Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Trivedi pays courtesy call PM's Defence Adviser Shamsul Islam

Pledges dialogue, reform, vows to address Rohingya issue

The Chittagong University Central Students’ Union (Cucsu) withdrew its four-and-a-half-hour sit-in early yesterday after the university administration announced four free buses for students.

Nearly 300 metres of an unpaved road along the Teesta riverbank in Khuniagachh union of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila have been eroded over the past one month, causing severe hardship for more than 2,000 families living in several shoals nearby.

Pirojpur Sadar Hospital is struggling to provide adequate healthcare services due to an acute shortage of doctors, nurses and other staff.

They alleged that a similar move during the interim government’s tenure was halted following protests, but the current government was pursuing the same path.

The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) has launched initiatives to embed the July 2024 uprising and its aftermath into school textbooks from the 2027 academic year, said Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon yesterday.

Bangladesh has enough fertiliser, the government says. Dealers say they have stocks. Yet farmers in several districts say authorised dealers are refusing to sell or capping them at one sack, forcing many to buy from unauthorised sellers at inflated prices.

The government has withdrawn the zero-duty import facility under the bond for 10 to 30 count cotton yarn, aiming to protect local textile millers.

In a rare instance, the parliament yesterday adopted a motion from the opposition bench requiring Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed to brief the House on the process for bringing former IGP Benazir Ahmed back from Dubai and to outline the steps the government has taken so far.

Assumes office of president of UNGA

Chief Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury and four other judges of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday left the courtroom after Supreme Court Bar Association President AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon commented that incomes of lawyers declined since the CJ’s appointment.

Bangladesh has proposed rerouting the Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express via the Padma Bridge to cut travel time between Dhaka and Kolkata.

Nearly four decades after being established as a sub-jail in 1986, the Bandarban District Jail, designed to accommodate 114 inmates, is now holding almost five times that number, putting its limited infrastructure and basic services under growing strain.

Opposition members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Home Ministry have submitted a note of dissent over the Special Response Battalion (SRB) Bill, saying more consultation with stakeholders is needed before abolishing RAB and forming a new force.

The third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport is expected to partially open on December 16, with around 20 flights initially operating from the facility, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister M Rashiduzzaman Millat said yesterday.

Initiative aims to build reading habits, creativity, and joyful learning environment

He will chair the first plenary meeting of the 81st UNGA session at 1:00am Wednesday

A local BNP leader was shot dead in the Chandipasha area of Atghoria upazila in Pabna yesterday afternoon.

Ahsanul Haque Tanvir, a customer of First Security Islami Bank’s (FSIBL) Topkhana Road branch, repeatedly visited the bank over the past one and a half years to withdraw his deposit of Tk 48 lakh, but in vain. On Monday, he finally withdrew the full amount from his savings account.