Friday | January 23, 2026 | Dhaka
News Desk : Police in several Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states have reportedly used language – specifically Bengali – as a marker to identify undocumented Bangladeshi migrants. The approach has led to some notable...
Staff Reporter : For ten years, the Sheikh Hasina government funnelled $190 million into a shadow surveillance empire – importing Israeli and U.S. spyware to track political opponents, silence journalists, and monitor citizens in...
Editorial Desk : Bangladesh has adopted various legal frameworks to address medical negligence, yet such incidents continue to occur at an alarming rate. The recent case of a newborn allegedly injured at Dhaka’s Delta...
Staff Reporter : Heavy rainfall and upstream water flows from India have caused rivers across northern and western Bangladesh to swell, flooding low-lying areas and displacing thousands of residents. In Lalmonirhat, the Teesta River,...
Farrukh Khosru : The Bangladeshi jute sector is under renewed strain following India’s latest restrictions on the import of jute products-a move many experts and industry representatives have described as protectionist and detrimental to...
Staff Reporter : Bangladesh will commission its first direct fuel pipeline from Chattogram to Dhaka today (Saturday, 16 August) cutting transport time from 48 hours to 12 and saving an estimated Tk226 crore annually....
Staff Reporter : Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus has reiterated his government’s commitment to delivering a credible national election, stressing that an illegitimate vote would serve no purpose. “My role is to ensure...
BBC : Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said plans to build more than 3,000 homes in a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank will “bury the idea of a Palestinian...
Staff Reporter : A Dhaka court has issued arrest warrants against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 285 others in a case filed over alleged sedition, including plotting to overthrow the interim government and...
Reza Mahmud : Today is the 81st birthday of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, the country’s highly revered and uncompromising politician and also three times former prime minister of Bangladesh. To celebrate the occasion,...
Syed Shemul Parvez : Drugs are now not just a social disease, but these have become one of the main weapons of destruction of the future of the nation. From the alleys of the...
