Hundreds of people gathered outside the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum from morning as the former Gono Bhaban opened to the public for the first time yesterday.

Despite growing participation of plainland indigenous women in Bangladesh’s local governance -- particularly union parishads -- structural budgetary discrimination, political marginalisation and deeply entrenched patriarchal attitudes continue to prevent them from exercising meaningful leadership, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday.

Bangladesh will elect its 23rd president on August 20, with voting scheduled from 2:00pm to 5:00pm, after the Election Commission announced the poll schedule yesterday.

Allowing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to address a news conference in New Delhi on the anniversary of the July uprising was an attempt to insult the movement’s martyrs and undermine Bangladesh’s sovereignty, BNP and NCP leaders alleged yesterday.

The government yesterday appointed new secretaries to four ministries and divisions,  said a public administration ministry notification.

Bangladesh has been waiting for nearly two months for India to respond to its proposal for talks on the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, which expires in December.

The government will not hold admission tests for class 1 from the 2027 academic year, the education ministry said yesterday.

Bangladesh is struggling to sustain exports, labour migration and major development cooperation with Russia as US-led financial sanctions imposed after the Russia-Ukraine war continue to disrupt payment settlements.

Authorities of at least four public universities have formed probe bodies over the last couple of days to investigate the allegations against some teachers over their involvement in “anti-state activities and attempts to facilitate the return of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina”.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will officially launch the Family Card programme for the current fiscal year on August 16 at Ward 8 of Latifabad Union in Kishoreganj Sadar upazila, Social Welfare Minister Prof Dr AZM Zahid Hossain said yesterday.

Six more patients died with measles-like symptoms in the last 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday, bringing the country’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 860 this year.

The government’s pledge to build a “rainbow nation” has raised hopes among indigenous communities, but those commitments must now be translated into action, speakers at a seminar said yesterday.

Police arrested a 22-year-old man yesterday in connection with the alleged rape of a nine-year-old schoolgirl in Jashore Sadar upazila.

Farmer Abdul Hannan has given up IRRI-Boro cultivation due to the irrigation water crisis, even though he lives just a stone’s throw from the country’s largest surface-water irrigation network, the Ganges-Kobadak (GK) Project.

Patients and their families have been suffering due to the unavailability of ambulance services at Patuakhali Medical College Hospital.

Maj Gen (retd) Prof Abdur Rahman Khan, a former adviser to a caretaker government, passed away at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka on August 5, according to a press release.

The government will install an anti-drone system to prevent unauthorised drone operations at the country’s airports.

Gas supply to the national grid improved after one of the two boilers at the damaged floating LNG terminal in Maheshkhali was brought back into operation, easing shortages that had disrupted power generation, industries, CNG stations and households.

The RTI Forum has called for competence, impartiality and commitment to public interest to be the top priorities in appointing the chief information commissioner and information commissioners.

The Government Music College in Dhaka held a memorial programme titled “Sur Sarathir Mohaproyan” yesterday to honour the life and legacy of classical music icon Pandit Amiya Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, who died in Kolkata on July 29 at the age of 99.