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6 hours ago

Factor Khaleda’s illness into polls schedule: NCP to EC

The National Citizen Party (NCP) has renewed calls for the Election Commission to factor in the critical illness of BNP chief Khaleda Zia when finalising the schedule for the general election slated for February. At a policy discussion on Friday titled “The Future of Investment in Bangladesh

National
6 hours ago

Khaleda Zia’s condition unchanged, Zubaida back at hospital

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health remains unchanged, according to doctors. Her daughter-in-law Zubaida Rahman again visited her at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on Friday night after meeting her mother. BNP Media Cell member Atikur Rahman Rumon said, “[She] visited her mother in Dhanm

Editorial
7 hours ago

Managing farm productivity risks

With close to 9.0 million hectares of available cultivable land, which too is shrinking by around 2,500 hectares annually, thanks mainly to urbanisation, feeding some 175 million mouths is a challenge of miraculous proportions. But the farming community of the country has been successfully meeting

Columns
7 hours ago

Fake note and the honest man's loss

Counterfeiting is a crime that has existed for millennia, but in contemporary Bangladesh it has evolved into one of the most sophisticated forms of financial deception. Detecting the newest generation of fake notes has become extraordinarily difficult, even bordering on impossible for the untrained

Opinions
7 hours ago

Lingering curse of autocracy

Three and a half decades ago, people of Bangladesh ousted the country's first autocratic regime through a mass uprising that reached its climax during the last three months of 1990. The united stance of all the students' organisations, keeping aside their political rivalry for the time being, on Oc

Views
7 hours ago

The digital manufacture of dreams

Across the developing world, migration has long been a pathway to economic mobility, a strategy for families seeking stability or upward movement. But in recent years, a new force has reshaped how young people think about leaving home. Social media platforms such as TikTok, YouTube and Facebook are

National
7 hours ago

8 injured in BNP factional clashes over Munshiganj-3 nomination

At least eight people, including a woman, were injured in clashes between two factions of the BNP in Gazaria on Friday evening over the party’s nomination for the Munshiganj-3 constituency. Several vehicles and a private office were vandalised during the violence, prompting authorities to dep

National
8 hours ago

BNP supporters block bridge over Munshiganj-3 ticket

Supporters of Mahiuddin Ahmed, member-secretary of the Munshiganj district BNP, blocked the Mukterpur Bridge for an hour and a half on Friday, demanding a change in the party’s nomination for the Munshiganj-3 (Sadar–Ghazaria) constituency. The BNP has nominated Kamruzzaman Ratan, the p

National
8 hours ago

Officers attacked for seizing falsely declared goods: NBR

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) believes a group angered by recent measures to prevent the release of falsely declared goods may have been behind the attack on two customs officers in Chattogram. In a statement issued on Friday, the NBR said it appeared that “officers have come under att

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