21+ hour, 13+ min ago   (203+ words) NCP announces mayoral candidates for Dhaka’s two city corporations Prothom Alo English The National Citizen Party (NCP) has officially announced Nasiruddin Patwary as its mayoral candidate for the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan as its…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (311+ words) Prime Minister Tarique Rahman invited Opposition Leader Shafiqur Rahman to lunch costing Tk150. The invitation came during a general discussion in Parliament on Monday under Rule 68 on “taking effective measures to address disruptions to power generation caused by the severe fuel…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (452+ words) Two separate service bridges, spanning 3.71 kilometers from the Dhaur intersection to Ashulia under the Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway project, have been opened for traffic. Around 11:00 AM on Wednesday, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Shaikh Rabiul Alam inaugurated them by cutting a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (565+ words) A bus crash at the Mawa end of the Padma Bridge in Louhajanj of Munshiganj damaged around 50 metres of the railing on the eastern side of the bridge. Repairs to the damaged section could take six to seven days. Padma…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (131+ words) Tk 780,000 stolen from Sonali Bank customer in novel scam In Rohingya camps, life goes on after 9 years of displacement Fleeting market for fresh fish from Jamuna Bidisha Siddique, former wife of the late former president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, have been…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (143+ words) Prothom Alo English Police have detained two people in connection with the recovery of the bodies of a former teacher of Rangpur Zilla School, his wife and their two children from a house in Machuapara in Rangpur city They were…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (284+ words) The first reshuffle in the cabinet of the BNP government is about to take place. Four individuals have taken oath as new ministers in the cabinet, one of whom was previously a state minister. Additionally, two individuals have taken oath…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (578+ words) Want to give an A, but it's leaning towards a B: Debapriya Bhattacharya World Robot Conference 2026, in Beijing TOP SHOTS (20 August 2026) Mujahidul Islam, also known as Bulbul (45), a local leader of Islami Jubo Andolan, was hacked to death in Narayanganj’s Bandar....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (315+ words) TOP SHOTS (19 August 2026) Kolkata hotel fire: 8 Bangladeshis among 9 killed, police say “After the movie ‘Ammajan,’ no character quite attracted me” Former education minister and joint general secretary of the Awami League, whose activities are now banned, Dipu Moni has been…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (509+ words) Production at more than 100 small and large industrial factories in Narsingdi has been suspended due to a severe gas shortage. Workers at these factories have been forced to sit idle. Factory owners are suffering as a result of the situation....