Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said that permission for party leaders to run as independent candidates in the upcoming national election is a “strategic decision”. “Awami League is moving forward, changing strategy as per the need of the hour. There is no bar to dummy candidates following the guideline of the party chief (Sheikh Hasina),” he said, ...

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun’s younger brother Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mahmud (Al-Amin) got Awami League nomination from Sunamganj-2 (Dirai-Shalla) constituency to contest the 12th Jatiya Sangsad election. Late Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta was a member of parliament from this constituency. After his death, his wife Jaya Sengupta was elected MP from the seat. Al-Mahmud submitted his ...

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal has said that the upcoming 12th parliamentary election should be free, fair and credible to keep the country’s economy and democracy alive. “The election day is very important, whether win nor defeat. We want free, fair and credible polls. Unfortunately, some foreign countries are extending their claws on Bangladesh, dominating the country centering the ...

Unidentified miscreants vandalised a covered van and set fire on it on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Dakshin Surma upazila in Sylhet district on Monday morning during the 7th edition of 48 hours blockade across the country enforced by BNP and its like-minded parties. Eyewitnesses said a group of miscreants wearing helmet and mask stopped the covered van and started vandalising ...

‘Shaheed Dr Milon Day’ will be observed across the country on today commemorating the 33rd martyrdom anniversary of Dr Shamsul Alam Khan Milon, the then joint secretary general of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA). Dr Milon, who was also a lecturer of Dhaka Medical College (DMC), was killed by the goons of military junta near the Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) of Dhaka ...

Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman has been released from his contract by the Delhi Capitals ahead of next year’s Indian Premier League (IPL), reports cricket website Cricbuzz. Mustafizur was roped in by the franchise for his base price of INR two crores in the 2022  IPL auction. The left-arm pacer has spent two seasons at the franchise, where he claimed nine ...

New gas reserve has been found in well No 10 under the Sylhet Gas Field Limited in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet district. Sylhet Gas Field Limited (SGFL) Director Mohammad Mizanur Rahman said 13 million cubic feet of gas can be extracted daily from the well. “We are expecting to extract 13 million cubic feet of gas per day from the ...

Stockholm-headquartered multi-national high fashion brand H&M has announced that it will increase payments for its clothing items manufactured in Bangladesh to compensate for increased worker wages. H&M’s decision comes weeks after protests by garment workers in Bangladesh over wage hikes. The worker groups had deemed the wage hikes proposed by the government as insufficient, reports Wion news. According to Bloomberg, ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) based approach demonstrated diagnostic performance comparable to experienced radiologists in detecting gallbladder cancer at a hospital in Chandigarh, according to a study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia journal. Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is a highly aggressive malignancy with a poor detection and a high mortality rate. Early diagnosis is challenging because benign gallbladder ...

As a child in Sonora, Mexico, Marissa Gencarelli took good tortillas for granted. She didn’t have to make them at home – there were tortillerias on almost every corner passing fresh flour and corn tortillas through an open window. But when she moved to Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband, Mark, she found a void. The city had plenty of ...