At least six Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed and eight others injured in an attack on a United Nations base in Sudan’s Southern Kordofan region, the Bangladesh Army said yesterday.

The Election Commission last night instructed the police to strengthen security at all of its field-level offices.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed deep concern and disappointment that the National Human Rights Commission Ordinance 2025 places the commission under bureaucratic control.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus accorded a reception to the “Begum Rokeya Padak 2025” winners at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka last evening.

Eminent economist and political analyst Prof Rehman Sobhan yesterday expressed concern over the growing mob culture of book burning and attacks on publications which are deemed inappropriate by certain groups.

Guerrilla fighters of the joint force formed by the National Awami Party (NAP), the Communist Party, and the Chattra Union during the 1971 Liberation War yesterday took an oath to uphold the spirit of the historic struggle for independence.

Bangladesh Chhatra Union’s Dhaka University unit launched a four-day special programme yesterday at the Teacher-Student Centre of DU, marking the 1971 Liberation War.

Two advisers of the interim government yesterday accused the Global North of failing to ensure climate justice and urged wealthy countries to provide proper compensation to climate change–affected nations like Bangladesh.

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday said that if the party wins the next Jatiya Sangsad polls and forms the government, the BNP will not govern the country the way the Awami League did during its tenure.

Abdullah Al Faruk still shivers thinking about the evening that shattered his world.

Bangladesh is drifting away from its agrarian roots as farmland shrinks due to infrastructure projects and young people turn away from farming, speakers said at a conference yesterday.

Workers engaged in the shipbreaking industry yesterday demanded a minimum monthly wage of Tk 36,000, citing years of inhumane pay structures and hazardous working conditions.

Major (retd) Akhtaruzzaman, a former lawmaker and a freedom fighter who was expelled from the BNP multiple times on charges of breaking party discipline, has joined Jamaat-e-Islami.

Open garbage sheds and bins along busy thoroughfares in Chattogram city have remained a persistent public nuisance for years, despite the Chattogram City Corporation’s door-to-door waste collection initiative launched nearly eight years ago.

1 injured in blast at Muktijoddha Market

Efforts underway to identify those involved, police say

CA Yunus, Tarique express deep shock over peacekeepers’ deaths

50 candidates targeted to create fear and destabilise the electoral process, Gono Odhikar’s Rashed claims

Scholars urge protection of free publishing as UPL marks 50th anniversary

Fine imposed by executive magistrate for motorcade procession