9,162 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus said Friday that Bangladesh must remain prepared at all times to defend the country against any aggressive attack by external enemies, speaking at an Armed Forces Day event at Senakunja.
At least four people were killed and more than 100 injured in Narsingdi district when a powerful earthquake struck Bangladesh on Friday, the district administration said.
Border Guard Bangladesh seized about 5.5 crore taka worth of Indian goods being smuggled in five sand- and stone-laden trucks in Habiganj, officials said Friday.
Hindu community members of the BNP held a human chain and protest rally in Agailjhara on Friday demanding the party change its nominee for the Barishal-1 parliamentary seat.
Bangladesh defeated India in the semifinal of the Rising Stars Asia Cup to advance to the final, with Akbar Ali's side winning a tense match that went to a super over.
About 100 garment workers fell ill from panic during Friday's earthquake at a factory in Magura's Sreepur upazila, with dozens hospitalized, officials said.
A pickup truck struck and killed a 65-year-old man in Jhenaidah Sadar on Friday morning as he was walking to a local mosque for dawn prayers, police said.
A Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology researcher said Friday that the recent smaller tremors could be advance warnings of a major earthquake, as Dhaka opened an emergency control room.
BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia attended a reception at Senakunja in the Dhaka Cantonment on Friday, where she exchanged pleasantries with Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus.
Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus met the chiefs of Bangladesh's three armed services on Friday morning at the Armed Forces Division at Dhaka cantonment, the deputy press secretary said.
A motorcyclist was killed Friday morning in a head-on collision with a pickup truck on a road in Brahmandi union of Araihazar, police said.
At least 10 Dhaka University students were injured Friday morning when panic spread through residence halls during an earthquake, with some leaping from buildings and others trampled in stampedes.
A bus lost control and plunged off a bridge into a river in Cambodia's Kampong Thom province, killing 16 people and injuring more than 24, authorities said.
A fifth-year student at Sir Salimullah Medical College died Friday morning when a building's railing collapsed on him in Old Dhaka during an earthquake that shook the capital.
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman expressed deep sorrow Friday over the deaths and damage caused by an earthquake that struck Dhaka and other parts of Bangladesh.
The National Citizen Party has formed 16 subcommittees under its Central Election Management Committee to streamline preparations for the upcoming 13th parliamentary election, the party said Friday.
Earthquakes are among the most fearsome natural disasters because, unlike other catastrophes, they come without warning. In Islamic thought, an earthquake is a warning from Allah.
Six people were killed and more than 200 injured in an earthquake that struck Bangladesh on Friday morning, with deaths reported in Dhaka, Narayanganj and Narsingdi, the Health Directorate said.
Friday's 5.7-magnitude earthquake released energy equivalent to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs and was the largest to hit Bangladesh in 30 years, an Earthquake Research Center official said.
More than 200 workers were injured in a stampede at Fashion Pulse Limited garment factory in Tongi's BSCIC area when an earthquake struck Friday morning, prompting workers to rush from the nine-story building.
Applications for first-year undergraduate admissions to Rajshahi University for the 2025-26 academic year open Friday at noon and run through Dec. 7, university officials said.
The only male of a rare langur subspecies in Jashore's Keshabpur was killed Thursday after being electrocuted on a power line while searching for food near the upazila health complex.
Saudi Arabia is building the world's largest umbrellas to be installed at Masjid al-Haram next year, protecting millions of Hajj pilgrims from summer heat at the holy mosque in Mecca.
Nearly 600,000 candidates have applied for about 12,500 assistant teacher positions in government primary schools in the first phase of recruitment covering six divisions, with the deadline ending Friday.
Bangladesh has returned to the path of democracy following the Supreme Court's historic ruling restoring the non-party caretaker government system, Attorney General Md. Asaduzzaman said Thursday.
The post-election government must be compelled to act on the demands of last year's July uprising, Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahman said at a Rajshahi University seminar Thursday.
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board says it is working to put quality textbooks into students' hands at the start of the new academic year, following directions from the Education Ministry.
The rickshaw puller who drew attention during last year's July uprising, Md. Sujan, collected a National Citizen Party nomination form Thursday to contest the Dhaka-8 parliamentary seat.
A special health and nutrition campaign organized by Good Neighbors Bangladesh was held Thursday at the Mujibnagar CDP project office in Meherpur.
Police recovered the body of a small trader found hanging from a mango tree in Yashore's Chougachha upazila on Thursday afternoon. Relatives suspect suicide after the man struggled with illness and family debt.
