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A government secondary school serving nearly 1,000 students in Chougachha, Jashore, is struggling with vacant posts after its head teacher retired and its acting head became seriously ill.
A woman died in a lightning strike and a farmer drowned in separate incidents Monday in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira.
Oncologist and surgeon Dr Kristine Lai has addressed eight widespread misconceptions about breast cancer, urging people to rely on scientific evidence instead of social-media claims.
Vinicius Junior has returned to Real Madrid training after his World Cup campaign amid reports that Arsenal is trying to sign the Brazilian forward.
Bangladesh marked the 70th anniversary of 'Mukh O Mukhosh,' the country's first full-length Bengali-language sound film and a milestone that launched Dhaka's film industry.
Bangladesh is considering inviting French football star Kylian Mbappé to the closing ceremony of the nationwide Prime Minister's Gold Cup, Local Government State Minister Mir Shahe Alam said.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called an emergency press briefing at its central office in Moghbazar at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has urged Bangladeshis to dispose of waste responsibly and work together to keep the country clean and healthy for future generations.
More than 100 families in several villages of Paikgachha, Khulna, are earning livelihoods by commercially farming shol, or snakehead fish, in ponds once choked with water hyacinth and weeds.
A farmer in Mirpur, Kushtia, has expanded a commercial Turkish dumba sheep operation from two animals to 15, drawing visitors and interest from other prospective farmers.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has issued three directives to expand solar power and increase renewable-energy use as Bangladesh confronts an energy crisis.
Actor and road-safety campaigner Ilias Kanchan is due to return to Dhaka on Monday after more than 15 months of cancer treatment in the United Kingdom.
Commercial soybean cultivation has begun in the Khulna region for the first time, with officials targeting 26.25 metric tons of output from 17.5 hectares in Khulna and Bagerhat districts.
A 12-year-old student died after a venomous snake bit the child while asleep at home in Alamdanga, Chuadanga, local residents said.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has directed that solar panels be installed in phases on the country's key government buildings, part of three directives to expand renewable energy and tackle the energy crisis. PRAN-RFL and…
All educational institutions have been asked to hold essay, recitation and art competitions and discussions to mark July Uprising Day on 5 August, in a letter from the education ministry's Secondary and Higher Education…
A Red Crescent and IFRC survey of 2,746 families treated for measles found that about 89 percent had to borrow money for treatment and 61 percent broke into their savings, with families spending an…
Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapan said an attempt is under way to artificially take politics outside parliament, and that making parliament effective should be everyone's main goal. He said the government is…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has issued three directives to expand renewable energy — installing solar panels in phases on key government buildings, supporting imports of solar-inverter raw materials, and drawing up an economic model…
Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said the banned Awami League has no capacity to mount any activity around the second anniversary of the July uprising, and would not be allowed to carry out sabotage around…
The government has sought technical support from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to curb the airline-ticket syndicate, modernise air transport and develop tourism. IATA has offered to help upgrade Biman's technical centre to…
Three more people died of dengue across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours and 580 new patients were hospitalised, the health directorate said. The disease has infected 16,684 people and killed 59 so far…
Imran Hossain, chairman of Sadeek Agro — the firm at the centre of the much-discussed 'goat scandal' — has been shown arrested in an attempted-murder case tied to a 3 August 2024 attack on…
Poland's clothing brand LPP has suspended new orders and product development in Bangladesh amid a dispute over about $40 million owed to Bangladeshi factories and buying houses by Russian buyer FES Retail, for which…
Two people died in the Dhumghat area of Satkhira's Shyamnagar upazila on Monday — a 40-year-old woman struck by lightning while working in a field, and a 50-year-old farmer who drowned in a pond.
