The outgoing Election Commission has conducted its duties successfully and tried to work with neutrality within the law, said Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday.

When I received the news of the shooting, I was in my office at the Provincial Secretariat. It was about four o’clock in the afternoon.

Health officials reported 28 deaths from Covid-19 yesterday.

A top Rohingya leader was stabbed to death by a group of miscreants inside a camp in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Police are set to ensure foolproof security at Ekushey Book Fair taking possible risk from militant groups into consideration, DMP Commissioner Shafiqul Islam yesterday said.

A Bangladeshi man was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) near Roumari border in Kurigram early yesterday.

A teenage boy was stabbed to death and four others were injured in a clash at a local shrine in Netrakona’s Kendua upazila early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why the negligence of Gazipur’s Bangabandhu Safari Park authorities in ensuring the animals’ wellbeing should not be declared illegal.

Tashnuva Anan Shishir is the first Bangladeshi transgender woman to make a guest appearance at the prestigious PLITZS New York City Fashion Week.

Sitting for tests on three optional subjects and for fewer marks, HSC examinees of 2021 have achieved brilliant results as the pass rate and number of GPA-5 achievers in nine general education boards increased.

Metro rail authorities have sought another Tk 1,000 crore from the government to cover operation and maintenance cost.

Since the government had committed to paying private entrepreneurs even for unproduced power, the Power Development Board is now incurring huge losses, economists and sector analysists said yesterday.

Reopening the educational institutions after February 21 maintaining health safety protocols will not cause any problem, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

The UN Refugee Agency has requested the Malaysian authorities not to deport Mohammed Khairuzzaman, a former Bangladesh high commissioner to Malaysia, back home, confirmed multiple sources.

The pickup van driver, who ran over and killed five brothers in Cox’s Bazar, had no driving licence but had been driving several vehicles for the past two years.

The medical college hostel was the de facto control room of the language movement from February 21-24, 1952. Gaziul Haque, Shahidullah Kaiser, Oli Ahad, Kazi Golam Mahbub joined several meetings at the hostel.

Following the assurance of the education minister, protesting students of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology suspended their oust-VC movement yesterday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to speak with his US and French counterparts yesterday after the United States warned that Moscow could invade Ukraine in days.

An oxygen cylinder exploded in an ambulance in Bagerhat’s Sharankhola upazila, injuring three people, on Friday night.

A man died yesterday after being attacked by a member candidate of the UP election to Rajanagar union of Chattogram’s Rangunia upazila and his supporters on February 2.