A fierce controversy has erupted at Rajshahi University following a violent assault on working journalists by leaders and activists of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. At least ten media professionals were injured during the unprovoked attack while discharging their professional duties on campus, with four sustaining severe […]

Police in Manikganj’s Saturia upazila have arrested Abul Hashem Bhuiyan, headmaster of Tilli High School, after he allegedly used a banner featuring a slogan associated with former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during a rally marking World Teachers’ Day. The incident took place on Monday, 5 October, in the Tilli Market area. Acting on reports from […]

Manikganj observed World Teachers’ Day 2026 on Monday with elaborate events, emphasising the paramount importance of ensuring teachers’ professional dignity, safeguarding their rights, and acknowledging their contributions to nurturing future generations. The day’s proceedings were jointly organised by the Manikganj District Administration and the District Education Office. This year’s global theme, “Valuing Teachers’ Voices: Towards […]

Interactive digital mapping tools are rapidly gaining traction amongst travel enthusiasts in Bangladesh, offering a visually compelling way to log visits across the nation’s 64 districts. Driven by a surge in domestic tourism, modern explorers are moving away from traditional travel journals in favour of personalized, shareable visual record-keepers. At the forefront of this trend […]

Bangladesh has recorded three further deaths from measles-like symptoms within a 24-hour window, alongside 1,296 new suspected cases across the country. According to official data released on Monday, 5 October, by the Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), no fatalities were reported among laboratory-confirmed measles cases […]

Two young men have been sentenced to life imprisonment and fined for abducting and raping a 15-year-old madrasa student inside a moving microbus in Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila. The verdict was delivered at around 1.30pm on Monday (5 October) by Shamima Parveen, judge of the Faridpur Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal and District and Sessions […]

A van driver was killed and a passenger was seriously injured after an ambulance struck their vehicle from behind in Mahadevpur upazila of Naogaon on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Niren Chandra Barman, also known as Hiren, 45, son of the late Dhiren Chandra Barman of Mugrail village in Mahadevpur. The injured passenger […]