The search committee, which will suggests names for the appointments of the chief election commissioner and other commissioners, is likely to be formed by the president today, sources said. 

Some 273 out of 287 migrants recently found on a boat in the Mediterranean have primarily been identified as Bangladeshis, according to the Bangladesh embassy in Rome.

The forest department recovered a tiger’s carcass from a Sundarbans canal yesterday afternoon.

The United Nations yesterday urged the world to ramp up the pressure on Myanmar’s junta to cease violence against the country’s own people and quickly restore civilian rule.

Some 550 Bangladeshi expatriate workers, including 200 UAE-bound ones, are forced to cancel their flights every day at the last moment, said sources at Dhaka airport.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar yesterday hit back at Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda saying that the latter criticised him “out of vengeance” as they had differing positions on different election issues.

The protesting students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday for bearing all medical expenses of those who were injured in police attack and became sick in hunger strike.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that the West had ignored Moscow’s security concerns over Nato expansion and Ukraine, the Kremlin said.

As Omicron pushes Western countries towards reopening, Asia is hunkering down, sharpening an East-West divide on the balance between public health, the economy and basic rights and freedoms.

Japan will contribute $2 million in emergency grant aid for supporting the Rohingyas living on Bhasan Char.

India’s capital yesterday announced the end of a weekend curfew and eased other stringent coronavirus restrictions yesterday, with government data suggesting the country’s recent Omicron variant outbreak had slowed.

China has returned an Indian citizen who “illegally” entered into Chinese territory at the disputed border between the two Asian giants, a military official said yesterday.

The students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology have resumed their protest with an open discussion.

The main structure of the country’s first metro rail project was completed yesterday with the installation of the last segment of the viaduct, which now connects two ends of the capital -- Uttara and Motijheel.

At least eight people were injured in a clash between the followers of two rival chairman candidates at Khagaria Union Parishad polls in Chattogram’s Satkania upazila yesterday.

A woman in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila has been sued for becoming a voter for the second time using a fake name and age.

A Kushtia court sent a female office assistant of Kushtia’s Daulatpur upazila sub-registrar (land) office to jail yesterday.

Police arrested a union parishad member and his two cohorts on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in beating up three youths on theft charge in Mymensingh’s Phulbaria upazila.

Bangladesh has expressed dismay over Myanmar’s slow pace verification of the Rohingya and offered the later all cooperation under three bilateral instruments to expeditiously complete the verification process.

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