Bangladesh

The government has officially issued the gazette notification for the Voters’ List (Amendment) Ordinance 2025, allowing greater flexibility in updating and publishing the electoral roll. According to the notification, Election Commission (EC) can now publish the voters’ list at any time of the year, if deemed necessary, even before the announcement of the election schedule. The Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs ...

Aiman, 10, another student of Milestone School and College who was undergoing treatment after being severely burned in a plane crash at Milestone School and College on July 21, has died. Doctors at National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery pronounced him dead around 9:30 AM on Friday. Dr. Shawon Bin Rahman, Residential Surgeon at the institute, confirmed that the ...

The body of Afsana Priya, 30, who went missing following the fighter jet crash at Milestone School and College in Uttara, Dhaka, has been identified through DNA testing. The confirmation came on Thursday afternoon. Afsana had gone to the school on Monday morning to drop off her son, Afsan Ohi, 9, a third-grade student at the school. While the boy ...

A team of Chinese doctors and nurses has arrived in Dhaka to provide medical assistance to victims injured in the recent plane crash at Milestone School in Uttara. The delegation landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 11 PM on Thursday, July 24, the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka confirmed. According to the embassy, the team comprises two burn specialists ...

In a weeklong nationwide crackdown, joint forces arrested 262 individuals, including identified terrorists and perpetrators of mob violence, as part of a coordinated operation across the country. According to a statement from the Inter-Service Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) issued Thursday, units from several infantry divisions and independent brigades of the Bangladesh Army conducted the operations from July 17 to July ...

A leaked audio recording obtained and verified by Qatar-based news outlet Al Jazeera reveals that Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave explicit orders to security forces to use lethal weapons against student protesters during last year’s nationwide demonstrations. The report, published on Thursday, exposes Sheikh Hasina’s secret directive to shoot protesters wherever they were found. The leaked call recordings, ...

The interim government has decided to confer a state honour on two teachers of Milestone School and College who were killed in the fighter jet crash on the school compound at Uttara while trying to save their students. The teachers are Mahreen Chowdhury and Masuka Begum (Nipu). The Council of Advisers at its meeting on Thursday decided to confer a ...

Classes will resume at Milestone School and College at a limited scale from July 27 (Sunday). Initially, classes and exams will only be held for students in grades 9-12, school authorities said. Lower grades will take another week off. Milestone School and College spokesman Shah Bulbul informed this on Wednesday night. He said, “Our academic activities will resume from Sunday. ...

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines, arriving from Dubai, returned to Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong, shortly after take-off on Thursday morning due to a technical malfunction. Flight BG 148, with 287 passengers on board, departed for Dhaka at 8:37AM but had to return shortly afterward due to a technical fault, landing safely back at the airport at 8:58AM. The aircraft ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia underwent some medical tests at Evercare Hospital in the capita early Thursday. She went to the hospital from her Gulshan residence around 1:48AM for some tests as per the advice of her medical board. BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan confirmed this. He said the BNP chairperson stayed at the hospital for approximately 35 minutes ...