The recent Narayanganj city polls showed that a free, fair, and peaceful election is possible if the government and administration do not interfere, academics and election experts said.

The government on Friday asked all schools and colleges to resume online or virtual classes, as it announced the closure of schools and all educational institutions again from January 21 till February 6, due to a surge in Covid-19 transmission.

Prices of edible oil further increased at retail yesterday amid refiners move to sell the essential commodity at higher rates.

A debate over syndication in labour recruitment in Malaysia is swirling around, especially after Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur signed a memorandum of understanding in this regard on December 19.

An Awami League activist was beaten and hacked to death allegedly by party rivals in Sharutia village of Shailkupa, Jhenidah, on Friday night. 

Omicron is now the dominant Covid-19 variant circulating in the European Union and European Economic Area (EAA), the bloc’s health agency has said.  

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan yesterday said that Tamim Iqbal has expressed his desire not to play T20 Internationals anymore.

Malaysian Home Minister Hamzah Zainuddin yesterday said his country will no longer give special quotas for the recruitment of foreign workers, reports The Star.

Judicial functions at all lower courts will run virtually as well as physically from today, said a notification issued by the Supreme Court administration yesterday.

Former law minister Shafique Ahmed has been brought to the ICU of LabAid Hospital in Dhaka after he was admitted there with liver problems.

Academy Award winning Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who is an outspoken climate activist, has congratulated the government of Bangladesh on the recently established “marine protected area” around Saint Martin’s Island.

At least two people were killed and over 15 injured when a large fire broke out in a multi-storey residential building in India’s financial capital Mumbai yesterday, authorities said.

Hundreds of farmers in Sunamganj are in fear of losing their Boro paddy to floods as the authorities concerned are delaying the repair of levees.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said that it is the United States that trained Rab on their rules of engagement, how to behave with people and how to interrogate.

Myanmar’s junta sentenced a member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s ousted party to death for terror offences yesterday, a statement said.

Iran is in talks with Russia over the construction of two new units at its sole nuclear power plant, the Islamic republic’s atomic energy agency said yesterday.

As he starts his second term as UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres said Thursday the world is worse in many ways than it was five years ago because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and geopolitical tensions that have sparked conflicts everywhere — but unlike US President Joe Biden he thinks Russia will not invade Ukraine.

The UN will look into the 12 human rights bodies’ call for banning Rab from its peacekeeping missions, UN secretary-general’s Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said yesterday.

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the daughters of a male Hindu dying without a will would be entitled to inherit father’s self-acquired and other properties obtained in the partition.

Border Guard Bangladesh recovered about 5-kg crystal meth, also known as ice, worth about Tk 25 crore from the district’s Ukhiya upazila early yesterday.