Although an order was issued on Thursday morning transferring four officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, including three directors, and giving additional charge, that order was stayed on the afternoon of the same day.
The Port Bachao Sangram Parishad and the Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SKOP) have protested the approval of a draft agreement handing over the operation of the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) of Chattogram Port to an international operator. The two organisations said the government took this decision "keeping the nation in the dark" amid their ongoing movement.
National Parliament Speaker Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed has said he has received the resignation letter of BNP MP Ferdousi Ahmed Misti from a reserved women's seat.
The government has formed an independent Cyber Police Unit under the leadership of an Additional Inspector General of Police. The unit formally began its journey at the Police Headquarters on Thursday afternoon. Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed inaugurated it.
A young man named Hafizur Rahman (25) has died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after being critically injured in a fall from a moving train in the capital's Kurmitola. There are allegations that he was thrown off the moving train during a scuffle with muggers. However, it has not yet been confirmed whether he was pushed off or fell from the train himself.
The government has approved the purchase of 220,000 metric tonnes of urea, DAP and TSP fertiliser from domestic and foreign sources in the current 2026-27 fiscal year. The total cost of buying this fertiliser will be about Tk 1,675 crore.