BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has submitted his nomination paper to contest the 13th national parliamentary election from the Thakurgaon-1 constituency. He handed over the nomination paper to Returning Officer and Deputy Commissioner Ishrat Farzana on Monday morning. After submitting the nomination at the district administration office, Mirza Fakhrul said reporters, ”We achieved our voting rights after a ...

The DNCC Administrator Mohammad Ejaz inaugurated the health insurance coverage programme at the Nagar Bhaban today. DNCC Chief Waste Management Officer Commodore ABM Shamsul Alam presided over the programme. “I think there should be health insurance for cleaners in all government and private offices. Despite the growing population of Dhaka, the number of our employees remains limited. We are working ...

Shooting of the film “Pritilata”, based on revolutionary freedom fighter Pritilata Waddedar, is set to resume in the new year, director Rashid Polash has said. Two films on Pritilata began production in 2020. In Pradip Ghosh’s “Bir Konnya Pritilata”, the role was played by Nusrat Imrose Tisha, and the film was released in 2023. However, Rashid Polash’s “Pritilata”, starring Porimoni ...

Dhaka is a city of memory and nostalgia, especially in winter, when familiar visions from the past surface. Across its roads, lanes, and markets, the city quietly rewrites the biography of pre-loved clothing. A quiet intimacy is woven into these garments. A zipper remembers a winter in Beijing or Tokyo. A denim jacket holds the slope of another’s shoulder. A ...

The 43rd annual general meeting (AGM) of Sylhet Gas Fields Limited, a gas and petroleum products producing company under Petrobangla, was held on December 18. The meeting took place at Petrocentre, the company’s Dhaka liaison office, according to a press release. The meeting was presided over by the chairman of the board of directors, Abul Mansur Md Faizullah, and attended ...

Myanmar’s dominant pro-military party is “winning a majority” in the first phase of junta-run elections, a party source told AFP on Monday, after democracy watchdogs warned the poll would entrench military rule. The armed forces snatched power in a 2021 coup, but on Sunday opened voting in a phased month-long election they pledge will return power to the people. The ...

The price of gold has reached an all-time high in the country, hitting over Tk 2.29 lakh per bhori (11.664 grammes). Jewellers have increased the price of the precious yellow metal by Tk 1,575 to Tk 2,29,431 following a hike in the pure gold price in the local market. The Standing Committee on Pricing and Price Monitoring of the Bangladesh ...

England pace spearhead Gus Atkinson was Monday ruled out of the fifth and final Ashes Test against Australia with a hamstring injury, their third fast bowler to head home early during the series. The Surrey right-armer hobbled off early on day two of the fourth Test in Melbourne clutching his left leg and took no further part. “Gus Atkinson has ...

The deadline for the submission of nomination papers in the upcoming national election sets to expire at 5PM on Monday (December 29). After the deadline, all nomination papers received by Assistant Returning Officers (AROs) must be forwarded immediately to the respective ROs along with the required security deposits. According to the EC schedule, scrutiny of nomination papers will be conducted ...

Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Haider on Sunday paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna. During the meeting, both sides discussed ways to expand cooperation in trade, investment and aviation, as well as scaling up cultural, educational, and medical exchanges to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two South Asian ...