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Mehedi Hasan Miraz's six off Riley Meredith sealed Bangladesh's first-ever ODI series win over Australia, a five-wicket DLS victory in the second ODI at Mirpur — completing series wins over all 10 Test nations…
The 2026-27 budget makes a Tax Identification Number (TIN) mandatory for registering motorcycles above 150cc, within a record Tk 9,38,000 crore budget that lifts development spending to 33.70% of the total.
Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury proposed raising the allowance for families of gallantry-award freedom fighters by Tk 5,000 each — to Tk 40,000, Tk 30,000 and Tk 25,000 — while keeping the general…
The proposed 2026-27 budget allocates Tk 7,515.46 crore to the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs — Tk 6,529.29 crore operating and Tk 986.17 crore development — up from Tk 7,330 crore the previous year,…
A mobile court in Narayanganj's Sonargaon jailed Md Abu Bakkar (26), owner of a lime factory, for 10 days and fined him Tk 5,000 for stealing gas through an unauthorised connection under the Gas…
Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury announced a 'Probashi Card' for expatriate Bangladeshis and the retention of the 2.5% cash incentive on remittances — noting monthly remittance hit a record $3.75 billion.
A mobile court seized about 1,750 metres of banned China-duari nets — 35 nets — from the Brahmaputra in Mymensingh's Gaffargaon and fined five people under the fish-protection law.
The 2026-27 budget proposes Tk 14,500 crore for the Family Card programme, bringing 41 lakh women under it at Tk 2,500 a month each — within a record Tk 9,38,000 crore budget targeting 6.5%…
Shashthi Chandra Barman (68), whom the BSF tried to push into Bangladesh at Jamalpur's Bakshiganj border, was handed to his family a day after his rescue from the no-man's-land, the BGB and police said.
The 2026-27 budget allocates Tk 4,400 crore to the Election Commission secretariat — most of it expected to fund local-government elections — a 48.88% rise, though Tk 1,100 crore short of the EC's Tk…
The source tax on cash incentives from export earnings may be cut from 10% to 5%, boosting cash flow to the garment sector — though the government will lose about Tk 500 crore —…
The 2026-27 budget raises duties on cigarettes, fuel cars, imported cashews, honey and more, while cutting source tax on 60 essentials to 0.5% and slashing duties on EVs, laptops, dialysis filters and gold ornaments.
Anti-tobacco groups PROGGA and ATMA say the 2026-27 budget's tiny low-tier cigarette price rise and unchanged bidi/jorda rates will cut real prices — forgoing about Tk 44,000 crore in potential revenue and risking 400,000…
Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury announced the phased rollout of the ninth pay scale for government employees from 1 July 2026 — with at least Tk 44,000 crore of the Tk 54,572 crore…
The country's 55th budget proposes Tk 1,062.50 crore for Farmer Cards covering 42.5 lakh farmers, fish, livestock and salt producers across 100 upazilas — within a record Tk 9,38,000 crore budget with a Tk…
BGB's Sreemangal 46 Battalion seized 3,384 packets of illegal Indian cigarettes and detained one smuggler in a drive at the Kulaura border in Moulvibazar.
From Shakib Khan's coy silence to Siam Ahmed's Spain and a long roll of Argentina and Brazil loyalists, Bangladesh's showbiz stars name their World Cup allegiances.
From the coming fiscal year taxpayers can file income-tax returns year-round, the finance minister said — with a rebate of up to Tk 25,000 for filing in the first quarter and surcharges for late…
Delwar Hossain Dulal Chowdhury, who went missing from Chandpur's Matlab Uttar as a child around 1969, has been reunited with his family 58 years later — traced through his fragmentary memories and online maps…
Cricket Australia cancelled the three-match T20 series against Bangladesh women in October after the 2027 Women's Champions Trophy was rescheduled to February, slotting New Zealand into the freed dates instead.
The government plans to build 1,000 cold-storage units nationwide to cut post-harvest loss of potatoes, onions, garlic and other produce — against an annual potato demand of ~90 lakh tonnes versus ~45 lakh tonnes…
The budget proposes cutting the investment-rebate cap — across savings certificates, DPS, life-insurance premiums and other sectors — from 15% to 10% of allowable investment and from Tk 10 lakh to Tk 7.5 lakh,…
The 2026-27 budget proposes Tk 57,301 crore for the secondary and higher education division — about Tk 10,000 crore more than last year — within total education spending of Tk 1,36,606 crore.
Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said the government aims to raise public investment in education to 5% of GDP gradually, calling education one of the sectors most damaged under 'fascism.'
A consumer-rights directorate drive in Chuadanga Sadar fined two bakery and food-production firms a total of Tk 35,000 for unhygienic production and unauthorised use of the BSTI logo.
The 2026-27 budget proposes Tk 1,36,606 crore for education — 2% of GDP — split across secondary and higher (Tk 57,301 crore), primary (Tk 46,737 crore) and technical and madrasa education (Tk 18,457 crore).
The 2026-27 budget proposes Tk 69,409 crore for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare — about Tk 34,000 crore more than the previous year, nearly double — as the finance minister targets raising…
Residents of Pakuria in Meherpur's Gangni allege a young man, Milon Hossain, was beaten and falsely accused of cattle theft over an old enmity, then handed to police; the investigating officer says a case…
The 2026-27 budget proposes Tk 42,291 crore for defence — Tk 1,593 crore more than the outgoing year's revised Tk 40,502 crore — within a record Tk 9,38,000 crore budget.
