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National University vice-chancellor Prof A S M Amanullah says free, objective and responsible journalism is essential to counter misinformation and move society forward, at a PIB course orientation.
Actress Shabnur has rejected as fabricated a man’s claim that they were once married, and dismissed his allegations linking her to the death of Salman Shah.
Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed says India cannot both let ousted, convicted former PM Sheikh Hasina hold news conferences and seek friendship with Bangladesh, calling the two contradictory.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman handed appointment letters to 10 members of families of those killed and seriously injured in the 2024 July uprising, at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tejgaon.
Jorge Messi, father of Argentine football superstar Lionel Messi, has died at 68 after a period of ill health, according to Argentine media; the Messi family has not yet confirmed the news.
At a reception in Chougachha, Jashore, local MP Dr Mosleh Uddin Farid said the country won its freedom from autocracy through the blood of hundreds of students and citizens after a 15-year struggle.
Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone has addressed intense speculation over Julian Alvarez’s future, saying the club is delighted to have him even as Barcelona and other giants circle.
A reckless bus killed seven farm labourers at Bogura’s Erulia Bazar and a two-bus collision in Sylhet’s Osmaninagar killed nine, among 16 dead in a day of road tragedy; families are in mourning.
Police in Pabna Sadar recovered two cattle from the basement of a Jubo Dal activist’s home and detained him over an allegation of storing stolen cattle. The allegations are untested and the party has…
Frontex has rescued more than 200 migrants off the southern Greek island of Crete in 48 hours, most of them Bangladeshi and Sudanese nationals, as arrivals from Libya strain the island’s reception centres.
From the banks of the Titas to the Buriganga, the poet Al Mahmud turned the vernacular of rural Bengal into universal verse — a life traced from the language movement to Sonali Kabin and…
Syngenta Bangladesh expands its GoGro value-chain scheme in Satkhira’s Shyamnagar, having helped 1,200 farmers and aiming to bring 3,500 farmers and 1,000 acres under climate-resilient farming by 2030.
State warehouses in Jashore hold near-double their capacity in fertiliser, yet aman farmers say they cannot buy urea, DAP, TSP or MOP at official rates and are paying almost double at unauthorised shops.
President Masoud Pezeshkian stresses better ties with neighbours and warns against regional division, saying Iran will not accept any demand that undermines its sovereignty or defence, state media report.
Reopening about 200 closed factories in the Chattogram region could create a million jobs, a concept paper presented to Bangladesh Bank says, with the energy crisis and capital shortage the main hurdles.
Students at Jashore University of Science and Technology have given the administration a 24-hour ultimatum over the harassment of female students and outsiders' nuisance on campus.
Bangladesh's shrimp exports have fallen about 62% in 14 years, to 19,000 tons worth $285.61 million in FY2025-26, as exporters stay tied to bagda while global demand shifts to vannamei.
Green chilli prices have begun falling in Dinajpur's Hili markets as imports from India resume, with local chillies down to Tk 130 a kg from Tk 250 last week, traders say.
Political awareness is natural but must not lead to neglect of professional duty, Prime Minister Tareque Rahman told a doctors' gathering, announcing plans to recruit 100,000 health workers.
A farmer, Madhu Miya (58), has been hacked to death on a road in Tahirpur, Sunamganj, and five of his relatives injured, in what police are treating as a killing rooted in a land…
Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Dr Shafiqur Rahman has urged party leaders and workers not to sow disorder through provocative speech, and accused the BNP of forgetting its reform pledges in power.
The United States has completely failed to achieve its goals in the war with Iran, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has claimed, saying President Trump is caught in “a trap of his own making”.
Police have been deployed around the Government Alia Madrasa in Dhaka's Bakshibazar over fears of a fresh clash between Chhatra Dal and Chhatra Shibir activists over control of a hall.
The Bangladesh Jewellers Association has raised gold jewellery prices by up to Tk 4,374 per bhori, effective Saturday, with 22-carat gold now set at Tk 2,34,038; silver prices are unchanged.
Pakistan has allowed the import of fresh Bangladeshi pineapples, the Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad says, opening the way for wider agricultural trade between the two countries.
Four people — two from confirmed measles and two from suspected measles — have died across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services says.
On its first public day, visitors to the July Mass Uprising Memory Museum at Ganabhaban paused longest at the symbolic graves of the martyrs at the entrance, some in silent tears.
At least 53 flats, villas, hotel apartments and offices have been traced in Dubai in the names of fugitive banned-Awami League leaders, sources say, as agencies probe alleged money laundering.
National University vice-chancellor Professor Dr ASM Amanullah has sought expanded higher-education, research and exchange cooperation with SAARC universities in a meeting with the bloc’s secretary-general in Kathmandu.
Jashore district Jamaat Amir and MP Professor Golam Rasul visited injured July-uprising activist Rashed Khan, hurt in a motorcycle accident, at the district’s 250-bed hospital.
Benapole municipal BNP held a fourth day of tree-planting in Jashore as part of the government’s “250 million trees in five years” drive, general secretary Abu Taher said.
