The rights situation in the Chattogram Hill Tracts deteriorated last year as the government failed to implement the 1997 CHT Peace Accord, according to the Annual Human Rights Report 2025 released yesterday by the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti.

Primary schoolchildren across the country received full sets of new textbooks yesterday, but about a quarter of secondary-level textbooks did not reach the schools, leaving millions of students without complete sets on the first day of the academic year.

BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed yesterday said alternative candidates nominated by the party for the three constituencies allocated to chairperson Khaleda Zia would become the official BNP candidates if their nominations pass scrutiny.

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has reiterated the need to revive the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, saying the Saarc spirit is “alive and well” following the presence of several regional leaders at the funeral of former prime minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Prof Sayedur Rahman has been reappointed as special assistant to the chief adviser for the health ministry, just a day after his resignation was accepted.

Three women arrested in connection with the explosion at Ummal Qura International Madrasa in Keraniganj were sent to jail yesterday after the completion of their remand.

The human rights situation in the country remained “disappointing and alarming” in 2025 due to the inaction of law enforcement agencies, the government’s ineffective response, and the irresponsibility of major political parties, according to the Human Rights Support Society’s (HRSS) annual report.

A 35-year-old lawyer was beaten to death in the capital’s Bashundhara Residential Area on Wednesday night following an altercation over a motorcycle-car collision, police and family members said.

Three people, including a police officer, were killed in two road accidents on Malibagh-Mouchak and Khilgaon flyovers in Dhaka on Wednesday night and early yesterday.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has decided in principle to purchase 14 aircraft from Boeing -- to expand its fleet and modernise the national flag carrier.

A high-powered probe committee has found defects in the metro rail’s bearing pads and design flaws at the point where a pad fell in Dhaka’s Farmgate in October last year, killing one person and injuring two others.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed four cases against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s adviser and Beximco Group vice chairman Salman F Rahman and 33 others over allegations of embezzling around Tk 2,858 crore from Janata Bank by abusing Export Development Fund facilities.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman yesterday said his party and the BNP should work together over the next five years for the sake of national stability.

Dhaka braces for a high-voltage election as top leaders of three major parties -- the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and the National Citizen Party -- submitted their nominations on Tuesday.

The government has announced a Tk 2 per litre reduction in the prices of diesel, octane, petrol and kerosene for January 2026.

41-member committee to steer BNP’s poll preparations

Discuss student politics

Tension at Nowhata College Mor lead to scuffle, police intervene

Total assets worth Tk 1.10 crore according to affidavit

Joynal Abedin Shishir and Mahbub Alam to temporarily handle NCP's media cell