A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck an area in India’s Assam province on Tuesday afternoon and the tremors were felt in Sylhet, Moulvibazar and other adjacent border districts in Bangladesh. Some reports claimed that tremors were also felt in Dinajpur. No casualties or damages were reported in either side of the border. The quake struck 11-kilometre northwest of Silchar, Assam’s second-largest city, ...

A measles vaccination campaign will begin in the two Dhaka city corporations, as well as in Mymensingh and Barishal city corporations, on 12 April, Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain announced on Tuesday. The programme will be expanded nationwide from 3 May, he said. “We will continue this vaccination drive without interruption. To ensure public health and ...

The Jamaat-e-Islami led 11-party opposition alliance on Tuesday announced four days of programmes to put pressure on the government to implement the constitutional reform measures endorsed in the February referendum result. The programmes include start of a countrywide citizen awareness raising campaign and street demonstrations in support of July Charter implementation, said Maulana Mamunul Haque, leader of alliance partner Bangladesh ...

The government has deferred the Independence Award giving ceremony by one week to 16 April, it said in a notification on Tuesday. Due to unavoidable circumstances, the award giving ceremony will be held on 16 April instead of the earlier announced 9 April, said the notification issued by the Cabinet Division. It will be held at 4pm at Osmani Memorial ...

At least 11 people died after developing measles symptoms, including one confirmed measles patient, in the 24 hours till Tuesday morning, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Dhaka division saw the most fatalities with six deaths. As a district, Dhaka also topped the list of fatalities over the 24-hour period. During 8am Monday-8am Tuesday, 1,236 people were diagnosed ...

The National Sports Council (NSC) on Tuesday officially dissolved the Aminul Islam Bulbul–led Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), citing “huge-scale irregularities” in the last board election. An 11-member ad-hoc committee will now be formed to run the board and oversee fresh elections within 90 days. The development follows a probe committee’s report recommending reforms to ensure a free and fair BCB ...

More than 14 million Iranians have said they are ready to give their lives to defend the country in the war against the United States and Israel, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on X on Tuesday. “Over 14 million proud Iranians have, up to this moment, declared their readiness to sacrifice their lives in defense of Iran,” he wrote. “I, ...

A Dhaka court on Tuesday ordered former Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury to be sent to jail in a case filed with Lalbagh Police Station over an attempted murder linked to the anti-discrimination movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Rana passed the order as police produced Chowdhury before the court and pleaded for a two-day remand in the case. The ...

Bangladesh’s male football national team will take on San Marino National Football Team in a FIFA Tier-1 international friendly in San Marino on 5 June. The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) announced in a press release on Tuesday that this match will mark Bangladesh’s first-ever match against European opposition and the team’s maiden appearance on European soil. However, it is equally ...

Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Haider paid a courtesy call on Industries Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir at his office on Tuesday (7 April), where both sides discussed ways to expand bilateral trade and investment. During the meeting, they explored opportunities to enhance cooperation in the industrial sector and addressed various issues of mutual interest. The industries minister said there ...