Current Affairs
Abu Sayeed murder: 11 including three Brac University teachers permanently expelled
Eleven officials and employees, including three teachers of Begum Rokeya University (BRU), have been permanently expelled over the murder of the university's student Abu Sayeed during the anti-discrimination student movement.
Allegations of being thrown off train after mugging, youth dies at DMCH
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.
Government to buy 220,000 tonnes of fertiliser
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.
Retired teacher found dead with hands, feet tied at home in Barishal
Police have recovered the half-decomposed body of a retired schoolteacher with her hands and feet tied from a rented house in Barishal city.
Child sexually abused at Sylhet madrasa, teacher arrested
Police have arrested a teacher of Jamia Madania Islamia Kazirbazar Madrasa in Sylhet city on charges of sexually abusing a child student.
What BNP MP Misti wrote in her resignation letter
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.
Florence Pugh speaks out on Cornell University sexual assault case
Hollywood actress Florence Pugh has spoken publicly about a sexual assault case filed by a former student of Cornell University in the United States. At the same time, she alleged that although she tried to post about the case on her Instagram account, she faced obstacles in publishing it.
249 die of dengue this year, over 80,000 infected
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.
7 under-construction Durga idols vandalised at Mirzapur temple
Seven under-construction Durga idols have been vandalised at a Durga temple in Mirzapur, Tangail. The incident took place in the Jamurki Paschimpara area of Jamurki union in the upazila on Wednesday night, September 30.
Bail petition of former Cantonment OC Rakibul rejected
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.