Choked with silt and reduced to a fraction of its former width, the Bhadra River now forces locals,

There is little doubt that one area of Bangladesh is poised to become a major commercial centre in the future.

Nine-year-old Mim Akhter sat quietly at the doorway of her family’s small home in an Ashrayan project at Raozan upazila of Chattogram yesterday.

The interim government yesterday gave the final approval to a draft ordinance aimed at preventing sexual harassment at workplaces and educational institutions.

Three accused in a murder case have been mistakenly released from Mymensingh Central Jail without any bail order from court, prison authorities confirmed yesterday.

The prosecution yesterday brought charges against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and six former senior police officers over the killing of nine youths in what it described as a “staged anti-militant operation” at Kalyanpur’s Jahaj Building in 2016.

Most media professionals yesterday recommended the establishment of a single media commission instead of having two separate bodies.

Reforms through the referendum, being conducted in an opaque manner, is a non-serious proposition, said noted economist and political scientist Prof Rehman Sobhan.

Justice Md Rezaul Haque, chamber judge of the Appellate Division of the SC, passed the “no order” on a petition filed by the Bangladesh Jubo Arthanitibid Forum challenging the HC verdict and seeking an order of status quo on the entire process of awarding the contract for NCT.

Five platoons of BGB members were deployed in Sherpur’s Jhenaigati and Sreebardi upazilas to maintain law and order after a Jamaat leader was killed in an election-related violence on Wednesday, said Shariful Islam, public relations officer of BGB headquarters.

Islami Andolan Bangladesh (IAB) will ensure the security of minorities following Islamic principles for running the state if voted to power, its Ameer Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim said yesterday.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday said the repatriation of more than one million Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar’s Rakhine State remains the only viable and sustainable solution to the crisis.

Fact-checking organisation Dismislab has debunked recent social media claims that Saiful Islam, joint convener of Sherpur’s Jhenaigati unit Jubo Dal, was killed following a clash between Jamaat and BNP activists in Sherpur.

Home Adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday warned that the government would take strict departmental and legal action if evidence is found that anyone engaged in election duty worked in favour of any candidate or sought to implement any party agenda.

Mamunul Haque, the 11-party alliance candidate for the Dhaka-13 constituency and ameer of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis, yesterday demanded justice for the killing of a local Jamaat-e-Islami leader in Sherpur.

Voters in Chattogram-8 (Boalkhali–Chandgaon) are growing increasingly confused as tensions between Jamaat-e-Islami and its alliance partner National Citizen Party (NCP) intensify, disrupting coordinated campaigning and creating uncertainty at the grassroots ahead of the polls.

From local markets to village haats and riverside communities, Habiba Kibria has been carrying a single appeal to voters in Barishal -- “Your one vote can bring my father back to you.”

Farzana Sharmin Putul is taking a personal approach to campaigning in Natore-1 ahead of the February 12 parliamentary election, presenting herself to voters not as a traditional political figure but as someone they can relate to and confide in.

At around 11:30am yesterday, a group of five stepped down from a CNG auto-rickshaw at the Badurtala Boro Garage intersection in Chattogram. Two men and three women stood briefly by the roadside. One young man carried a hand microphone and a poster, while the others held leaflets.

A total of 150 final-year university students from agriculture-related disciplines across Bangladesh received the Prayash Syngenta Scholarship 2025 at a certificate handover ceremony held at The Daily Star Centre yesterday.