The long-awaited shelter centre for river erosion and flood-affected residents in the char areas of Narsingdi’s Mirzarchar under Raipura upazila remains incomplete, six years after the work began.

A conservation initiative to protect red crabs and sea turtles at Kuakata’s Char Gangamati beach has virtually vanished within four years of its launch, owing to poor monitoring and lack of enforcement.

BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed yesterday said they are waiting for a Bangladesh where no one will ever fall victim to enforced disappearances again.

The interim government must immediately disband the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), which has been accused of carrying out enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, said speakers at a discussion yesterday.

On the northern border with India, in Kurigram’s Phulbari upazila, stands the decaying Naodanga Zamindar Palace, once a hub of aristocratic power and cultural celebration, now abandoned to neglect and ruin.

Bangladesh is at a “critical juncture”, with the July uprising opening up new political possibilities to rebuild the country as a welfare state, speakers said at a discussion yesterday.

More and more people are now relying on potatoes and papaya to feed their families as the prices of other vegetables continue to rise in Dhaka’s kitchen markets.

Mohammadpur resident Hujaifa Tanveer, 28, who has been receiving treatment at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, was due to be discharged on Thursday, but doctors postponed it after tests revealed that dengue had partially damaged his kidneys and lungs.

Protesters marched on campus at 11:30pm and later held a rally at the foot of Raju Memorial Sculpture

Earlier on Friday night, leaders and activists of Gono Odhikar Parishad, Jubo Odhikar and Chhatra Odhikar Parishad in Rajshahi city brought out a protest procession from the city's Shaheb Bazar Zero Point around 9:30pm

Anu Muhammad says at event honouring Jatin Sarkar

In the aftermath of the July uprising, the country has witnessed a new wave of terror, killings, and mob violence, centring extortion, land grabbing, and establishing dominance, said Gono Forum founder and Emeritus President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday.

Leaders and activists of Jatiya Party and Gono Odhikar Parishad clashed in front of the former’s central office in the capital’s Kakrail yesterday.

Five members of the army were injured, it says

"As a student leader, Nur played a historic role in spearheading the anti-quota reform movement in 2018, inspiring a generation to rise against injustice and demand fairness"

The BNP leader said the party respects the right to hold all kinds of peaceful political programmes

Bangladesh’s economic policies must be liberated from the control of a few oligarchs, bureaucrats, and a narrow capitalist elite to ensure broad-based growth and sustainable job creation, economists said yesterday.

BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Andolan Bangladesh condemned the attack

Bodies of a woman and a child were recovered from the Buriganga River on August 23. Autopsies initially found that they had been strangled before their bodies were dumped. A murder case was filed with Sadarghat River Police Station in this regard.

Meghmallar Basu, general secretary candidate from the Protirodh Porshod panel in the upcoming Ducsu election, said he will remain vocal against injustices and for the rights of students, regardless of the election result.