A search committee has been formed to establish the Election Commission, said Law Affairs Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul on Tuesday. “The interim government’s election journey to hold the next general election has started. This will be an extraordinary election. Voter list will be updated.” The recommendation has been submitted to the Chief Adviser for signature and official notification will be ...

Police on Tuesday morning recovered the bodies of a woman and her son from their house in Sunamganj town. The incident happened in Hasannagar area under Ward No-2 of the municipality. The deceased were Farida Begum, 50, and her son Minhaj, 20. According to police and locals, in the morning, the house maid of the deceased came and saw the ...

Students of seven colleges affiliated to Dhaka University again blocked Science Lab intersection in the capital, demanding the formation of an independent university for their institutions. Around 11AM on Tuesday, they gathered inside Dhaka College and brought out a procession from there around 12:15PM and later took position at Science Lab, suspending vehicular movement in and around the area. “We ...

A young man was stabbed to death allegedly by his opponent three days after his marriage in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila on Monday. The incident took place in the evening at Inatganj market of the upazila. The victim Sohan, 25, son of Siraj Mia, was a resident of Noagaon village under Inatganj Union. Locals said that at around 6 pm, Sohan ...

The Ballon d’Or ceremony got underway on Monday in the absence of Real Madrid stars Vinicius Junior and Jude Bellingham after the Spanish club said it would boycott over a perceived snub of its players. Vinicius was not among the nominees who paraded onto the stage at the Paris’ Chatelet Theatre where the ceremony was held. He was featured in ...

A writ petition seeking to ban the political activities of 11 parties, including the Bangladesh Awami League and the Jatiya Party, has been officially withdrawn. The petition, which had also called for the 10th, 11th, and 12th national elections to be declared illegal, was dismissed at the High Court on Tuesday. The High Court bench of Justice Fatema Najib and ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk reached in Dhaka on Tuesday morning on a two-day visit. Toufique Hasan, director general and spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, welcomed him at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. During his visit, the High Commissioner is scheduled to meet Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus. The UN rights chief will meet a number ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday asked advisers to fast track the construction of the museum for the July-August mass uprising at the Gonobhaban. The Chief Adviser gave the instructions when he visited the Dhaka palace where ousted dictator Sheikh Hasina lived during the past 15 years, which became a symbol of repression and her brutal rule, reports UNB. ...

Three more people died of dengue while 1,197 new patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours till Monday morning. According to the daily update of Directorate General of Health Services, with the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 58,108 so far this year, and 280 people died ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday urged Saudi Arabia to invest more in Bangladesh and enhance energy and economic cooperation to boost ties between the two friendly nations. The Chief Advisers made the call when Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Essa Youssef Essa Al Duhailan paid a courtesy call on him at his office in Tejgaon, Dhaka. Ambassador Al Duhailan ...