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Dulal Kanti Bhowmik, a former professor of the Department of Sanskrit at the University of Dhaka, has gone missing in Dhaka's Mohammadpur after leaving his home saying he was going to buy medicine.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have arrested 759 people in special and regular operations in the capital over the past 24 hours. During this period, 42 cases were filed for various offences. Police recovered firearms, ammunition, a large quantity of drugs and other items in the operations.
A total of 452 people have been arrested in the last 24 hours in the regular anti-crime operations of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in the capital. At that time, 32 cases were filed over various crimes.
Prison walls are meant to keep inmates behind bars, but overcrowding is stripping away even their last measure of comfort. Facilities intended to hold people awaiting trial have become places where finding room to sleep is a daily struggle. Burdened with more than twice their intended population, Bangladesh’s prisons have become a stark reflection of a growing humanitarian crisis.
In the vast agricultural tracts of Shyamnagar Upazila, Satkhira—a coastal area adjacent to the Sundarbans in the country's south—decades of shrimp farming involving the pumping of saline river water onto croplands have caused soil salinity to rise to such an extent that it is no longer possible to cultivate crops using fresh water, even if one wished to do so. Nevertheless, local farmers have been attempting to grow fresh-water crops on their land over the past decade.
“Definitely corrupt and unskilled authorities ”
US-based striker Ronan Sullivan will play in the Bangladesh national football team in the upcoming SAFF Championship. Vice-president of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Fahad Karim has confirmed the matter.
Afghanistan has managed a memorable draw against Bangladesh by building a strong resistance even after losing 8 wickets. Bangladesh needed 7 wickets on the last day for the victory. But the hosts could not fulfil that target due to poor fielding.
Liton Das rode his luck to an unbeaten 81 as Bangladesh extended their lead over Afghanistan to a commanding 443 runs at lunch on the fourth day of the one-off Test in Abu Dhabi.
The start was like a nightmare. Bangladesh were struggling after losing three wickets for just 8 runs. From there, Sobhana Mostary and Nigar Sultana Jyoti lifted the team. With a superb 195-run partnership for the fourth wicket, Bangladesh women's team recovered to post 220 runs for six wickets in the second ODI against Australia. This is Bangladesh's highest team total against Australia.
Hasan Mahmud and Ebadot Hossain tore through Afghanistan’s batting line-up on the third morning of the Abu Dhabi Test, bowling the visitors out for 240 to give Bangladesh a 106-run first-innings lead.
Bangladesh's pace attack changed the complexion of the match at the very start of the third day of the Abu Dhabi Test. Afghanistan, who ended the second day on 211 runs for four wickets, came under pressure after losing wickets quickly on the morning of the third day. Hasan Mahmud dealt a major blow to Afghanistan's batting line-up with a superb hat-trick. With this feat, he became the first Bangladeshi pacer to record a hat-trick in Test cricket.
Saudi Arabia has carried out the death penalty on two Bangladeshi nationals in Mecca.
Police in the German city of Cologne have seized a humanoid robot over allegations that it sexually harassed a 16-year-old girl. The robot’s 16-year-old owner and a 19-year-old accomplice are under investigation over the incident.
A small plane has crashed in the US state of Wisconsin, killing six people, including a child. The accident happened on Tuesday night (October 13) in the Delona area of the state. Local authorities said none of the five adults and one child aboard survived.
Police have shown four people arrested in a case filed on charges of anti-state activities over the incident of pouring ink on the graffiti of world poet Rabindranath Tagore on the wall in front of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Segunbagicha of the capital.
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.
Prison walls are meant to keep inmates behind bars, but overcrowding is stripping away even their last measure of comfort. Facilities intended to hold people awaiting trial have become places where finding room to sleep is a daily struggle. Burdened with more than twice their intended population, Bangladesh’s prisons have become a stark reflection of a growing humanitarian crisis.
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’s ambition to establish sovereign AI capabilities within the next 12 months marks a significant policy commitment, with implications for its technological autonomy, national security and international partnerships. However, translating this ambition into measurable outcomes will require more than a political declaration.
The Bangladesh delegation has walked out of the conference hall during the speech of the Israeli President at the seventh summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) held in Baku of Azerbaijan today.
The Bangladesh mission in Riyadh has urged Bangladeshi nationals living in Saudi Arabia to remain vigilant amid the ongoing situation in the Middle East and strictly follow instructions issued by Saudi authorities.
The likely release date for the teaser of Shah Rukh Khan’s much-awaited action thriller “King” has been set for November 2, the Bollywood superstar’s birthday. Citing a Bollywood Hungama report, Indian and international media say director Siddharth Anand is set to release the teaser on his birthday. The makers have not yet made an official announcement.
Water, the source of life and a symbol of purity and creation, will take centre stage at this year’s Durga Puja celebrations organised by the Gulshan-Banani Sarbojanin Puja Foundation. The foundation has chosen ‘Jalaj’, meaning ‘born of water’, as its theme for Sharodotsav 1433, placing the importance of water and its connection to life, spirituality and nature at the heart of its pandal design.
The government has taken a plan to gradually increase cotton production to 19 lakh bales from existing 2.24 lakh by 2050 expanding its cultivation in 53 of the 64 districts, officials said here today.
