Ershad Ullah, the BNP candidate for the Chattogram-8 parliamentary seat wounded in a shooting during a campaign event at the port city’s Bayezid Bostami, is being shifted to Dhaka for advanced treatment. He will be taken from Chattogram to Square Hospital in Dhaka by helicopter on Friday afternoon. Chattogram Metropolitan BNP Secretary Nazimur Rahman told bdnews24.com, "Ershad Ullah Bhai was shot in the right side of his chest and the leg. Chattogram Mayor Dr Shahadat Hossain visited Ershad Ullah at Evercare Hospital late on Wednesday night. Shahadat, a physician by profession, had said: “I visited Ershad Ullah Bhai.

An Ansar member has been expelled from the force on charges of stealing mobile phones from the cargo complex at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The incident has sparked renewed concern among traders over security lapses in the handling of imported goods at the airport. 8 in the early hours of Thursday while leaving the cargo complex with 15 mobile phones, hidden in his clothes and boots. Against this backdrop, the arrest of an Ansar member with stolen goods has further shaken confidence in airport security. If they can’t protect their own weapons, how will they protect our goods?”Bhuiyan added that the stolen mobile phones had been removed from cartons in a newly arrived shipment.

As Typhoon Kalmaegi wreaks havoc in Southeast Asia, scientists say rising temperatures are to blameA man walks along a muddy street where cars piled up after being swept away in floods brought by Typhoon Kalmaegi pile up at a subdivision in Bacayan, Cebu City, Philippines, Nov 5, 2025. Typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 188 people across the Philippines and caused untold damage to infrastructure and farmland across the archipelago. "Kalmaegi will be more powerful and wetter because of these elevated temperatures, and this trend in sea surface temperatures is extremely clearly linked to human-caused global warming." "Climate change enhances typhoon intensity primarily by warming ocean surface temperatures and increasing atmospheric moisture content," said Gianmarco Mengaldo, a researcher at the National University of Singapore. "Our recent studies have shown that coastal regions affected by tropical storms are expanding significantly, due to the growing footprint of storm surges and ocean waves," said Feng.

Chinese exports unexpectedly fell in October after months of front-loading US orders to beat President Donald Trump's tariffs, in a stark reminder of the manufacturing juggernaut's reliance on American consumers even as it woos buyers elsewhere. But US-bound Chinese goods will still face an average tariff rate around 45 percent, above the 35 percent level that some economists say wipes out Chinese manufacturers' profit margins. China's trade surplus with the US came in at $24.76 billion in October, rising from $22.82 billion a month prior. In line with its push to broaden its trade ties, Beijing on Thursday flagged fresh prospects for a trade or investment deal with the European Union, the world's third-largest economy. Last month, China posted a trade surplus of $21.9 billion with the 27-strong bloc.

A conspiracy is being hatched to subvert democracy in Bangladesh again after the July Uprising, says BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. He made the remarks while speaking to the media after laying wreaths at the grave of former president and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Friday. BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman presided over the standing committee meeting. "Shaheed Ziaur Rahman brought back multi-party democracy from a one-party system. Fakhrul said that Ziaur Rahman initiated progress in development in Bangladesh by introducing a free market economy in the country.

Several people at a US military base fall ill after suspicious package with white powder opened, CNN reportsA satellite image shows tents set up near the runway at the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, Oct 29, 2025. Planet Labs PBC/Handout via REUTERSA suspicious package containing white powder delivered to a US military base in Maryland caused multiple people to fall ill and led to several being hospitalised, CNN reported on Thursday. A building on the base was evacuated after an individual "opened a suspicious package," CNN said, citing a statement from Joint Base Andrews, located outside Washington, DC. The package contained an unknown white powder, said CNN, citing two sources familiar with the investigation. The US Department of Defense and Joint Base Andrews did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Officials from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project have urged the public not to be misled by misinformation or rumours surrounding a recent fire that broke out near the plant in Pabna. Earlier on Thursday, Sharful Ahsan Bhuiyan, assistant director of the Pabna Fire Service, had reported the fire. According to the project authorities, the incident occurred at 12:20pm near an artificial canal built to maintain water flow from the Padma and Ichhamati rivers, while workers were clearing dumped wooden waste. A few workers from Imamul Enterprise, who were on site, immediately informed the project’s control room. The control room quickly notified the project’s own fire unit, the Rooppur Modern Fire Station, and the Green City Fire Station, who jointly extinguished the flames.

