3+ hour, 30+ min ago   (338+ words) A pistol, two magazines and 20 rounds of ammunition looted from Araihazar Police Station during the mass uprising in August 2024 were found in a mosque near the police station today. The weapons and ammunition were recovered from Araihazar Bazar Mosque this…...

4+ hour, 2+ min ago   (95+ words) The Daily Star Police recovered the dismembered body parts of a woman from a canal in the capital’s Adabar area this afternoon. Passersby spotted several body parts, including the head and a hand, in the canal near Balur Math in…...

5+ hour, 51+ min ago   (846+ words) The third session of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad, although shorter than the first two, offered several indications of the difficulties ahead. Tensions between the treasury and opposition benches became evident as the ruling party pushed through bills despite objections and denied…...

6+ hour, 29+ min ago   (273+ words) Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh today demanded amendments to the recently passed Transfer of Property (Amendment) Bill, 2026, claiming that its provisions concerning “hiba”, or gifts under Muslim law, conflict with the Quran and Sunnah. The organisation made the demand at an emergency meeting…...

8+ hour, 9+ min ago   (370+ words) President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today laid the foundation stone of Thakurgaon University, fulfilling a decades-old demand for a public university in the district. He laid the foundation stone at Maheshali village in Jamalpur union of Thakurgaon Sadar upazila around…...

7+ hour, 57+ min ago   (442+ words) National Citizen Party (NCP) spokesperson Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain today rejected allegations that he had laundered around Tk 11,000 crore to several destinations, including Australia, Dubai and Singapore, saying he was prepared to face them. “These are allegations of corruption over…...

9+ hour, 20+ min ago   (381+ words) A local BNP leader has been accused of assaulting a shop owners’ association president in Narayanganj in his shop based on what his family described as “false allegations of links to the Awami League”, whose activities are banned. The victim,…...

9+ hour, 45+ min ago   (253+ words) A local leader of Jubo League, whose activities remain banned, was hacked to death after a group allegedly entered his house in Muradnagar upazila of Cumilla early today. The incident took place around 4:00am in Uttar Pennai village of Srikail union,…...

11+ hour, 55+ min ago   (428+ words) The family of a shop owners’ association president in Narayanganj has accused a local BNP leader of assaulting him at his shop based on what they described as false allegations of links to the Awami League, whose activities are banned....

15+ hour, 55+ min ago   (204+ words) Adani Power’s Godda Unit 2 has resumed supplying electricity to Bangladesh after being shut down due to a technical fault, easing pressure on the country’s strained power system after nearly 84 hours. The 800MW unit was synchronised with Bangladesh’s national grid at around…...