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The Cabinet has approved the list of government holidays for 2027. There will be 22 days of government holidays next year excluding weekly holidays. Of these, 15 days are general holidays and 14 days are government holidays by executive order. Altogether seven days of the proposed 29 days of holidays fall on weekly holidays. As a result, effective holidays will be 22 days.
The website of 'DMP News', the online news outlet of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), displayed objectionable political messages and images of violence, raising concern that the portal may have been hit by a cyberattack.
The friend of former Bangladesh Air Force Flight Lieutenant KM Tahsif Souri, Ahmed Shahriar Reza Dwip, who is in the custody of the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) in connection with his death, has told investigators that they were talking at the spot when some people chased them. Tahsif jumped into the Turag River, while Dwip managed to flee.
It is the final evening of the year. Darkness begins to gather. Fires burn in some places, while masked figures move through the streets. According to an ancient belief, on this night the invisible boundary separating the worlds of the living and the dead becomes unusually thin.
Jannatul S M Naeem, a young climate activist from the coastal Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira district in southwestern Bangladesh, has secured an opportunity to represent Bangladeshi youth at the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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Lionel Messi's late strike catapulted Inter Miami above New England and into second place with a tense 2-1 comeback victory over their MLS Eastern Conference rivals Sunday.
A brilliant half-century from Nayeem Hasan steered Bangladesh to 142 all out in second innings, setting West Indies 170 for victory in the first Test at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium today.
Bangladesh came under pressure despite taking a 106-run lead over the West Indies as they lost six wickets for 79 runs in their second innings on the third day of the first Test at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Friday (October 30).
Bangladesh dreamed of a big total thanks to Shadman Islam’s century in the Mirpur Test, but could not deliver. A batting collapse at the start of day two saw the hosts lose their last seven wickets for just 59 runs, bundling Bangladesh out for 272 in the first innings.
An Argentine court jailed a football supporter for seven and a half years on Wednesday for threatening Angel Di Maria in 2024 in a bid to stop the World Cup winner returning to Argentina at the end of his career.
Goal after goal, record after record. A remarkable season has been rewarded with football’s most prestigious individual award, the Ballon d’Or. England captain Harry Kane won the Golden Ball for the first time, beating young rivals Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappé.
A private jet crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida, killing all nine people on board after plunging from the sky and slamming into a road, where it burst into flames. The Learjet 60 was bound for the Bahamas. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed that none of those aboard survived.
Violence erupted during youth-led protests across Germany over demands for increased funding for education and healthcare, lower living costs and an end to compulsory military recruitment.
Smoke from forest and land fires is estimated to have caused about 3,560 deaths in Indonesia in September alone, according to a new analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), a Helsinki-based research group. The findings were reported on Friday (October 30) by Arab News.
British journalist David Bergman has criticised the National Citizen Party (NCP) for its position after the party criticised several media outlets for publishing news on the 80th birthday of former culture minister Asaduzzaman Noor. He alleged that the NCP is treating allegations of criminal offences as established truth without sufficient evidence.
Prime Minister’s Political Assistant Rashed Khan on Monday demanded the arrest of Leader of the Opposition and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman, accusing him of instigating the arson attack on a police vehicle in Mirpur amid the garment workers’ demonstrations over wages.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced a two-member partial convening committee of Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP. In the committee, Dhaka North City Corporation Administrator Shafiqul Islam Khan Milton has been made convener and Member of Parliament S M Jahangir Hossain member secretary.
Rashed Khan, political assistant to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, expressed anger over reports published by daily *Amar Desh* by tearing up a copy of the newspaper during a Facebook Live session.
It is the final evening of the year. Darkness begins to gather. Fires burn in some places, while masked figures move through the streets. According to an ancient belief, on this night the invisible boundary separating the worlds of the living and the dead becomes unusually thin.
Urgent state intervention is essential to confront the disturbing culture of child sexual abuse, rape and institutional cover-ups concealed behind the sanctity of religious education.
A devastating fire broke out on the morning of Saturday at the Tuptup Resto & Resort in the Patuartek area of Inani, Cox's Bazar. According to reports released so far, 10 people have died and several others have been injured in the incident.
Bangladesh High Commissioner to the Maldives Dr Md Nazmul Islam met Maldivian Parliament Speaker Abdul Raheem Abdulla in Male today, proposing a parliamentary friendship group to strengthen bilateral relations.
Bangladesh today strongly condemned the Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia, including at Dammam airport, which caused casualties and injuries involving two Bangladeshis.
Aditya Dhar’s film Dhurandhar dominated the 26th edition of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards, winning 12 honours, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor.
Water, the source of life and a symbol of purity and creation, will take centre stage at this year’s Durga Puja celebrations organised by the Gulshan-Banani Sarbojanin Puja Foundation. The foundation has chosen ‘Jalaj’, meaning ‘born of water’, as its theme for Sharodotsav 1433, placing the importance of water and its connection to life, spirituality and nature at the heart of its pandal design.
Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (Bapex) has found a new gas well named Sundalpur South-1 in Companiganj upazila of Noakhali. The organisation said a total of 97.69 billion cubic feet (bcf) of gas is reserved in two zones of the well.
