A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Monday allowed the police to take private television channel My TV chairman Nasir Uddin Sathi into custody for five days for interrogation in a murder case linked to the 2024 mass uprising.
Shahina Begum, the mother of Sazzad Hossain Sajal who was allegedly burnt alive in a police pickup van, testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday in a case of crimes against humanity against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun...
Rice prices continue to be the major contributor to food inflation as well as overall price hikes of essentials that lead majority people to struggle for food security amid spreading hidden hunger...
Prime Bank PLC, in collaboration with American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) and its AIUB Business Club, organised a high-impact seminar titled 鈥楩inancial Inclusion: Engaging and Inspiring Youth in Banking鈥� at the university campus...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Detective Branch on Sunday arrested Md Nasir Uddin, chairman of the private TV channel My TV, in a murder case related to the July Uprising.
The High Court on Sunday deferred until October 29 the hearing of a petition filed by former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque to quash the proceedings related to him in a murder case linked to the July 2024 uprising...
The Dhaka Stock Exchange witnessed a sharp decline throughout the week, losing Tk 3,396 crore in market capitalisation as share prices dropped on most trading days...
IT WAS astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa (20 years old) on August 3, 2025, inside Israel鈥檚 Magiddo prison. Just months earlier, reports emerged that Israeli forces had killed another Palestinian prisoner in Megiddo, Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad (16 years old), on March 24. Both young men, boys really, had been picked up from the...
THE interim government鈥檚 efforts to keep the kitchen market stable have not been successful, as prices of essentials continue to rise. The prices of almost all essential food items, including onions, eggs, broiler chickens and vegetables, remained high on August 15 in the capital鈥檚 kitchen markets. Broiler chickens are sold at Tk 170-180 per kilogram at retail markets, which was...
Shah Rafayat Chowdhury, co-founder and president of Footsteps, delivered his first keynote statement at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, spotlighting the July uprising as an example for youth-led action against injustice worldwide...
The prices of almost all essentials, including onions, eggs, broiler chickens, and vegetables, remained high on Friday in the capital鈥檚 kitchen markets...
Wall Street stocks finished little changed Thursday as markets absorbed a disappointing inflation report, while oil prices shot higher on the eve of a US-Russia summit on Ukraine...
US president Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday easing regulations for the private space industry, including eliminating some environmental reviews, in a move likely to please his erstwhile adviser Elon Musk...
Exiled Russian opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya on Friday urged presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to strike a deal to free Russian and Ukrainian political prisoners held captive by Moscow for speaking out against the war...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday directed the government to ensure security for a prosecution witness who had recently testified in the case of crimes against humanity committed in the capital鈥檚 Chankharpool area during the 2024 July uprising...
Dhaka University Shikkhak Samaj, a platform of the university teachers, on Thursday organised a public performance to mark the first anniversary of the July mass uprising...
Former Awami League minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and actress Shomi Kaiser were released from jail on Thursday after securing bail in separate cases linked to the 2024 July uprising.
The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Authority on Wednesday welcomed a consultation mission led by Monica Mei V Carino-Young from the Asian Development Bank to discuss innovative partnership opportunities aimed at improving the quality of life for rural communities in Bangladesh...
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 84 prisoners each on Thursday, both sides said, the latest in a series of swaps that has seen hundreds of POWs released so far this year...
Two of the three prosecution witnesses told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday that police personnel in printed uniforms, present in the capital鈥檚 Chankharpool area on August 5, 2024, were speaking in Hindi during the killing of six protesters during the July uprising...
The seven-day group art exhibition titled 鈥楨choes of Time鈥�, under way at the Nalinikanta Bhattasali Gallery of the Bangladesh National Museum in Dhaka, showcases paintings paying tribute to the July Uprising...
Prime Bank PLC has recently signed a strategic partnership agreement with Secret Recipe and Fair Electronics, offering its customers exclusive offers on their foods and Hisense electronics products and services. The signing ceremony took place at the bank鈥檚 corporate office in Gulshan...
AN ALLEGEDLY unequal application of the rule for the disbursement of state benefits to the families of the martyrs of the July uprising, which toppled the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, is worrying as the proposition has sparked off disputes, created resentment and intensified insecurity in the families. Whilst some widows have received the full one-time grant...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will continue to develop film and TV projects for Netflix but on more limited terms, the streaming giant announced Monday.
Shahriar Khan Polash still remembers the letter his son left behind on August 5, 2024 morning, hours before the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime amid a student-led mass uprising.
A Faridpur court on Monday sentenced a man to life-term imprisonment for burning his wife to death in sadar upazila in 2011...
Delhi Police detained senior opposition MPs, including the Congress鈥� Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, Monday morning as their protests over the Election Commission鈥檚 鈥榗ollusion鈥� with the ruling BJP spilled over into the streets of central Delhi, reports NDTV...
Politicians, lawyers, youth leaders and professionals on Monday at a discussion criticised the interim government that it failed to properly implement the July uprising spirit in the past one year...
A two-day mobile exhibition of the 2024 July mass uprising photographs began in the capital Dhaka on Monday with the exhibition travelling the city areas where the autocratic Awami League regime had faced significant resistance during the uprising...
Prime Bank PLC has recently signed a strategic agreement with Tropical Homes Limited, said a press release...
