City
Teachers hired in undergraduate (Honours) and postgraduate (Masters) programs at private colleges linked to the National University are going to be included in the Monthly Pay Order (MPO) scheme.The change follows a long wait of 32 years and represents an important shift in support of higher educati...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui on Thursday inaugurated the week-long 'Tree Plantation Campaign-2025' of the paramilitary force. The BGB chief inaugurated the campaign by planting a Bakul tree sapling on the Bakultala premises...
To address the growing drug addiction crisis, the government plans to set up seven drug treatment and rehabilitation centres, each with a capacity of 200 beds, in divisional cities across Bangladesh.This Tk 1,413.15 crore initiative aims to improve access to treatment and support recovery through me...
Country
Four people including a woman on Wednesday confessed their involvement in a pre-planned killing of the wife of a Saudi expatriate over land dispute at a village under Burichang Upazila of Cumilla.Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Burichang Thana Mohammad Azizul Haque said that they have arrested four people...
World
Thailand’s new Cabinet members took their oaths of office Thursday, including the suspended prime minister who is under an ethics investigation for her remarks to a senior Cambodian leader.Paetongtarn Shinawatra was suspended as prime minister Tuesday, the same day Thailand's king endorsed...
Airstrikes and shootings killed 82 Palestinians in Gaza overnight, including 38 who were trying to access desperately needed humanitarian aid, according to hospitals and the Gaza Health Ministry on Thursday.The Israeli military has not provided an immediate response regarding the strikes.Among the c...
National,Politics
Rescuers were searching Thursday for 32 people missing after a ferry sank the previous night near Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. Four bodies have been recovered, and weather and sea conditions were improving during the morning, aiding the search for survivors.So far, 29 people have been re...
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
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, ...
National,Sports,Football,Politics
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday congratulated the Bangladesh women's football team for their historic success in qualifying for the 2026 Asian Cup finals for the first time. In a congratulatory message, he said: "This achievement is not only a source of pride for wo...
National,Back Page
On the second day of a month-long "Desh Garte July Padayatra" (July Walkathon for Building the Nation) campaign, the National Citizen Party (NCP) continued its political march across northern Bangladesh on Wednesday.They held a series of street rallies in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat before pr...
A Dhaka court on Wednesday rejected the bail petition of former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda in a sedition case filed over allegations of orchestrating a sham election.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sefat Ullah passed the order after hearing a bail plea filed by Huda's lawye...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has issued a public notice completely prohibiting carrying of axes, knives, scissors, spears, swords, sticks and bursting of fireworks and crackers in the Tazia processions marking the celebration of Holy Ashura on June 6.The ban was issued on Wednesday in a public no...
The finance ministry on Wednesday sent four top officials of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) into retirement, citing public interest.In separate notifications, the Internal Resources Division (IRD) under the finance ministry sent Hossain Ahmed, member for customs policy and ICT; Md Alamgir Hossa...
Stating that the goal of overthrowing fascism has not been achieved yet, senior BNP leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Wednesday said the main task now is to establish an elected government through people’s votes in a credible national election.“We think the main task at this moment is to estab...
National,Business,Politics
Bangladesh's exports to the global market reached an impressive $48 billion in the fiscal year 2024-25, registering a robust growth of 8.58 percent compared to the previous fiscal year.In the corresponding period of FY2023-24, the country's export earnings stood at $44 billion.The data, rele...
Former Assistant Commissioner at the Deputy Commissioner’s Office in Lalmonirhat Tabassum Urmi, who was made an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) and temporarily suspended then, has been dismissed from government service for making controversial remarks on Facebook about the interim government and...
Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Wednesday said LGRD adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan received his firearms licence maintaining proper legal procedures.The Home Adviser, also the Agriculture Adviser, made the remarks while addressing a project evaluation meeting organi...
National,Politics,Country
UNB, Bhola: Police have arrested a woman and detained another man in connection with the gang-rape of a housewife in Bhola’s Tajumuddin upazila, where her husband was allegedly assaulted and confined during the incident.Meanwhile, three local leaders of the BNP and its affiliated bodies have b...
National,Bank & Insurance,Politics
Bangladesh Bank has revised its foreign exchange policy to ease local borrowing for foreign-owned or foreign-controlled companies operating in the country.In a circular issued by the Foreign Exchange Policy Department on Wednesday, the central bank announced an increase in the allowable debt-equity ...
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