Sheikh Hasina’s announced December return, made from New Delhi, has reopened strain in Bangladesh-India relations even as the two sides work to rebuild ties, The Diplomat notes.
CMSME lending fell 5.15% to about Tk 2.98 trillion in the January-March quarter while the sector’s default rate rose to 26.04%, a Bangladesh Bank report shows.
Dhaka University has switched on the air conditioning at its central mosque after a strong push from the students’ union, DUCSU vice-president Sadiq Kayem said.
A Madaripur youth taken toward Italy was held captive and tortured in Libya after his family paid hundreds of thousands of taka in ransom; he has been untraced for a year and a half,…
The Indian government had no role in Sheikh Hasina’s New Delhi press conference and does not endorse her remarks about Bangladesh’s government, foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
Faridpur General Hospital’s environment and services have deteriorated badly, its management committee chairman and MP Chowdhury Nayab Yusuf said, pledging a 250-bed upgrade within a year.
The government has snatched from the people their right to a referendum on state reform, NCP convener Nahid Islam alleged at a Jamaat-organised exhibition marking the July uprising’s second anniversary.
Analysts tell Nikkei Asia and AFP that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s virtual press conference from New Delhi is a bid to stay politically relevant — and a fresh strain on Bangladesh-India ties.
Bangladesh Bank will withdraw its appointed administrators from the remaining four of five merged banks under United Islami Bank by 15 August, handing full control to the new management.
The four-storey upazila model mosque and Islamic cultural centre in Ranishankail, Thakurgaon was formally inaugurated with its first Friday prayers, drawing thousands of worshippers.
Visitors to the July Museum at Ganabhaban must now register online and book a timed ticket, priced at 50 taka for adults and 25 taka for children.
Bangladesh Bank will place administrators at five weak non-bank financial institutions being closed, starting Sunday, dissolving their boards. Bad loans at the five range from 93 to almost 100 percent; individual depositors will be…
The country’s media are still not fully free, opposition leader and Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Dr Shafiqur Rahman said at a meeting with journalists in Bagerhat.
There is no scope for Sakib Al Hasan to return home and play for the national team, Youth and Sports State Minister Aminul Haque has said, citing his recent political stance.
Border Guard Bangladesh foiled an attempt by India's BSF to push five people — four men and a woman — into Bangladesh through the Dhala border in Meherpur's Gangni early on Friday, BGB said.
A 25-year-old muezzin, Md Ibrahim, died of an electric shock in Magura town's Stadium Para after touching an overhead power line on a mosque roof, where he had gone for relief from the heat…
A short special session of parliament will be called for the country's 23rd presidential election, ruling-party chief whip Nurul Islam Moni said. Voting is set for 20 August in the parliament chamber.
Saudi Arabia has appointed Rear Admiral Abdullah bin Salem Al-Shehri as commander of a 14-nation multinational maritime defence alliance, including Bangladesh, to protect navigation in the Bab al-Mandeb strait, Red Sea and Gulf of…
Police in Chuadanga's Jibannagar have arrested six members of an organised gang accused of stealing electric transformers used for farmers' irrigation, recovering copper coils, tools, a car and a pickup. The charges are yet…
Police in Jashore's Chougacha have arrested four drug dealers with 40 yaba tablets and 550 grams of cannabis in separate drives. Three cases have been filed under the narcotics-control law; the charges are yet…
Inspired by a trip to China, Sreepur entrepreneur Abdus Sattar has begun making biscuits from jackfruit — the fruit often left to rot each year — and the trial production has drawn a strong…
A total of 349 MPs will vote in the 23rd presidential election on 20 August, according to the Election Commission's voter list. They include Satkhira-4 MP Gazi Nazrul Islam, who was expelled by Jamaat…
A case has been filed against Barguna Sadar assistant commissioner (land) Shaon Majumder Sumon, accused of forging the deputy speaker's signature and parliament letterhead to block his transfer and secure a posting in Dhaka.…
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami will not field a candidate in the presidential election, its leaders said, as it has no realistic chance of victory without a parliamentary majority. Secretary general Mia Golam Parwar said BNP's nominee…
The Bangladesh Jewellers' Association has cut the price of gold, lowering the price of 22-carat jewellery by up to 3,266 taka a bhori, effective from Friday morning. A day earlier it had raised the…
BNP secretary general and Local Government Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's name is under top-level discussion as the party's possible presidential candidate, BBC Bangla reported, citing party sources, though no formal announcement has been…
At the historic Gangarampur bazaar in Magura's Shalikha, bright yellow pumpkin flowers and pumpkin greens — once eaten only at home — are now selling briskly at 50-60 taka a kilo, giving farmers a…
Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapan said the media needs to be brought within a regulatory framework, not controlled, so that every stakeholder's fair rights are ensured. He warned that without good governance,…
The director general of the National Academy for Educational Management (NAEM), Professor Dr Wasim Md Mezbahul Haque, was allegedly abused and physically assaulted by the academy's director (administration and finance), Md Shahjahan, at an…