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24/08/2025

BUET students announce 3-day class, exam boycott

Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) have announced a three-day boycott of classes and examinations to press home a three-point demand, including a ban on appointing engineers without a minimum B.Sc degree.The boycott programme will run from today (August 24) to....

24/08/2025

BNP delegation meets Pakistan's Foreign Minister

A high-level delegation of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) held a meeting with Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar.The hour-long meeting began at 6:25 pm on Saturday (August 23) at the Pakistan High Commission in Gulshan, said BNP media cell m...

24/08/2025

Kim Jong Un, the nation's leader, oversaw the firing of two new air defence m'i's's'i'l'e's, North Korean state media said.

24/08/2025

Preparations are underway to announce the roadmap for holding the 13th parliamentary elections before Ramadan in the first half of February next year, says the Election Commission (EC).

23/08/2025

Ishaq Dar praised the “courage and steadfastness of the Jamaat leaders and activists in the face of hardships and difficulties”, Islamabad says…

23/08/2025

Pentagon fires intelligence agency chief

The head of the Pentagon's intelligence office was fired by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth a few weeks after the White House chastised an assessment evaluating the effects of US strikes on Iran, US media reported.The US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) will no longer be led by Lt Gen Jeffrey....

23/08/2025

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has critcised the Indian government for labelling Bengali-speaking Indians as Bangladeshis and illegally forcing them into Bangladeshi territory.

23/08/2025

Critics say putting youngsters through army-style training and teaching them in school how to handle weapons and build military drones is a form of indoctrination and propaganda…

23/08/2025

Visiting Pakistanin Foreign Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar will meet BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, the party says

23/08/2025

The day is a public holiday in Bangladesh…

23/08/2025

The exams are scheduled for May–June 2026, said the NCTB in an announcement today (August 23).

23/08/2025

MY TV Chairman Sathi sent to jail

A Dhaka court has sent Nasir Uddin Sathi, chairman of private satellite channel My TV, to jail following police remand in connection with a murder case under Jatrabari police during the July uprising last year.The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court passed the order after the Investigation....