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.
BNP MP Ferdousi Ahmed Misti has resigned from her reserved women's seat in the National Parliament after her name came up in the attack, looting and vandalism at the Radda MCH-FP health centre in the capital's Mirpur. She submitted her resignation letter to National Parliament Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed on Thursday noon. The National Parliament Secretariat later issued a notification declaring her seat vacant.
Four more people have died of dengue across the country in the last 24 hours. With this, the number of dengue deaths in the current year has risen to 249. During the same period, 1,978 new dengue patients were admitted to hospital.
A court has rejected the bail petition of former Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Cantonment Police Station in the capital, Md Rakibul Hasan, in a sedition case filed over spreading anti-state and provocative remarks on social media.
National Parliament's women's seat no. 23 has been declared vacant due to the resignation of reserved women's seat MP Ferdousi Ahmed Misti.