A minor disagreement over seating arrangements during a cultural programme escalated into series of violent clashes and vandalism between students of Rajshahi University’s Management Studies and Chemistry departments on Wednesday night. The violent confrontations, which swept across student residential areas and academic buildings, left at least four students from the Chemistry department injured, two of […]

Former minister, President of JaSaD (Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal), and veteran freedom fighter Hasanul Haq Inu completes two full years behind bars on Wednesday, 26 August 2026. Security forces originally arrested the high-profile political figure on 26 August 2024 from Uttara in the capital city of Dhaka. Over the subsequent 24 months, authorities have implicated him […]

Manufacturing output across the major industrial belts of Savar, Ashulia, and Dhamrai has contracted sharply due to acute shortages of natural gas and electricity. Factory managers and operational executives report that low gas pressure and persistent load-shedding have forced production cuts of 15 to 20 per cent, whilst reliance on costly alternative fuels has driven […]

Police in Comilla’s Muradnagar Upazila have arrested six activists belonging to Bangladesh Chhatra League and its associate organisations while they were reportedly preparing to hold an unauthorised political procession and showdown. The arrests took place on Tuesday afternoon, 25 August, in the Alirchar area under Muradnagar Sadar Union. Following the operation, law enforcement officers filed […]

An expatriate Bangladeshi journalist has lodged a formal complaint with the police after receiving a chilling death threat at his ancestral home in Kushtia’s Bheramara Upazila. The victim, Hassan Imam Ibne Habib, reported that an anonymous letter signed under the banner of “Tawhidi Janata” was dropped at his residence, warning him to cease his journalistic […]

A joint operation by administrative officials and law enforcement personnel has led to the seizure of 217 bags of illegally stockpiled chemical fertiliser from a rice mill warehouse in Dinajpur Sadar Upazila. Following the raid, a mobile court sentenced the mill owner, 65-year-old Monohar Alam, to one month and 15 days of simple imprisonment alongside […]

A student of Dhaka University has staged a solitary sit-in protest at the Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) on campus, demanding swift justice for the horrific murder of a retired schoolteacher and three members of his family in Rangpur. Joy Biswas, a resident student of Jagannath Hall, initiated his demonstration on Wednesday evening, 26 August, to highlight […]

Navigating public services without encountering demands for illicit payments has long been a daunting task for ordinary citizens in Bangladesh. In a bold bid to shine a light on this systemic corruption and empower the public, two young entrepreneurs have created a digital crowdsourcing platform named ‘Ghush.site’ (Ghush being the Bengali word for bribe). Inspired […]

The Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives, Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan, has stated that Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is governing the nation and advancing public welfare by following the noble principles of Islam. Addressing a gathering in Narsingdi, the minister emphasized that the Prime Minister is systematically fulfilling every pledge made to the […]

Thousands of mourners converged on Kauria Bazaar in the Guabaria Union of Hizla Upazila to pay their final respects to Sultan Mahmud Tipu Sikdar, a two-time Upazila Parishad Chairman and veteran political figure, whose funeral prayers and burial took place on Wednesday morning, 26 August. The veteran politician passed away following a sudden cardiac arrest […]