Home and Agriculture Ministry Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said that farmers across the country struggling to get a fair price for their potato crops may soon see relief, as the government is actively working on the issue. Speaking to reporters on Saturday afternoon during a visit to the newly established Guagachhia Police Camp in Gojaria ...

Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, Adviser to Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives and Ministry of Youth and Sports, has alleged that efforts are being made to bring back the Awami League (AL) into the political mainstream. Speaking at an orientation programme for newly-appointed officers and employees of Palli Daridro Bimochon Foundation (PDBF), held at the auditorium of Sher-e-Bangla ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that a “deep conspiracy” is unfolding in the country, which he fears may be tied to an international plot. “I have a strong feeling that a deep conspiracy is going on inside the country,” Rizvi said while addressing a *milad mahfil* organised by the party at its Nayapaltan central ...

Jamaica thrashed Bermuda 4-0 to make a strong start to the final round of 2026 World Cup qualifying for North and Central America and the Caribbean on Friday. Damion Lowe got the visitors off to a quick start with a goal in the sixth minute, before Renaldo Cephas made it 2-0 and Kasey Palmer and Shamar Nicholson added second-half goals ...

Five people were killed after a passenger bus fell into a roadside canal in Laxmipur Sadar upazila on Saturday morning. The accident occurred in front of Chandraganj Kafil Uddin Degree College at about 8AM. Three of the deceased were identified as Md Morshed Alam, 40, Jaynal Abedin, 57, and Humayun Rashid of Noagaon district. A bus of ‘Ananda Paribahan’ fell ...

Around 100 firefighters were called to a blaze on Saturday at the former BBC headquarters Television Centre in London’s White City, the British public broadcaster reported. The London Fire Brigade said firefighters from Hammersmith, North Kensington, Kensington, Chiswick and surrounding fire stations were mobilised after it was called to a fire at a nine-storey building soon after 3 a.m. UK ...

Pakistan’s new High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Haider met with BNP leaders at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday morning. The meeting, attended by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing Committee Members Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and International Affairs Committee Member Shama Obaed, was held at 10:30AM. Theparty sources said that the ...

The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, commemorating the birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), will be observed across the country today with due religious reverence. The government has taken up elaborate programmes to mark the day. The programmes were finalised at an inter-ministerial meeting with Religious Affairs Adviser AFM Khalid Hossain in the chair. The national flag has been hoisted atop ...

United Kingdom foreign minister David Lammy has been appointed as the country’s new deputy prime minister, replacing Angela Rayner after she resigned amid a tax scandal. Rayner’s resignation on Friday for breaching ministerial code after underpaying tax on her flat prompted a major cabinet reshuffle, with Lammy’s elevation to deputy prime minister among a raft of new appointments. The departure ...

In response to the devastating earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on August 31, Government of Bangladesh has sent emergency humanitarian aid to support the affected people facing shortages of food, water, shelter and medical care. According to a statement from Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a Bangladesh Air Force transport aircraft carrying 11.227 metric tons of relief materials departed for Kabul ...