Political parties have agreed that no individual can serve as prime minister for more than 10 years during their lifetime.

By July 28, more than 2.13 lakh people—most of them unnamed—had been accused in nearly 200 cases filed with police stations across the capital in connection with the recent violence centring the quota reform movement.

Transport owners and workers yesterday threatened to enforce a 72-hour nationwide strike from August 12 to press home their eight-point demand, including halting the ongoing crackdown on outdated vehicles and extending the economic lifespan of such vehicles by five to 10 years.

Instead of approving the revised proposal for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Line-3 project on the Dhaka-Gazipur route, the government has decided to launch an investigation into the long-delayed scheme plagued by multiple issues and setbacks.

National Citizen Party Convener Nahid Islam yesterday warned that if the “July Charter” is not declared by August 5, they will take position at the Central Shaheed Minar to realise the demand.

Students Against Discrimination (SAD), the platform that led last year’s mass uprising, has suspended activities of all its committees across the country, except its central committee, amid extortion allegations against some of its leaders and activists.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) annual income saw a staggering surge in 2024, rising more than 15 times compared to the previous year.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed four leaders and activists of Students Against Discrimination on seven-day remand in a case filed over extortion from the family of a former Awami League lawmaker in Gulshan.

Between 1980 and 2024, Dhaka's built-up area expanded sevenfold, land surface temperature increased by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius, and the city lost 60 percent of its waterbodies.

Senior BNP leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday said his party will offer coordinated cooperation to the government on US tariff and security issues, aiming to help address the tariffs imposed by the United States.

Sarowar Hossain Nannu, 60, an Awami League leader and accused in a murder and explosives case, died in custody at Munshiganj Jail early yesterday.

Mohammad Al Haroon, a former ambassador, passed away on Saturday. He was 79, said a press release.

Repair work on a six-kilometre stretch of the Pabna-Pakshey road, carried out by the Roads and Highways Department at a cost of Tk 89 lakh, has reportedly been washed away within days due to rain, leaving the road in a hazardous state.

Md Abdul Bari Sheikh, a politician, social worker, and writer, passed away at a hospital in Dhaka yesterday due to lung and cardiac complications.

The Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB) yesterday urged the government to cancel the currently gazetted Detailed Area Plan (DAP) 2022–2035.

AK Ratul, vocalist and frontman of the renowned Bangladeshi rock band Owned, passed away yesterday. He was 34.

Hasina, a Rohingya woman from Myanmar, fled to Bangladesh 10 months ago with her husband and four children. Diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2020 during childbirth, she could not afford treatment back home.

The HC on October 24, last year, dismissed the case

Govt to speed up probes to ensure justice, he says

A delegation of 21 physicians and nurses from Singapore, China, and India met Yunus at Jamuna