8,535 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
Local Government Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told an event in Rangpur that the opposition had begun speaking in the same language as Sheikh Hasina, and urged the region to back the ruling BNP…
In Jashore, Sajjad Hossen is raising some 350 rare white sandalwood plants on his rooftop and about 4,000 saplings in a nursery, in what he hopes is the start of a valuable new agricultural…
Israel's military dominance is clear, but analysts argue it has failed to turn that power into regional leadership, weighed down by prolonged war, international criticism and deep dependence on the United States.
Four civil-rights, lawyers' and workers' groups allege that hundreds of migrant workers, including women and children, were detained across Bengaluru in a drive to identify 'Bangladeshis,' with claims of illegal detention and beatings.
Months of war with Iran have sharply drawn down US stocks of key missiles and air-defence systems, with more than 1,500 Patriot interceptors used, according to The New York Times.
The Kushtia Sahitya Sangskritik Sangsad held a discussion meeting and dua mahfil in Kushtia, with speakers and young artists marking the occasion.
In the waterlogged Bil Dakatia belt of Khulna, poly net house technology is letting farmers produce quality vegetable seedlings locally, turning a limitation into a new opportunity in Dumuria upazila.
BNP and Chhatra Dal activists besieged the Kumarkhali UNO's office and burned her effigy, demanding family-card enumerator and supervisor jobs and alleging that Awami League and Jamaat people were hired; the UNO denied the…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says now is the right time to end the deadlock with the United States and reach a lasting deal, calling the current situation 'neither war nor peace,' as mediation continues.
Israel has rejected the 15-point peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace' to end the Gaza war, with PM Benjamin Netanyahu saying troops will not withdraw until Hamas is fully…
France has seen its worst wildfire damage since World War Two this year, and the interior ministry says 420 people — including 166 minors — have been arrested over deliberate or accidental fires, according…
Some 500 families in Kushtia live off bamboo crafts, but a shortage of raw bamboo is hitting the cottage industry, and many artisans are leaving the trade, even as BSCIC moves to strengthen the…
Police in Maharashtra's Nandurbar district have arrested a 22-year-old man accused of sexually abusing minors and young people, recovering about 600 explicit videos from his phone; the allegations are untested.
At least 22 people, including 17 soldiers, were killed and 37 injured when two buses collided in Niger near Madaoua, the transport ministry says, according to AFP.
Yemen's Houthis have claimed a drone attack on a Saudi Aramco facility in the Red Sea port of Jizan that started a fire, which Saudi Arabia says was put out with no casualties, according…
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says the recent trilateral defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is not aimed at Iran or any other country and that the alliance may expand, in an interview…
International Peace School and College in Jashore distributed more than 300 fruit, timber and medicinal saplings to students to promote environmental awareness and a greener Bangladesh.
Former US president Joe Biden is going through agonising days as his cancer spreads to his bones and other parts of his body, his son Hunter Biden has said in a BBC interview, according…
Two people were killed when a fuel lorry, a sand-laden truck and a CNG auto-rickshaw collided on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Habiganj's Madhabpur, police say.
Former West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee's convoy was attacked in Halishahar amid unrest over a TMC worker's death in police custody.
Colonel (retd) Oli Ahmad, nominated for president by the Jamaat-led 11-party alliance, pledged never to betray the nation, as NCP convener Nahid Islam criticised the BNP government's handling of reforms.
Nineteen bodies, most of them women and children, have been recovered from the rubble of a collapsed residential building in Gaza City, Gaza's Civil Defence says, in a slow search hampered by a lack…
A total of 1,306 head-teacher and assistant-teacher posts are vacant across Jashore's eight upazilas, deepening a long-running crisis in the district's government primary schools.
After a canal was re-excavated in Faridpur's Alfadanga, farmers can now ret jute close to home, cutting costs and raising hopes of better fibre and prices.
State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Bobby Hajjaj says 'science toys' will be added to the primary curriculum to teach children science through play, alongside plans for math labs.
A husband and wife from Chougachha died hours apart after their motorcycle collided with an easy-bike near the Jashore Cantonment gate, police say.
A Dhaka court has set 14 September for the investigation report in the Bangladesh Bank reserve-heist case, the 97th time the deadline has been pushed back nine years after 81 million dollars was stolen.
After FIFA dropped a plan to part-privatise the World Cup amid fierce opposition, questions remain over why tech investors such as Thrive Eternal were drawn to the tournament, the BBC reports.
The Trump administration is searching for a current or former Cuban official who could be persuaded to lead Havana's government, several current and former US officials say; Daily BD Times could not independently verify…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman says 4.1 million mothers will receive family cards this fiscal year, including 10,000 to 12,000 families in Banshkhali, during a flood-rehabilitation event in Chattogram.
