Man killed as train hits him at Karwan Bazar
A 65-year-old man was killed after being hit by a train while crossing the railway tracks at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka on Wednesday...
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Tk 100cr allocated for 18 new DNCC wards
The Dhaka North City Corporation has allocated Tk聽100 crore for the development of drainage networks and roads in 18 newly added wards to alleviate public sufferings, said DNCC administrator Mohammad Azaz on Wednesday...
ICT orders interrogation of 3 ex-top police officers
The International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday allowed the investigators to re-interrogate three former senior police officers in connection with the killing of nine youths in a controversial anti-extremist raid at a house known as 鈥楯ahajbari鈥� in the capital鈥檚 Kalyanpur area in 2016...
Appoint no judge in non-transparent manner: pro-BNP lawyers
Pro-BNP lawyers鈥� leader Zainul Abedin on Wednesday alleged that most of the law officers appointed during the interim government remained absent from the movement that ousted the Sheikh Hasina regime on August 5, 2024...
Stop opposing women affairs commission report:聽LDA
Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance, a combine of six political parties, on Wednesday at a rally in Dhaka called on the interim government to take immediate steps to stop opposing women affairs commission report by some quarters...
UGC seeks EU support to expand higher education opportunities
University Grants Commission chairman Professor SMA Faiz has urged the European Union to expand higher education opportunities in various universities in Europe, including scholarships and joint research, for Bangladeshi students...
Your Campus service to be launched at BUET
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology is going to launch a service named 鈥榊our Campus鈥� to provide modern and technology-based services to students of the university...
Protest at rape, murder of Kheyang woman continues
Protests demanding immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of the perpetrators in the alleged rape and murder of a woman from the Kheyang community in Bandarban continued on Wednesday...
Seven cops injured in attack during drive in Jashore
An officer-in-charge of a police station and his six colleagues were injured in an attack while they were conducting a drive to arrest an accused in a case in Jashore on Wednesday...
Bangladesh declares 2 wetlands as wildlife sanctuaries
The Bangladesh government on Wednesday declared two ecologically significant wetlands in Rajshahi district as 鈥榃etland-Dependent Wildlife Sanctuaries鈥� for the first time...
Air quality monitoring crisis may deepen: CREA
The pausing of a United States-funded air quality monitoring programme has weakened access to critical AQ data in 44 countries, including Bangladesh, according to an article by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, a Finland-based think tank...
Rabindranath Tagore鈥檚 164th birth anniv today
Today is the 164th anniversary of birth of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a key and influential figure in Bengali literature...
IAB demands Shariah Court, local elections before JS polls
The Islami Andolan Bangladesh in a meeting with the National Consensus Commission on Wednesday demanded Shariah Court for every tier of the country鈥檚 judiciary, and the next Jatiya Sangsad elections after local government elections...
Dhaka urges Delhi, Islamabad to exercise restraint聽
Dhaka in a statement on Wednesday urged both New Delhi and Islamabad to remain calm and show restraint, saying that it was closely observing the evolving situation in India and Pakistan...
Child poverty rate 16.49pc
The national child poverty rate is 16.49 per cent with a significantly higher rate in the rural areas, according to a General Economics Division study...