Dhaka, Sunday, Aug 30, 2026
At least 25 passengers were burnt to death after a private sleeper bus caught fire following a collision with a motorcycle in India’s Andhra Pradesh early Friday, according to local media reports.The...
Rumors spread on social media late Thursday night claiming that Nasiruddin Patwary, the chief coordinator of the National Citizen Party (NCP), had resigned from his position.Posts circulating on vario...
A special flight carrying 309 Bangladeshi nationals who voluntarily returned from Libya’s capital Tripoli landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Friday morning.The repatriation w...
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus’s planned visit to Saudi Arabia has been cancelled, multiple sources at the Chief Adviser’s Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have confirmed.Dr Yunus was sch...
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who turned 80 this October, has declared that he is ready to contest the next presidential election, claiming he still possesses the “energy of a 30-year-...
The guns have gone silent in Gaza, but the wounds of two years of war are far from healed, the scent of gunpowder still hangs in the air as residents returning home find their once vibrant neighborhoo...
Two student representatives in the interim government’s Advisory Council were advised by the top level of the administration to step down by mid-September, but both sought more time to decide, accordi...
The Advisory Council of the interim government has approved a draft amendment to the Representation of the People Order (RPO), introducing a provision that bars fugitive accused in criminal cases from...
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The United States has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, intensifying Western efforts to force President Vladimir Putin to end his war in Ukraine.Announcing the measures...
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A political party is looking for an opportunity to sign the July Charter, BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed has claimed.We have said that a referendum on the July Charter could be held on...
A night of unspeakable horror unfolded in Narsingdi’s Sangita area when a man allegedly set his wife, two sons, sister-in-law and nephew on fire while they were asleep. The incident occurred in t...
Garment workers staged a demonstration and blocked the Dhaka–Mymensingh Highway at Jaina Bazar area in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur on Wednesday, demanding payment of their due wages.Traffic movement on...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that some political parties are making efforts to delay the upcoming national election and prevent it from being held on time.He s...
The United Nations has called on Israel to allow the medical evacuation of thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, as the Rafah border crossing remains closed despite the recently agreed ceasef...
Saudi Arabia has appointed prominent ultraconservative cleric Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan as the kingdom’s new grand mufti, the country’s highest religious authority.The state-run Saudi Press Ag...
The government will soon make at least 60 hours of training mandatory to obtain a driving licence, said Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, adviser to the Road Transport and Bridges Ministry.He made the annou...
Earth, it turns out, hasn’t been travelling alone through the cosmos all this time. NASA has confirmed that our planet has a small, temporary celestial companion — a tiny asteroid named 2025 PN7, whic...
After eight consecutive price hikes, the Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) has slashed gold prices by over Tk 8,000 per bhori — marking the steepest single-day drop of the year.According to a B...
Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser Anisuzzaman Chowdhury has said that just as the central bank requires autonomy to function effectively, the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC)...
The government has introduced a set of new directives to regulate tourism on Saint Martin’s Island, imposing fresh restrictions on travel, ticketing, and overnight stays in an effort to protect the co...