4+ hour, 11+ min ago   (204+ words) Adani Power’s Godda Unit 2 has resumed supplying electricity to Bangladesh after being shut down due to a technical fault, easing pressure on the country’s strained power system after nearly 84 hours. The 800MW unit was synchronised with Bangladesh’s national grid at around…...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago   (213+ words) There is no requirement for any educational qualification to contest local government elections, LGRD State Minister Mir Shahe Alam said today. “The five laws governing our local government system do not impose any educational qualification as a requirement for contesting…...

11+ hour, 52+ min ago   (176+ words) Police recovered the decomposed and dismembered body of an unidentified woman from a suitcase found in a canal in Gazipur’s Bhabanipur area this evening. The suitcase was recovered from the canal beside a building in the Fakiragor area of Bhawalgarh…...

14+ hour, 1+ min ago   (154+ words) Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr ABM Obaidul Islam has said the country’s 28 percent young population could help resolve the shortage of blood if they voluntarily donate at least once a year. He made the remarks on Tuesday while addressing a…...

14+ hour, 25+ min ago   (520+ words) Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Chief and Leader of the Opposition Shafiqur Rahman has urged media professionals to perform their duties out of patriotism, saying the media is the "most powerful of the four pillars of the state". “Sometimes one or two people…...

11+ hour, 41+ min ago   (129+ words) A young Bangladeshi working in Saudi Arabia died in a motorcycle accident near the Kuchiamora Bridge on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Munshiganj this morning. The deceased was identified as Hridoy Hossain, 27, of Abdullahpur village in Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka, said…...

14+ hour, 47+ min ago   (617+ words) A dispute over the religious identity of a murder victim that delayed his last rites has been resolved after the High Court, on Thursday, ordered that the body be handed over to his wife for burial according to Islamic rites....

15+ hour, 58+ min ago   (428+ words) At least 224 students died by suicide in the first eight months of 2026, according to data from Aachol Foundation. Schoolgoers accounted for most reported deaths, while more than half of the deceased were female students. Among the deceased, 117 were schoolgoers, 50 university…...

5+ hour, 42+ min ago   (217+ words) Four people, including the bride’s brother and sister, were killed and seven others injured when a lorry hit a microbus carrying relatives returning home after a wedding programme in Karnaphuli upazila in Chattogram early today. The accident occurred around 2:00am on…...

12+ hour, 11+ min ago   (394+ words) With the local government polls approaching, the Election Commission has banned posters for campaigning while allowing limited use of billboards for the first time in the electoral history of local bodies. Banners, festoons, handbills and leaflets will be allowed if…...