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HC ruling restores control of subordinate judges to Supreme Court

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- The High Court has transferred control of judicial appointments, transfers, promotions, leave, and discipline from the executive branch to the Supreme Court. It has also ordere... Read More


BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul visits injured Nur, Lutfur in hospital

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has visited Nurul Haque Nur, president of Gono Odhikar Parishad (GOP), and Khandaker Lutfur Rahman, chief of a Jatiya Ganatantr... Read More


University Teachers' Network demands stern action against student over rape threat to DUCSU candidate

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- The University Teachers' Network has called for exemplary punishment of a student accused of threatening to "gang rape" a female candidate in the Dhaka University Central Studen... Read More


DUCSU candidate Meghmallar set to undergo surgery, campaigning in doubt

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- Meghmallar Basu, the Pratirodh Panel's general secretary candidate in the upcoming Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) elections, has been admitted to hospital in t... Read More


July Uprising: Formal charges pressed in 34 out of over 1,500 cases so far

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- Police have submitted chargesheets for eight more cases filed across Bangladesh in connection with murders and other offences committed during last year's anti-government protes... Read More


Nagorik Oikya's Manna says govt must explain how polls will be held amid unrest

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- Mahmudur Rahman Manna, convener of the Nagorik Oikya, says the party will ask Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus how the interim government plans to hold elections in what he describe... Read More


Bangladesh advisor calls for global empathy to confront climate crisis

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- Syeda Rizwana Hasan, advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, has stressed the need for global unity and solidarity to tackle the climate crisis. Call... Read More


DUCSU opens inquiry into 'gang rape' threat against polls candidate

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- The Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) and Hall Union Election Commission has formed a separate committee to investigate a threat of "gang rape" made on social med... Read More


DUCSU VP hopeful Kader says man behind 'gang rape' threat has Shibir ties

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- Abdul Kader, a vice-president candidate from the Anti-Discrimination Student Parliament panel in the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) polls, has alleged that the... Read More


LPG price down by Tk 0.25 per kg in September

Bangladesh, Sept. 2 -- The government has reduced the price of LPG by Tk 0.25 per kg for the month of September as international raw material costs stayed flat. The new rates will take effect from 6p... Read More