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Biman Bangladesh Airlines today signed an agreement with European aircraft manufacturer Airbus for the acquisition of 10 aircraft, taking the number of aircraft in the national carrier’s acquisition pipeline to 35
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested 439 people in raids in various police station areas of the capital in the last 24 hours. At the same time, 31 cases were filed.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police have arrested 40 active members of the banned Awami League during raids across the capital over the past 24 hours, police said Wednesday (September 30).
The season is changing, but winter appears to be taking its time. The familiar signs of autumn—white clouds drifting across the sky, dew settling on grass at dawn and a coolness in the air—have arrived unevenly across Bangladesh. While early mornings are beginning to carry a hint of winter, the heat of the day has yet to fully retreat.
Seven South Korean financial institutions, including three major commercial banks, were hit by seemingly coordinated cyber attacks within days of one another, exposing more than 65,000 customer and employee records between 28 September and 3 October.
“Definitely corrupt and unskilled authorities ”
Bangladesh’s spin duo Nasum Ahmed and Sheikh Mehedi Hasan have entered the top ten of the bowlers’ rankings in T20. Nasum Ahmed has secured a place in the eighth position by advancing three places. Mehedi Hasan has risen to the ninth position by advancing 10 places.
Lionel Messi brought the curtain down on his remarkable 21-year international career in an emotional farewell at Buenos Aires’ iconic Monumental Stadium, where 85,000 fans gathered to celebrate one of Argentina’s greatest footballers.
A day-long Butthan training workshop has been held in Rajshahi. The workshop was held at the Evening Hall in Rajshahi on October 3 on the initiative of the Bangladesh Butthan Association.
Three Bangladesh cricketers—Saif Hassan, Towhid Hridoy and Rishad Hossain—could face fines from the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) for allegedly breaching team discipline during the Asian Games.
South Africa’s Lhuan-dre Pretorius has shattered Chris Gayle’s long-standing record for the highest individual score in men’s T20 cricket, smashing an unbeaten 188 for the Titans against the Knights in the CSA T20 Challenge.
Yet another special honour is set to be added alongside numerous achievements in Lionel Messi's football career. Ahead of his probable farewell match for the national team, Argentina's University of Buenos Aires has decided to award Messi its highest honorary doctorate degree.
A screen displays this year's laureates Henri Kagan of France and Kenso Soai from Japan during the announcement of the winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 7, 2026.
Russian missiles and drones hit residential and civilian sites in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight into Wednesday, killing at least eight people, Ukrainian officials said. The attacks came the morning after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on X that Russia was preparing a massive strike.
Global crude oil prices rose on Wednesday (October 7), with international benchmark Brent crude climbing above $101 a barrel amid growing concerns over potential supply disruptions.
Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP, Jubo Dal and Metropolitan West Chatra Dal committees have been declared dissolved. At the same time 14 persons of various levels of BNP, Chatra Dal, Swechchhasebak Dal and Sramik Dal have been expelled.
Salauddin Ammar, general secretary of Rajshahi University Central Students’ Union (RUCSU), lost the ‘Sathi’ post of Islami Chhatra Shibir one year ago over allegations of moral degradation including ‘post-trading’.
Bangladesh Youth Union has strongly condemned an "attack" at the central office of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD during a representatives' meeting and the subsequent arrest of 289 leaders, activists and supporters in a police operation.
Mirza Faisal Amin, the BNP-nominated candidate for the Thakurgaon-1 by-election, filed his nomination papers on Sunday (September 27), entering the race for the seat vacated after his elder brother, President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, left Parliament to assume the presidency.
The season is changing, but winter appears to be taking its time. The familiar signs of autumn—white clouds drifting across the sky, dew settling on grass at dawn and a coolness in the air—have arrived unevenly across Bangladesh. While early mornings are beginning to carry a hint of winter, the heat of the day has yet to fully retreat.
From the guru to artificial intelligence, education has travelled a remarkable distance. That journey has brought us to an uncomfortable question: what, exactly, is the relationship between a teacher and a student? Is education simply the free circulation of information, a matter of self-learning and acquiring useful knowledge? Or is the ability to memorise and reproduce information still regarded as the ultimate measure of intelligence?
Bangladesh does not need to win the global race for computing power. It needs to rediscover its own strength: organising people so that technology creates shared prosperity.
A Bangladeshi national named Md Sajib Hossain has been killed in a drone or missile attack by Houthi rebels on an Aramco facility in the Al Khurais area of Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. The information was conveyed in a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday, October 5.
Two organizations of India have demanded the release of Swami Chinmoy Krishna Das and ensuring the security of the Hindu community in Bangladesh from the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata.
Singer Pritom Hasan and model, actress Shahtaj Monira Hashem have announced the end of their marriage “on mutual understanding”.
International Coffee Day is being observed on October 1, celebrating one of the world’s most popular beverages and recognising the millions of farmers, workers, producers, traders and others whose efforts bring coffee from farms to consumers.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines today signed an agreement with European aircraft manufacturer Airbus for the acquisition of 10 aircraft, taking the number of aircraft in the national carrier’s acquisition pipeline to 35