The 2026-27 budget proposes Tk 5,196 crore for the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs — Tk 175 crore less than the current revised Tk 5,371 crore — with funding for daycare centres, DNA…
Police arrested three over the stabbing death of CNG auto-rickshaw driver Md Hridoy (24) at Dhorkora Bazar in Cumilla's Chauddagram; though it began with a motorcycle collision, police say a love triangle was the…
Jewel Rana (40) was killed and his wife Maya Khatun injured in an attack by rivals at Muktadaha village in Jashore's Chougacha, after a long-running political feud, police said.
Chuadanga Press Club honoured newly appointed zila parishad administrator Sharifuzzaman Sharif, who pledged to lift the district from C grade to B grade and recover council assets for public use.
Executive magistrate Atish Sarkar cleared multiple dams blocking water flow along 4 km at Subharatkati in Bagerhat's Morrelganj, freeing about 300 bighas of farmland across five villages for double cropping.
Amena Hasan Bipasha (32), a community health-care provider and wife of Narail journalist Tanvir Ahmed Rubel, was killed when a truck hit her van on the Narail-Dhaka highway on her way to work.
Auto-rickshaw driver Ferdaus Mia (60) was killed and at least eight passengers injured when a Dhaka-bound bus hit his battery-run auto-rickshaw at Mather Bazar in Gaibandha's Palashbari.
Chuadanga district administration seized 210 kg of OMS rice and 70 kg of flour and fined OMS dealer and municipal BNP organising secretary Sohel Malik Sujon Tk 50,000 for allegedly trying to smuggle the…
Abdul Hannan Shah (22), a degree first-year student at Anwara Government College, was electrocuted while cutting a betel-nut tree at his home in Chattogram's Anwara, police and family said.
About Tk 6 crore of Indian saris, three-pieces, babywear and cosmetics seized by customs at Benapole land port have mysteriously vanished — replaced with low-grade local goods — prompting a criminal case and a…
The 2026-27 budget plans Tk 62,852 crore for health — Tk 49,386 crore for the Health Services Division and Tk 13,466 crore for Health Education and Family Welfare — with Tk 35,026 crore in…
Just three and a half months old, the BNP government faces crises on multiple fronts — geopolitics, finances and internal discontent — according to an investigation by Shirsho News, which says the situation is…
An 18-year-old housewife, Nur Nahar, was allegedly tortured and killed in Chandpur's Haimchar for unmet dowry demands; police have detained her husband and mother-in-law while the in-laws claim suicide.
Police detained nine people in separate overnight raids in Khagrachhari's Ramgarh on allegations of drug use, filing cases under the Narcotics Control Act before sending them to court.
Big green coconuts often disappoint — here is how to pick one actually full of water: judge by weight not size, check the colour and the three 'eyes,' shake it, and prefer the oval…
Music, drama, dance and fine arts will be fully added to the primary curriculum in 2028, with an 'Arts and Culture' textbook for grade 4 from 2027, State Minister Bobby Hajjaj said — projecting…
European trust in US 'security guarantees' has hit a low: only about one in ten across 15 countries sees the US as an ally, a European Council on Foreign Relations survey found, with majorities…
The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority fined Ovi Food Products in Chuadanga Tk 50,000 for producing food in unhygienic conditions using industrial salt and textile dye.
Teachers of recognised non-MPO institutions said they will march on the education ministry on Thursday unless the MPO application circular is published, on the fourth day of their sit-in at the National Press Club.
Millions face acute hunger as the Iran war shuts the Strait of Hormuz and drives up fuel and food prices, the World Food Programme's acting chief Carl Skau told CNN, warning of 45 million…
Habiganj anti-discrimination movement leader Mahadi Hasan says Chhatra Dal activists chased him over a Facebook post, forcing him to shelter in a police station; Chhatra Dal calls it staged, and police say they found…
Of 41,806 sanctioned doctor posts at government hospitals, 9,407 are vacant, Health Minister Sakhawat Hossain told parliament — alongside warnings that poultry and fish feed made from toxic tannery waste is fuelling cancer and…
Police say Maria Begum Sharifa (75), missing 15 days in Natore's Singra, was strangled by her son over a family dispute and her body hidden in a toilet pit, then dumped in a pond;…
Trinamool MP and former Tollywood star Shatabdi Roy says her only guilt in breaking with the party is leaving Mamata Banerjee in a bad time — 'but Didi brought us to this place' —…
Eight more children died of measles or measles-like symptoms in the past 24 hours, with 1,039 new confirmed cases, the Directorate General of Health Services said — 547 suspected-measles deaths since 15 March.
Islam values cleanliness, modest beauty and a well-kept life — the Prophet said Allah 'loves to see the sign of His blessing on His servant' — steering between false poverty and wasteful display.
Iran's team may enter the United States only the day before each World Cup match, the Department of Homeland Security said — denying reports of same-day entry-and-exit — while several team officials remain without…
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman told parliament that reserved-seat women MPs have no constituencies of their own, so the party assigned them areas to work in — assuring an opposition MP his development role in…
Police arrested three suspects over the killing of Hossain Ali (55), shot dead in front of his 12-year-old son at a madrasa gate in Pabna — a feud between factions of two banned extremist…
Lionel Messi scored within two minutes of coming on as Argentina beat Iceland 3-0 to complete a perfect warm-up record — becoming Argentina's oldest-ever scorer — and urged his teammates: 'more united than ever.'
At least 12 people were killed and nine seriously wounded when about ten gunmen with rifles opened fire on an informal settlement in Johannesburg's Cleveland; police suspect a link to illegal-mining gang rivalry.