National,Country
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested the prime suspect of orchestrating the mob assault, filming and online viral of a video that shows a woman being raped and tortured in Cumilla’s Muradnagar upazila.Md Shah Poran, 28, was picked up from the Kabila Bazar area of Burichang upazila around noon...
National,Politics
A new report on Bangladesh’s media landscape has highlighted that restrictive laws and political pressures continue to limit media freedom and trust in Bangladesh.To address this, it recommended urgent legal and policy reforms to align with international standards, fair licensing and tran...
National,Business,Travel & Tourism,Country
Bangladesh Railway, a popular mode of transport known for its low fares and comfort over long distances, remains mired in heavy financial losses, prompting questions about its operational efficiency.Railway sources said around 350 trains, including intercity, local and freight services, operate ever...
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Thursday said the issue of establishing an office in Bangladesh by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is still in discussion and the relevant MoU is still at the draft stage.“It is still at a draft stage (MoU...
National,Bank & Insurance
Bangladesh Bank has introduced a new lending facility, allowing domestic individuals and institutions to secure Taka-denominated loans using foreign currency funds held in Offshore Banking Units (OBUs) as collateral.The central bank issued a circular detailing this directive on Thursday.Under the ne...
Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Thursday said the fascists and their allies must be ousted from the judiciary first in a bid to ensure the actual independence of the judiciary in the country.“To make judicial independence truly effective, fascists must be ousted from the lower an...
No army personnel will be spared if proved involved in enforced disappearances, said Colonel Md Shafiqul Islam, Staff Colonel of the Military Operations Directorate.“When army personnel are on deputation, we don’t have direct control over them. However, investigations are ongoing. If any...
Country
A Bangladeshi man was killed in firing allegedly by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at the Sultanpur border under Darshana police station in Chuadanga on Wednesday.The deceased Ibrahim Khalil Babu, 29, is the son of Nurul Islam of Jhanjhadanga village in Parkrishnapur Madna union of Damurhuda...
A man and his son died from electrocution while working on a cropland in Shahmahmudpur area of Chandpur Sadar Upazila.The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon on land adjacent to the railway line in Kaddipanchgaon village.The deceased are Abdur Rob Tapdar, 60, a retired officer of the Chandpur W...
City
Bangladesh and Sweden have signed a grant agreement to implement a new project aimed at strengthening Bangladesh’s resilience to climate change and enhancing biodiversity protection.The project, funded by Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), will support the Minist...
Armed robbers looted cash and gold ornaments worth Tk 20 lakh from a house in Keraniganj early Wednesday.The incident took place at the house of Abdul Aziz in Taranagar Kathaltoli area under Keraniganj Model Police Station, confirmed Officer-in-Charge (OC) Monirul Haque.According to family members, ...
BNP on Thursday voiced concerns over the BTRC’s recently drafted ‘Telecommunication Network and Licensing Regime Reform Policy 2025’, saying that unilaterally enacting such a national policy ahead of the upcoming parliamentary election would be inappropriate.“BNP believes tha...
National,Back Page
At least 696 people were killed and around 1867 others injured in road crashes across Bangladesh in June, according to a report published by the Road Safety Foundation on Wednesday.The report said that a total of 689 road accidents took place during the month. Among the deceased were 104 women and 1...
The government has declared August 5 as a public holiday to honour Student-People’s Uprising Day and July 16 as July Martyred Day.The Cabinet division issued two gazette notifications in this regard on Wednesday.On June 26, the government announced August 5 as 'July Uprising Day' and A...
Major political parties have agreed in principle to the formation of a constitutionally mandated specialised committee to oversee the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies after each national census, Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Dr Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher said on Wednesday.He made the r...
Bangladesh has cleared all outstanding dues to India’s Adani Power, making a one-time payment of $437 million in June for electricity imports.Officials familiar with the matter told UNB that the payment covers all receivables owed to Adani Power up to March 31 of this year.Bangladesh Bank offi...
National,Front Page
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Wednesday urged his party leaders and activists to remain alert against any conspiracy aimed at preventing voters from exercising their rights to elect public representatives through the ballot in the next national election.“We want this message to reach e...
A case was filed on Wednesday in connection with the death of six-year-old girl Riya Gope who was shot in the head by a stray bullet while playing on the roof of their home during the anti-discrimination student movement last year. Abu Raihan, sub-inspector of Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Sta...
The Election Commission has disposed of more than nine lakh applications for corrections to National Identity Cards (NID) in the last six months under a special crash programme. “Under the crash programme, we have resolved 907,662 NID correction applications in the past six months,”...
National,Business
All passengers will be allowed to bring one new mobile phone in a year without paying any duty as the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has issued new baggage rules .Besides, expatriate Bangladeshis who hold BMET cards issued by the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) and have stayed ab...
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