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Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP, Jubo Dal and Metropolitan West Chatra Dal committees have been declared dissolved. At the same time 14 persons of various levels of BNP, Chatra Dal, Swechchhasebak Dal and Sramik Dal have been expelled.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police have arrested 40 active members of the banned Awami League during raids across the capital over the past 24 hours, police said Wednesday (September 30).
Police have recovered the body of Nishi Akter, 19, a housewife, from a locked room in the Roads and Highways staff quarters under Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station in the capital. The body was recovered wrapped in a blanket. Her husband Sagar has been absconding since the incident, police said.
Saju Hossain, a resident of Fultala area of Bogura metropolis, said, “There has been no work for several days. Sometimes there is rice at home, sometimes not. There is no money in hand either. The price of rice is rising, the price of gas is rising. The electricity bill comes to a lot of money. The household does not run with what I earn in a month. On some days the income is such that, will I buy rice or put money in the meter? I am running the household somehow by taking loans.”
The files piled up in the corridors of the courts seem like layers of time pressing down on people’s long wait for justice. A single case can involve an entire family, a property, or questions of freedom and justice. With the aim of easing that burden of waiting, the rate of case disposal increased in both divisions of the Supreme Court in 2026. In the first eight months of the year alone, the Appellate Division disposed of 11,136 cases, while the High Court Division disposed of 87,596. As the number of disposed cases exceeded the number of newly filed cases, the overall backlog also declined.
“Definitely corrupt and unskilled authorities ”
Although Bangladesh lost 1-0 to Singapore, Hamza Choudhury sees signs of improvement in the team's performance. In his view, through the ups and downs of the past one and a half years, Bangladesh is becoming a team capable of competing on the field against big teams. Now the only need is to improve in a few areas and complete their own game.
Shree Charani, India’s left-arm spinner, has set a new world record in women’s T20 cricket. She has left Australia’s pacer Megan Schutt behind to take possession of the highest rating points among T20 bowlers.
Four Bangladeshi cricketers have registered for the International League T20 (ILT20) auction for the upcoming season. The four going under the hammer are Taskin Ahmed, Shariful Islam, Tanzim Hasan Sakib and Mehidy Hasan Miraz. The tournament authorities have already published their base price list.
Bangladesh advanced to the men’s cricket semi-finals at the Asian Games without playing a single ball after their quarter-final against Malaysia was abandoned due to rain in Nisshin, Japan, on Tuesday (September 29).
Five members of Bangladesh’s national table tennis team and their coach have been stranded at an airport in Thailand for two days after sudden flooding disrupted flights.
Virat Kohli smashed a blistering 139 off 88 balls and rewrote two ODI records as India chased down West Indies’ 296 with ease in the first ODI in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday (September 27).
More than 400 people, mostly minors, were detained in France on Tuesday over student protests at high schools across the country, the French interior minister said.
Morocco has appointed its first woman prime minister, with King Mohammed VI tasking Marrakesh Mayor Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri with forming a new government following her party’s victory in last week’s parliamentary election.
At least six military personnel were killed when a Russian Tu-95 strategic bomber crashed during a training flight in the Amur region, the Russian Defence Ministry said Tuesday (September 29).
Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP, Jubo Dal and Metropolitan West Chatra Dal committees have been declared dissolved. At the same time 14 persons of various levels of BNP, Chatra Dal, Swechchhasebak Dal and Sramik Dal have been expelled.
Salauddin Ammar, general secretary of Rajshahi University Central Students’ Union (RUCSU), lost the ‘Sathi’ post of Islami Chhatra Shibir one year ago over allegations of moral degradation including ‘post-trading’.
Bangladesh Youth Union has strongly condemned an "attack" at the central office of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD during a representatives' meeting and the subsequent arrest of 289 leaders, activists and supporters in a police operation.
Mirza Faisal Amin, the BNP-nominated candidate for the Thakurgaon-1 by-election, filed his nomination papers on Sunday (September 27), entering the race for the seat vacated after his elder brother, President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, left Parliament to assume the presidency.
The files piled up in the corridors of the courts seem like layers of time pressing down on people’s long wait for justice. A single case can involve an entire family, a property, or questions of freedom and justice. With the aim of easing that burden of waiting, the rate of case disposal increased in both divisions of the Supreme Court in 2026. In the first eight months of the year alone, the Appellate Division disposed of 11,136 cases, while the High Court Division disposed of 87,596. As the number of disposed cases exceeded the number of newly filed cases, the overall backlog also declined.
Bangladesh produces thousands of engineers every year, but too few are trained to answer a basic question for the country’s progress: how do we stop important systems from breaking down?
Bangladesh does not need to win the global race for computing power. It needs to rediscover its own strength: organising people so that technology creates shared prosperity.
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi has described the overall state of Bangladesh-India relations as "completely positive". He also expressed hope that Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's visit to India will take place at a mutually convenient time for both countries.
Bangladesh has stepped up efforts to attract technology investment and build strategic partnerships with Silicon Valley companies, with a high-level delegation holding talks with leading CEOs, entrepreneurs and investors in California.
Popular television actors Mosharraf Karim and Faruque Ahmed are set to reunite on screen after nearly five years, teaming up once again for the drama “Chairman’s Husband.”
Love has the power to bring people closer, strengthen relationships and make everyday life more humane. Love People Day, observed on September 30 each year, encourages people to look beyond differences and treat others with kindness, respect and compassion.
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has increased the price of furnace oil, the fuel used in power plants and heavy industries, by nearly Tk 12 in one go. The new price will come into effect from 12am tonight on Wednesday.
