Home adviser Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury at the home ministry in Dhaka on Wednesday said that they would transfer SPs and OCs through a lottery before media representatives prior to the announcement of the election schedule...
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Wednesday charged 30 people, including former Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur vice-chancellor Hasibur Rashid, in a case of crimes against humanity over the murder of student Abu Sayeed during the July 2024 protests...
The government is going to close an education ministry project to establish a national academy for the children with autism and neurodevelopmental disabilities...
The 84th anniversary of the death of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali polymath who worked, among others, as a poet, writer, playwright and composer, will be observed today.
Frontline student protesters, many of whom were injured during the 2024 July uprising, on Tuesday criticised the authorities of Jagannath University as the authorities celebrated the first anniversary of the uprising excluding the student protesters...
Three people were killed in mob attacks in Sylhet and Sirajganj on Tuesday and Monday.
The eight special trains the government provided to carry people from different districts to Dhaka city on Tuesday to join the July Declaration announcement ceremony, had passengers fewer than the usual trains...
At least 10 people, including a boy and an adolescent, were injured on Tuesday in Dhaka city when a fire broke out from the explosion of a gas balloon during the celebration of the first anniversary of the July uprising on Manik Mia Avenue...
The stay of a group of central leaders of the National Citizen Party in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Tuesday created controversies whether they avoided joining the July Declaration ceremony in Dhaka, marking the first anniversary of the July uprising.
Jahangirnagar University authorities have permanently expelled 64 current students and revoked the academic certificates of 73 former students for their involvement in last year鈥檚 violent attack on teachers and students during an anti-discrimination movement on the campus...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday welcomed chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus鈥檚 twin announcements of the July declaration and the forthcoming national election, calling them a pivotal moment in Bangladesh鈥檚 return to democratic order.
Bangladesh Medical University on Tuesday provided free treatment and diagnostic tests to over 3,000 patients at the BMU in Dhaka...
Parties under the Left Democratic Alliance, the Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod on Tuesday abstained from joining the July Declaration ceremony.
Below is the text of the July Declaration that the chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus read out at a public gathering on the South Plaza of the National Assembly building in Dhaka on August 5, marking a year of the deposal of the authoritarian Awami League government...
THE much-expected shift in mainstream political culture is far from a reality although it has been a year since the fall of the Awami League regime. A Transparency International Bangladesh study that reviewed the performance of the interim government since August 8, 2024, when the government under review was installed, reports political violence, partisan control of state...
A NUMBER of challenges persist in economic recovery, especially in poverty reduction, employment generation and business environment despite some improvement in the macroeconomic sector in the past year. While it is understandable that the authoritarian and kleptocratic Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising in August 2024, left the economy in a shattered...
The 22 private inland container depots in Chattogram port experienced severe container congestion due to an increase in exports, according to insiders...
Iranian authorities ordered many government offices to close on Wednesday in a bid to cut power consumption as a heatwave strains generating capacity, state media reported.
Election Commission has submitted a seven-point set of recommendations to Bangladesh interim government aimed at empowering presiding officers, strengthening their role and enhancing security measures at polling centres ahead of the upcoming 13th national elections.
Interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday said that he would write to the chief election commissioner for making all preparations to hold the next national election in February 2026 before the month of Ramadan which will begin...
The July Declaration was made on Tuesday, which was termed as aspirations of the people underlying the student-people uprising.
A total of 10,202 individual taxpayers filed their income tax returns online on the very first day of the launch of the e-return filing process for the financial year 2025鈥�26, according to the National Board of Revenue...
A five-member delegation from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), headed by its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, will take part in the July Proclamation event to be held at Manik Mia Avenue in the Dhaka today.
The United States State Department said on Monday that some visa applicants will soon be required to pay bonds of up to $15,000 to discourage visa overstays as part of president Donald Trump鈥檚 crackdown on migration...
Two survivors of the 2024 July uprising violence gave testimonies before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday, accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her two co-accused of ordering indiscriminate shootings and denying medical care to the wounded.
A study carried out by the Transparency International Bangladesh found that the promise of building a 鈥楴ew Bangladesh鈥� through state reforms was facing significant setbacks as the culture of corruption, grabbing, extortion, and politicising remained unchanged during...
The interim government is set to unveil the July Proclamation today, having kept most political parties in the dark about the document鈥檚 content by not having them involved in the processes of drafting and finalising the proclamation.
The Liberation War Affairs Ministry has cancelled the recognition of eight individuals listed as 鈥楯uly martyrs鈥� in a gazette.
Young visual artist Mayesha Islam Abanti has depicted her painful journey when she had undergone treatment at her first solo exhibition at Safiuddin Shilpalay at Dhanmondi in the capital Dhaka...
The theatre department of Tagore University of Creative Arts premiered a play based on George Orwell鈥檚 famous novel titled 鈥楢nimal Farm鈥� at the National Theatre Hall of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Monday...