World News | Bangladesh Chief Advisor Yunus Directs Armed Forces to Ensure Security Ahead of Elections

Dhaka [Bangladesh], November 2 (ANI): Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has instructed Bangladesh's armed forces to take comprehensive measures to ensure peace and order across the country in preparation for the 13th National Parliament...

From crisis to care: Why Bangladesh needs a mental health vision

In a factory outside Gazipur, a 19-year-old operator once told a counsellor from SAJIDA Foundation, "Apa, my hands don't shake because of the machines. They shake because of what I am carrying inside my chest." She was not alone. Across...

Indian voter records strengthen citizenship claim of family deported to Bangladesh

A deportation case involving a pregnant woman allegedly sent to Bangladesh despite evidence of Indian citizenship has triggered legal proceedings and political criticism in India. Sunali Khatun, her husband Danish, and their eight-year-old son...

Turkish parliamentary delegation calls on chief adviser

Bangladesh and Türkiye have expressed keenness to further strengthen the bilateral cooperation in trade, investment, and humanitarian initiatives, particularly for Rohingyas, as a five-member Turkish parliamentary delegation paid a call on Chief...

PAMI Appeals for Reforms in Medical Education Governance

Appeal by Members of Pakistan Association of Private Medical and Dental institutions (PAMI), Pakistan Something is deeply wrong with how we are treating those who build Pakistan’s future doctors. Walk into any private medical college today, and...

LEEDO organizes fun outing for children in Dhamrai, Dhaka

Hasan Ali Musafir, now a ninth-grader, once scavenged bottles and begged at Kamalapur Railway Station at the age of five or six. One night, while sleeping near the station, he fell from the roof of a train engine while trying to help a friend and...

Exports fall for third consecutive month

Merchandise shipments slide 7.43% in October, with apparel exports hit by softer US and EU demand and tariff uncertainty The country's merchandise shipments declined for a third month in a row in October, dropping 7.43 percent year-on-year to...

Regenerative agriculture: How soil health can strengthen India’s textile supply chains

The textile industry finds itself at a turning point. Climate shocks, rising input costs and volatile trade policies have made the journey from farm to fashion far less predictable than it once was. For India — a nation that feeds cotton to the...

‘Living in fear of the sky’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh battle environmental crisis

The Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar are succumbing to an environmental nightmare of deforestation, landslides, flooding and fires – exacerbated by cuts in international aid that have halted most efforts to mitigate the effects of such disasters. By...

5 more die of dengue, 1,147 hospitalised

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka 04 November, 2025, 01:12 The dengue crisis in Bangladesh continues to deteriorate as five more patients died and 1,147 were admitted to hospitals across the country in the 24 hours leading up to Monday morning....

Digital transformation: How business is reshaping in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has evolved into one of the most rapidly expanding economies in South Asia. Over the years, it has transitioned from an agrarian structure to a diversified economy characterised by robust manufacturing, service, and export sectors. At...

Passenger held with 6,378 Yaba pills at Dhaka Airport

The Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) detained a passenger with 6,378 Yaba pills concealed inside his stomach at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday night. The detainee Md Pannu Howlader,30, hails from Amtoli upazila in Barguna...

Faith endures amid neglect at Dhaka’s historic cemetery

On a quiet October afternoon, Mary Teresa Biswas kneels beside a weathered gravestone at Dhaka’s Wari Christian Cemetery. With a wet cloth, she carefully wipes away the dirt covering her grandson’s name. “He was only five months old,” she says...

Arsenic in rice and vegetables; public health at risk

BSS, Chittagong University: Climate change-driven droughts are deepening Bangladesh's groundwater crisis, pushing arsenic contamination to alarming levels in many districts and endangering the nation's food and health security. A recent study...

Impunity and Indigeneity: Renewed Violence and Denial in Bangladesh’s Hill Tracts

By Anonymous The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southeastern Bangladesh, home to 13 Indigenous communities, has long carried the weight of unhealed wounds. In late September 2025, that fragile peace was shattered once again. What began as a...

Expert Panel Pulls Up Pharma Department Over Rising Drug Prices, Seeks Tighter Control On MRP

Last Updated:November 01, 2025, 09:50 IST The panel has recommended an urgent amendment to the drug pricing control order to include provisions for regular monitoring of MRPs & trade margins of high-value life-saving drugs Rapid Read Summarized by...

Journalists across Bangladesh hold protests to press for 39-point demands

BFUJ calls for enforcement of No Wage Board, No Media policy, journalist protection law United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka 01 November, 2025, 16:07 Journalists across the country hold protest rallies on Saturday demanding the implementation of the...

BB receives 13 applications for digital bank

Thirteen entities, including mobile financial service providers, telecom operators, commercial banks, and large conglomerates, have applied to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) for a digital bank licence. Several applicants have foreign partnerships, while...

City libraries in Dhaka’s south fall into neglect

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh’s goods are stored at Mufti Maulana Din Mohammad Islami Library run by the Dhaka South City Corporation, with poor facilities and little activity, at Lalbagh in Dhaka on Monday. | Md Saurav Four of the eight...

October deadliest month for dengue across Bangladesh

Surge in infection feared to continue in Nov Rashad Ahamad 01 November, 2025, 13:49 Representational image. | File photo October emerged as the deadliest month for dengue this year, with at least 80 deaths and 22,520 hospitalisations, while...