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3-day int’l seminar on Rohingya begins in Cox’s Bazar

A three-day international seminar on the Rohingya crisis will be held in Cox’s Bazar starting today, aimed at highlighting the cause of Rohingya rights and repatriation.
23 August 2025, 19:53 PM

Touhid-Dar meeting today

Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar and Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain will be leading a delegation-level meeting in Dhaka today as the two countries seek to improve relations after frosty ties for more than a decade.
23 August 2025, 19:28 PM

Journalist Alamgir Mohiuddin passes away

Veteran journalist and former founding editor of Naya Diganta, Alamgir Mohiuddin, passed away yesterday. He was 83.
23 August 2025, 18:52 PM

Four bodies recovered from Buriganga

River police recovered four bodies, including that of a woman and a child, from the Buriganga river in Old Dhaka yesterday.
23 August 2025, 18:46 PM

BGB-BSF conference: Push-ins, border killings to figure high

The continuous push-ins by Indian authorities from different border points despite repeated protests by Bangladesh will top the agenda of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in the upcoming 56th director general-level conference.
23 August 2025, 18:44 PM

Student union elections: JCD panel delayed over internal feud

The Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, long absent from Jahangirnagar University campus politics, has yet to announce a panel for the upcoming Jucsu election, though nomination submissions closed on August 21.
23 August 2025, 18:28 PM

Housing, food may top the manifestos

Panels contesting Ducsu election are signalling key reform priorities in their upcoming manifestos
23 August 2025, 18:28 PM

Threat of fresh Rohingya influx looms as clashes erupt in Myanmar

Residents, gripped by panic, reported that this was the most intense gunfire they had heard in months.
23 August 2025, 18:20 PM

‘Entire system has become one of occupation’

“The entire state system has become one of occupation,” he said during a seminar at the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka.
23 August 2025, 18:12 PM

Divisions widen over July Charter’s status, implementation

Major political parties are divided over the July Charter’s implementation timeline
23 August 2025, 18:10 PM

Govt to buy potato directly from farmers this year

The government has decided to procure potatoes directly from farmers this year in a bid to ensure fair prices for growers amid a sharp decline in domestic rates due to higher production.
23 August 2025, 18:10 PM

Education for Rohingyas in peril as global aid dries up

Shrinking international aid has cast uncertainty over schooling for thousands of Rohingya children in refugee camps, jeopardising years of progress, warns Rana Flowers, UNICEF representative to Bangladesh.
23 August 2025, 18:07 PM

‘July Charter’ will fail without legal foundation

Akhter Hossen, member secretary of the National Citizen Party (NCP), yesterday warned that the “July Charter” would fail to meet people’s aspirations for freedom if it lacks a proper legal basis and implementation.
23 August 2025, 18:02 PM

Suspended trains leave commuters in hardship

Hundreds of low-income passengers and small traders in Sylhet are suffering as three of four local train services on the Sylhet-Akhaura route remain suspended, with the lone surviving service offering little relief.
23 August 2025, 18:00 PM

Prof F Nazrul Islam appointed new Rucsu CEC

Earlier in the day, Prof Amzad Hossain resigned from the post of CEC
23 August 2025, 17:18 PM

Unresolved Bangladesh-Pakistan issues matter for two govts to discuss: Jamaat

A Jamaat delegation met Pakistan FM Ishaq Dar at the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka
23 August 2025, 16:49 PM

Pakistan should deal with issue of 1971 to advance ties: NCP

A seven-member NCP delegation meets Pakistan FM Ishaq Dar
23 August 2025, 16:25 PM

Death in Ctg mob beating: Mother files case, previous enmity behind incident

The mother of 15-year-old Md Rihan Uddin Mahin, who was mercilessly beaten to death by a mob on theft allegations in Chattogram's Fatikchhari upazila early yesterday, has filed a murder case accusing 15 people...The case was filed with Fatikchhari Police Station last night, accusing
23 August 2025, 15:59 PM

Custody death in Chakaria: Family alleges murder, police say suicide

Police recovered the 27-year-old’s body early Friday
23 August 2025, 15:59 PM

Pakistan foreign minister meets BNP, NCP, Jamaat delegations

The BNP delegation, led by its spokesperson Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, met Ishaq Dar at the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka
23 August 2025, 15:47 PM