The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday issued arrest warrants for five people, including former inspector general of police Mohammad Javed Patwary, over the enforced disappearance and staged killing of seven youths on allegedly suspecting them as extremists in Gazipur in October 2016...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has started scrutinising allegations against 123 people, including former inspector general of police Javed Patwary, of receiving money and apartments in exchange for writing and editing the book 鈥楿nfinished Memoirs鈥�, published in the name of the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...
The interim government has formed a nine-member committee led by retired Lieutenant General Abdul Hafiz to review applications of the retired Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force personnel, who allegedly faced 鈥榙eprivation, injustice and vendetta during the previous regime between 2009 and August 4, 2024...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chair Tarique Rahman on Sunday called on people from all walks of life to unite in support of free, fair, and transparent elections, saying that establishing an accountable state was essential for upholding democracy and protecting freedoms of the citizens...
The number of students collecting nomination papers for the elections to the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union reached 125 as 64 collected nomination papers on the sixth day of the distribution of the papers on Sunday...
The Chittagong University students staged a demonstration on Sunday afternoon by locking down the administrative building, pressing for on-campus residential facilities for each and every student...
The 76th birth anniversary of eminent playwright Selim Al Deen will be celebrated today...
With the aim of further strengthening the cultural ties between Bangladesh and Korea, Korean Cultural Day was celebrated at Dhaka University on Sunday...
To promote environmental sustainability and a clean campus culture, Gazipur Agricultural University on Sunday organised a training programme titled Clean Campus, Green Future: Waste Management for Sustainable Development...
Two factions of Jahangirnagar University unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student body of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, clashed over a recently announced hall committees on the campus at Savar in Dhaka on Sunday...
A section of teachers, officers and other employees of Rajshahi University continued demonstrations on Saturday, demanding the reinstatement of the ward quota facility for admission to the university for their children and grandchildren...
Citizens, including academics, rights activists and lawyers, on Sunday issued a joint statement demanding immediate release of economist Professor Abul Barkat on bail considering his professional life and humanitarian aspect...
Planning adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Sunday said that there were some pre-conditions to establish the permanent campus of Rabindra University in Chalan Bil area...
The government borrowed Tk 7,438 crore from the banking system in July, the first month of the 2025鈥�26 financial year, to meet budgetary expenditure, according to Bangladesh Bank data...
Planning adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Sunday voiced disappointment over the very low implementation rate of the annual development programme (ADP) as it has fallen below one percent...
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...
Bank Asia PLC honoured its employees for their exceptional achievements in the Silver Jubilee Sales Campaign at an award ceremony held at Bank Asia Tower at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka recently...
Standard Chartered Bangladesh and icddr,b have signed a three-year agreement to implement a transformative project to improve reproductive health care for women and adolescent girls in six remote regions of Bangladesh...
The 2nd Edition of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Bangladesh Exhibition 2025 will be held on September 12鈥�13, 2025, at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB), Dhaka...
Serbia鈥檚 president on Sunday vowed a 鈥榮trong鈥� response to anti-government protests, after nearly a week of violent clashes involving his supporters, police and demonstrators across the country...
Iraqi authorities have begun excavating the site of a mass grave believed to contain thousands of victims of the Islamic State group near Mosul city, the project鈥檚 director said on Sunday...
US president Donald Trump handed Vladimir Putin a special item at their Alaska summit: a letter written by his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, pleading for the Russian leader to make peace in the name of children...
The US government said Saturday it is suspending visitor visas for Gazans after a far-right influencer with the ear of president Donald Trump complained that wounded Palestinians had been allowed to seek聽medical treatment in the United States...
THE decision to cancel the studentship of a gender minority student of a private university raises concern about the exclusionary academic environment and the integrity of the administration. More than a hundred citizens in a statement on August 16 expressed concern and termed the expulsion of Sahara Chowdhury, a transwoman in the Metropolitan University...
The Palestine ambassador to Bangladesh, Yousef SY Ramadan, on Sunday expressed his profound gratitude to the people of Bangladesh for their continued support to the people of his country.
Bangladesh interim government environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has alleged that the local administration was complicit in the looting of white stones in Sylhet鈥檚 Bholaganj, and called for immediate action against those involved.
The justice department reached an agreement on Friday with Washington authorities over control of the US capital鈥檚 police department after president Donald Trump placed it under federal government control to tackle violent crime...
The Indian Border Security Force on Friday pushed two more people, including a Rohingya man, into Bangladesh through a border point under Baralekha upazila in Moulvibazar district...
Women rights activists on Saturday iterated their call on the interim government to increase the reserved seats for women in the national parliament...
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter at a programme in Dhaka on Saturday urged to build a country where human rights would not be violated...