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DHAKA — The Election Commission on Monday upheld the rejection of the nomination of Monira Sharmin, a National Citizen Party leader and Jamaat alliance candidate for a reserved women's seat in the 13th parliament.
TEHRAN — Iranian parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Tehran still holds several unused economic "cards" against Washington while the United States has already lost much of its leverage.
BEIRUT — Israel continued strikes on Lebanon in violation of a ceasefire, killing 14 people on Sunday, while ordering residents of seven border towns to leave.
SYRACUSE, Italy — The Global Sumud Flotilla launched its spring 2026 mission from the Italian island of Sicily on Sunday, with a large humanitarian convoy again sailing toward the besieged Gaza Strip.
DHAKA — Police have arrested a housemaid in connection with a series of thefts in Uttara in which homeowners were drugged before being robbed of cash and gold, including one fatal case in February.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman said the July charter signed by political parties will be implemented step by step and in full, warning that some individuals and parties are trying to divert the referendum result…
Years of unpaid electricity bills at Bihari camps in Saidpur, Nilphamari, have piled up to about 66 crore taka, leaving the Northern Electricity Supply Company struggling to collect.
An abandoned mortar shell was recovered Thursday afternoon from a cropland near border pillar 837/1S in Bamandal of Burimari union in Patgram upazila, Lalmonirhat.
The Late Mahbub-ul-Alam Memorial Foundation distributed school bags and supplies to 500 meritorious and underprivileged students in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat on Monday.
A police officer was attacked while trying to arrest a robbery suspect in Tetulia upazila of Panchagarh, with the suspect splitting officer Banamali Roy's head with a sharp weapon before fleeing.
A man in Chougachha upazila of Jashore gouged out the right eye of a goat that grazed on his land, the goat's owner said in a complaint to police.
A tea seller in Saghata upazila of Gaibandha died of electric shock while trying to repair a blender at home, police said.
Eight more people died of measles or suspected measles in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the total since March 15 to 216, the Directorate General of Health Services said.
A legal notice has been sent to senior officials seeking to halt the release of primary scholarship exam results, citing a discriminatory 80:20 quota between government and private school students.
DHAKA — Shojol Kumar Roy, a Dhaka University postgraduate student from a destitute family, has appealed for help to fund overseas treatment for his mother, who is battling advanced breast cancer.
GAIBANDHA — Morsalin Hasan Parosh, 25, died six days after his girlfriend Mim Akhter in a joint suicide attempt by poisoning in Sadullapur upazila, police said.
DHAKA — The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has forecast nor'westers and thunderstorms in 16 districts between sunset and 9 p.m. on Sunday.
NILPHAMARI — A van driver was killed after being struck by a sand-laden tractor in Kishoreganj upazila of Nilphamari district, police said.
DHAKA — The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council approved 14 projects worth a total of 13,445 crore taka and ordered an inquiry into repeated extensions of road sector projects.
LALMONIRHAT — Disaster Management and Relief Minister Asadul Habib Dulu said the government is working to establish sports and culture as respectable professions on a par with other careers.
DHAKA — At least 12 people were killed in lightning strikes across Bangladesh between Sunday afternoon and evening, including five in Gaibandha district.
JASHORE — Local residents and a lawmaker have called for establishing a full-fledged agricultural university on unused land at one of the country's largest cotton research farms in Chougachha upazila.
DHAKA — The government appointed new chairpersons and directors general at 15 government agencies in a single day in a major reshuffle of top administrative posts.
JHENAIDAH — A body recovered from the Ichamati river on the Bangladesh-India border has been identified as that of an Afghan citizen, Hashmat Mohammadi, whose London-based brother has arrived to claim it.
Surprise Iranian strikes have caused widespread damage to US bases and equipment across the Middle East, with repairs expected to cost billions of dollars, NBC News reported, citing US officials.
Mali's defense minister, Gen. Sadio Camara, has been killed in coordinated attacks on military bases by various armed groups, Al Jazeera reported, citing sources.
Jamaat-e-Islami MP Prof. Masud Mostafa, who represents Netrokona-5, demanded security for himself and his family in parliament Sunday after what he described as an attack by BNP-affiliated assailants.
Police recovered the body of a Dhaka University postgraduate student in Badda on Sunday morning along with a suicide note naming a teacher and a classmate, both of whom have been detained for questioning.
Questions are mounting about security at a Washington hotel after a gunman tried to push past a checkpoint outside a ballroom where President Donald Trump was attending a journalists' dinner.
A fire broke out at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom, a base used by the US Air Force during the war against Iran, in the early hours of Sunday local time.
The Strait of Hormuz will not return to its previous status under any circumstances, Iranian Deputy Parliament Speaker Ali Nikzad said Sunday, citing a direct order from Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
A massive fire has broken out at a glue factory in the Aghdasiyeh area of Iran's Chaharbagh city, local media and the official news agency IRNA reported.
