Current Affairs
PM pays courtesy call on President after Japan visit
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman paid a courtesy call on President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at Bangabhaban on Tuesday (November 3), with the two leaders discussing the country's overall situation and key issues of national interest.
Russian airstrikes kill at least 26 at Ukraine aid centre
At least 26 people have been killed in a Russian airstrike on a school and shelter being used to distribute humanitarian aid in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region. The attack came just hours after the end of a six-day locally brokered ceasefire, casting fresh doubt on hopes for a peaceful resolution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Special tribunal goes tough: 2 get death sentences, 4 life in child abuse cases
A special tribunal established to ensure speedy trials in cases of violence against children has sentenced six defendants in nine months, including two to death and four to life imprisonment.
PM to attend COP’s two-day high-level climate summit
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will attend the two-day World Leaders' Summit of COP31 in Türkiye where Bangladesh will press for grant-based climate financing and greater accountability from major carbon-emitting nations.
US strikes Iran's Qeshm island: Wall Street Journal
The United States on Monday attacked Iran's Qeshm Island, the Wall Street Journal reported, even as President Donald Trump signaled progress in negotiations with Tehran to end the eight-month-old conflict.
240 women and girls subjected to violence in October, 51 raped: Report
A total of 240 women and girls faced various forms of violence across Bangladesh in October this year, including 51 rape victims, according to a monthly report published by the Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.
Jail Killing Day today: Bangladesh remembers four national leaders
Bangladesh is observing Jail Killing Day on November 3, commemorating the assassination of four national leaders inside Dhaka Central Jail in 1975, just four years after the country's independence. The killings remain one of the darkest and most tragic chapters in the nation's history.
Workers block Dhaka-Tangail highway with burning waste in Gazipur
Garment workers blocked the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Gazipur on Tuesday morning by setting fire to piles of waste on the road, bringing traffic to a halt between Joydebpur Chowrasta and Naojor intersection.
PM opens two-day Solar Expo-2026
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today opened the two-day Solar Expo-2026 at the Bangladesh-China Friendship International Conference Centre in Agargaon in the capital this morning.
Ex-MP Major (Retd) Akhtaruzzaman released on bail
Major (Retd) Akhtaruzzaman, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader and former lawmaker, was released from prison on bail in a case filed over allegations of obstructing official duties at an airport and behaving improperly with an official.