6,928 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC has filed a formal complaint with the Anti-Corruption Commission against former president Md Sahabuddin Chuppu, S Alam and 38 others over the alleged embezzlement of 500 crore taka in the…
Severe power load-shedding — 40% to 60% over 24 hours — has left people in Kushtia in distress, with the elderly, children, the sick and power-dependent businesses hit hardest amid intense heat.
BNP's defeated candidate in Satkhira-1, Habibul Islam Habib, has alleged vote-rigging in the last national election and branded a local Jamaat leader a "Rajshahi University terrorist". Kolaroa Jamaat has rejected the claims as "entirely…
The Jashore Education Board 2026 SSC pass rate is 66.27 percent, down from 73.69 percent a year earlier, with GPA-5 numbers also lower.
Bangladesh's trade deficit has risen to a three-year high of $27.28 billion in FY2025-26, up 34% in a year, as import costs rose sharply and export earnings fell. Strong remittances of a record $35.58…
Sixteen people, all Bangladeshis, were killed in a fire at a sofa factory in an industrial area of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Bangladesh embassy in Riyadh says.
A 42-year-old Chinese man, Yu Liangliang, travelled from China to a remote village in Jashore's Manirampur to meet a young woman he had befriended online three months earlier, drawing crowds of curious onlookers.
This year's SSC and equivalent exam results will be published at 10am on Monday, 10 August; students can check via the education board websites, SMS or their institution.
Chuadanga's district law-and-order committee held its monthly meeting, reviewing the overall law-and-order situation, public safety and other issues, chaired by the deputy commissioner.
Two committees have been formed to investigate allegations of poor-quality saplings and bamboo poles supplied for the tree-planting programme in Chuadanga, after media reports on the matter.
Green chilli prices have fallen by half in markets in Jashore's Sharsha, including Benapole, from 300 taka a kg five days ago to 150-180 taka now, after 80 tonnes were imported from India through…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman urged ensuring a diversity of energy sources while visiting the 1,200 MW Matarbari coal power plant in Cox's Bazar, stressing economic viability, environmental impact and the public's long-term interest.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Dhaka court sent six Awami League and Chhatra League figures from Chougachha, Jashore, on a three-day remand in an anti-terrorism case over an alleged sabotage plot; the allegations are untested.
Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of PM Tareque Rahman, told the Doctors Association of Bangladesh’s 37th-anniversary rally that the body would keep working for doctors’ welfare, better healthcare and the people.
Special Branch chief and Additional IGP Nurul Amin inspected the Benapole international checkpost immigration, stressing harassment-free, secure passenger service and the use of modern technology.
Residents on the Panchagarh border detained an Indian citizen after India’s BSF allegedly took away a 78-year-old Bangladeshi man; a BGB-BSF flag meeting did not resolve the matter.
The long-awaited ninth national pay scale is in final review and could go to cabinet within weeks, though its effective date is undecided; the pay commission proposed raising basic pay by 100-140%.
A clash between two groups over a bamboo frame set up to dry jute near a mosque in Salta, Faridpur, left at least 10 people injured and several homes and a shop vandalised, locals…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman makes his first Chattogram visit on Sunday, taking in Maheshkhali, Banshkhali, Fatikchhari and Hathazari before an evening BNP organisational meeting; seven venues are ready.
Homeless and battling hunger, Rehana Khatun of Rampal in Bagerhat sold the hair on her head to pay rent; locals are urging the government and the well-off to help her and her two children.
A Dhaka court has granted three days’ remand each for six members of the banned Awami League arrested during a secret meeting at a Gulshan shopping-mall food court; the allegations are untested.
Canada deported 3,323 Indian nationals in the first half of 2026 — the largest national group removed — putting the year on course for a six-year high, official CBSA data show.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has vowed to build a better, developed Bangladesh through everyone’s collective effort, at a ceremony handing jobs to families of July uprising martyrs and the injured.