Japan has deployed 1,400 firefighters and 100 Self-Defense Forces members to bring a massive wildfire in its northern mountainous region under control as the blaze entered a fifth consecutive day.
A suspended madrasa principal in Panchagarh's Atwari upazila was attacked by local activists in the presence of the upazila BNP president when he attempted to rejoin his post, leaving at least six people injured.
Junior Water Resources Minister Farhad Hossain Azad said agriculture cards will be distributed without regard to party affiliation or religion, with 4 crore families to receive family cards in phases.
Opposition Leader and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief Dr. Shafiqur Rahman accused the BNP of following the same fascist path as the ousted Awami League and warned it of betraying the July uprising.
Two Bangladeshi students detained by India's Border Security Force in Panchagarh were returned after an eight-hour flag meeting, the BGB battalion commander confirmed.
Devigonj UNO Sabuj Kumar Basak was attacked and forced to take shelter in a nearby house after he ordered motorcycle drivers without proper documents to leave a fuel-distribution line in Panchagarh.
A 12-year-old madrasa student went missing after going to bathe in the Jadukata river in Sunamganj's Tahirpur upazila, with searches continuing.
Average turnout in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly election reached 90% by 3 p.m. Thursday, with the Muslim-majority Samsherganj seat in Murshidabad recording the highest at 87.53%.
The Election Commission has declared valid all 36 nomination papers of the BNP-led alliance for reserved women's seats in the 13th Parliament.
Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar's correspondent Amal Khalil was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon where she had taken shelter, with rescuers unable to reach her for six hours.
The Bangladesh government raised bus fares by 11 paisa per kilometer Thursday after a fuel price hike, with new fares taking effect immediately, the road transport and bridges minister said.
Iran's judiciary chief Hojjatoleslam Mohseni Ejei said Israel's ultimate goal is to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque and change the identity of Jerusalem, condemning a new raid on the holy site.
DHAKA — Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Thursday announced the formation of a 10-member joint committee of the ruling and opposition parties to recommend solutions to the country's ongoing energy crisis.
WASHINGTON — Removing the mines Iran is believed to have laid in the Strait of Hormuz could take up to six months, the Pentagon told members of Congress, even after any U.S.-Iran peace deal…
DHAKA — A list of 77,227 vacant teaching positions in private, MPO-listed institutions across Bangladesh has been compiled, Education Minister A.N.M. Ehsanul Haque Milon said Thursday, and a recruitment notice will be issued soon.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has reignited controversy after sharing on his social media a podcast that called India and China 'hell-holes' and said people from those countries come to the United States only…
WASHINGTON — U.S. forces have forced 31 Iranian oil tankers so far to alter course or return to port, U.S. Central Command said Thursday, as part of a naval blockade against Iran.
MURSHIDABAD — Syed Mohammad Reza Ali Mirza, a descendant of Nawab Mir Jafar known as the 'Chhote Nawab,' and 345 other family members were unable to vote in the West Bengal assembly election after…
DHAKA — The Health Ministry has approved deploying 4,950 Ansar guards across 495 upazila health complexes nationwide, with 10 personnel assigned to each center.
DHAKA — Five more children have died of measles or measles-like symptoms nationwide over the past 24 hours, and another 1,170 children have shown symptoms of the disease, the Health Directorate said Thursday.
SYEDPUR — RAB-13 has arrested three named accused in the dowry-related beating death of a 31-year-old woman in Syedpur, Nilphamari, including her husband.
HILI — Lychee farmers in Hili, Hakimpur, in Dinajpur district had hoped for a bumper harvest this year, but erratic weather — heavy rain at flowering followed by extreme heat — has knocked their…
Farmers cultivating sweet pumpkin on the sandy chars of the Tista River in Kaunia upazila have reaped a strong harvest this season, with crops fetching good prices in markets across Bangladesh.
Hailstorms and heavy rain have damaged crops worth nearly 2 crore taka on the Tista riverbed in Rajarhat upazila of Kurigram, affecting 563 farmers, according to the upazila agriculture office.
A mobile court in Ghoraghat upazila of Dinajpur fined the manager of Sadhana Filling Station 20,000 taka on Wednesday for violating consumer protection law by selling fuel without the required cards.
Police have arrested a retired army warrant officer in the long-unsolved 2016 murder of college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu in Cumilla, the first arrest in the case after a decade of investigation.
Religious Affairs Minister Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain (Kaykobad) told parliament on Wednesday that the government is continuing grants to religious institutions of all faiths and paying monthly stipends to imams, muezzins and caretakers.
Iran, under decades of sanctions, built a drone program from a university workshop in the 1980s that now challenges advanced air-defense systems and has reshaped how wars are fought.