The Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested eight leaders and activists of Awami League and its affiliated organisations from various parts of Dhaka city on Thursday.
A total of 155 citizens, including rights activists, lawyers and academics, in a statement on Friday, demanded judicial probe into the recent death of three men belonging to the Bawm national minority in jail custody.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against 17 people, including former BASIC Bank Limited chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu and its former managing director Kazi Fakhrul Islam, on charges of embezzling Tk 30 crore by approving a loan to a fake company.
Speakers at a discussion in Dhaka on Wednesday called for the protection of environment and utilising power of youths to advance the country.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Friday said that his party saw no obstacles to holding the next national election in February next year.
Bangladesh University Grants Commission chairman Professor SMA Faiz has called for building a new Bangladesh free from discrimination in line with the spirit of the July uprising.
Skill Jobs has launched the JUMP: Career Acceleration Programme, a new initiative designed to support fresh graduates, final-year students and jobseekers, at a ceremony at the 71 Auditorium, Daffodil Plaza in Dhaka recently.
Bangladesh interim government LGRD and cooperatives adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain on Friday formally inaugurated the 鈥楯uly Art Work鈥� graffiti painted on the Agargaon to Karwan Bazar metro rail pillars with the overall support of the Dhaka North City Corporation.
The 37th anniversary of death of former president Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury will be observed today.
The group of 鈥楯uly warrior鈥� protesters who had kept the Shahbagh crossing in the capital Dhaka blocked since July 31 ended their blockade on Friday after police charged baton and another 鈥楯uly warrior鈥� group chased the blockading group.
Leaders of the Ganosamhati Andolan on Friday called on all political parties to maintain unity for implementing the spirit of the July uprising for establishing a democratic country and also establishing rights of the people.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday reiterated his party鈥檚 stance against corruption, saying that there would be 鈥榥o compromise鈥� with looters and extortionists.
Human smuggling from Bangladesh to Malaysia under the guise of tourist has surged as desperate jobseekers are using the tourist visa to enter the country illegally after the suspension of regular labour migration by Malaysia on May 31 past year.
The date of signing the July National Charter 2025 remains uncertain, as the National Consensus Commission is yet to finalise the draft charter while several political parties have vowed not to endorse it without a clear commitment to legally enforce the charter.
The 22nd anniversary of death of Suraiya Begum, an associate professor of the department of information science and library management at the University of Dhaka, will be observed today.