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Eid shopping: Mall guards to act as police, granted arrest powers
03:47 PM, 08 Mar 2025 SaturdayDhaka Metropolitan City’s markets and shopping malls remain open late into the night during Ramadan and Eid, but a shortage of police personnel has prompted a new security measure.
BSF kills Bangladeshi on Panchagarh border
03:27 PM, 08 Mar 2025 SaturdayA Bangladeshi youth, Al Amin, 38, was killed by gunfire from the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Panchagarh.
1 killed in BNP infighting over TCB card distribution
02:50 PM, 08 Mar 2025 SaturdayA local leader of BNP was killed and two others were injured as two factions of the party clashed over the distribution of TCB, and VGF cards in Chuadanga's Sadar on Saturday morning, March 8...
Yunus calls for resisting anti-women forces
01:45 PM, 08 Mar 2025 SaturdayChief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday urged the country's people to resist together the anti-women forces. "The anti-women forces, which are trying to emerge, will have to be tackled together with all the people of the country," he told an award distribution ceremony at Osmani Memorial Auditorium...
Moving train catches fire in Mymensingh
01:24 PM, 08 Mar 2025 SaturdayA fire broke out in a moving train in Mymensingh's Trishal on Saturday morning, March 8...
6 held over shooting, robbing gold trader in Banasree
12:29 PM, 08 Mar 2025 SaturdayThe Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested six people over the looting of around 160 bhori gold after shooting a trader in the capital's Banasree. The detectives also recovered looted gold and illegal arms from their possession, DMP Commissioner Sheikh Md Sajjat Ali said on Saturday morning, March 8...
Yunus hopes women to go forward to build developed Bangladesh
11:11 AM, 08 Mar 2025 SaturdayChief Adviser (CA) Professor Muhammad Yunus today expressed the hope that the country's womenfolk will move forward in line with the developed world to materialize the dream of building a developed Bangladesh...
Muslim nations back alternative to Trump's Gaza takeover plan
10:10 AM, 08 Mar 2025 SaturdayThe Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Friday endorsed an Arab League counter-proposal to US President Donald Trump's controversial plan to take over Gaza and displace its residents, two ministers told AFP...
Biman runs all-women flight marking Women’s Day
09:40 AM, 08 Mar 2025 SaturdayBiman Bangladesh Airlines is marking International Women's Day by an all-women flight from Dhaka to Bangkok. The national flag carrier is operating the flight expressing solidarity with gender equality, women's empowerment, and the elimination of all forms of violence and discrimination against women...
International Women's Day being observed
08:50 AM, 08 Mar 2025 SaturdayThe International Women's Day is being observed across the country on Saturday, March 8, as elsewhere in the world with the theme 'Rights, Equality, Empowerment/Development of Women and Girls'...
US scraps $400m in grants to Columbia University
08:27 AM, 08 Mar 2025 SaturdayThe Donald Trump administration announced on Friday that it had canceled $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University in New York because of what it alleges is the college’s repeated failure to protect students from antisemitic harassment...
Polls 'not possible' in current law and order situation: Nahid
10:04 PM, 07 Mar 2025 FridayBangladeshi students who overthrew autocratic ex-premier Sheikh Hasina last year have formed a new political party to finish the work that began with her ouster, the group's leader told AFP. Nahid Islam, 27, was one of the most visible faces of the youth-led protest campaign Students Against Discrimination...
NCP demands trial of July killings before elections
09:03 PM, 07 Mar 2025 FridayJatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) on Friday demanded the visible trial proceedings of the July killings and implementation of the July reform charter before holding the national election. “But before going to any election, we have been saying over and over again – we want to see the visible trial proceedings of killings...
DMP arrests 188, files 67 cases for public safety in 24 hrs
08:28 PM, 07 Mar 2025 FridayThe Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has heightened security arrangements across Dhaka city to ensure public safety, arrested 188 people and filed 67 cases, said a police statement. "As part of the move, coordinated check posts and patrol activities have been increased...
3 Hizb ut-Tahrir members put on remand
07:35 PM, 07 Mar 2025 FridayA Dhaka court on Friday, March 7, placed three members of banned organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir on remand in various terms in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act...
Hamas delegation in Egypt for Gaza truce talks
06:45 PM, 07 Mar 2025 FridayA high-level Hamas delegation was in Cairo Friday to advance efforts to prolong a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, which has largely paused hostilities with Israel, two senior Hamas officials said. "The delegation will meet with Egyptian officials on Saturday to discuss the latest developments...
Remittances thru agent banking rises to Tk 1,73,390cr in Dec
05:26 PM, 07 Mar 2025 FridayDisbursement amount of inward remittances through agent banking rose 21.16 percent to Taka 1,73,390.72 crore at the end of December 2024...
Education, economic emancipation essential to empower women: Rizwana
04:31 PM, 07 Mar 2025 FridayEnvironment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has said there is no alternative to education and economic emancipation of women for their empowerment and check violence against them...
Gazette listing 1,242 more as July Warriors published
03:54 PM, 07 Mar 2025 FridayThe government has published a gazette notification recognising 1,242 more individuals, who were injured in the mass uprising, as July Warriors...
Police fire tear gas at Hizb ut-Tahrir procession, 2 detained
02:43 PM, 07 Mar 2025 FridayPolice detained two members of the banned organization Hizb ut-Tahrir in front of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka following a chase and counter-chase with its members.