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Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan phoned Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to say Sharif Osman Hadi, a July uprising figure, is critically ill in a Singapore hospital.
Police recovered the hanging body of NCP leader Jannat Ara Rumi, 30, from a women's hostel in Dhaka's Zigatola early Thursday and sent it for autopsy.
Daily Feni editor Mohammad Shahadat Hossain has been elected president of the Feni Reporters Unity for 2026, the local journalists' association said.
BNP leaders from Parshuram upazila paid tribute to Liberation War martyrs at the Bileonia memorial on Victory Day, as the local convener accused critics of opposing national days.
Police detained two Chinese nationals at Ramgarh upazila in Khagrachhari for entering the Chittagong Hill Tracts without official permission, the local officer in charge said.
Several Manikchhari farmers said they suffered losses after planting substandard potato seed bought from a local dealer, prompting an upazila agriculture department investigation.
Army personnel arrested an active member of the United People's Democratic Front (Prosit) faction in Khagrachhari's Maratila area with a pistol, ammunition and cash, security forces said.
A man was killed and three others injured when a truck carrying firewood overturned in the Borodam area of Dighinala upazila in Khagrachhari, police said.
A pickup van carrying betel leaf overturned on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Sitakunda, killing two traders and injuring another, police said.
A Chandpur farmer filed a police complaint accusing a neighbor of cutting down his pumpkin crop in a land dispute, destroying months of work just weeks before harvest.
Built in 1523-24, the Bagha Shahi Mosque in Rajshahi features 10 domes, terracotta motifs and intricate mihrab carvings, and is depicted on Bangladesh's 50-taka note and a commemorative 10-taka stamp.
A 27-year-old man died after falling from a coconut tree in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi, police said, citing locals who described it as a routine theft attempt.
Security forces arrested 67 people and recovered firearms, knives and narcotics during "Operation Fast Light," a joint sweep targeting criminal gangs operating on Padma River sandbars across four districts, police said Sunday.
Cold injury and other winter-related diseases are damaging betel leaf crops in the Mohanpur upazila of Rajshahi, turning leaves red and yellow before they wither and die, farmers and officials said.
A fire destroyed betel leaf farms covering 36 bighas in Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi in about half an hour Friday, leaving roughly 60 growers with losses of about 2 million taka, officials said.
A fisherman netted a 76-kilogram baghair catfish in the Padma River in Rajshahi's Godagari upazila late Friday, drawing hundreds of onlookers when it was put on sale at a local market.
An assistant returning officer in Jashore has issued a show-cause notice to a Bangladesh Nationalist Party parliamentary candidate after his supporters held a campaign rally in violation of election rules, officials said.
Karima Khatun, the daughter of a day laborer in Rajshahi's Durgapur upazila, has earned admission to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College in Barishal, drawing celebration in her village.
The newly posted police superintendent in Chuadanga held a meeting with local journalists to discuss the district's law and order, border crime, narcotics control and security around the upcoming parliamentary election.
A football tournament celebrating the opening of the Kurukpata Buddhist monastery in remote Alikadam upazila concluded with the Kurukpara Youth XI claiming the title, organizers said.
Army and civil administration officials fined illegal hill-cutters a total of 500,000 taka in a midnight raid in Alikadam upazila aimed at protecting hills from erosion, officials said.
Border Guard Bangladesh seized 9,850 yaba pills worth about 2.96 million taka during a patrol in a remote hill area of Naikhongchhari upazila along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, officials said.
At least 10 people were injured Saturday afternoon when a long-running dispute over access to farmland erupted into violence in Jashore's Choughachha upazila, police said.
About 95 percent of hotel rooms in Bandarban have been booked in advance for Dec. 16-25, hoteliers said Friday, signaling a strong rebound for the hill district's tourism sector.
The BNP has reinstated Marjina Akter Siddiqui, joint general secretary of the Cox's Bazar district Mohila Dal, after withdrawing her earlier expulsion from the party.
BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed visited the home of Jamaat-e-Islami's candidate Abdullah Al Faruque in Cox's Bazar-1 to offer condolences on the death of Faruque's father.
The interim government plans to transform the Maheshkhali-Matarbari area in Cox's Bazar into a modern port-centered township modeled on Singapore and Shanghai, requiring an estimated $60 billion to $65 billion in investment.
Rohingya refugees made up more than 74 percent of dengue cases and over 90 percent of dengue deaths recorded in Cox's Bazar district from January through Nov. 24, the civil surgeon's office said.
The Cox's Bazar zilla parishad has accused Ahmed Ullah, a former Awami League upazila chief in Kutubdia, and his son of grabbing council-owned land worth crores of taka and building shops on it.
The family of Wasim Akram, killed in the July uprising in Chattogram, welcomed the tribunal's death sentence against Sheikh Hasina and called for the ruling to be carried out quickly.
The Bangladesh Navy seized two cement-laden trawlers and detained 22 people accused of smuggling cement to Myanmar through the Bay of Bengal near St. Martin's Island.
