The Islamist groups that had opposed the screening of the film “Taandob” in Tangail’s Kalihati upazila yesterday backed down from their stance, agreeing to allow the film to be shown.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has declined a request to meet Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, who is visiting London to garner support for efforts to recover billions allegedly laundered abroad by the deposed Sheikh Hasina regime, reports the Financial Times.

The Nagorik Coalition has proposed that the next national election be held in the first week of February.

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen properties in the United Kingdom owned by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed, Bangladesh’s former minister of land, reports Al Jazeera.

Train services on the Rajshahi–Dhaka route were briefly disrupted yesterday morning after residents of Rajshahi’s Charghat upazila staged a blockade, demanding an intercity train stop at Nandangachhi Railway Station.

The government’s 58-day fishing ban in the Bay of Bengal came to an end at midnight yesterday, paving the way for a resumption of marine fishing after nearly two months.

Thousands of patients have been deprived of treatment as most services at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital (NIOH) in Dhaka remained suspended for two weeks until yesterday.

The interim government proposed a new framework for social safety net programmes, under which 7.68 crore poor people would receive Tk 37,076 crore next fiscal year to help them cushion the blow from high inflation over the last three years.

The Met office forecasts the onset of sustained monsoon rains starting tomorrow, with heavy downpours likely after Sunday.

The incident occurred around 11:00pm

The arrestee will be sent to court tomorrow

60 liters of insecticide will be sprayed by fogger machines

Chief adviser insists party agreement key to polls; vows justice, reform ahead of election

Chatham House is an independent think tank located in London

The body has been sent to the Rajbari Sadar Hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the full text of a verdict has observed that the sixteenth amendment to the constitution, which had empowered the parliament to remove the SC judges for incapacity or misbehavior, is a colourable legislation and is violative of separation of powers among the three organs of the state -- executive, legislature and judiciary, and independence of the judiciary.

Sufia Begum, a 55-year-old woman from Munshiganj’s Sreenagar, suffered severe injuries to her right hand when a motorcycle struck her on the day of Eid-ul-Azha (Saturday) when she was crossing a road near her home.

The first return Hajj flight, carrying 369 Bangladeshi pilgrims, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka yesterday morning, according to a statement from airport authorities.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus' meeting with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer remains uncertain, as the latter is believed to be visiting Canada, said Shafiqul Alam, Press Secretary to the Chief Adviser.

Dhaka ranked eighth on the list of cities with the worst air quality yesterday morning, recording an Air Quality Index (AQI) score of 135 at 9:40am.