The High Court has directed that all government and private lower secondary and secondary schools remain closed during the upcoming month of Ramadan. The ruling was delivered on Sunday, 15 February, by a bench comprising Justice Fahmida and Justice Md. Asif Hasan. According to the court’s order, keeping schools closed during Ramadan will allow students […]

In a significant development surrounding the Dhaka-8 constituency results, National Citizens’ Party (NCP) leader Nasiruddin Patwari, representing an 11-party alliance, has formally petitioned the Chief Election Commissioner to suspend the swearing-in of the constituency’s declared winner, Mirza Abbas, amid allegations of electoral malpractice. The written appeal was submitted on Saturday, 14 February, to the Election […]

Two local leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami party have been arrested in Sirajganj’s Ullapara Upazila following an attack and looting at a business owned by a Jubo Dal leader. Ullapara Police Station Officer-in-Charge, Sakil Azam, confirmed the arrests. The detainees have been identified as: Abdul Alim Sardar, Amir of Udhunia Union Jamaat Abdul Kader Khandakar, Secretary […]

The verdict in a high-profile war crimes case concerning the shooting of young Amir Hossain and the killing of two others in Rampura, Dhaka, during the mass uprising of 24 July, will be announced on 4 March. The date was set on Sunday (15 February) by the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-1, chaired by Justice Golam […]

The National Parliament complex at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka is undergoing extensive preparations to welcome the newly elected Members of Parliament (MPs), marking the formal commencement of the Thirteenth Jatiya Sangsad. Designed by the celebrated American architect Louis I. Kahn, the National Parliament House remains one of the most iconic examples of modernist architecture in […]

A deeply distressing incident has rocked the Alikadam Upazila of Bandarban, as 70-year-old Rahima Begum was found murdered in her home on Saturday night. The police recovered her body with her throat slashed in the Old Shibatali area of 2 No. Chaikhyang Union at approximately 11:00 pm on 14 February. Rahima was the wife of […]