Speakers at an event yesterday said the Domestic Workers Protection and Welfare Policy 2015 had largely remained on paper because of poor implementation, leaving domestic workers unaware of rights such as wage negotiation and written contracts.

People who repeatedly lose, damage or have their passports stolen will have to pay an additional Tk 10,000 penalty each time from the second incident onward.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Obaidur Rahman, former driver of Satkhira-4 MP Gazi Nazrul Islam, to jail in a case filed over the alleged abetment of the death of the lawmaker’s second wife, Mariam Khatun.

Gender-diverse students are facing harassment and violence at universities with institutions failing to protect their rights and access to education, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday.

All secretaries, divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners, and upazila nirbahi officers have been directed to exclude Awami League-aligned individuals from committees under various ministries, departments, directorates, and agencies at the upazila, district, and divisional levels.

Students of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) continued their “complete shutdown” for the second consecutive day yesterday, demanding the reinstatement of Prof Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem as VC and cancellation of the new gazette.

Bangladesh’s overall budget has continued to grow, but the share allocated to gender-responsive spending has largely stagnated since 2021, raising concerns that women are not benefiting proportionately from the country’s economic growth, said speakers at a seminar yesterday.

Bangladesh has recorded a sharp rise in dengue deaths and cases in recent years compared with the 18-year period from 2000 to 2018.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday proposed five urgent measures to resolve the Rohingya crisis, urging the international community to address the root causes, resort to action, and end the crisis.

Let’s be honest: raising fuel prices is a surefire way to make a government unpopular. It hands the opposition an easy headline, spikes transport fares, and sparks complaints at every local tea stall.

Just days after the fuel price hike, household budgets are already feeling the squeeze, with commuting costs rising and higher transport expenses pushing up the prices of groceries and other essentials.

Bangladesh’s recent easing of inflation may prove short-lived, with higher fuel prices, the new public-sector pay scale, energy shortages, and persistent supply-side problems threatening to keep price pressures elevated.

Three people were killed and three others injured when a truck rear ended an auto-rickshaw in the Dhirashram area of Gazipur Sadar upazila yesterday afternoon.

Hilsa imports from India through Benapole land port have been halted after the Department of Fisheries cancelled 103 no-objection certificates (NOCs).

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday sent former Awami League MP Zafar Alam to jail after formally recording his arrest in a crimes against humanity case over the killings of two opposition activists during the party’s rule.

DNA samples from five charred bodies recovered from a burnt covered van after the Pretty Group explosion in Ashulia were sent to the CID forensic department for identification.

Eleven more patients died of measles-like symptoms in Bangladesh in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, taking the cumulative figure of measles and suspected measles deaths to 1,076 this year.

Four human rights organisations yesterday urged the government to withdraw the draft Cyber Security (Amendment) Act 2026, warning that it could revive repressive provisions of the Digital Security Act and undermine media freedom.

A mobile court in Manikganj yesterday sentenced nine people to varying prison terms for slaughtering 13 horses and processing their meat, reportedly for supply to hotels in Dhaka and nearby areas.

The government has decided not to allow any new private clinic to be established within a kilometre of a government hospital, while doctors working at government hospitals will also be barred from practising at existing private clinics within the same radius.