6,887 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
CHATTOGRAM — The National Citizen Party failed to recruit former Chattogram City Corporation mayor M. Manjur Alam, who shut off his phone and left his home to avoid attending the party's induction ceremony, sources…
LONDON — Britain's Labour Party suffered a major setback in early results from the May 7 local government elections in England, with anti-immigration leader Nigel Farage's Reform UK surging into the lead.
KOLKATA — Suvendu Adhikari is set to be sworn in as West Bengal's first BJP chief minister, with his name formally announced Friday as leader of the state legislative party.
MYMENSINGH — A 5-year-old kindergarten student in Bhaluka upazila died Friday morning at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, a day after a battery-powered auto-rickshaw hit him on his way to school.
NETROKONA — A drug addict in Kalmakanda upazila beat his wife and attacked his father with a machete after being denied money for drugs, leaving both injured, locals said.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami's Madarganj municipal unit held a workers' rally Friday in Jamalpur district, with leaders calling for justice, ethical values and a corruption-free society.
A 35-year-old man was beaten to death by a mob in Bogura's Shibganj upazila on Friday after being suspected of robbery, police said. Cash and gold jewelry were reported stolen from a local home.
A Polish citizen, Weronika Maria Pitlars, has arrived in Jamalpur's Madarganj after marrying a Bangladeshi expatriate she met in Poland, drawing wide interest in the village.
Police in Cumilla's Chandina arrested two men accused of forcibly assaulting a woman entrepreneur at her beauty parlor and filming the attack on a mobile phone.
A delayed road project in Khulna's Paikgachha upazila has turned a stretch of the Latha road into a narrow channel after recent rain, leaving school students and residents struggling to get through, locals say.
The Bangladesh Coast Guard arrested four members of a notorious robbery gang in Cox's Bazar's Maheshkhali, recovering firearms and ammunition during a special operation.
Police in Naogaon's Raninagar have arrested a 40-year-old man accused of raping an 11-year-old fourth-grade student, after her father filed a case.
Roads in Jashore's Chougacha municipality have fallen into disrepair, with potholes filling with knee-deep water during rains and causing daily accidents, residents say.
Border Guard Bangladesh has stepped up patrols along the Meherpur frontier to head off any unrest spilling over from elections in India's West Bengal.
DHAKA — The National Pay Commission has recommended doubling monthly pensions for government retirees who earn less than 20,000 taka a month and raising the Boishakhi allowance to 50 percent of basic pay, officials…
DHAKA — Twelve more people have died of measles and measles-like symptoms in the past 24 hours, and 1,524 new cases or suspected cases were identified across Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Health Services…
DHAKA — Ibtedayi madrasas will be brought under the primary education system in the coming days, State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Bobby Hajjaj said Thursday.
KOLKATA — About 58 percent of West Bengal's newly elected legislators face serious criminal cases, and the average wealth of MLAs has risen sharply since 2021, according to an Association for Democratic Reforms report.
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistan army's media director, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, called India the "biggest terrorist" and said no one believed New Delhi's claims, according to a report by Dawn newspaper Thursday.
Local authorities in Habiganj's Chunarughat town have launched an eviction drive to clear illegal sidewalk shops set up on government land along the main road. The operation began Thursday morning under the upazila assistant…
The government's seasonal paddy and rice procurement program was formally inaugurated in Kishoreganj's Pakundia upazila on Thursday, with officials warning that heavy rains and crop damage could complicate this year's targets.
Two audio recordings purporting to capture a police sub-inspector negotiating a bribe with a smuggling suspect have gone viral on social media, prompting the officer's withdrawal and the launch of an internal investigation, police…
A shop in Jashore's Sharsha upazila has been fined 1 lakh taka for selling expired baby food made with unapproved coloring and no production date, consumer rights officials said.
Bangladesh will build its first public-private partnership solar power plant on government land in Feni, the country's economic zones authority said Thursday, signing a memorandum of understanding with the state-run power utility to launch…
DHAKA — Tasnim Afroz Imi, a former vice president of Dhaka University's Shamsunnahar Hall and a one-time DUCSU VP candidate, was released on bail Thursday after 60 days in custody over a March 7…
NEW DELHI — India said deportation of illegal Bangladeshi migrants must be considered in any discussion of border pushbacks and urged Dhaka to clear a backlog of more than 2,860 pending citizenship verification cases.
India has responded to top-level Bangladeshi concerns about possible 'pushback' across the border after the BJP's West Bengal win, saying the remarks should be seen in light of returning illegal Bangladeshi migrants, and urging…
DHAKA — Shops and shopping malls in Bangladesh will stay open until 10 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. from May 12 through Eid ul-Adha, the country's shop owners' association said Thursday.
PATUAKHALI — A union council member has been missing for two days after posting "I will fly to the sky" on Facebook. His wife has filed a general diary at the local police station.
