Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed yesterday said the proposed Cyber Security (Amendment) Act 2026 will help restore decency in the digital space, protect women and young people from cyber-bullying, and ensure professional safeguards for journalists while preventing any misuse of the law.

PM Tarique to leave for New York on Sept 21 to attend UNGA, he says

Courtesy meeting covered shared heritage, cultural relations and mutual interests

Born on June 26, 1940, in undivided Bengal’s Kushtia, Ketaki Kushari Dyson graduated in English Literature from Presidency College in 1958

A Dhaka court yesterday placed 24 leaders and activists of the Awami League and its associate bodies on 10-day remand each in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act over their alleged involvement in a procession in Dhaka’s Gulshan area on Friday afternoon.

Syed Taki Mohammad, popularly known as Buddan Saheb, a prominent Urdu poet and social worker of Old Dhaka, passed away at his Sat Rowza Mohalla residence at 8:00pm on Friday. He was 76, said a press release.

Madrasa education in Bangladesh faces structural problems, with Alia institutions affected by unequal state support, curriculum changes and social prejudice, while Qawmi madrasas remain isolated from wider society and lack accountability, academics and researchers said yesterday.

The government will take steps to align Bangla- and English-medium curricula and establish common minimum standards for students’ basic knowledge and skills, said Bobby Hajjaj, the state minister for primary and mass education.

A single runway, high operating costs, and shortages of pilots and engineers continue to constrain Bangladesh’s aviation sector, while foreign carriers dominate the market.

While authorities continue to assure adequate fertiliser supply, official data shows allocations for T‑Aman paddy and early‑season winter vegetables in Kurigram have been barely half the amount recommended by the agriculture office during the current Kharif‑2 cropping season.

Forty-year-old Nazma Begum, a garment worker, found herself in a precarious situation after her husband, Asad Mia, verbally divorced her and forced her out of their home.

At 83, Razia Samad Dahlia, known as “Dahlia Khalamoni”, continues to serve the poor, sick and vulnerable in Sherpur, where locals affectionately call her “Sherpur’s Mother Teresa”.

Laboni Akhter, 29, an entrepreneur from Shariatpur, began farming laboratory mice in 2024 with just Tk 2,500.

Suria Begum, 51, has trained girls in football, cricket, hockey and kabaddi in Jhenaidah for over a decade. A sports teacher at Fajer Ali Girls School and College, she provides the training free of cost.

For the past 18 years, Aleya Begum, 52, has worked to prevent suicides in Jhenaidah. Going from home to home, she counsels people in distress and holds courtyard meetings with women, encouraging them to face hardship rather than give up on life.

In a bid to prevent road crash fatalities, all public and private hospitals will be legally obligated to provide immediate treatment to road crash victims without asking preliminary questions under the proposed “Road Safety Act, 2026”.

The traditional boat race returned to the Titas river in Brahmanbaria yesterday after a two-year suspension allegedly following objections from madrasa students.

Some low-lying areas in Chapainawabganj have been inundated as water levels in the Padma, Mahananda and Punarbhaba rivers continued to rise yesterday due to an onrush of water from upstream, leaving over 4,000 families waterlogged.

A man and his nephew were killed when lightning struck them while they were fishing in Changnoagaon haor in Karimganj upazila of Kishoreganj yesterday.

More than 1,25,000 residents of Bagerhat municipality are facing worsening waterlogging as the town’s canals remain clogged and narrowed by encroachment, waste dumping and years of siltation.