Even though the main responsibility of the interim government, formed in the wake of the July mass uprising, is to hold a free and fair election, it cannot ignore people’s aspirations for reforms, said Gonoforum founder and eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday.

After the fall of the Awami League amid the student movement on August 5 last year, Subrata Bain, one of Bangladesh's most-wanted criminals, returned from India and began reorganising his gang to reassert dominance in Dhaka.

Nahid Islam, convener of the National Citizen Party, yesterday accused the BNP of becoming a “protector of Mujibism”, aligning themselves with what he called a “fallen fascist regime”.

Law Adviser Asif Nazrul yesterday called on all to stand up against extortionists, stating that the administration would support such efforts.

A list of 4,409 people selected for rehabilitation under the Cox’s Bazar Climate Refugee Rehabilitation Project (Khurushkul) has been cancelled.

Two people were killed in a  road accident in Jashore’s Monirampur upazila yesterday.

Three senior leaders recently expelled from GM Quader's Jatiya Party also joined the event

The assets include two bank accounts, one residential apartment and one commercial apartment in USA and two bank accounts in Malaysia. Of those, the two apartments in the USA has a market value of $430,000, and the bank accounts were opened in Standard Chartered Bank, USA.

In today's rapidly shifting world, where digital disruption and green technologies dominate policy discourse, the study of folklore is often met with skepticism. "What practical relevance does folklore have in this era?" some ask.

Four alleged members of the Arakan Rohingya Army (ARA) have been arrested during a joint operation by the Bangladesh Army and Armed Police Battalion (APBn) at Rohingya Camp 11 in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya.

The boy is estimated to be around 12 years old.

The arrestee has been identified as Kabir Hossain, 32, while the victim is Shimion Tripura, 30

The health ministry has launched an investigation into the recruitment of 65 doctors at Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and Institute, allegedly made without publishing any official circular.

Expressing concerns about the brutal murder near Mitford hospital in the capital, the BNP said the issue could be used for gaining political leverage and to destabilise the election environment.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), a BNP-backed student body, demonstrated across the country yesterday, protesting the activities of a "long-operating underground group" and their attempt to incite mobs, disrupt academic environments, and worsen the law and order situation in educational institutions.

A Chattogram court yesterday sentenced three people to death in connection with the 2021 murder of a man in Chattogram's Sitakunda.

After 13 years, the government has updated the Population Policy with the aim of achieving six key objectives, including fully harnessing the potential of the country’s demographic dividend.

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and two children with their throats slit from their house in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila yesterday morning.

The National Consensus Commission proposed establishing an upper house comprising elected representatives from each district and city corporation, and suggested abolishing the current system of reserved seats for women in parliament.

With the monsoon setting in, southern part of Dhaka city braces for a fresh spell of waterlogging, as the city corporation has yet to take effective measures to mitigate the perennial problem despite identifying 30 highly vulnerable areas nearly two years ago.