Four women and one child are among the deceased

They were not getting salary since July last year, making their life terrible

Students demand union election within a month

District admin leads joint drive following long-running allegations of illegal horse slaughter

Firefighters working to put out the blaze; no casualties reported

The Bangla daily Prothom Alo celebrated its 27th anniversary with much enthusiasm and fanfare yesterday.

Spark Events, an event management company, has announced plans to bring Zakir Naik to Bangladesh for a lecture series later this month.

Leaders of Ganatantra Mancha yesterday said the interim government has to take responsibility for resolving the crisis over the implementation of the July charter.

Political violence killed at least 117 people and injured 6,092 others in 756 incidents across the country till October, the Human Rights Support Society (HRSS) said yesterday.

Around 200 supporters intercept police

Protests by BNP men continued in several constituencies against their preferred leaders not getting the party tickets for the next national election.

Voters in Kurigram-4 (Chilmari, Roumari, and Char Rajibpur) are in a spot of bother as two brothers are set to run against each other, with BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami tickets.

Days after police firing left two people dead and two others injured in the capital’s Rampura on July 19 last year, former DMP chief Habibur Rahman rewarded the then Rampura police OC with Tk 1 lakh for “crushing student protests”, a police officer told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday.

All six people on a CNG-run auto-rickshaw were killed after a truck hit the vehicle in Noakhali’s Kabirhat yesterday.

Once the new bank is launched, depositors will get a maximum of Tk 2 lakh from the deposit insurance fund.

The government has issued a gazette on the amendments to the Representation of the People Order, 1972, making it mandatory for candidates contesting polls under an alliance to use the electoral symbol of their own party, rather than that of a coalition partner.

More than half of Bangladesh’s climate fund has been lost to corruption, according to a new study by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).

With barely a month to go before the announcement of the election schedule, many critical issues remain unresolved

The government has finalised a draft ordinance for forming an independent police commission, aiming to ensure accountability within the force and make policing fair, transparent, and free from undue influence.

Dhaka-13 has been kept for BNP ally Nationalist Democratic Movement (NDM) Chairman Bobby Hajjaj