‘Bangladesh has certainty, plans and potential’
Bangladesh has certainty, plans and potential despite prevailing global uncertainties, Prime Minister’s Adviser and Spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office Mahdi Amin on Monday said....
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Fishermen families to get VGF rice during hilsa ban
A total of 4,103 fishermen families in the district will receive 102.575 metric tonnes of rice as humanitarian assistance to support them during the 22-day...
Dengue kills 9 more, death toll rises to 271
Nine more people died of dengue across the country in the 24 hours to Monday morning, taking the total number of deaths from the mosquito-borne...
Trio wins Nobel medicine prize for work on optogenetics
American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for developing optogenetics, a...
What Jolie says after sharing Gaza satellite images
Satellite images now clearly show the devastation in Gaza. Where there were once homes, schools, hospitals and settlements, there are now vast areas of destruction....
Safety fears follow Myanmar returns
Concerns over human rights and the safety of vulnerable migrants have intensified after nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals were returned from Malaysia to their conflict-hit homeland...
LPG gets costlier by Tk252
Households using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will face higher cooking fuel costs in October, with the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) raising the retail price...
Consensus gap clouds reform drive
The country’s constitutional reform process is facing a growing test of political consensus, with eminent citizens, experts and other stakeholders repeatedly urging the government to...
‘Vile steps taken to humiliate FF’
Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and Opposition Leader Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Sunday accused the authorities of taking “disgraceful” measures to humiliate freedom fighter (FF) and...
Bangladesh’s unsuccessful mission
Bangladesh football team returned home from Indonesia after taking part in the FIFA ASEAN Cup at Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. After the Independence...
Israeli strike kills five, including four women in
An Israeli airstrike killed at least five Palestinians, including four women, in an apartment building in Gaza City early on Saturday, health and civil defense...
More children fall victim to rape
Children in Bangladesh continue to face serious risks of sexual abuse, with official data showing a sharp rise in reported rape cases involving children and...