PABNA — State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) has launched preparatory infrastructure works on an ultra-deep exploration well in Pabna district, reigniting prospects for Northern Bangladesh’s first fully operational gas field. The Mobarakpur Deep-1 project, spanning territory in Sujanagar and Santhia upazilas, could supply an estimated 20 million cubic feet of natural […]

RAJSHAHI — The Vice-Chancellor of Rajshahi University (RU), Professor Dr Faridul Islam, has vowed to step back from public leadership if his administration fails to address the core challenges facing students over his four-year tenure. Speaking on Saturday, 29 August, at the central orientation ceremony for the 2025–26 academic session held at the Kazi Nazrul […]

Popular Bangladeshi musician SI Tutul has launched a poignant artistic initiative dedicated to safeguarding the memory and musical legacy of late rock icon Ayub Bachchu. Tutul has officially unveiled a four-member outfit titled ‘AB King’, a moniker that directly expresses his reverence and affection for his late mentor. The bond between SI Tutul and Ayub […]

A 22-year-old street vendor died from electrocution on Saturday evening after attempting to sever a live electrical cable using his teeth during an alleged theft in the capital’s Dhanmondi area. The victim, identified as Md Russel, was discovered unconscious outside a residential property in Madhubazar around 7:00 pm on 29 August. Local residents who witnessed […]

Violent clashes over leadership appointments to the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in Noakhali Sadar erupted on Saturday afternoon, leaving at least ten political activists injured. Confrontations broke out between two opposing factions of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) student wing across Ashwadia Union, turning busy thoroughfares into chaotic battlegrounds and bringing regional traffic to a […]

Sanitation workers operating across the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) face escalating violence as armed criminal groups attempt to forcibly seize control of the lucrative municipal waste management sector. Armed gangs carrying weapons have been observed patrolling neighborhood alleyways, threatening municipal cleaners, and damaging collection vehicles. Consequently, door-to-door waste collection across at least five DNCC […]

Public life across Bangladesh has been plunged into severe distress as an unrelenting late-summer heatwave collides with a rapidly deteriorating energy supply chain. A crippling combination of diminishing natural gas reserves, sharp output reductions at primary coal-fired power stations, and an acute deficit of liquid fuels pushed the national electricity deficit past 3,500 megawatts (MW) […]

A senior local leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) youth wing, Juba Dal, has died in Chittagong following a physical altercation triggered by a feud over illegal street vending. The fatal dispute occurred when the victim challenged the unauthorised positioning of mobile rickshaw-van stalls along a heavily congested thoroughfare in the city’s Chandgaon district. […]