He was arrested in Dhaka on July 26

Press briefing scheduled for 2:00pm today

He emphasises that none of the commission's proposals are final

Smoking on the third floor of the main building triggered smoke detectors, an official said

At least three dengue patients died and 409 were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

The Election Commission (EC) yesterday invited applications from private local organisations interested in registering as election observers.

Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) General Secretary Ruhin Hossain Prince has warned that imposing controversial constitutional reforms without broad political consensus could not only derail the path to credible elections but also undermine the spirit of last year’s mass uprising and the country’s democratic aspirations.

By July 28, more than 2.13 lakh people—most of them unnamed—had been accused in nearly 200 cases filed with police stations across the capital in connection with the recent violence centring the quota reform movement.

Sarowar Hossain Nannu, 60, an Awami League leader and accused in a murder and explosives case, died in custody at Munshiganj Jail early yesterday.

Mohammad Al Haroon, a former ambassador, passed away on Saturday. He was 79, said a press release.

Repair work on a six-kilometre stretch of the Pabna-Pakshey road, carried out by the Roads and Highways Department at a cost of Tk 89 lakh, has reportedly been washed away within days due to rain, leaving the road in a hazardous state.

Md Abdul Bari Sheikh, a politician, social worker, and writer, passed away at a hospital in Dhaka yesterday due to lung and cardiac complications.

The Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB) yesterday urged the government to cancel the currently gazetted Detailed Area Plan (DAP) 2022–2035.

AK Ratul, vocalist and frontman of the renowned Bangladeshi rock band Owned, passed away yesterday. He was 34.

Hasina, a Rohingya woman from Myanmar, fled to Bangladesh 10 months ago with her husband and four children. Diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2020 during childbirth, she could not afford treatment back home.

Between 1980 and 2024, Dhaka's built-up area expanded sevenfold, land surface temperature increased by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius, and the city lost 60 percent of its waterbodies.

Senior BNP leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday said his party will offer coordinated cooperation to the government on US tariff and security issues, aiming to help address the tariffs imposed by the United States.

The HC on October 24, last year, dismissed the case

The BNP leader stresses unity on national issues

Fakhrul says that the lives and livelihoods of nearly eight crore people are linked to these two proposed infrastructures