A new central executive committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) is announced.

Three leading associations of transport owners and workers last night made several decisions to bring discipline in the transport sector, amid growing protest over Sunday's road accident.

A day after the Barisal City Cooperation election, Manisha Chakraborty, a mayoral aspirant from Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal, yesterday castigated the Election Commission for the alleged rigging and massive irregularities in the polls.

Government employees are going to get low interest loans at 20-year repayment periods for buying houses or apartments, says a circular issued by the finance division yesterday.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in the capital's Mohammadpur early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan to pay Tk 5 lakh to each of the families of two students who were killed in Sunday's crash on Airport Road.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has expressed satisfaction over yesterday's three city corporation elections, saying the polls were “considerably good”.

A Dubai-bound flight from Nepal was delayed by nearly 10 hours after the pilot was found to be under the influence of alcohol, officials said yesterday.

Fourteen members of the same family were yesterday killed in a car crash in central Vietnam en route to a wedding party, including the groom who died instantly when their van hit a container truck, police said.

Four tourists, including two Americans, were killed in Tajikistan on Sunday by armed attackers in what was originally reported as a hit-and-run road accident, the interior minister said yesterday.

The bodies of 23 victims of a landslide in Myanmar's northern jade mining area have been recovered, an official confirmed yesterday, after a days-long search hampered by heavy monsoon rains.

Japan said yesterday it would spend some $4.2 billion over the next 30 years on installing and operating US radar systems to protect itself against North Korean missile threats.

The country's two major parties — Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Peoples Party — are set to play an ARD-like

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will today inaugurate two ground stations for Bangabandhu Satellite-1, the country's first satellite.

Police yesterday arrested three people over their alleged involvement in the rape and murder of a Tripura schoolgirl in Noimile area in the district.

In a major policy shift, the new Malaysian government wants to reintroduce G2G, a state-level labour recruitment system, to eliminate middlemen in the recruitment that has always been marred by corruption and exploitation.

A smiling Shajahan Khan and his remarks on Sunday's road crash that killed two college students on the city's Airport Road have caused public outrage.

A woman and her two daughters were found dead in their home in Sylhet city's Dakkhin Surma area yesterday.

Prime Minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy sees win of three Awami League mayoral candidates in Barisal, Rajshahi and Sylhet city polls today.

A powerful earthquake which struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok yesterday killed at least 14 people, injured scores and damaged thousands of homes, officials said.