Bangladesh cricket star Shakib Al Hasan has made clear that he has no intention of abandoning former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina or the Awami League in order to facilitate his return to Bangladesh. In an interview with Reuters, Shakib said he remains loyal to Hasina and indicated that he would not alter his political position […]

Writer and poet Farhad Mazhar has rejected the description of Bangladesh’s July-August 2024 student-led movement as an ‘uprising’, arguing that the events were influenced by international actors and that the movement’s key organisers were subject to external pressure. In a recently circulated interview with the online new-media platform Alap, Mazhar said he had maintained regular […]

Villagers in Dhulia, situated within Jhenaidah’s Harinakunda Upazila, apprehended a 24-year-old madrasa teacher on Friday afternoon before soperding him to law enforcement following allegations of repeated sexual abuse involving a 14-year-old student. The suspect, identified as Tanvir, taught at a residential religious school in Ghoshbila village, located in the adjacent Alamdanga Upazila of Chuadanga district. […]

Three people suspected of having measles have died across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, while 1,218 new infections were reported during the same period, reflecting the continued spread of the disease nationwide. The latest figures were released on Friday (7 August) in a press statement issued by the Control Room of the Directorate General […]

Seven people have been killed after a passenger bus lost control and rammed into a group of day labourers waiting for work along the Bogura–Naogaon regional highway in northern Bangladesh. The fatal accident occurred at around 5:30 a.m. on Friday in front of Erulia High School in Bogura Sadar Upazila. According to local authorities, the […]

Two more children displaying symptoms consistent with measles have died in Bangladesh’s Sylhet Division, pushing the total number of deaths linked to confirmed measles infections or suspected measles cases to 122, according to the latest update from the regional health authorities. Mohammad Nure Alam Shamim, Assistant Director of the Sylhet Health Department, said the two […]

A local leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has been expelled from the party following allegations of an illicit relationship with the wife of a disabled party worker in Habiganj’s Chunarughat Upazila. Nurul Islam Sajol, who served as the Ameer (president) of Gazipur Union Jamaat, was removed from all party positions after the organisation concluded that the […]