Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal today said all parties, including BNP, will soon be called for a dialogue on the elections.

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said if he had been made the CEC of New Zealand or Britain, he could have finished the election by sitting on a chair sipping tea.

The flood situation in Dowarabazar and Chhatak upazilas of Sunamganj has improved slightly as water started receding in different areas of the two upazilas.

There were very slim chances that the Chattogram Test, between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, would render a result. In fact, Sri Lanka all-rounder Dhananjaya de Silva admitted that they ‘knew it was going to be a draw from the first day.’

Former Bangladesh captain turned national selector Habibul Bashar did not hesitate to give Bangladesh team ‘full marks’ for their efforts under trying conditions in the Chattogram Test against Sri Lanka that ended in a draw on Thursday.

Nayeem Hasan, who came in as the replacement of the injured Mehedi Hasan Miraz for the ongoing two-match Test series between hosts Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, is uncertain to take part in the second Test, scheduled to be held in Dhaka on May 23.

On Wednesday, 18th May, during her speech marking her homecoming from exile, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made a reference to me and said: “… Dr Yunus and, what we heard, Mahfuz Anam -- they went to America, went to the State Department, and sent email to Hillary [Clinton]. Anyway … the then World Bank president Mr [Robert Bruce] Zoellick on his last working day, not at any board meeting, stopped the funding for the Padma bridge project. However, it has turned out to be a blessing in disguise in one sense.”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the finance and commerce ministries and Bangladesh Bank to find ways to deal with the economic pressure caused by the Russia-Ukraine war and Covid pandemic.

The government is likely to miss the May 31 deadline for starting hajj flight as many hajj-related activities are yet to be completed with the hajj only one and a half months away.

Local airlines are poised to raise ticket prices further after Padma Oil Company this week hiked the price of jet fuel for the 14th time in 18 months.

A 65-day ban has been imposed on all kinds of fishing in Bangladesh maritime from today.

No Covid-19 deaths were reported for the 29th consecutive day while 35 new infections were recorded in 24 hours till 8am today.

Bangladesh Test skipper Mominul Haque said that it is unrealistic for everyone in the team to perform well in a game.

Bangladesh Navy rescued 33 Rohingyas, including children, from the Bay of Bengal near St Martin's Island while they were heading to Malaysia.

There were no last-minute surprises as the first Test between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka ended as an expected draw after Dinesh Chandimal and Niroshan Dickwella held their own in the final session on the final day of the contest at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram today.

There were doubts about paceman Taskin Ahmed’s inclusion in Bangladesh's upcoming Test series against West Indies. A crisis in the pace department surfaced today when Shoriful Islam was ruled out of the rest of the series against Sri Lanka owing to an injury he suffered during the fourth day’s play at Chattogram.

Deputy Commissioner of Chandpur Anjana Khan Majlis, who took steps against discrepancies in land procurement for Chandpur Science and Technology University (CSTU), has been transferred to Netrokona.

A total of 873 primary and secondary schools, madrasas and colleges have been closed in Sylhet and Sunamganj as the flood situation in the two districts worsened due to continuous rain.

The complexion of the first Test between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka began to change in the last delivery of the fourth day yesterday when Taijul Islam castled nightwatchman Lasith Embuldenya through the gap between bat and pad. The ball turned viciously from outside off stump and was the precursor for what might happen on the fifth and final day in Chattogram today.

Former US President George W Bush mistakenly described the invasion of Iraq as "brutal" and "unjustified" before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.