6,888 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain visited the family of a 35-year-old woman who died after gauze was left inside her body following a cesarean operation, pledging a strict investigation and personally donating Tk…
Bangabhaban is set for a twin ceremony as Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir takes the oath as Bangladesh's 23rd president at 7:30 p.m., before administering the oath to four new cabinet members himself.
Four new members will join Prime Minister Tareque Rahman's cabinet, to be sworn in tonight by newly elected President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at Bangabhaban's Darbar Hall.
Local farmers in Meherpur's Gangni intercepted an auto-van illegally transporting 20 sacks of fertilizer, which a mobile court then sold to farmers at the government-set price after fining the driver.
The government is upgrading 50-bed upazila health complexes to 150 beds nationwide to bring healthcare closer to people, State Minister for Health Dr. M A Muhit said, launching a nationwide oral cholera vaccination campaign…
Police recovered two brass idols stolen from a Kali temple in Faridpur's Nagarkanda and detained four people on allegations of involvement, two days after the theft was discovered.
Kushtia-3 MP Mufti Amir Hamza visited the family of journalist Debashish Dutta, who was killed along with his wife, young son and father-in-law in a Kolkata hotel fire, pledging support for the couple's surviving…
A dispute between an uncle and nephew over the division of online gambling proceeds led to gunfire in Kushtia's Mirpur upazila, leaving one man wounded, police said.
Three more children died of measles-like symptoms across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, with 1,072 new cases reported, bringing the total death toll since March 15 to 925, the Directorate General of Health…
Senior photojournalist Hanif Dakua has filed a police complaint alleging a named individual threatened to kill him over a land dispute, as Jashore's journalist community demands the culprit be identified and punished.
A 13-year-old seventh-grade student died after being electrocuted at his family home in Kishoreganj's Kuliarchar, with local authorities awaiting district administration clearance before the burial can proceed.
Police recovered the partially decomposed body of a 50-year-old auto-rickshaw driver from a ditch in Jamalpur's Madarganj, two days after he went missing, with police saying he is believed to have been murdered.
Bangabhaban officials and staff bade farewell to Acting President Hafiz Uddin Ahmed with state ceremony, as his term ends following the election of a new president.
A BNP dealer in Cumilla's Homna has been expelled from all party posts and faces a police case after 40 sacks of subsidized government rice meant for the poor were seized while allegedly being…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has sharply condemned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for calling for the killing of 30 to 40 people a day in Gaza, calling the remarks inhumane and a violation…
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been elected Bangladesh's 23rd president in the country's first direct presidential vote in roughly 35 years, capping a political career that began as a student activist and municipal chairman…
RAB has arrested three men, including the mastermind of an armed robbery that netted Tk 1.21 crore from a Dhaka fuel station, saying the plan was hatched while the ringleaders were in jail together…
BNP standing committee member Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has been named the party's acting secretary general, succeeding Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, who resigned all party posts after becoming the country's president-elect.
Squirrels are devastating vegetable and fruit gardens across Comilla's Laksam, Nangalkot, Lalmai and Manoharganj upazilas, with farmers unable to find an effective way to keep them away.
Former Brazil star Roberto Carlos has denied rumors he converted to Islam after marrying Moroccan national Souhaila Al-Tahiri, while expressing deep respect for the religion in an interview with Saudi outlet Okaz.
Police recovered the body of a 45-year-old farmer from a pond near his home in Jhenaidah's Kotchandpur, four days after he went missing, with the cause of death pending an autopsy.
Philadelphia Union's Bangladeshi-heritage midfielder Kavan Sullivan was sent off in stoppage time of a 2-2 draw with Inter Miami, in a match where Lionel Messi scored his first goal since his father's death.
A woman in Kishoreganj's Karimganj has confessed to killing her own 65-year-old mother over a land dispute and then filing a false murder case against neighbors to frame them, police say, more than three…
Bangladesh's president holds the country's highest constitutional office but wields limited executive power under the parliamentary system, drawing a tax-free monthly salary of Tk 120,000 alongside housing, medical care and a Tk 20 million…
Bangladesh's export sector shows signs of a turnaround but remains hobbled by an energy crisis, industry figures say, casting doubt on the government's ambitious $63.4 billion export target for the 2026-27 fiscal year.
Jamaat-e-Islami Amir and parliamentary opposition leader Dr. Shafiqur Rahman has congratulated Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on his election as Bangladesh's 23rd president, wishing him good health and a long life.
The next presidential election will be held under an amended Article 70 of the constitution, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has said, adding that the opposition has yet to join the constitutional amendment committee.
The price of the best-quality, 22-karat gold jewelry has risen by Tk 3,849 per bhori to Tk 240,628, the Bangladesh Jewellers Association announced, the year's 105th price adjustment.
At least 15 students were injured when a hostel dispute between senior and junior students at Habiganj Medical College escalated into a clash involving iron rods and improvised weapons.
The Argentine Football Association has pushed back against rumors and conspiracy theories that circulated after Argentina's 1-0 loss to Spain in last month's World Cup final, with AFA president Claudio Tapia calling the allegations…
The government is upgrading 50-bed upazila health complexes to 150 beds nationwide to bring healthcare closer to people, State Minister for Health Dr. M A Muhit said, launching a nationwide oral cholera vaccination campaign…
Dhaka District Commissioner Farida Khanam became the first district administrator in roughly three decades to visit a Bede river-gypsy settlement in Dhamrai, distributing aid and pledging support for the community.
