Proposed amendments to the Cyber Security Act could revive repressive provisions of the Digital Security Act and silence dissent under the guise of protecting women and children, speakers at a roundtable said yesterday.

President of the UN General Assembly’s 81st session Dr Khalilur Rahman has described the Rohingya crisis as a “grave human crisis” and said violence cannot solve problems.

A prosecution witness yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that a critically injured protester was stopped at six points while being taken to hospital during the July uprising in Narayanganj.

A father’s search for his missing son after the Ashulia explosion

Folk songs draw envoy to remote Teesta village

Court asks 22 public universities to explain inquiries formed over allegations of anti-state activities and efforts to bring Sheikh Hasina back

German parliamentary delegation discusses trade, energy cooperation, Rohingya crisis and EU-Bangladesh FTA

Protesters block railway tracks and set fire as four staffers are suspended in Rajshahi

The implementation of the new pay scale’s basic salary in two phases will cost the government Tk 37,372 crore, covering civil, defence services and judicial personnel, alongside pensioners, according to a preliminary estimate of the finance division.

Akhi Akhter and Rifat Hossain, from Barguna’s Taltoli, grew worried when their five-month-old son Arian developed a high fever that persisted for two consecutive days. They took him to a local doctor, who prescribed medicines.

Farmers in at least five villages under Kurigram’s Bhurungamari upazila say they are living in fear of arrest and harassment after a case was filed over a protest demanding adequate fertiliser earlier this month that left the upazila agriculture officer briefly confined by an agitated crowd.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday accepted formal charges against eight people, including noted academic Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, former Dhaka University vice-chancellor ASM Maksud Kamal and former Appellate Division judge AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, over alleged crimes against humanity during the 2024 July uprising.

Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) scored 94 percent and Sylhet’s Osmani International Airport (OIA) 98 percent in the latest aviation security assessment by the United Kingdom’s Department for Transport (DfT), according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB).

Latachapli Government Primary School in Kuakata, Patuakhali, has 419 students in a four-storey building, but no toilets for them inside.

The government will launch an intensified catch-up measles vaccination campaign on September 26 to bring all unvaccinated children aged six months to below five years under the coverage, Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain said yesterday.

Despite the peak hilsa season, supplies at 46 fish landing stations and more than 1,000 fish markets across Barishal division remain significantly lower compared to the previous year, with most of the fish now available in markets being caught from the sea.

The government has raised the prices of all four major petroleum products by Tk 20 a litre, passing on to consumers a large share of the high import cost that has been mounting since the US war on Iran.

The government has initiated moves to relax key eligibility requirements for firms seeking to participate in public procurement.

Bridge at Salal Ghat could ease transport woes, say locals; MP says steps will be taken to end people’s suffering

Restoring discipline in the banking sector will remain a pipe dream unless the “kleptocracy” power structure is dismantled and the connection between the state and oligarchs is severed, said National Professor Mahbub Ullah yesterday.