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Students at government primary schools will receive free school uniforms, shoes, socks and bags from July-August, State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Bobby Hajjaj said, with a pilot covering more than 350,000 students.
Thousands of young Indians joined the first public protest of the 'Cockroach Janata Party' — a movement born of satire after the chief justice likened jobless youth to 'parasites' and 'cockroaches' — with organisers…
Police arrested a drug dealer, Hazrat Ali (55), with 16 kg of cannabis on the Chuadanga-Jhenaidah road on Monday morning, the district police said.
Iran has announced a halt to its attacks for now, but warned that if Israel strikes Iran or Lebanon again, Tehran will respond more harshly than before, its top military command said.
A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Monday, killing at least 19 and prompting tsunami warnings for the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and Australia.
Two new textbooks — one on sports and one on culture — are coming for grade 4, and technical/vocational education and 'Learning with Happiness' for grade 6, the prime minister's education adviser Mahdi Amin…
Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has warned that the 'fragile Zionist regime' has only a few days left, amid escalating military clashes between Iran and Israel.
Next year's SSC exams will begin on 7 January as per the routine announced after consultation with stakeholders, Education Minister Dr A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon said, dismissing calls to push the date…
US President Donald Trump has called for an immediate halt to the renewed Israel-Iran conflict, saying on Truth Social that the two must stop striking each other, while the blockade stays until a final…
This year's SSC and equivalent exam results will be published on 20 July, Education Minister A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon said, with more than 1.857 million candidates having sat the exams.
An 18-year-old newlywed, Shefa, died by suicide in Jashore's Chougacha, with her family alleging that her husband's family had demanded money and subjected her to abuse.
Oh Sung, secretary general of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), paid a courtesy call on Leader of the Opposition and Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman, inviting him to ICAPP's next standing…
Jamaat-e-Islami, parliament's main opposition party, will present a 'shadow budget' ahead of the 2026-27 national budget at a Tuesday press conference in Dhaka.
Students of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College held a protest march as part of an indefinite work stoppage over a six-point demand, joining intern and postgraduate trainee doctors nationwide.
Ruhul Amin, MP for Chuadanga-2, has strongly demanded in parliament the restoration of the Joyrampur and Ansarbaria railway stations and train stoppages at both, citing students' safety.
Bangladesh wastes about 3.5 million tonnes of food a year, Food Minister Md Abdul Bari told parliament, citing UNEP's Food Waste Index 2024, while saying government storage losses have been reduced.
Eight more people have died of measles or measles-like symptoms in the past 24 hours, with 1,185 admitted to hospital with symptoms, the Directorate General of Health Services said.
Saudi security forces arrested 7,760 illegal residents over the past week, the interior ministry said, for violations of residency, border-security and labour laws.
Allegations have surfaced that senior BNP and Chhatra Dal leaders brokered a settlement in a case in which a Chhatra Dal leader in Chuadanga's Darshana was accused of rape, deception and extortion, after the…
Malaysia's government has taken a tough stand against foreigners running businesses illegally using locals' licences and abusing visas, following PM Anwar Ibrahim's directive.
North Korea will never abandon its nuclear weapons and will keep building up its nuclear power, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said, calling US denuclearisation efforts an 'outdated…
Two teenage brothers, Shawon (14) and Sabbir (16), went missing while bathing in the Dharla river in Lalmonirhat's Mughalhat on Sunday, with rescuers still searching.
Angry villagers in West Bengal paraded a local Trinamool leader, Sannyasi Manna, through the village wearing a garland of shoes and cut his hair, over allegations he took money in the name of securing…
A pickup driver, Kawsar (40), was killed when a covered van rammed his vehicle on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway near Feni on Sunday, highway police said.
Professor Farukhe Azam Mu Abdus Salam, principal of Khulna's Haji Muhammad Mohsin College, has been appointed chairman of the Jashore Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board.
Professor Mohammad Fakhrul Maola, vice-principal of Chattogram Commerce College, has been appointed chairman of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB).
Eleven people, including a nine-months-pregnant woman and a disabled child, have been living in the open for some 40 hours at the Thakurgaon border after an attempted 'push-in' by India's Border Security Force, the…
Transparency International Bangladesh said 19 university vice-chancellors were dismissed before their terms ended after the BNP formed government, with no reasons given, in a report on the government's first 100 days.
Shahidul Islam (40), a Mirsarai man, was killed in a road accident in Oman just five days before he was due to return home on leave, a former union council chairman confirmed.
The United States will try to use Iran's assets to fund reconstruction for Gulf states damaged by Iranian attacks, a source told Reuters, amid the fragile US-Iran ceasefire.
