Women’s rights activist Roushan Jahan passes away
Noted women’s rights activist Roushan Jahan has passed away. She breathed her last on Tuesday at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka. She was the author of several books on women’s empowerment,…
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At least 7 dead after cargo plane crashes near US airport
At least seven people died and several more were injured after a UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff on Tuesday from Louisville International Airport in Kentucky, exploding into flames…
Dhaka’s air ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’ Wednesday morning
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 15th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 124 at 9:20am on Wednesday…
Zohran Mamdani elected as New York’s first Muslim mayor
New Yorkers elected young leftist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor Tuesday and Democrats won two key state governor races as US voters delivered an early warning to President Donald…
Sudan army-backed council to meet on US truce proposal
Sudan’s army-backed authorities will meet on Tuesday to discuss a US proposal for a ceasefire in the war with the paramilitary, a government source told AFP, as the UN chief…
DNCC unveils two commemorative arches honouring the July anti-fascist movement
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has inaugurated two newly built commemorative arches in the capital, dedicated to the anti-fascist July Movement that toppled the previous authoritarian regime and paved the…
Probe report in BB reserve heist case Dec 8
A Dhaka court has set December 8 as the new deadline for submitting the probe report in the case over the 2016 Bangladesh Bank reserve heist, after the Criminal Investigation…
BNP balances experience with new faces
Ahead of the upcoming national parliamentary elections, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced its prospective candidates for 237 constituencies. Several of the remaining seats are expected to be allocated…
Democracy dies when politics becomes a livelihood, experts caution
Politics in Bangladesh has increasingly become a means of livelihood rather than a platform for public service, speakers observed at a seminar titled “In Pursuit of a Better Political Culture…
Khulna lawyers demand bar association polls on prescheduled date
Members of the Bangladesh Lawyers Council (backed by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami) and the Independent Lawyers Council here in Khulna district formed a human chain on Monday, demanding withdrawal of the suspension…