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Zohran Mamdani, 34, a Democrat born in Uganda, has been elected New York City's first Muslim mayor and its youngest in a century, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on a left-leaning, affordability-driven platform.
Ten people died of Aedes-borne dengue fever in the past 24 hours and 1,069 patients were admitted to hospitals nationwide, the Bangladesh Directorate General of Health Services said.
Zohran Mamdani's historic win in the New York City mayoral race is being framed as a generational rebuke of Democratic deference to Israel and a vote against silence on Gaza.
Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday dissolved the boards of five private banks slated for merger into a single Islamic lender and named administrators to take charge.
BNP candidate Ershad Ullah was shot and seriously wounded while campaigning in Chattogram's Bayezid area on Wednesday afternoon, party sources said.
Betel leaf farmers in Kushtia's Bhairamara are abandoning their groves as falling prices fail to cover even harvest and transport costs, leaving many ruined and debt-laden.
The BNP on Monday announced its candidates for five of the six parliamentary seats in Jashore, leaving one for an ally and tapping former student wing chief Kazi Rownakul Islam Srabon as a new…
A day after announcing its candidates for the next parliamentary election, the BNP on Tuesday suspended the nomination of Kamal Jaman Mollah in Madaripur-1, the party said.
BNP Chuadanga-1 nominee Sharifuzzaman Sharif urged supporters to forgo celebration and instead unite to secure victory for the party's 'sheaf of paddy' symbol.
A 17-year-old motorcyclist named Sagor died after his bike struck a jackfruit tree on the Chaugachha-Jashore road on Thursday, October 23, police said.
Hundreds of thousands of devotees and Baul mystics have gathered at Lalon Sain's shrine in Cheuria, Kushtia, for the saint's 135th death anniversary, observed this year as a national festival.
Authorities in Chitalmari upazila launched a free seed and fertilizer distribution program for small and marginal farmers on Thursday to boost rabi-season crop production across seven unions.
Mongla EPZ began a joint training program with the FBCCI Safety Council on Monday to help factories maintain output and limit damage during disasters.
Shobuj Shikder, 34, returned home after 17 years away and built a small mushroom-growing business on his veranda with 10,000 taka in capital.
Md. Kalam Khan, 48, was beaten to death in Morrelganj upazila of Bagerhat after being accused of theft by his cousins in a long-running land dispute, police said.
Masud Parvez, a Jamaat-e-Islami candidate for the Chuadanga-1 seat, said his party would build a self-reliant, corruption-free welfare state if voted to power.
Unknown attackers cut down about 300 high-yield guava trees belonging to farmer Jalal Uddin in Chuadanga's Jibannagar in what police are investigating as the result of a feud.
The Rampal coal-fired plant in Bagerhat generated 771.70 million units of electricity in August, accounting for 7.15 percent of national output, the plant's operator said.
Schools, colleges and residents at Mollar Hat in Bagerhat have urged the government to build a bridge across the Dhaleshwari River, which thousands cross daily by shallow boat.
Mostafa Hasan harvested 221 maunds of rice from four bighas in Bagerhat's Fakirhat upazila using 21 kilograms of seed of the new BRRI-108 variety, agriculture officials said.
Eighty women in Bagerhat work at Roji Ahmed's organic-goods factory, hand-crafting bird nests, cat toys and shoes from coconut husk and wood for export to Germany, Japan and Belgium.
Forest department rangers arrested seven men setting traps to hunt deer in the Sundarbans late Saturday and seized two trawlers and 100 snares, officials said.
Authorities fined three businesses 9,000 taka in Damurhuda upazila for failing to keep purchase vouchers, display price lists and for selling expired goods.
National Citizen Party (NCP) southern chief organizer Hasnat Abdullah said the Election Commission has not explained why it is withholding the water lily symbol, raising doubts about the body.
Attackers fired bullets and threw bombs at a BNP office near Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, killing a 55-year-old teacher and wounding three others.
Mangal Mia of Chuadanga's Alamdanga upazila lost his sight 35 years ago but still repairs bicycles, water pumps and power tillers, refusing to depend on others.
Magura Sadar upazila agriculture officer Mohammad Tojammel Haque has been disciplinarily transferred following multiple allegations of irregularities and corruption.
A 14-year-old ninth-grade student, Dima Islam, has gone missing after leaving her home in Kalia upazila of Narail to attend school.
A cocktail bomb exploded at the home of businessman Asadul Khondoker in Narail Sadar upazila one day after he filed a complaint over an extortion demand.
At least seven people were injured in a clash between two groups over local dominance in Narail's Lohagara upazila.
Nine young men in Meherpur secured constable positions in the police force on merit, paying just 240 taka each in a recruitment process officials described as fully transparent.
