Bangladesh’s much-discussed former inspector general of police, Benazir Ahmed, has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates.

Protesters call for justice, communal harmony and completion project

Vehicular movement on both sides of Tejgaon Love Road remains suspended

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday directed the authorities concerned to swiftly relocate the four inter-district bus terminals from Dhaka to areas outside the capital to ease chronic traffic congestion and modernise the city’s traffic management system.

The foreign ministry yesterday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pawan Badhe and expressed its displeasure after Prime Minister’s Adviser on Policy and Strategy Affairs Dr Zahed Ur Rahman was stopped by Indian immigration authorities at Delhi airport on Sunday.

The High Court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to former MP and singer Momtaz Begum in three cases filed over the killings of two persons and an attempted murder during the July 2024 uprising.

State Minister for LGRD Mir Shahe Alam in parliament yesterday insisted that two unions were not named after his sons and that the names matching was purely a coincidence.

Hundreds of people from several villages have been using a risky wooden bridge in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila for years.

Islami Bank’s interim Chairman Mohammad Zahir Hossain yesterday urged depositors to put to bed two weeks of turmoil at the beleaguered Shariah-based lender and continue their banking activities without hesitation.

Arafat Hossen once owned Hotel Fultoli, a small establishment at Parki Beach on the Anwara upazila coastline.

For Urmi Dhar, life was already a daily struggle.

At least seven people were injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a cargo truck on the Khulna-Mongla highway in Bagerhat’s Mongla yesterday afternoon.

The proposed national budget for fiscal year 2026-27 carries the language of a welfare-oriented state with expanded attention to disadvantaged groups,

Members of the NSI yesterday seized around 3,00,000 fish fry in 13 plastic drums while allegedly being trafficked illegally from Barishal.

The government plans to form an independent media commission with quasi-judicial authority, similar to the UK’s Ofcom or the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), by uniting all mass media outlets.

Police arrested one person early yesterday over the murder of a woman and her daughter in Poraikora union under Anwara upazila of Chattogram.

The government will resume the nationwide Vitamin A plus campaign after a suspension of more than a year, a gap experts say may have worsened the measles outbreak.

The High Court yesterday sought a report from the prison authorities on the number and age profile of children living in prisons with their incarcerated mothers across the country.

The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has taken back at least 24 people who had been stranded in no-man’s-land along borders in three districts.

Police have identified five persons in the murder of Jubo Dal leader Masudul Haque Masud, who was shot dead in broad daylight at a market in Raozan upazila on Saturday.