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SB HQ ‘unaware’ of journalists’ political identities, personal data collection

TDS Desk: The headquarters of the police’s Special Branch (SB) has been left “completely in the dark” about field-level operatives knocking on journalists’ doors or phoning them to demand extensive

Indirect ‘tax traps’ in budget risk widening economic inequality, warn economists

UNB: At a time when the national economy is reeling under the combined pressures of high inflation, stagnant employment, investment crunches, and massive revenue deficits, the upcoming national budget for

Govt talking to IMF for fresh $5b loan

TDS Desk: The government is in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over a new three-year loan programme to replace the existing arrangement, whose terms are in conflict with

Want to set example through justice in Ramisa murder case: Law Minister

TDS Desk: Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Asaduzzaman has pledged swift investigation and trial over the brutal rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in the capital’s Pallabi

ICT indicts Abul Hasnat Abdullah, 3 others over extrajudicial killings

Court Reporter: The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT) on Wednesday formally indicted former lawmaker Abul Hasnat Abdullah and three former police officials in a case over the alleged extrajudicial killings of

UNICEF: Five letters sent to interim govt warning about measles vaccine shortages

TDS Desk: UNICEF Bangladesh Representative Rana Flowers (left) speaks at a press conference held at the UNICEF office in Dhaka on 20 May 2026. UNICEF had warned the Ministry of