Police in Chattogram's Rauzan have arrested two men over the shooting death of Jubo Dal leader Masudul Haque Chowdhury, saying they took part directly in the June killing. A foreign-made pistol was recovered; the…
Students will again be admitted to Class 11 on the basis of their SSC and equivalent results, with central online applications by merit and preference, under a draft policy sent to the education ministry.…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has called for developing the country's economic zones as green, modern and investment-friendly industrial areas, blending industrialisation with environmental protection. A BEZA board meeting decided to plant 1.25 lakh trees…
Mymensingh's MRT Agro, which produces oil from corn, won a contract to supply 20 lakh litres to the state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh, but a 10 percent VAT of 17.5 taka a litre is…
Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman inaugurated the Army International Islamic Institute (AIIR) at the Jolshiri housing project in Dhaka on Monday, and laid the foundation stones by video conference for branches to be set up…
Cape Verde's veteran goalkeeper Vozinha, 40, who drew global attention with his performances at the 2026 World Cup, has arrived in Chile to join storied club Colo-Colo, greeted by thousands of fans at Santiago's…
Nearly four months after being denied a penalty for a deliberate handball against Atlético Madrid, Barcelona has won a moral victory: UEFA has told referees they must award a penalty when a player deliberately…
The member-secretary of Sreepur municipal BNP, Md Billal Hossain Byapari, alleged a doctored photo linking him to liquor bottles was spread online to defame him and demanded police identify those responsible within 12 hours.…
National Citizen Party (NCP) convener and opposition chief whip Nahid Islam said the 1972 constitution has kept Bangladesh divided from the outset, and criticised the government for leaving the Chittagong Hill Tracts without representation…
Md Fazlul Haque, the newly appointed administrator of the FBCCI and a former BKMEA president, says the garment industry faces not just a crisis but multi-layered challenges — from weaker global demand and new…
With repairs to the key Nayanpur–Barmi regional road in Gazipur's Sreepur long overdue and the contractor effectively gone, angry residents planted rice saplings on a waterlogged 260-metre stretch on Monday in symbolic protest. The…
BNP secretary general and Local Government Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said opposition leaders who now vow not to let the government 'stay in power for five years' are speaking exactly as Sheikh Hasina…
Bangladesh received $2.86 billion in remittances in July, the first month of the 2026-27 fiscal year — higher than the previous month and a year earlier. But rising energy and fertiliser import costs have…
The superintendent of a dakhil madrasa in Meherpur's Gangni is accused of forging the signatures of education-directorate representatives to appoint five people — including his own son, a nephew and a brother's son —…
A 13-year-old fifth-grader, Maruf Alam, has been missing for three days in Sunamganj's Shantiganj after going to watch a game at a nearby school and not returning home. His family has filed a general…
An examiner was caught grading Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) answer scripts out in the open at a tea stall beside the main gate of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet, and education…
Police have arrested two drug dealers with yaba in separate drives in Darshana, Chuadanga, and a senior judicial magistrate's court has jailed and fined them through a summary trial. One was given a year's…
The Kaukhali naval police outpost has seized about 7,000 metres of banned behundi fishing net during a drive on the Kacha river in Kaukhali upazila of Pirojpur, and burned it in public. The seized…
Police have recovered the dismembered body of Abu Rayhan Talukder, a sepoy of Bangladesh's Kamalapur Customs House, from an abandoned pond in Fulbaria upazila of Mymensingh, 10 days after he went missing. Police say…
Bangladesh and Myanmar have discussed increasing bilateral trade, reopening border trade and speeding up Rohingya repatriation, at a meeting between Commerce Minister Khondkar Abdul Muktadir and Myanmar's ambassador to Bangladesh, Kyaw Soe Moe, at…
The Rupsipara Islamia Orphanage in remote Lama upazila in Bandarban has long been running in a dilapidated building, with 45 orphaned and poor children living and studying in an unsafe environment. Locals have called…
A four-year-old boy has died after being stung by hornets while playing in the yard beside his home in Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj on Sunday afternoon. He was declared dead at a Dhaka hospital…
Today, the first Sunday of August, is observed in Bangladesh and many other countries as Friendship Day — an occasion to reconnect with old friends and renew ties. The day has several disputed origins,…
There is virtually no prospect of Bangladesh joining ASEAN, the Southeast Asian regional bloc, its secretary general, Kao Kim Hourn, has said, because Bangladesh lies outside the recognised geographical region of Southeast Asia. Admitting…
A housewife, Shaharan Khatun, 40, has died of electrocution while cooking rice with a rice cooker at Asannagar village in Almdanga, Chuadanga, on Sunday morning. Almdanga police confirmed the death and said the necessary…
Islamic scholar and Jamaat-e-Islami member Mufti Ali Hasan Usama has rejected the claim that Jamaat's creed is flawed, arguing that if joining a secular party does not cost someone their 'Qawmi' identity, joining Jamaat…
Two more people have died of dengue across the country in the past 24 hours, while another 423 were admitted to hospital, the Directorate General of Health Services said on Sunday. So far this…
The University of Dhaka has set the schedule for its 2026-27 undergraduate admission tests, which will run from 5 December to 26 December, with the Science unit test on 12 December. Online applications will…
Online applications for admission to undergraduate programmes at the University of Dhaka for the 2026-27 academic year will begin at 12pm on 11 November and end at 11:59pm on 25 November. Admission tests for…
Six Bangladeshi nationals have been detained in Delhi under India's “Operation Vista 1.0” visa-verification drive for staying beyond the 15 days per visit permitted under their double-entry visas, Indian officials say. After checks by…
The responsibility of chairman of the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has been given to Md Ziaul Haque, an additional secretary of the Energy and Mineral Resources Division, according to an office order issued on…
Trading on the Dhaka Stock Exchange ended mixed on Sunday, the first working day of the week. The main DSEX index edged up slightly, but the DS-30 and DSES Shariah indices fell. Total turnover…
DU admission mark distribution 2026-27: Science, Arts and Business units 60 MCQ, 40 written; Fine Arts 40 MCQ, 60 drawing; IBA 70 MCQ, 30 written.
About 800 fruit-bearing trees in a privately owned papaya orchard on the outskirts of Rangamati town have been cut down after a 10 lakh (1 million) taka extortion demand was not met, according to…
Tension is prevailing at Dr Muhammad Shahidullah Hall of the University of Dhaka after Islami Chhatra Shibir and Chhatra Dal took up positions facing each other. The incident occurred at about 4:30pm on Sunday.