2 fire engines working to bring the blaze under control

At least 11 people were injured in an explosion at the Starship factory of Abul Khair Group in Oxygen area of Chattogram yesterday morning.

A total of 5,067 inmates exercised their voting rights in the 13th national parliamentary election through postal ballots, marking the first time in Bangladesh’s history that prisoners were allowed to vote while in custody.

A new political platform, Gonobiplobi Udyog (People’s Revolutionary Initiative), was launched yesterday, based on the ideology of the July mass uprising.

Security has been strengthened in and around Rohingya camps as well as across the wider Cox’s Bazar region ahead of the upcoming 13th national election, said Lieutenant Colonel Tanveer Ahmed of the Army’s Ramu 10 Infantry Division.

In the verdant landscape of Moulvibazar-2 (Kulaura), the campaign of Sadia Noshin Tasnim Chowdhury, candidate of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist) in the upcoming 13th national parliamentary election, stands apart from the established norm.

Under the fire safety inspection programme in 2025, the Fire Service and Civil Defence inspected 10,533 buildings across the country.

Ahead of the 13th national election scheduled for February 12, people from marginalised communities across the country have urged the next elected government to work for the betterment of their lives and livelihoods and to ensure a brighter future for their children.

On the morning of February 9, a large crowd gathered near the Mirpur-1 Eidgah field.

The formal trial of Salman F Rahman, former adviser to the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and former law minister Anisul Huq in a crimes against humanity case began yesterday, with the prosecution placing its opening statement before the International Crimes Tribunal-1.

An elderly mother, Saleha Monir, had renewed hope of getting justice for the brutal killings of her son, Sagar Sarowar, and daughter-in-law, Meherun Runi, after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5, 2024, following a student-led mass movement.

Kona and Jannat were strolling through the Banani DNCC Market when they suddenly found themselves amid an election campaign procession.

Mother of victim died after learning of son’s eye injury, he says

Yunus reports 11 percent increase, Bashir remains wealthiest

Around 50 have already registered, says a representative of the platform

Assistance insignificant compared to the value of a human life, Adviser CR Abrar says

Head‑on collision between two buses suspends traffic for an hour

Political violence surges ahead of national election, warns rights group

The epicentre of the quake, measured at 4 on Richter Scale, was in Gowainghat upazila near Dauki Fault Line

Several lakh taka looted from his shop, family claims