The forest department has filed a case against a father and son in Chuadanga's Damurhuda after 29 birds died from poisoned bait scattered in a field, with the ecological damage assessed at more than…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman is preparing to expand and reshuffle the cabinet, with Sachingprue Jerry set to become Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs minister and Shameem Kaisar Lincoln to take over as state minister for…
Seventy-seven of Chougachha upazila's 139 government primary schools have no headteacher, and 83 assistant teacher posts have long stood vacant, straining administrative oversight as school attendance also slips.
Voting in Bangladesh's 23rd presidential election concluded Thursday, with BNP's Mirza Abbas, independent MP Rumin Farhana, and two Islamist-party lawmakers among four members of parliament who did not cast ballots.
BNP candidate Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been elected the country's 23rd president, winning 255 votes in Thursday's parliamentary vote.
The oral cholera vaccine can be given to children older than one year, Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain said, launching a campaign that aims to vaccinate more than five million people.
A farmer in Gaibandha's Sundarganj says a pesticide dealer's herbicide destroyed nearly all the paddy on his 15 decimals of land, though the dealer says the farmer had actually asked for weed killer for…
Businessman and municipal BNP organizing secretary Khalid Hasan has built a rooftop garden of more than a hundred native and exotic fruit trees in Jamalpur's Madarganj, drawing praise from local agriculture officials.
More dengue patients were hospitalized in the first 19 days of August than in all of July, with Khulna, Chattogram and Pirojpur now seeing higher infection numbers than in past years as experts point…
World Mosquito Day is observed today, marking Ronald Ross's 1897 discovery that Anopheles mosquitoes carry the malaria parasite, with Bangladesh's warm, humid climate keeping mosquito-borne disease risk persistently high.
Chougachha in Jashore held its monthly law and order committee meeting, chaired by Upazila Executive Officer Farzana Islam, reviewing the past month's law and order situation.
Crowds of tourists are flocking to see the red, white and blue water lilies blanketing Barishal's Satla-Harta wetlands, but unregulated boat fares of around 2,000 taka an hour are leaving many families out of…
A 33-year-old man critically injured in a motorcycle collision in Jamalpur's Dewanganj died at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital after being referred there for advanced treatment.
Farmer Imamul Islam has found unexpected success growing 'Golden Eight' and 'Golden Ten' guava varieties on fallow land in Moulvibazar's Jhuri upazila, inspiring other local farmers to consider commercial guava cultivation.
A mobile court in Naogaon's Raninagar fined two fertilizer dealers a total of 17,000 taka for selling fertilizer to farmers above the government-set price.
Local residents in Barguna's Taltali detained five men, including one who allegedly brandished a pistol and chased them, after growing suspicious of a group of strangers who had been staying in a rented house…
A fire at Foltita Bazar in Bagerhat's Fakirhat upazila destroyed 13 shops, with fire officials saying an electrical short circuit likely caused the blaze.
A new Portuguese law banning face-covering clothing in public has taken effect, sparking controversy over its impact on Muslim women who wear the burqa or niqab, as a similar proposal advances in Spain's Balearic…
Local residents in Jhalokathi's Rajapur allege that a multistory building is being constructed on government canal land in defiance of repeated stop-work orders, though the builder denies encroaching and says he occupies less land…
Bangladesh Bank has set a Tk 60,000 crore target for agricultural and rural credit disbursement in the 2026-27 fiscal year, a 53.8 percent increase from the previous year, with banks ordered to ensure loans…
Iran has proposed a security plan to bring full management, surveillance and inspection of the Strait of Hormuz under its armed forces' General Staff, state broadcaster IRIB reported, with a lawmaker saying hostile or…
All kindergarten schools operating without registration will be shut down by 2028, State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Bobby Hajjaj has said, as part of a push to improve primary education standards and…
Twenty-four Bangladeshi fishermen and boatmen held by the Arakan Army in Myanmar have returned home after nine months, with one survivor describing daily beatings, forced labor and near-starvation in captivity.
Myanmar's renewed description of Rohingya refugees as 'Bengali' threatens to derail Bangladesh's repatriation efforts, analysts say, with one accusing Naypyidaw of using the label to signal it has no genuine intention of taking them…
Bangladesh Police has transferred 12 additional superintendents and assistant superintendents and attached one more to a new posting, according to separate notifications issued by Inspector General of Police Md Ali Hossain Fakir.
Whoever wins Thursday's presidential election will be sworn in at Bangabhaban the following evening, Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni said, as Bangladesh holds its first contested presidential vote in 35 years.
Bengali actress Rupa Dutta, previously arrested over a 2022 pickpocketing allegation at the Kolkata International Book Fair, has been granted bail after her arrest in Mumbai on charges of stealing items worth 148,000 rupees.
Popular on-screen pair Yash Rohan and Naznin Neeha will reunite in the drama 'Moner Moto Mon,' directed by Imraul Rafat, who also wrote the story and screenplay.