A youth-led anti-graft platform on Thursday demanded that two advisers Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan and Mahfuj Alam, who stepped down on Wednesday, disclose their assets. The platform under the banner of ‘Anti-Graft Students and People’ made the demand at a human chain formed in front of
The Trump administration is planning to appoint an American two-star general to command the International Stabilization Force in Gaza, Axios reported on Thursday, citing two US officials and two Israeli officials. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.
Train services ground to a halt across Portugal on Thursday, hundreds of flights were cancelled, and schools closed as unions launched a first general strike in more than a decade, in protest against proposed labour reforms. The minority centre-right government says the proposed changes - amending
At least 30 people were killed, including patients, after an airstrike by the country's ruling junta hit a major hospital in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, according to a rebel group, an aid worker and a witness said on Thursday. More than 70 people were injured, they said. The hospital in Ra
A military court in Pakistan jailed former spy chief Faiz Hamid for 14 years on four charges including interference in politics, the army said on Thursday, in a rare conviction of a once-powerful general in the South Asian nation. Hamid, in custody and under trial since August last year, was the c
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday approved a chargesheet against British MP Tulip Rizwana Siddiq and former RAJUK official Sarder Mosharraf Hossain, accusing them of illegal possession and transfer of a flat in Gulshan, Dhaka, through abuse of power and criminal conspiracy. Accordin
A Dhaka court has remanded domestic aid Ayesha Akhter for six days and her husband Rabbi for three days in connection with the murders of a mother and daughter in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur. Police had sought a 10-day remand to question them in custody, reports bdnews24.com. After hearing the rema
A total of 305,499 students have been selected for admission to grades 1 to 9 in government and private secondary schools across metropolitan areas and district and Upazila headquarters through this year’s digital lottery. Of them, 107,521 students have secured places in 689 government schoo
Youth must be placed at the centre of Bangladesh’s migration governance to build safer and more resilient mobility systems, speakers said at a national dialogue in Dhaka on Thursday. They noted that young people already constitute a major share of global migrants and that their perspectives
Only 138 out of 360 listed companies have so far appointed women independent directors, despite an extended deadline that expires on December 31, said Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) Commissioner Farzana Lalarukh on Thursday. “After the deadline, we will take action as p
After resigning from his government post, Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain is leaning towards joining the Gono Odhikar Parishad (GOP). Although he has not shared any official decision on the matter, the GOP has dropped hints, reports bdnews24.com. However, another student advisor - Mahfuj Alam, who has
The High Court has ruled that marriage and divorce registration has to be digitalised, according to a bdnews24.com report. The bench of Justice Fahmida Quader and Justice Md Ashif Hasan delivered its verdict on Thursday after the final hearing of a petition over the matter. Advocate Ishrat Hasa