Newspaper hawker Swapan Kundu has spent 31 years cycling from house to house in Narail, delivering papers in heat, rain and cold. Readers say his dedication is rare in the internet age.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is expected to attend the Senakunja reception marking Armed Forces Day on Friday if her health permits, her security adviser said.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has summoned cricketer and former lawmaker Shakib Al Hasan for questioning on Nov. 26 in a share market case.
Schoolteacher Sadhan Kumar Majumder, 55, was killed when a rice-laden truck struck the van he was riding home in on Wednesday afternoon in Chougachha. Police have seized the truck; the driver fled.
The High Court has released the full verdict upholding death sentences for former Teknaf police officials Pradeep Kumar Das and Liaqat Ali in the murder of retired Maj. Sinha Mohammad Rashed Khan. Six others…
The Chougachha upazila law and order committee held its monthly meeting on Thursday, discussing rising thefts, traffic congestion, riverbank erosion and cross-border drug smuggling.
Schoolteacher Sadhan Kumar Majumder, 55, died after a rice-laden truck struck his van Wednesday afternoon on the Chougachha-Jhikargachha road. The truck driver fled and police have impounded the vehicle.
Thirteen people were injured in two separate clashes between BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami activists over the placement of billboards and electoral symbols in Chuadanga on Tuesday. Police said extra forces had been deployed.
The National Pay Commission will meet ministry secretaries at the Secretariat on Nov. 24 to discuss salaries and allowances for government employees, officials said.
President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will meet Friday in the Oval Office, ending months of public feuding between the two politicians.
The reinstatement of the caretaker government system will open a new horizon in the country's politics, BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said Thursday.
The Jashore Education Board has suspended the academic accreditation of 50 colleges that failed to enroll the required minimum number of students for the 2024-25 academic year.
Police arrested a Jubo League ward president in Bogura's Shajahanpur with 65 yaba pills during an anti-drug operation, officials said.
The Bangladesh Jewellers Association raised the price of 22-carat gold by Tk 2,612 per bhori to Tk 209,520, ending two consecutive cuts in local market prices.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said Bangladesh must abandon mob violence and tolerate dissenting views if it wants to establish a sustainable democracy.
Bangladesh's Non-Government Teachers' Registration and Certification Authority will reassign 320 teachers who could not join their schools because of erroneous vacancy listings.
Bangladesh on Wednesday marked the death anniversary of Mir Nisar Ali Titumir, the 19th-century rebel who built a bamboo fort and led peasants against the British East India Company.
The application deadline for Dhaka University's 2025-26 undergraduate entrance exam ends at midnight Wednesday after a three-day extension.
Bangladesh's national security adviser Khalilur Rahman arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday, a day ahead of schedule, amid tensions over India's silence on Sheikh Hasina's extradition.
Bangladesh recorded 423 deaths and 589 injuries in 452 road accidents nationwide in October, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority said in a report.
Jahurul Islam, former president of the Chougachha upazila BNP, led a motorcycle procession through Chougachha and Jhikargachha on Tuesday after being denied the BNP nomination for the Jashore-2 constituency.
Bangladesh's interim government will spend 25 crore taka (about $2.1 million) on a publicity campaign in 64 districts and 300 upazilas to encourage participation in the upcoming national parliamentary election.
Islamic tradition identifies categories of believers who, by Allah's mercy, are exempt from the trials and questioning of the grave, scholars say.
Iran suspended visa-free entry for Indian citizens, effective Nov. 22, after a rise in human trafficking and fraudulent job-offer cases involving Indians, India's foreign ministry said.
The Bangladesh government has given in-principle approval to merge seven government colleges in Dhaka into a new public university called Dhaka Central University, the Education Ministry said.
A World Bank delegation led by Country Director Jean Pesme met Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman at the party office on Tuesday to discuss economic reforms, taxation and social sector issues.
Jashore district fisheries officer Manirul Islam Mamun said the administration will apply for Geographical Indication recognition for the district's native koi fish, which is fast disappearing from the country.
A woman identified as Jahida Begum, 55, was killed when she was struck by the Khulna-bound Sundarban Express train near Barobazar railway station in Jhenaidah's Kaliganj upazila, police said.
A woman identified as Biuti Khatun, 45, died after falling from her husband's motorcycle in the Chitla Ruitanpur area of Chuadanga's Damurhuda upazila on Tuesday morning, police said.
Bank accounts of Moazzem Hossain, former personal aide to sports adviser Asif Mahmood, show unusual transactions, but the anti-graft probe has stalled, the Anti-Corruption Commission said.