Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB-55) seized 14 kg of hemp from the border area of Chunarughat upazila in Habiganj district on Monday evening. Indian ganja worth about Tk 49,000 during an operation in a border area of. Acting on a tip-off, a special patrol team from Satchhari BOP took position around 300 yards inside Bangladeshi territory at Satchhari Tea Garden on ...

Bangladesh will be required to travel to India to take part in next month’s T20 World Cup after the International Cricket Council (ICC) rejected a request to move the team’s matches outside the host country, according to reports. According to Cricket websites ESPNcricinfo and Cricbuzz reports, the ICC informed the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) during an online meeting on Tuesday ...

More than 7.72 lakh expatriate Bangladeshis have completed registration to vote through the postal ballots in the upcoming national election and the referendum. A total of 772,542 expatriate Bangladeshis registered from 122 countries to vote through the postal ballots in the election, according to the statistics of the Election Commission. Besides, 761,141 voters including 6,284 prisoners completed registration from inside ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman is scheduled to visit the northern region of the country from January 11 to 14. The party has stated that the visit is mainly part of a religious and social event. It said, the Code of Conduct issued by the Election Commission will not be violated under any circumstances during the tour. In this regard, ...

US President Donald Trump’s administration has nearly tripled the list of countries whose citizens must post a ‘visa bond’ of up to $15,000 when applying to enter the United States. According to the US State Department website on Tuesday, it expanded the list, adding another 25 countries, including Bangladesh, It said, passport holders from the newly added countries could be ...

The government on Tuesday approved a proposal to procure 40,000 metric tonnes of bulk granular fertiliser from Saudi Arabia in the current fiscal year (FY26) to meet rising domestic demand. The approval came at the first meeting of the Advisers Council Committee on Government Purchase this year, held at the Cabinet Division Conference Room at the Secretariat, with Finance Adviser ...

London will struggle to build its target figure of 88,000 new homes every year for the next decade unless two major rail projects are given the green light, the Deputy Mayor for Housing has said. Tom Copley said the next London Plan will factor in the government’s request – part of a wider target for 1.5million new homes in the ...

The prime minister has drawn a series of sharp dividing lines with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, in an attempt to begin reviving Labour’s and his own political fortunes in the new year. Sir Keir Starmer told his political cabinet he wanted to make clear to voters that the choice was between his party “renewing the country” and Reform, who he ...

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has called on Elon Musk’s X to urgently deal with its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok being used to create non-consensual sexualised images of women and girls. The BBC has seen multiple examples on X of people asking the bot to digitally undress people to make them appear in bikinis without their consent, as well as putting ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB-46) seized a large quantity of smuggled Indian leaf cigarettes worth Tk 2.7 lakh from Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar district early Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB officials conducted a drive in the Lalarchak area adjacent to the border and recovered a large unclaimed consignment, totalling 5400 packs of cigarettes worth Tk 2.7 lakh ...