Chief Adviser to the interim government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus on Sunday started his office at the Chief Adviser’s Office (CAO), previously known as Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), at Tejgaon in the capital. Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam confirmed the matter to BSS. The Sheikh Hasina government was toppled on August 5 in 2024 in a student-people revolution. Later, ...

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has set a new cash withdrawal limit of Tk 5,00,000 through bearer’s cheques from Sunday (September 1). The decision was communicated to all commercial banks on Saturday. The central bank has limited the cash withdrawal following the interim government’s directive for banking and financial sector reforms after the fall of the previous government on August 5. It ...

The High Court on Sunday dismissed the writ petition seeking ban on the Awami League as a political party. An HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzamana and Justice Md Mahbubul Islam passed this order. The writ petitioner Arifur Rahman Murad Bhuiyan was present in the court, while attorney general Md Asaduzzaman represented the state. Earlier, Arifur Rahman Bhuiyan, Executive Director ...

Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) doctors are observing work abstention for assaulting three of their colleagues after the death of a private university student. They started the strike from Sunday morning. As a result, emergency services of the DMCH are suspended, causing suffering of the patients. Ahsanul Islam Dipto, 24, a civil engineering student at the Bangladesh University of Business ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is celebrating its 46th founding anniversary across the country on Sunday. The party has shortened its previously announced elaborate programmes due to the severe flooding affecting the country’s eastern region. As part of founding anniversary programmes, the party flag has been hoisted at its offices across the country, including the central one in city’s Nayapaltan area, ...

Luis Suarez struck twice to take his season tally to 16 goals in 20 Major League Soccer games, as Inter Miami cruised to a 4-1 win over the Chicago Fire on Saturday. Miami, once again without Lionel Messi, who continues to be sidelined by an ankle injury, have already secured their place in the playoffs and remain in top place ...

Five people were killed in a collision between a bus and a truck in Gopalganj’s Kashiani upazila on Sunday morning. At least 20 people were also injured in the accident that happened at about 7:45AM at Majhighati area, said Bhatiapara Fire Service assistant officer Md Rezaul Mawla. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. A Dhaka-bound bus ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that a vested quarter is conspiring to foil the victory of students and people. They are tarnishing the image of our party spreading confusion. If anyone tries to seek rent using the name of BNP, please hand him over to police. BNP leaders and workers cannot seek extortion from people. Be ...

Jas Athwal, the recently elected MP for Ilford South, rents out 15 flats and has described himself as a “renter’s champion”. But tenants in a block of seven flats in Ilford, east London, owned by the MP claimed they have to put up with black mould, ants and threats of eviction if they complain. “The ants are everywhere,” one resident ...

Police recovered three dead bodies including a woman from separate places in Chunarughat of Habiganj district on Thursday (August 29). Police and local sources said a man named Sumon Roy was electrocuted in a poultry farm in Gaziganj of Raniganj union under Chunarughat upazila. An unidentified woman was also found dead in Khowai river in Mirashi union on Thursday afternoon. ...