Four-day programme to conclude on May 13, with welfare events, award ceremonies and conferences scheduled

Current world order is changing rapidly, he says

The Daily Star celebrated its 35th anniversary in Khulna yesterday, with speakers calling for the protection of media freedom and prioritisation of national interests over partisan politics.

The body of Nahida Sultana Bristy, the Bangladeshi PhD student brutally murdered in Florida last month, was laid to rest at her village home in Madaripur Sadar upazila yesterday.

Just a week ago, 20-year-old Murshida Akter gave birth to a baby boy at a small health centre in a remote char area of Chowhali Upazila, where childbirth often comes with as much fear as joy.

The business interests of media owners pose one of the greatest threats to editorial independence in Bangladesh, speakers said at a conference yesterday.

The government has launched an investigation to determine whether negligence was a factor in the measles deaths and, if so, who is responsible, said Health Secretary Quamruzzaman Chowdhury yesterday.

The BNP has taken an initiative to make ministers accountable not only in parliament but also before the party’s grassroots leaders, party sources said.

Imports from the US have more than doubled in the first four months of the year, as Bangladesh scrambles to shrink the bilateral trade deficit.

The government is taking initiatives to revise the curriculum, syllabus and academic calendar to modernise the education system and improve the quality of education, Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon said yesterday.

A bridge built at a cost of nearly Tk 3 crore in Latachapli union of Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila has remained unusable for nearly a year due to the absence of approach roads, causing sufferings to locals.

Speakers at a seminar on media freedom and responsibility yesterday underscored the need to restore values-based journalism, uphold ethics, and balance editorial independence with financial sustainability to regain public trust.

Bangladesh Police are set to place a series of reform and capacity-building proposals before the prime minister during Police Week 2026, including the appointment of police liaison officers at Bangladesh missions abroad and the establishment of specialised police facilities in Jangal Salimpur, a crime-prone area near Chattogram city.

Dhaka’s two city corporations have identified 141 locations vulnerable to waterlogging ahead of the upcoming monsoon and said they are taking measures to reduce the risk.

Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) has urged the government to treat the ongoing canal re-excavation programme not merely as a dredging exercise, but as a core component of integrated spatial planning, water governance and climate adaptation.

A member of Prosit Khisa-led United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) was yesterday shot dead in Sajek union of Baghaichhari upazila in Rangamati.

In 2025, freedom of expression, association, and assembly remained unnecessarily restricted under the interim government, London-based Amnesty International said in its annual report.

Family says he never revealed he was working for the Russian military

The accused is the father-in-law of the victim's daughter

Accused side allegedly tried to settle matter through arbitration