MUNSHIGANJ — Police arrested a 36-year-old man in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj after a drug raid that recovered six fresh cannabis plants, officers said.
Switzerland's Federal Electricity Commission warned that the ongoing U.S.-Israel war with Iran has created uncertainty over gas supplies for the coming winter and could threaten the stability of power supplies across Europe.
Israel is looking for an opportunity to launch fresh military operations against Iran and has communicated that position clearly to the United States, Israel's public broadcaster reported.
A faction of the BNP-affiliated Chhatra Dal in Dinajpur held a protest march, set tires on fire and blocked roads to demand the cancellation of the party's newly announced district convening committee.
Palestinian authorities warned of a looming health catastrophe in Gaza as infectious disease spreads rapidly through shelters housing displaced people, with the WHO calling the situation "despairing and extremely dangerous."
Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures at U.S. military bases in the Middle East since the start of the war, the Washington Post reported, citing satellite imagery analysis.
DHAKA — The chief engineer of the Bangladeshi cargo ship MV Bangla Joyatra, stranded near the United Arab Emirates, said the crew is receiving missile-strike alerts on their mobile phones and warnings over the…
An urgent global effort is underway to contain the spread of a rare and deadly hantavirus after passengers disembarked from the cruise ship MV Hondius and traveled on to multiple countries, the World Health…
GAZA — Azzam al-Hayya, son of Hamas’ exiled Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya, was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza City on Wednesday, Hamas official Bassem Naim said.
KOLKATA — Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant to West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, was shot dead in Madhyamgram on Wednesday night, just two days after the party’s historic state assembly election win, police…
DHAKA — Bangladesh’s gold price has risen again, with the price of a bhori of 22-carat gold raised by Tk 2,216 to Tk 244,711, the Bangladesh Jewellers Association said.
Crude oil prices climbed on global markets Thursday on reports that Iran and the United States are close to a preliminary peace agreement, with U.S. crude futures up about $1 a barrel in early…
Summer heat, sleep disruption and study pressure can leave exam-takers struggling with anxiety, frustration and restlessness, experts say, making mental health care during this period especially important.
Recent research suggests smoking is more harmful to women than to men, raising the risk of lung cancer, miscarriage, premature birth and stillbirth, even as smoking rates rise among women.
Public health experts say most e-cigarettes contain nicotine and can fuel addiction at higher levels than conventional cigarettes, with young people especially drawn to the products.
Indigestion, or dyspepsia, is a familiar daily complaint, but persistent or severe symptoms can point to ulcers, gastritis or, rarely, stomach cancer.
Hip replacement surgery, recommended when medication and physical therapy fail to control pain, can restore mobility but carries risks such as blood clots, infection and dislocation.
After weeks of uncertainty, a tanker carrying 100,000 tonnes of crude oil arrived at Chattogram port Wednesday, clearing the way for Eastern Refinery Ltd. to resume full production.
The Bangladesh Power Development Board has formally asked the regulator to raise wholesale electricity tariffs by 17% to 21% to cut the government's mounting subsidy bill.
President Donald Trump said the conflict with Iran could end if Tehran accepts the proposed terms, warning of renewed strikes if it does not.
India's BJP said the new West Bengal government will be sworn in on May 9 at Kolkata's Brigade Parade Ground, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi expected to attend.
A one-page, 14-point memorandum to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran is close to being finalized, Axios and Reuters reported, citing sources.
A mobile court in Chuadanga's Jibannagar upazila sentenced a man posing as an eye specialist to three months in jail and sealed the clinic where he had practiced without registration.
BARISHAL — Six days of heavy rain and tidal flooding have damaged crops on roughly 1.9 million hectares across Bangladesh's Barishal division and directly affected more than 100,000 farmers, the agriculture department said.
BEIJING — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Iran's Abbas Araghchi that the US-Israeli war on Iran was illegal and called for a full ceasefire.
TANGAIL — Police recovered the bloodied body of an unidentified woman from a rice field beside the Dhaleshwari River in Tangail's Delduar upazila on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — Thirty US Democratic lawmakers, led by Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro, urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to disclose detailed information about Israel's nuclear weapons program.
NEW DELHI — More than a decade after Narendra Modi first campaigned on building a Congress-free India, the founding party of independent India is weakened and his Bharatiya Janata Party now controls 21 states…
KOLKATA — The BJP captured 17 West Bengal assembly seats where minority voters exceed 40 percent of the electorate, a sharp jump from just two such seats in 2021, as Hindu votes consolidated and…
ISLAMABAD — The United States and Iran are close to finalizing a historic memorandum of understanding that could end their conflict, according to a Pakistani source involved in the mediation.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. military operation in Iran, code-named Operation Epic Fury and launched on Feb. 28, has ended, and the administration is now focused on a follow-up…