman dies an hour after her husband; villagers mourn an inseparable couple

BGB-BSF flag meeting ends without resolution as women and children endure extreme heat near the border

Locals detained the accused and handed him over to police