Two days of unseasonal rain in early November have damaged crops across thousands of bighas of farmland in five upazilas of Rajshahi, with losses estimated at about 10.27 crore taka, the local agriculture office…
Voters in Bandarban's Lama and Alikadam upazilas say BNP leader Jabed Reza is their preferred candidate for the 300th parliamentary constituency, citing his record of standing by ordinary people during the party's difficult years.
Police in Bandarban's Rowangchhari upazila arrested Rupam Kanti Tanchangya, 35, on charges of sexually assaulting a widow at her home Wednesday night, an officer said.
Police recovered the body of a 35-year-old Bom man, Lalram Sang Bom, from a jungle in Bandarban's Ruma upazila Monday, with injuries to the head and neck suggesting he was killed three to four…
Thousands of Muslims joined Friday prayers at a divisional ijtema in Feni, where worshippers from 11 districts and several countries assembled at a field on the Feni-Chhagalnaiya road.
Two men were killed and a third was injured Thursday afternoon when a bus struck their motorcycle in the Baitul Izzat area of Bandarban, a hospital official said.
Border Guard Bangladesh has opened a primary school in the remote village of Bulu Para in Bandarban's Thanchi upazila, serving about 70 to 80 children from three nearby hamlets, the unit's commander said.
Three customers from the same family at the Amir Uddin Munshirhat branch of Rupali Bank in Feni's Sonagazi say more than Tk 19 lakh has been transferred from their accounts without their knowledge, and…
The superintendent of a madrasa in Bandarban's Naikhongchhari upazila faces allegations of sexually harassing female students, while families say protesters were attacked on their way to a demonstration. The superintendent denies the allegations.
The BNP's Jaylashkar union committee and its affiliates carried out a cleanup drive at Jaylashkar High School in Dagonbhuiyan to mark Nov. 7 National Revolution and Solidarity Day, organizers said.
A photo of a child holding a gun in Feni's Sonagazi, posted by the boy's Saudi Arabia-based uncle on Facebook, drew widespread attention before being taken down, the child's father said.
A bogus microfinance outfit collected deposits from more than 100 villagers in Feni's Chhagalnaiya promising low-interest loans, then vanished before the scheduled disbursement.
A joint army-police operation in Jashore's Abhaynagar upazila detained a 35-year-old woman accused of drug dealing along with 22 bottles of the codeine-based cough syrup Phensedyl.
Jamaat-e-Islami's parliamentary candidate for Cumilla-9, Dr. Sayed A.K.M. Sarwar Uddin Siddiqui, said his party would consign corruption to the museum and establish a drug-free, justice-based society if elected.
A man in Cumilla's Barura upazila was found selling jackal meat openly in the local market, claiming it cured ailments such as joint pain, residents and witnesses said.
A 10-year-old boy in Cumilla's Nangalkot upazila has become a hafiz by memorizing all 30 paras of the Quran in just 11 months, his madrasa said.
BNP standing committee member Khondkar Mosharraf Hossain accused the previous government of diverting votes from Meghna to Cumilla in the 2018 election to ensure his defeat.
More than 100,000 residents of 40 villages in Cumilla's Titas upazila are crossing the Gumti river by motorized boat after a temporary bridge collapsed in floods and has not been rebuilt.
Saiful Islam, a resident of Cumilla's Sadar Dakshin upazila, has lifted his family of seven out of poverty by building decorative coops for chickens and ducks from colored tin and wood.
Livestock farmers in Cumilla's Monohorganj upazila are struggling to feed their animals as the area produces only one rice crop a year, leaving them dependent on increasingly scarce rice straw and husk.
Despite dozens of foot overbridges built at a cost of crores of taka along the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, pedestrians break through median grilles and cross the busy route on foot, fueling deadly accidents.
CUMILLA — A private car struck and killed Abdul Wahab, a former union parishad member, on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla's Burichang upazila on Monday night, police said.
CUMILLA — A child was killed when a government car belonging to the assistant commissioner (land) ran over her at an upazila administration complex in Homna on Wednesday morning, witnesses said.
CUMILLA — Residents of Golaper Char village in Cumilla's Daudkandi upazila are using bamboo poles to hold up a failing 30-year-old bridge that carries about 12,000 people daily, raising fears of a major accident,…
CUMILLA — There is no alternative to uncompromising BNP leader Khaleda Zia in Bangladesh, said Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad, a BNP vice chairman and the party's nominee for Cumilla-4.
CHATTOGRAM — Police arrested a 37-year-old man wanted in 15 criminal cases, including theft, robbery, abduction and extortion, and recovered weapons, ammunition, drugs and cash from him, officials said Sunday.
CHATTOGRAM — The body of a young man, a Bangladesh Navy sailor, was recovered from a road in Hathazari on Monday morning, with police saying he was likely killed in a traffic accident.
CUMILLA — People have come to see Jamaat-e-Islami as a symbol of trust, said Mobarak Hossain, the party's candidate for Cumilla-5 and a former central president of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir.
RANGAMATI — A wild elephant and her calf died during birth in Rangamati's Rajasthali upazila on Tuesday, the forest department said.