Khalid Bin Nazrul

Commuters’ suffering in the sweltering heat on the roads, as most of them had to spend at least 30 minutes to an hour more than the usual time to reach their destinations due to gridlocks, has become a common situation in Cumilla city.

The split in the pro-BNP vote bank because of the party’s two expelled leaders running for mayor was a big advantage for the ruling Awami League candidate in the Cumilla City Corporation election.

It was at the Shilpakala Academy auditorium, Cumilla, around 8:20pm.

Voting in yesterday’s Cumilla City Corporation polls took place largely without hassles, but there were some complaints about technical issues with electronic voting machines and long waiting times.

An unusually calm Cumilla city goes to election this morning amid a lack of enthusiasm and excitement among the voters about the polls, considered an acid test for the newly formed Election Commission.

Ruling Awami League mayoral candidate Arfanul Haque Rifat said people of the Cumilla city wants change.

Monirul Haque Sakku, an independent in the Cumilla city mayoral polls, alleged that there is no level playing field right now and the ruling party candidate will try to create chaos on election day.

Candidates in the Cumilla city polls made their last-minute efforts to woo voters yesterday as the electioneering ended at midnight.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government have declared zero tolerance against narcotics. But the ruling Awami League has picked a top listed patron of the illegal drug business as its mayoral candidate for the Cumilla city polls.

The family of Sohagi Jahan Tonu is losing hope that her brutal murder would be solved anytime soon as the killers are still at large six years on.

The killers’ target was  clear: shoot and confirm the death of Cumilla city Councillor Syed Mohammad Sohel on the spot.

Around 7:00am on October 13, a 30-year-old Ekram Hossain dialled 999 and reported to the police about an alleged defamation of the Holy Quran at Nanua Dighir Par puja mandap in Cumilla city.

A lack of nitrous oxide supply -- needed for anesthesia during surgeries -- is putting patients at Cumilla Medical College Hospital in difficulty.

The elder sister of the college student who was found dead in a Gulshan flat on April 26 has been terminated from her job at Padma Bank.

A controversy has stirred up centring a painting of celebrated writer, playwright and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed that either got lost or stolen during the time of his death in USA in 2012, and has now resurfaced in Cumilla after almost nine years.

Her parents left no stone unturned to help her become what she wanted to be: an artist. Sohagi Jahan Tonu had a natural knack for acting, and she would often sing and dance in theater plays.

For the unassuming, Cumilla Victoria Govt College’s Shaheed Minar may seem like a customary tribute to the Language Movement. That the monument itself has been a battleground between the region’s people and the then East Pakistan administration is thus a history worth retelling.

Garbage has been dumped unabated right beside Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Nazirabazar in Cumilla for years with no authorities taking care of the issue.

The government is yet to take any action against the registrar -- who recorded the marriage of deceased Lakingme Chakma, a 14-year-old girl -- based on a fake birth certificate and others involved.

The attackers who vandalised and torched four Hindu houses and a family temple in Korbanpur village of Cumilla’s Muradnagar on Sunday, did so even as the issue that inflamed them -- a Facebook post that they said hurt religious sentiments -- was being resolved.