Tuesday | January 20, 2026 | Dhaka
NN Online: The Samajik Protirodh Committee, an alliance of 67 women’s rights, human rights, and development organisations, has rejected the proposal to maintain 50 reserved parliamentary seats for women through party nomination until 2043....
NN Online: The government has imposed a strict ban on all meetings, rallies, and public gatherings inside the Bangladesh Secretariat as part of enhanced security measures. A notification issued on Tuesday by the Public...
UNB: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday urged leading Malaysian telecom firm Axiata to roll out 5G services in Bangladesh and invest in the country’s data centres. Prof Yunus stressed that Bangladesh needs...
NN Online: Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin has said Bangladesh is working to reduce the United States’ proposed 20% countervailing tariff to 15%. Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday after a meeting on...
NN Online: Two students participating in a hunger strike outside Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barishal have fallen ill while pressing for reforms in Bangladesh’s healthcare sector. The protesters — Tahmid Islam Daiyan and...
BSS: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus joined Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim for lunch at the residence of the latter in Putrajaya today. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim hosted the luncheon in honour of Chief...
The Guardian : “There’s no extradition treaty, I looked that up myself actually,” says Tulip Siddiq, the MP for Hampstead and Highgate and a Treasury minister until her resignation in January. Just over a...
Staff Reporter : BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has cautioned that multiple forces are plotting to obstruct Bangladesh’s return to democracy. Speaking virtually at the biannual Naogaon district BNP council on Monday, Tarique urged...
Staff Reporter : Malaysia accorded a warm welcome to Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus on Monday as he arrived in Kuala Lumpur for a three-day state visit. Professor Yunus landed at Kuala Lumpur...
NN Online: Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, Mohammad Tajul Islam, has vowed that no one involved in the July genocide will escape justice. “Those who thought they could commit genocide in Bangladesh...
NN Online: A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight to Chattogram made an emergency landing in Dhaka on Monday after a mechanical fault caused the cabin temperature to spike shortly after take-off. Flight BG 615, a...
NN Online: A man was killed on Monday afternoon in a violent clash between rival drug gangs at Geneva Camp in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur. Police said Shah Alam died after being struck with a sharp...