Rights advocates call for the commission’s independent reconstitution as a national survey highlights poor public awareness of the RTI Act

Shafiqur Rahman meets Yao Wen at opposition leader’s official residence on Minto Road

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Md Rakibul Hasan, former officer-in-charge of Dhaka Cantonment Police Station, on a fresh two-day remand in a sedition case over allegations of spreading anti-state and provocative statements on social media.

Located just beyond Gate 3 inside the five‑bigha New Gini Properties housing project stands an under‑construction high‑rise -- one of at least 17. This particular structure houses a temporary project office on the ground floor.

Transport Minister Shaikh Rabiul Alam yesterday called on Dhaka’s bus owners to bring discipline in the city’s bus routes, with designated stops, standardised buses and better control over drivers and helpers.

The health ministry has directed the authorities concerned to urgently recruit staffers, as more than 40 percent or around 35,000 field-level posts in grades 11-20 under the Directorate General of Health Services are vacant

A man was killed and at least 15 others were injured in a clash between two rival groups in Banchharampur upazila of Brahmanbaria yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday denied bail to 27 people arrested from the office of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Jasad) on September 26 on charges of creating an unstable and disorderly situation while chanting “Joy Bangla”.

Four passengers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw were killed and six others injured in a road accident involving a truck in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Satkhira-4 MP Gazi Nazrul Islam to jail after he was remanded twice in a case filed over the alleged abetment of his second wife Mariam Khatun’s death by suicide.

Shops and other structures are being built illegally on the slope of a flood-control embankment in Kuakata’s Gangamati area, barely a year after its renovation was completed.

The Cabinet Division yesterday issued a 23-point directive to all ministries and divisions to address discipline deficits, curb corruption, and ensure greater dynamism in public administration.

Bangladesh’s tobacco tax policy needs to respond more effectively to inflation, changing cigarette market dynamics and the government’s revenue needs, speakers said at a workshop yesterday.

There is no hidden agenda behind the latest agreement signed with Boeing, said Humaiun Kobir, state minister-1 for foreign affairs.

The prosecution yesterday submitted formal charges to the registrar of the International Crimes Tribunal against 19 people, including former state minister Kamal Ahmed Majumder and former Jubo League general secretary Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil, over alleged crimes against humanity committed in Mirpur during the July-August 2024 uprising.

The government is reviewing the cases of 817 candidates selected as assistant teachers at government primary schools and expects to determine by October 1 how many remain unresolved, Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon said yesterday.

The government has taken its first major step towards introducing a monorail system in Dhaka, primarily as a feeder service to improve last-mile connectivity for metro rail passengers.

Three days after the attack, Radda MCH-FP Centre resumed vaccination services on its premises yesterday, providing routine EPI immunisation and measles-rubella vaccination.

At least eight dengue patients died and 2,036 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

Abul Mansur Ahmad was a visionary thinker on questions of national identity and in contemporary times, he has emerged as one of the leading figures in intellectual thought and discussion, speakers said at a book launch yesterday.