Fields across Meherpur are filling with early winter vegetables as farmers harvest cauliflower, cabbage, gourd and beans for sale in markets at home and beyond.
GANGNI, Meherpur — Gangni upazila observed the 54th National Cooperative Day on Saturday with a procession from the upazila parishad complex and a discussion meeting on the theme "Cooperatives will build the nation through…
SATKHIRA — A mobile court sentenced a meat trader to two months in prison and fined him 30,000 taka on Sunday for supplying rotten meat to several restaurants in Satkhira city, including the Kacchi…
SATKHIRA — A 52-year-old farmer in Shyamnagar upazila was electrocuted by an electric trap he had set in his vegetable plot to ward off rats, neighbors and a local official said.
DEBHATA, Satkhira — About 50 farmers in Debhata upazila are growing off-season watermelons on the embankments of fish enclosures, drawing fresh attention to a model that uses idle land and fetches premium prices, the…
TALA, Satkhira — Jamaat-e-Islami does not seize fish enclosures or land or extract sand anywhere in the country, party Central Secretary Professor Golam Parwar said Monday at a youth and student rally in Tala…
KALIGANJ, Satkhira — Farmers in Kaliganj upazila are reaping success raising bagda shrimp with an improved traditional method that has cut disease losses and doubled returns within three months, the district fisheries department said.
Farmers in Satkhira's Kaliganj upazila are succeeding with an improved traditional method of bagda (giant tiger) prawn farming — no disease, fast growth, and double their investment back in just three months.
NARAIL — Police in Lohagara upazila arrested a 40-year-old man wanted in 13 drug cases and seized 2.5 kilograms of cannabis, officials said.
CHOUHALI, Sirajganj — Police arrested a 35-year-old man with 80 yaba pills in the Kodalia Bazar area of Chouhali upazila late Sunday, the officer-in-charge said.
DAULATPUR, Kushtia — At least a dozen armed gangs have long operated on the remote Padma River chars of Daulatpur upazila and the area bordering India, residents and police say, after recent clashes over…
KOLAROA, Satkhira — Decorative tiles handmade from clay in Murarikati village of Kolaroa upazila are being exported to Europe, the United States and other markets, bringing in about 150 crore taka in foreign exchange…
Sharif Uddin Juwel, a BNP nominee hopeful from Kushtia-1 (Daulatpur) and Dhaka North City Jubo Dal convener, said the people's votes will determine the country's leadership.
A man in Satkhira's Ashashuni claimed ownership of a British-era post office and padlocked it before officials reopened the building following protests.
Police recovered the body of a 52-year-old woman from under a railway bridge in Kushtia's Kumarkhali on Saturday. Investigators suspect she was raped and killed.
Jashore's GI-tagged date palm jaggery season formally opened in Chaugachha upazila on Sunday with a ceremony marking the start of tree tapping for sap collection.
The seasonal tapping of date palms to collect sap for Jashore's GI-tagged date-palm jaggery has been formally inaugurated in Chougacha upazila, where trees are prepared for the winter sap harvest.
Residents of Shalikha, Magura, accused a meat seller of secretly slaughtering a horse and selling its meat as beef. The seller fled before police arrived.
Administration officials recovered 77.835 metric tonnes of TCB rice from a dealer's warehouses at Binodpur Bazar in Magura's Mohammadpur upazila.
A 90-foot decorative gate built over the New Bazar bridge has become the main attraction of the five-day Katyayani Puja festival in Magura.
Eighty Hindu families in Jhenaidah's Shailkupa joined Jamaat-e-Islami at a ceremony Friday evening at a temple in Bhandaripara village.
A 2-year-old boy drowned in a pond while playing with ducks in Jhenaidah's Harinakundu upazila on Friday morning.
Bimal Pramanik, a farmer from Chhaikhada village in Jhenaidah's Kotchandpur, has become a millionaire after 30 years of cattle rearing that started with a single cow.
Shaheed Nur Ali College claimed the Usha inter-college football tournament title in Kaliganj on Saturday, defeating M.U. College 1-0 in the final.
Civic leaders, doctors, teachers and political activists met in Jhenaidah on Saturday to discuss a master plan aimed at making the district a model for development.
A growing trash dump on the Mohespur bypass, opposite the municipal office, has spread a stench through the area and is raising public health and pollution concerns.
Six people were injured and at least six homes vandalized when two rival factions clashed over local dominance in Magura's Sripur upazila on Saturday.
Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Mia Golam Parwar said a November referendum should be held alongside the implementation of the July charter, with national elections to follow in February.
Khulna's new modern prison began operations Saturday as the first 100 inmates were moved from the district jail under heavy security.