Ashik Abdullah Apu

Ignoring the party’s decision of boycotting the polls, at least two dozen leaders of the BNP and its associate bodies are likely to run for councillor in the June 12 Barishal city elections.

Despite the ruling Awami League’s repeated warning of taking stern action against him, suspended Gazipur city mayor Zahangir Alam is adamant to back his mother in the mayoral race.

Imdadul Haque Soofi, information and research affairs secretary of Dhaka’s ward-18 unit of Awami League, is a beneficiary of the Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor’s discretionary funds.

Suspended Gazipur mayor Zahangir Alam’s decision on participating the May 25 city polls may become the determining factor in the success of Awami League mayoral nominee Azmat Ullah Khan, say local leaders of the ruling party.

The mayors of Khulna and Rajshahi cities are likely to get Awami League nominations to run for mayor in the coming elections.

In the absence of a policy to act as a deterrent, ragging goes on unchecked at some public universities, as the authorities concerned seem indifferent to the need for curbing the menace.

During today’s iftar, Bangabazar traders and firefighters were seen breaking fast amid chaos and ruins caused by the devastating fire.

During today’s Iftar, Bangabazar traders and the firefighters were seen breaking fast amid chaos and ruins of the devastating fire. .Sagor Hasan, who had two shops at Bangabazar market and three shops in the adjacent Anexco Tower, recounted his overwhelming experience to The Daily Star.

“Maa, by your grace I got a house…. I don’t have any more worries. I don’t have to beg anymore,” Mohammad Hanif, a beneficiary of the Ashrayan-2 project, told Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina when she virtually handed houses over to the beneficiaries of the project in Gazipur’s Nayapara on Wednesday.

After living for 70 years under the open sky or at others’ residences, Neyamot Ali’s fate has finally changed. Thanks to the Ashrayan-2 project, he has been gifted with a semi-pucca house and two-decimal land in Gazipur.

Left-leaning parties in the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday took a firm stance against any possible inclusion of Islamist political parties in the combine.

Rony Ahmed was desperately looking for his brother near the emergency section of Dhaka Medical College Hospital

With the ruling Awami League apparently reaching out to some right-wing political parties to forge a bigger electoral alliance, a gap with its left allies keeps widening since the national polls in 2018.

Chhatra League President Saddam Hossain has held a section of activists of the student body responsible for the recent incidents of violence and scandals at educational institutions.

Bangladesh Chhatra League will regain its past glory. This was what Sheikh Wali Asif Enan pledged once he became the general secretary of the pro-Awami League student organisation in December last year

Candidates of the 45th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary test are passing days in anxiety as they are still in the dark about when the exam will take place.

The ruling Awami League kept faith in old faces while choosing members for its central executive committee, the party’s apex body, just like it did when electing office-bearers.

The ruling Awami League men will hold rallies on the thoroughfares of Dhaka and take position at entry points of the capital as the BNP is going to stage its scheduled mass procession today.

Leaders and activists of the Awami League’s grassroots level said they expect the new AL leadership, elected through the 22nd national council yesterday, will play a strong role in organising the field-level workers ahead of the next national election.

Ibrahim Khalil owns three plant nurseries along the boundary wall of the Rayerbazar Martyred Intellectual Memorial( Boddho Bhumi).