Family members of late BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia visited her grave on Friday morning to pay their respects. Among those present were Sharmila Rahman Sithi, wife of her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko and Zaima Rahman, daughter of her elder son Tarique Rahman. Several other relatives, along with senior leaders and activists of the Bangladesh ...

The Planning Ministry, entrusted with steering Bangladesh’s development agenda, ends 2025 under mounting criticism over its persistent failure to accelerate public project implementation, culminating in what officials privately describe as a record-low implementation pace under the Annual Development Programme (ADP). Despite repeated assurances, reform pledges and frequent high-level review meetings, the ministry closed the year with chronic delays, persistent underspending ...

Staff reporter : Voting was held at the club premises on Thursday, and the results were announced in the evening by Chief Election Commissioner Advocate Emad Ullah Shahidul Islam Muqtabis-un-Noor, Editor of Daily Jalalabad, has been elected President of the Sylhet Press Club, while Mohammad Serajul Islam, Sylhet Divisional Correspondent of the Dhaka Tribune, has been elected General Secretary. Voting ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said Bangladesh is fully prepared to hold “free, fair and peaceful” national elections scheduled for February 12 next year, highlighting major reforms undertaken by the interim government to ensure transparency and inclusiveness. Prof Yunus said the election issue featured prominently in his discussions with South Asian dignitaries who visited Dhaka on Wednesday and Thursday ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman met BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday evening to offer condolences over the death of his mother and three-time former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. The Jamaat chief arrived at BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office around 7:00 PM, a day after Khaleda Zia’s burial. He first signed the condolence book opened following her passing, BNP ...

Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Wednesday evening signed the condolence book at Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) office in Gulshan to pay tribute to the late BNP Chairperson and three-time former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia. The condolence book was opened following Khaleda Zia’s death on December 30, 2025, providing an opportunity for political leaders, diplomats, ...

The BNP has reinstated Sahab Uddin, president of Companiganj Upazila BNP and former vice-president of its Sylhet district unit, restoring all his party positions, including primary membership, months after he was expelled over the Sada Pathor looting incident. The decision was confirmed in a letter signed by BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi today (1 January). According ...

A multistate outbreak of salmonella infections likely linked to raw oysters has sickened more than 60 people across 22 states, according to a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention health advisory. Health officials are working to identify the source of those contaminated raw oysters, the advisory issued December 23 said. What is salmonella, and how does it make people ...

Now the retail fuel prices has been cut in the domestic market as the government has announced new price for fuel oil, reducing by Tk 2 a litre from January 1. A notification issued by the Energy and Mineral Resources Division early Thursday stated that the prices of diesel, octane, petrol and kerosene have been reduced to Tk 102, Tk ...

Shamim Hossain’s sensational counterattacking innings lit up the contest, but it was not enough to carry Dhaka Capitals over the line as they suffered a narrow defeat to Sylhet Titans in a tense and dramatic finish on home soil at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Thursday. Despite Shamim’s valiant effort, Sylhet held their nerve in the closing moments to seal ...