Three men have been arrested by the Tongi East police following an armed motorcycle showdown designed to intimidate garment factory management over the lucrative “jhut” (garment scrap) export trade. The incident, which took place in the Tongi industrial belt of Gazipur on 28 June, involved hundreds of motorcyclists parading weapons openly. On Wednesday, 1 July, […]

An indefinite closure has been declared at the Islam Garments Limited (Unit-2) factory in Konabari, Gazipur, following prolonged labour unrest and a wildcat strike. Management suspended all production operations at the facility, which employs more than 2,000 workers, on Wednesday, 1 July. According to an official notice circulated by the factory authorities, workers initiated an […]

Government employees in Bangladesh will have a rare opportunity to enjoy a continuous four-day holiday next August. To secure this extended break, civil servants must strategically combine a single day of casual or optional leave with the gazetted public holiday scheduled for Eid-e-Miladunnabi. According to the official government holiday calendar, the public holiday for Eid-e-Miladunnabi […]

Metro rail services at the Dhaka University station have been temporarily suspended this afternoon. Trains will bypass the station from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm on Wednesday, 1 July. The state-owned operator, Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), announced the sudden service modification in an emergency bulletin issued at midday. According to the transit authority, […]

The senior leadership of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has requested well-wishers to refrain from visiting veteran politician Nazrul Islam Khan following his admission to hospital. Khan, a member of the BNP’s highest policymaking body, the Standing Committee, and a newly appointed adviser to the Prime Minister, was admitted to Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on […]

Surrounded by her four children, Minara Begum sat staring blankly at the edge of her crumbling homestead. The open sky served as her roof, while a small pile of salvaged corrugated iron sheets lay beside her. Four years ago, the ferocious erosion of the Teesta River swallowed her ancestral home. Now, the Brahmaputra has devoured […]

A deep sense of anxiety and panic has gripped a rural community in northwestern Bangladesh after four schoolgirls vanished without a trace. The incident occurred on Tuesday morning in the Baliadangi Upazila of Thakurgaon district. The girls, who are all close friends, neighbours from the same village, and students at the same local school, left […]

The newly formed BNP government in Bangladesh has moved decisively to repair diplomatic and economic frictions with Japan, its largest bilateral development partner. Strains had emerged during the tenure of the previous interim administration over the spiralling costs of several high-profile infrastructure schemes. To restore stable relations, Dhaka has committed to advancing two major Japanese-funded […]