Details of the order will be known once the full text of the verdict is released

Traffic will also operate one-way southbound on both sides of the road from Urojahaj Mor to Khejur Bagan.

Today marks the first death anniversary of business titan Syed Manzur Elahi.

The foreign ministry has said it is ready to publish the full text of a much-discussed letter if the Leader of the Opposition provides written consent.

Police have arrested two men on charges of raping a college girl on a launch on Sunday as she was travelling from Noakhali to Dhaka.

Prominent economist Prof Rehman Sobhan yesterday said many are languishing in jail primarily because of their political identity, describing it as a failure of the judicial system and the interim government.

The health ministry has taken a series of initiatives to ensure uninterrupted medical services and safeguard the supply of medicines and vaccines amid concerns over power supply triggered by the ongoing US–Israel war on Iran.

Several thousand Bangladeshis who travelled to Saudi Arabia to perform umrah have been stranded in the Gulf kingdom after multiple Middle Eastern countries suspended flights from February 28, the day the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to senior journalist Anis Alamgir in a case filed over allegations of acquiring assets beyond known sources of income.

Bangladesh has decided not to deploy peacekeepers to Haiti for the proposed Gang Suppression Force (GSF) mission amid global turmoil and shifting geopolitical dynamics, officials and internal correspondence confirmed.

The 13th parliament begins its journey today amid hopes that the new House will emerge as the living centre of democratic practice, alive with constructive debate, meaningful decision-making, and a strong role in holding the government accountable.

When Ripon Bepari sent his entire salary -- about $200 -- home in early February, he had no idea that the next month would be any different.

The government has formally requested the US to allow Bangladesh to purchase Russian oil, similar to the arrangement provided to India, to address potential supply shortages and reduce the economic impact of the surge in crude oil prices amid the US-Israel war on Iran.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday urged ministers and ruling party lawmakers to exercise restraint in their conduct and public remarks, warning that careless statements or behaviour could undermine the government’s message at a politically sensitive moment.

A day before the first session of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad begins, Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman has urged the BNP MPs to take oath as members of the Constitution Reform Council.

The price of broiler chicken, a primary protein source for low-income people, has risen in the capital’s markets due to alleged supply shortages, intensifying consumer hardship amid soaring inflation.

A fire broke out at a Buddhist temple in Chattogram’s Raozan upazila early yesterday.

A 15-year-old SSC candidate was killed after being gored by a bull in front of her school in the Lohagara upazila of Chattogram yesterday.

A tribunal in Jamalpur yesterday sentenced three men to death for gang-raping a woman after tying her husband to a tree in 2023.

Two children were killed yesterday after an old boundary wall collapsed on them while they were playing beside a neighbouring house in Dhaka’s Badda.