The family of Sarwar Hossain Babla, who was shot and killed during a BNP event in Chattogram, has filed a case over his murder. Seven suspects have been named in the case filed by Sarwar’s father Abdul Quader on Friday, said Jashim Uddin, the chief of Bayezid Bostami Police Station. Two of the suspects implicated in the case have been identified by single names as Raihan and Emon. Another 15-16 unidentified individuals have also been listed as suspects, OC Jashim said. Following the incident, Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Hasib Aziz told the media that the killing had “targeted” Sarwar.

Fifteen shops have been destroyed in a fire in Lakshmipur’s Ramgati Upazila. The blaze broke out in a market in the Alexander Bazar area early on Friday morning, according to Khokon Majudar, station officer of the Ramgati Fire Service. Locals said the fire originated from an electrical short circuit at a grocery shop owned by a man named Rasel and quickly spread to adjacent shops. By that time, 15 shops had been reduced to ashes. “Initially, we believe the fire started from an electrical short circuit,” Majudar said.

ICC finalises venues for 2026 T20 World Cup, to be co-hosted by India and Sri LankaThe International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed five venues in India for the 2026 Men’s T20 World Cup, which will be jointly hosted by Sri Lanka. According to espncricinfo, the ICC has shortlisted two venues in Colombo and Kandy to host matches in Sri Lanka. Apart from hosts India and Sri Lanka, the teams that have earned automatic qualification include Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, South Africa, the United States, and the West Indies, the top seven finishers from the 2024 T20 World Cup. Italy, who will make their first-ever appearance in a T20 World Cup, and the Netherlands qualified from Europe. India are the defending champions, having defeated South Africa in the 2024 T20 World Cup final in Barbados.

Passengers wait at Terminal 2 of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, July 1, 2024. REUTERSPassengers wait at Terminal 2 of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, July 1, 2024. REUTERSAircraft movement at Delhi airport was hampered on Friday because its Air Traffic Control system suffered a technical problem, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said after several flights were disrupted at one of the world's busiest airports. The AAI said a technical issue in the Automatic Message Switching System, which supports Air Traffic Control data, caused the disruption. Delhi airport handled about 78 million passengers in 2024, making it the ninth busiest airport in the world, according to Airports Council International.

A Bangladeshi expatriate worker has been shot dead in Khulna’s Rupsha only a few days after he returned to the country. He had been living in Saudi Arabia for a long time and had returned home only a few days ago. When people heard the gunfire and came looking, the criminals fled.”The motive for the murder is not yet clear, OC Mahfuzur said. The body has been sent to the morgue at Khulna Medical College Hospital for a post-mortem examination. Sohel is the third person to be shot dead in Rupsha this year.

REUTERSUS President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords to have normalised relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations. "Our anticipated accession to the Abraham Accords represents a natural and logical continuation of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy course — grounded in dialogue, mutual respect, and regional stability," it added. "Some of the countries represented here are going to be joining the Abraham Accords... and those announcements will be made over the next little while," Trump said. Trump has repeatedly said he wants to expand the accords that he brokered during his first term in the White House. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain established ties with Israel in 2020 under the Trump-brokered Abraham Accords.

Tasnim Jara, secretary of the NCP election management committee, speaks at a media briefing on Thursday at the party's temporary office in Dhaka's Banglamotor. -AgencyThe National Citizen Party (NCP) has begun distributing nomination forms both online and offline for the parliamentary polls. Tasnim Jara, secretary of the NCP election management committee, made the announcement at a media briefing on Thursday at the party's temporary office in Dhaka's Banglamotor. She said, "The nomination forms can be collected through three methods. He added, "The minimum price of the nomination form is set at Tk 10,000.

A Bangladeshi expatriate worker has been shot dead in Khulna’s Rupsha only a few days since he returned to the country. The incident occurred next to a field owned by Manik Sardar in the Ramnagar area of Noihati Union around 9pm on Thursday. Mahfuzur Rahman, chief of Rupsha Police Station, said that 45-year-old Sohel Howladar hailed from Rahimnagar village. He had been living in Saudi Arabia for a long time and had returned home only a few days ago. Sohel is the third person to be shot dead in Rupsha this year.