The families of six newborns who died at Ad-din Hospital in Dhaka's Moghbazar will each receive Tk 80 lakh in compensation, set through joint discussion between the families and the authorities, lawyer Mohammad Shishir…
A covered-van driver, Kazi Zafar (35), was killed when his vehicle hit the back of a truck on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla's Chouddagram on Sunday, highway police said.
Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad warned Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Iqbal Hasan Mahmud for failing to keep a parliamentary promise on gas supply to the Ashuganj fertiliser factory, advising ministers to study issues…
Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Maulana Abdul Halim accused the government of plotting to hand Islami Bank to 'bank robber' S Alam and vowed customers would resist, at a discussion in Dhaka.
Seven more children have died of measles in the past 24 hours, taking the official measles death toll to 620 since 15 March, the Directorate General of Health Services said.
The Cockroach Janata Party will keep up its protest until Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns over alleged exam irregularities, founder Abhijit Deepke said.
Despite the BNP being in power, many sacrificing grassroots activists like Feni's Mehedi Hasan are living in hardship, sidelined by opportunists and 'hybrids' who joined after the 5 August change, party figures told Jugantor.
The second session of the 13th parliament — the current government's first budget session — has begun, with the 2026-27 budget to be presented on 11 June, as the Jamaat-led 11-party opposition mobilises.
Locals chased and detained 45 people from a flash procession by the banned Chhatra League on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla, and police seized five vehicles, police said.
The thyroid, a small but vital gland in the front of the neck, regulates metabolism — and certain foods rich in iodine, vitamin C, zinc and selenium can help its function, while others should…
Fourteen national and cultural organisations have called for marking the centenary of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam's enduring song 'Kandari Hushiar,' saying its message is more relevant amid rising division.
The Cockroach Janata Party held a protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar demanding the resignation of Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over exam paper leaks, with founder Abhijit Deepke greeted by slogans.
The death of an elderly woman living alone in Dhaka's Mirpur has revived attention on the Parents' Maintenance Act, 2013 — a reminder that caring for ageing parents is both a legal duty and…
Ad-din Hospital must answer a show-cause notice on why its licence should not be cancelled over six newborn deaths, and an unsatisfactory answer will draw legal action, Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain said.
A case has been filed against five BNP and associate-body activists over the alleged gang rape of a 46-year-old woman in Rajshahi's Puthia, with one arrested; the accused call the case false.
Doctors at Chuadanga Sadar Hospital's emergency department treated patients by mobile-phone torchlight after a storm cut power, raising questions over hospital management; the superintendent did not answer calls.
Shariatpur-2 MP and district BNP president Shafiqur Rahman Kiron has begun a programme to train and send 216 educated unemployed youths abroad for jobs entirely free of cost, to curb fraud-driven migration.
After someone uprooted the flowering plants on his father's and grandmother's graves, Faridpur youth Shamim Ahmed planted 1,500 flower saplings along 2km of his village's roads as an unusual protest.
The government plans to build electric ambulances with local technology to ensure doorstep healthcare, a plan discussed at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman.
Rice and cash were distributed as the prime minister's humanitarian aid among farmers hit by waterlogging in Sunamganj's Jamalganj, with 750 farmers covered, though officials said many affected farmers were left out.
Joynal Mia (60), a van driver injured when a motorcycle hit his van in Gaibandha's Sadullapur, has died at Rangpur Medical College Hospital.
BNP secretary general and minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said Dhaka 'no longer feels livable,' citing polluted air, failing institutions and dying rivers, at a city event.
Border Guard Bangladesh foiled an attempt by India's BSF to push 11 people — three men, four women and four children — across the border in the Dinajpur battalion's area early Saturday.
A day-long free medical camp organised by the Jagjapida student organisation treated more than 1,000 patients in Jashore's Chougacha, with free medicines from the Jashore Medicine Bank.
Turkey has reaffirmed its commitment to deepening ties with Bangladesh across trade, defence, humanitarian work and regional diplomacy, and to backing Dhaka on the Rohingya crisis, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in Dhaka.
India's Border Security Force tried to push 10 people, including women and children, into Bangladesh through the Panchagarh border, but Border Guard Bangladesh blocked them, leaving the group stranded in the no-man's-land for some…
Israel secretly deployed troops and intelligence personnel in Azerbaijan during its recent war with Iran, as part of a covert military network across the Middle East, the US outlet CNN has reported.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has written an open letter urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to sit for direct, face-to-face talks to end the war, saying peace can only come through direct negotiations.
Israel's image is steadily declining worldwide, a Pew Research Center survey of 36 countries including Bangladesh has found, with an average of 67 percent of adults holding a negative view of the country.
The United States could seize Iran's uranium stockpile if it wanted to, President Donald Trump said, while calling such a move 'unreasonable' and unnecessary.