The total number of voters has risen to 128,632,555, an increase of 309,315 as of 31 July, the Election Commission says, as revised codes of conduct for five local-government bodies go for vetting.
About 19 percent of Bangladesh's merchandise exports and 13 percent of imports are handled by the nine foreign banks operating in the country, a Bangladesh Bank report shows.
Islamic scholar Shaykh Ahmadullah, chairman of the As-Sunnah Foundation, explains three classes of relatives in Islam and where in-laws, formed through marriage, fit among them.
In Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, dozens of excavators now dig for gold day and night, and residents who once profited say the rush has ruined rivers and pastures, AFP reports.
Rodrigo De Paul revealed a Messi No. 10 shirt under his jersey after scoring for Inter Miami, hours after Lionel Messi's father died and the captain flew to Argentina for the funeral.
Bangladesh Bank has drafted a policy for small digital loans of 50 to 5,000 taka, repayable within 30 days with no interest but a fixed service fee, to cover urgent needs such as utility…
Actress Porimoni, the complainant in a 2021 attempted-rape, attempted-murder and assault case, missed her cross-examination after being caught in traffic; the court set 30 November as the next date.
As the war with Iran raises tensions near Saudi Arabia, Riyadh has pulled two powerful Muslim militaries to its side, signing a NATO-style mutual-defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan, according to CNN.
Darul Uloom Deoband's Allama Mufti Abul Qasem Nomani told worshippers at Baitul Mukarram that avoiding the forbidden, contentment, honouring neighbours and good character are essential to being a complete believer.
The ruling BNP has collected two nomination papers from the Election Commission for the presidential election, with the vote set for 20 August.
Bangladesh Bank has allowed tour operators to sell foreign travel packages in taka and to remit the required amounts to overseas service providers in foreign currency.
Former Narayanganj MP Shamim Osman has been seen in public for the first time in about two years, addressing an Awami League workers' meeting in New York and calling himself a failure.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says there are no talks with the United States at present, only messages exchanged through mediators, and no direct talks until Washington compensates for a breach.
As the 20 August presidential vote approaches, four senior BNP figures — Mirza Fakhrul, Khondkar Mosharraf, Abdul Moyeen Khan and Hafiz Uddin Ahmed — dominate the discussion, with the choice resting on PM Tareque…
After Sheikh Hasina's family and 10 industrial groups, eight international law firms are now tracing the overseas assets of 42 firms with more than 200 crore taka in defaulted loans.
The Jamaat-e-Islami-led 11-party alliance has nominated LDP chairman Colonel (retd) Oli Ahmad for the coming presidential election, announced after a meeting at the opposition leader's home.
Six children died with measles symptoms in the past 24 hours and 1,063 were infected, the health directorate says; total measles-related child deaths since 15 March stand at 873.
Police have arrested villain-role actor Don Hok in the murder case over the 1996 death of popular film hero Salman Shah; the case is now with the CID.
Specialists advise anyone with a one- to two-day fever to get tested for dengue at the nearest hospital, as case numbers climb nationwide, with many of those infected being children.
At a flood-rehabilitation event in Banshkhali, Chattogram, Prime Minister Tareque Rahman handed keys to 100 new homes and outlined long-term plans for industry, health and family support.
The government will launch its programme to give free uniforms to government primary-school pupils for the first time on 16 August, State Minister Bobby Hajjaj says.
Police have arrested villain-role actor Don Hok in the murder case over the 1996 death of popular film hero Salman Shah, now being investigated by the CID.
Teacher leaders fear a move to return teacher-recruitment power from the NTRCA to school managing committees could revive irregularity and bribery, and have sought the education minister's intervention.
State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Bobby Hajjaj says excessive reliance on private tuition is depriving many students of classroom learning, and pledges visible change within five years.
SSC, Dakhil and equivalent results will be published on Monday, 10 August; students can check theirs via the board website, SMS or their institution’s result sheet.
SSC and equivalent exam results will be published on Monday, 10 August; students unhappy with their results can apply online for rescrutiny from 11 to 17 August, the education boards say.
A Royal Veterinary College study found antimicrobial residues above international limits in some poultry samples from Bangladesh, India and Vietnam, raising food-safety and resistance concerns.
Two children and an 18-year-old woman have died with measles symptoms in Sylhet division in 24 hours, taking the division’s measles-symptom death toll to 125, the health directorate says.
Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossen says the government will build village “health hubs” to cut rural patients’ need to travel to cities, during a visit to a Chandpur health complex.
The new committee of the Dhaka University unit of BNP’s Chhatra Dal could be announced any time along with the central committee, with several leaders in contention for the top posts.