PM Tarique warns RMG workers of tougher action for factory closure, violence
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has directed the authorities concerned to protect the interests of ready-made garment (RMG) workers, improve their…
PM convenes special meeting as RMG unrest spirals
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman held an emergency meeting on Sunday evening at the Secretariat to determine steps for resolving ongoing…
Gas crisis to worsen for LNG terminal maintenance
An already acute gas shortage across Bangladesh is set to intensify as the Summit LNG Terminal will suspend operations for…
USS Warrior arrives in Chattogram for CARAT-2026 joint exercise
The US Navy’s mine countermeasures ship USS Warrior arrived at Chattogram Port on Sunday to take part in the bilateral…
Five Kuki men killed in fresh ethnic violence in Manipur
Five men from the Kuki-Zo community were killed in two separate incidents in Manipur over the weekend as ethnic tensions…
New pay scale takes effect while economy bleeds under fresh borrowing
Government employees began receiving salaries under the long-awaited National Pay Scale 2026 today, along with three months of arrears, even…
Shashi Tharoor criticises UK PM’s proposed slavery apology for ignoring colonialism
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has sharply criticised UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s indication that Britain may issue a formal apology…
TIB unearths anomalies in political party rules, huge bribery in nomination
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has revealed serious deficiencies in the internal rules, democratic practices, and governance of political parties in…
PM Balen Shah’s office named 28 journalists; 7 were shortlisted for immediate pickup
Contrary to universal principles of press freedom and Nepal’s Constitution, Prime Minister Balendra Shah’s secretariat sent police a list of…
Tahsif Souri’s friend involved in murder, woman seen on CCTV footage arrested, say police
Inspector Firoz Ahmed of the Tongi River Police Outpost has said that the young woman named Disha was arrested in…
Devastating fire destroys woman entrepreneur’s Narsingdi factory
Miscreants set fire to the pitha (rice cake) factory of woman entrepreneur Nipa Islam in Shibpur, Narsingdi, on Friday night,…
Suvendu slams CPI(M) and Mamata for reviving anarchy
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday accused the CPI(M) and Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) of forging an…
Hate preacher Zakir Naik condemned for defending Taliban’s ban on girls’ education
Fugitive Indian Islamic hate preacher Zakir Naik has drawn sharp international criticism for publicly defending the Taliban’s long-standing restrictions on…
El-Sayed campaigned at Islamic centers with records of anti-US and antisemitic rhetoric
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee seeking to become the first Muslim US Senator, visited at least five Michigan Islamic centers…
Police report hour-long gunfire between UPDF, JSS in Sajek, but narrative fits a familiar pattern
In Baghaichhari Upazila of Rangamati, an hour-long period of intermittent gunfire took place between the UPDF (Prasit faction) and the…