Jatiya Party (Manju) yesterday said the new election commission should be formed through the enactment of a law in line with the constitution and not through search committee.

Guliakhali Sea Beach, a unique sea beach located in Sitakunda upazila, was declared a reserved area for tourism yesterday.

Police have pressed charges against Elias Khan, a Chhatra Dal leader in Chattogram, in an arms case filed by Rab with Akbar Shah Police Station.

Six people have been killed in two road accidents in Kushtia over the last two days.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the country’s people to keep up the pace of the economic progress that the country has achieved in the great stride of all to build “Sonar Bangla”.

Afghanistan’s ambassador to China left a colourful resignation note for his post-Taliban takeover successor yesterday -- revealing that staff had not been paid for months and that a lone receptionist had been left to answer phones.

Saifuddahar Shahid, the creator of the first Bangla computer keyboard “Shahidlipi” passed away in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday at the age of 74.

Four High Court judges have been elevated to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday, raising the judges’ number to eight.

The driver of Meghla Paribahan bus, which hit and killed two pedestrians in the capital’s Gulistan on Saturday, used to drive the bus with a light-vehicle licence.

Although the atmosphere surrounding the Narayanganj city polls is still peaceful, locals believe candidates will face a big challenge maintaining it as internal conflicts between parties and leaders have started coming to light.

Vikram K Doraiswami, the Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka, has discouraged Bangladeshis from travelling to the neighbouring country unless if it is absolutely essential.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Partha Gopal Banik, a suspended deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division, to eight years’ imprisonment in a graft case.

Six bodies were recovered from Buriganga river in Narayanganj yesterday, four days after a motorboat capsized in the district.

India reported 159,632 new Covid-19 cases and 327 new deaths yesterday, as the Omicron variant continues to spread rapidly in the country, nudging several state governments to impose fresh restrictions.

Former superintendent of police Babul Akter was shown arrested yesterday in the case filed by him over the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in Chattogram five and a half years ago.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to get vaccines without unnecessary fear to fight off the coronavirus and its new variants.

Himanshu Roy, a tea stall owner who died in police custody in Lalmonirhat, and his wife were cremated in the same funeral pyre on Saturday night.

In the dialogue with President Abdul Hamid at the Bangabhaban yesterday, Krishak Sramik Janata League opposed search committee for the formation of the next Election Commission.

A youth was killed when a fire swept through a part of Kaptan Bazar in the capital’s Gulistan early yesterday.

A member of the hijra community was stabbed to death in Jashore yesterday.