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BU students’ demo continues for 3rd day seeking VC’s removal

04:28 PM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

Barishal University students continued their movement for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, May 7, to press home their one-point demand that Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Suchitra Sharmin be removed...

ASP found dead at RAB office

04:06 PM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

The bullet-hit body of a senior assistant police superintendent (ASP) has been recovered from a Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) office in Chattogram...

Dengue’s red-eyed return: Bangladesh braces for surge

03:27 PM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

In the first five days of May 2025, nearly 200 people were infected, following over 700 cases in April. With the nation still scarred by 2024’s devastating toll –1,01,214 infections and 575 deaths – experts are sounding the alarm, urging vigilance and simple preventive steps to tame the mosquito’s menace.

SC hearing on Jamaat’s appeal over registration on May 13

02:32 PM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday fixed May 13 for resuming hearing on Jamaat-e-Islami's appeal against a High Court verdict that scrapped its registration with the Election Commission as a political party.

EC suspends NID verification for 2 banks over data leak

01:48 PM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

Director General of the National Identity Registration Division of the Election Commission (EC), ASM Humayun Kabir, has said that the Commission learned on Tuesday that National ID (NID) information is being leaked from two organizations—Ansar VDP Unnayan Bank and BRAC Bank.

India-Pakistan conflict: 2 Dhaka-bound flights forced to return

12:07 PM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

Due to the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan, two flights en route from the Middle East to Dhaka were forced to return mid-journey. Meanwhile, flights departing from Dhaka to Middle Eastern destinations are currently avoiding Pakistani airspace.

38 killed as India, Pakistan clash in worst violence in decades

11:25 AM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

India and Pakistan exchanged heavy artillery fire along their contested frontier on Wednesday after New Delhi launched deadly missile strikes on its arch-rival, in the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in two decades...

5 Indian fighter jets, drone downed, claims Pakistan

11:13 AM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

Pakistan has claimed that in retaliatory strikes, it shot down five Indian Air Force (IAF) jets, a drone, and destroyed a brigade headquarters after India carried out missile strikes in cities across Punjab and Azad Kashmir.

Pakistan shuts schools in Islamabad, Punjab province

10:19 AM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

Schools in Pakistan's capital Islamabad and in Punjab province have been shut, as the country says it is preparing to respond to the Indian strikes.

World can’t afford India-Pakistan military confrontation: UN

10:00 AM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was "very concerned" about Indian military strikes on Pakistan, his spokesperson said on Tuesday, hours after India said it hit nine sites in Pakistani territory.

Trump calls India-Pakistan conflict ‘a shame’

08:46 AM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he hoped clashes between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan end "very quickly," after New Delhi's forces launched strikes and Islamabad vowed retaliation.

3 killed by Pakistani artillery fire: Indian army

08:28 AM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

India's army said Wednesday that three civilians had been killed overnight by artillery fired by Pakistan's army along their de facto Line of Control border with contested Kashmir.

8 killed in Indian missile strikes: Pakistan

08:18 AM, 07 May 2025 Wednesday

At least eight people, including a child, were killed after India fired missiles into Pakistani territory early Wednesday, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director-General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.

Dhaka seeks peace, not conflict: Touhid tells Pakistan FM

09:52 PM, 06 May 2025 Tuesday

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Tuesday, May 6, said he conveyed to Pakistan that Bangladesh seeks peace and wants to avoid any form of conflict in the region. Touhid Hossain highlighted the importance of dialogue in finding a solution to any problem...

Gold prices rise, bhori Tk 1.74 lakh

09:38 PM, 06 May 2025 Tuesday

The Bangladesh Jeweler’s Association, BAJUS, has increased the prices of gold, with raising 22 carat gold by Tk 3,662 to Tk 1,74,948 per bhori (11.664 grams)...

Chayanika Chowdhury faces arrest warrant

08:54 PM, 06 May 2025 Tuesday

A Dhaka court has issued an arrest warrant against director Chayanika Chowdhury in a cheque dishonour case...

Zubaida visits ailing mother at Square Hospital

08:18 PM, 06 May 2025 Tuesday

Hours after returning home, BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman’s wife Dr Zubaida Rahman went to Square Hospital in Dhaka to visit her ailing mother Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu...

Khaleda Zia surrounded by love, joy, happiness

06:38 PM, 06 May 2025 Tuesday

BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia was surrounded by unbridled love, joy and happiness as her party men and enthusiastic people was in a state of euphoria having a glimpse of their beloved leader after her return home from United Kingdom (UK)...

Cyber Ordinance draft okayed scraping 9 provisions to end harassment

06:31 PM, 06 May 2025 Tuesday

The Council of Advisers in a meeting on Tuesday approved the draft of the Cyber Surokkha Adhyadesh-2025 (Cyber Protection Ordinance-2025)’, abolishing a number of provisions of the Cyber Security Act-2023 as the interim government promised to revoke the Act...

Tarique Rahman to return home soon: Dr Zahid

05:50 PM, 06 May 2025 Tuesday

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman will return home very soon to lead what the party calls the final phase of the struggle to restore democracy in Bangladesh, said BNP Standing Committee member Dr AZM Zahid Hossain on Tuesday, May 6...