In a tragic late-night incident in Shreemangal Upazila, Moulvibazar, three people lost their lives when a CNG-powered auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a high-speed pickup truck. The accident occurred on Friday, 20 February, at around midnight in the bustling Bherab Bazar area, a major thoroughfare in the town. Local witnesses reported that the auto-rickshaw was travelling […]

In a chilling escalation of local extortion, the residence of Mohammad Ali, owner of Roman Jute Mill, in Nawapara village, Abhaynagar, was struck by a cocktail bomb on the early hours of Friday, 20 February. The attack, occurring at approximately 2:00 am, left the household shaken but, fortunately, no injuries were reported. Both the local police […]

As Bangladesh prepares to convene the first session of its 13th National Parliament, speculation is intensifying over who will assume the country’s highest parliamentary office: the Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad. Political circles are abuzz with discussions, with the final decision widely anticipated to be announced on 26 February, ahead of the inaugural parliamentary sitting. […]

The parliamentary seat of Bogura-6 (Sadar) has fallen vacant following the decision of Tarique Rahman, Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and current Prime Minister, to relinquish one of the two constituencies he secured in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad election held on 12 February. In accordance with constitutional provisions, a candidate elected from multiple […]

Officers from the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) have uncovered a clandestine yaba manufacturing facility operating inside a residential property in Gazipur, seizing 4,500 tablets along with substantial quantities of raw materials and production equipment. A 32-year-old man, Touhidul Islam, has been arrested in connection with the operation. The suspect, a resident of the Borobari […]

In a solemn ceremony at the Central Shaheed Minar on Saturday morning, Dr. Iftekharuzzaman, Executive Director of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), delivered a significant address honouring the martyrs of the Language Movement while reaffirming the ideals of Ekushey. He emphasised that corruption and religious intolerance are fundamentally at odds with the principles that inspired Bangladesh’s […]

The Shaheed Minar stands as the most enduring architectural symbol of the Language Movement of 1952, when students and ordinary citizens laid down their lives to secure recognition of Bangla as a state language. Across Bangladesh, nearly every public university campus now hosts its own Shaheed Minar—each distinct in design yet united in purpose: to […]