The UN’s World Food Programme warned Tuesday that funding cuts mean it will struggle to feed even a third of the 318 million people facing severe hunger in 2026, reports AFP. “Declines in global humanitarian funding are forcing WFP to prioritize food assistance to roughly one third of those in need,” targeting 110 million of the most vulnerable, it said ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-19) arrested a fugitive death-row convict from Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet district on Sunday. The arrested is Fazal Miah, son of late Ashab Ali of Adityapur village under Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj district. Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB officials conducted a drive at Purba Jaflong area in the upazila and arrested Fazal. A RAB ...

The long-running dispute between Kylian Mbappe and his former club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) reached the French labour court on Monday, with both sides presenting financial claims that total over €700 million. Mbappe, now 26 and playing for Real Madrid, is claiming €263 million from PSG, while the club is demanding he pay them €440 million. PSG’s claim partly stems from ...

Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed has said that 17,000 shotguns will be purchased for Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP). The decision was made on Tuesday at the meeting of the Advisers Council Committee on Government Purchase held at the Bangladesh Secretariat. Salehuddin said that the existing firearms used by Ansar and VDP have become very old, making replacement essential ...

The government has issued a gazette of a new ordinance amending the Labor Act, requiring the formation of a trade union with the consent of at least 20 factory workers. The Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Department issued the Bangladesh Labor (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025, on Monday. It states that at least 20 workers working in an organization can come together and ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has raised serious concerns over the fairness of the trial in which Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) found former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal guilty of crimes against humanity. Meenakshi Ganguly, deputy Asia director at HRW, stated, “While there is enduring anger in Bangladesh over Hasina’s repressive rule, it is ...

The National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA) has expressed grave concern that several digital or electronic platforms in the country have been spreading false statements made by fugitive and convicted individuals, warning that it would take necessary actions to stop such dissemination. The NCSA in a statement on Monday night said that such dissemination has already disrupted national security and public ...

Police and army personnel dispersed a group of protesters who attempted to force their way into Dhanmondi 32 carrying excavators on Monday afternoon. The protesters, who marched under the banner of the “July Mancha”, also hurled brickbats at security forces during the confrontation. According to witnesses, the group reached Dhanmondi 32 around 1:07 pm and tried to break through police ...

Attorney General M Asaduzzaman has said on Monday that justice has finally been served for the martyrs of the July Uprising and their families through the verdict of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He made the remarks while addressing a press briefing following the verdict delivered by the International Crimes Tribunal on Monday. The tribunal, however, sentenced former Prime ...

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