The Anti-Repression Journalists’ Front has expressed concern over the detention of journalists Shyamol Dutta, Mozammel Babu, Shakil Ahmed and Farzana Rupa for more than two years. The organisation has also called for their release and the withdrawal of cases filed against journalists.
The results of students selected for admission to Class XI for the 2026–27 academic year have been published. The results were released after 8pm on Wednesday (September 16).
A total of 641 incidents of rape against women and children were documented in Bangladesh during the first seven months of this year, including 400 cases involving women and 241 involving children.
Two people have been arrested after two rounds of gunfire were allegedly fired at pedestrians beside the Bhanga Expressway in Faridpur following an argument over vehicle parking.
M Tanvir Ahmed, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of the Gulshan Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), has been attached to the DMP headquarters until further notice.
The government has appointed journalist and fiction writer Ehsan Mahmud as the Director General of the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum.