The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has proposed making it obligatory to appoint the chief justice from the three most senior judges of the Appellate Division. BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed disclosed this while talking to newspersons in a break during the party’s meeting with the national consensus commission for the third day at the LD Hall of the national ...

The students of Dhaka College and Dhaka City College on Tuesday locked into chases and threw brickbats at each other at Science Lab intersection again for the second time just after a week. At a stage, police dispersed the students, charging batons and firing teargas shells. Several students were seen with sticks as well. The incident broke out around 11:45 ...

Hankering for a chiseled jawline, a male TikTok influencer strikes his cheekbones with a hammer — highlighting the rise of “looksmaxxing,” an online trend pushing unproven and sometimes dangerous techniques to boost sexual appeal. Looksmaxxing influencers — part of an online ecosystem dubbed the “manosphere” — have surged in popularity across social media, capitalising on the insecurities of young men ...

Popular Bangladeshi actress Shamsunnahar Smrity, known by her stage name Pori Moni, has been sued by her former domestic helper, Pinky Akter, over allegations of physical abuse. The case was filed on Tuesday (April 22) at Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court. Magistrate Nazmin Akter recorded the plaintiff’s statement and directed Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to probe the matter and submit ...

Remittance inflows from Bangladeshi expatriates have remained robust, with $1.96 billion sent home during the first 21 days of April 2025, according to the latest data from Bangladesh Bank. This continued momentum follows a historic high of $3.29 billion received in March, marking a strong upward trend in remittance earnings. By comparison, the country had received $1.39 billion during the ...

Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings – colonoscopies, mammograms and lung scans – for several months in 2020 as COVID-19 overwhelmed doctors and hospitals. But that delay in screening isn’t making a huge impact on cancer statistics, at least none that can be seen yet by experts who track the data. Cancer death rates continue to decline, and ...

India duo Jasprit Bumrah and Smriti Mandhana have been crowned the world’s leading cricketers in the latest edition of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. Bumrah won the honour in the men’s section after a stellar 2024 when he excelled across formats and was named player of the tournament as India won the Twenty20 World Cup in the West Indies. “In an ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) began the third day dialogue with the National Consensus Commission on Tuesday morning. A four-member BNP delegation, led by its Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Ahmed, participated in the talks at 11:10am at the LD Hall of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. The Commission is holding a series of talks with political parties to forge a national consensus ...

The information that the documents related to journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi murder have been burnt down, is not true. Additional Attorney General Arsadur Rauf confirmed this to media on Tuesday noon, after some times, the state informed the High Court that the documents related to the murder case have burnt down at DB. “This news is not ...

The Department of Agricultural Extension has informed that 33 percent paddy harvesting in haor has already been completed. Till Sunday, 95,751 hectares of paddy have been harvested in the haors of the four districts of Sylhet division as 276,803 hectares have been cultivated in haors in this season. However, 12,065 hectares of paddy have been harvested out of 220,416 hectares ...