At least four people were killed and more than 30 injured in a head‑on collision between two buses on the Dhaka-Pabna highway in Sholabaria area of Pabna’s Santhia upazila this morning.

A government consultation committee has recommended limiting SSC exams to five core subjects -- Bangla, English, mathematics, science, and social science -- while keeping PSC and JSC exams in classes 5 and 8 scrapped.

Bangladesh’s ranking in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) worsened, with the country placed 13th among the world’s most corrupt nations out of 182.

As the dust settles on election season with the last day of campaigning officially ending yesterday morning, the street rallies were complemented by a digital battle for the ballot, where political parties poured crores of taka into thousands of Facebook ads.

Election codes strictly prohibit exploitation of religious sentiments for gaining electoral advantage.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has urged voters to make the February 12 election day the “birthday of a new Bangladesh”.

Bangladesh secures a marginal US tariff cut to 19%, but commits to billions of dollars in purchases

Advisers in the outgoing interim government, along with their spouses, disclosed wealth statements yesterday, detailing changes in their assets between June 30, 2024, and June 30, 2025.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism has issued a clarification to our report titled “Lord of the wings,” published on February 6.

With the much-awaited national election set to take place tomorrow, looted firearms yet to be recovered and thousands of licensed weapons yet to be deposited may pose security challenges, experts and law enforcers said.

2 fire engines working to bring the blaze under control

A new political platform, Gonobiplobi Udyog (People’s Revolutionary Initiative), was launched yesterday, based on the ideology of the July mass uprising.

Security has been strengthened in and around Rohingya camps as well as across the wider Cox’s Bazar region ahead of the upcoming 13th national election, said Lieutenant Colonel Tanveer Ahmed of the Army’s Ramu 10 Infantry Division.

In the verdant landscape of Moulvibazar-2 (Kulaura), the campaign of Sadia Noshin Tasnim Chowdhury, candidate of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist) in the upcoming 13th national parliamentary election, stands apart from the established norm.

Under the fire safety inspection programme in 2025, the Fire Service and Civil Defence inspected 10,533 buildings across the country.

Ahead of the 13th national election scheduled for February 12, people from marginalised communities across the country have urged the next elected government to work for the betterment of their lives and livelihoods and to ensure a brighter future for their children.

On the morning of February 9, a large crowd gathered near the Mirpur-1 Eidgah field.

The formal trial of Salman F Rahman, former adviser to the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and former law minister Anisul Huq in a crimes against humanity case began yesterday, with the prosecution placing its opening statement before the International Crimes Tribunal-1.

An elderly mother, Saleha Monir, had renewed hope of getting justice for the brutal killings of her son, Sagar Sarowar, and daughter-in-law, Meherun Runi, after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5, 2024, following a student-led mass movement.

Kona and Jannat were strolling through the Banani DNCC Market when they suddenly found themselves amid an election campaign procession.