Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin has said the election schedule is likely to be announced before September next year after preparation of voters’ lists, demarcation of areas, and registration of political parties. Besides, he said that necessary directives are being given to the officials concerned assuming that elections will be held in December next year. In an interview ...

More than 1,500 prisoners escaped from a Maputo prison Wednesday, taking advantage of the third day of unrest triggered by the controversial confirmation of the long-ruling Frelimo party as the winner of recent elections. A total of 1,534 detainees escaped the high-security prison located about 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the capital, said national police chief Bernardino Rafael at a ...

Indian vessel MV Tanais Dream, carrying 24,690 tons of parboiled rice, arrived at Chittagong Port on Thursday morning. The vessel anchored at the seaport around 10AM. It is the first batch of rice imports from India since Dr Muhammad Yunus-led interim government assumed office. The unloading will begin after collecting samples of the rice.

A delegation of Khelafat Majlish met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday (December 25). Members of the delegation met Mirza Fakhrul at the BNP Chairperson’s political office at Gulshan in the capital at 11:30am on Wednesday. BNP’s media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan confirmed it. He said the twelfth session of the general council of Khelafat Majlish ...

The first phase of viva voce of the 44th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) exams will begin on January 5. The Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) has published a schedule to resume the postponed viva of the 44th BCS, a notice said on Tuesday (December 24) night. The first phase viva will be held at the PSC head office at Agargaon ...

Many people have tried eating with chopsticks, and one of them is Sumaiya Khan, a young woman from Bangladesh. Through her dedication, she didn’t just try but set a world record. The 24-year-old managed to eat 37 grains of rice in one minute using chopsticks. The rules of the Guinness World Records stated that only one grain of rice could ...

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet with 67 people on board crashed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan after veering from its scheduled route, officials said. Kazakh authorities said 28 people had survived the crash of the Embraer 190 near the city of Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, reports AFP. The plane was ...

A free medical camp was held on Monday (December 23) at Abdus Salam Hall of the National Press Club for the members of the Dhaka Sub-Editors Council (DSEC) in celebration of the Great Victory Day. The initiative, conducted in collaboration with Islami Bank Central Hospital, Kakrail, provided free medical consultations and advice to approximately 300 DSEC members. The event was ...

A court in Dhaka has sent former principal secretary to the former Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and former NBR Chairman Md Nazibur Rahman to jail following the end of his three-day remand in a case filed over the killing of BNP activist Makbul in 2022. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Saifuzzaman passed the order on Wednesday after police, following the remand, ...

A seminar titled ‘Syed ShamsulHaque in the Multidimensional Branch of Cinema’ was held on Tuesday (December 24) at the seminar hall of Bangladesh Film Archive. The event was presided over by Md. Kamruzzaman, Director General of the archive, while researcher Md. Russell Rana Doja presented the keynote paper under the guidance of eminent scholars including Dr. Mohammad Azam, Director General ...