Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday said elections to municipalities will be held in five phases, starting in December.

The International CHT Commission has expressed grave concern that the plan to construct a five-star hotel in Nilgiri of Bandarban will displace Mro villagers from three villages around the project site, and threaten to displace villagers from five other villages.

Investigators are yet to ascertain the real identity of the reported imposter who was scamming people by posing as the grandson of Nawab Salimullah Khan.

Distinguished personalities have expressed deep sorrow at the untimely passing of veteran writer and cultural figure Abul Hasnat.

Transparency International Bangladesh has said the “indescribable” torture on Chattogram-based journalist Golam Sarwar was a threat to independent journalism.

Thirty percent of women workers of the country were victims of social violence in March, April and May, a study during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country has found.

The government has no plan right now to enforce lockdown once again for a potential second spell of Covid-19 in winter, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said yesterday.

Incidents of murder, rape and injustice are happening more frequently in the country due to a lack of rule of law and good governance, said Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday.

Team Bangladesh has become the champion after competing against 173 countries in the biggest global robotics competition for high school students titled “First Global Challenge”, which took place from July to September.

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Prominent sports organiser, ex-footballer and referee Mrenalendu Nandi Chanchal passed away yesterday, while undergoing treatment in a hospital in Dhaka. He was 85.

Detectives arrested four employees of a courier service in Rajshahi city yesterday while they were transporting fake cigarettes and band-rolls worth Tk 1.35 crore to different parts of the country.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) today found Aedes mosquito larvae in 94 houses and establishments on the first day of a 10-day combing operation to destroy breeding grounds of mosquitoes.

Police have foiled an attempt by Hefazat-e-Islam-led ‘Somomona Islami Dal’ -- a platform of Islamist parties -- to besiege the French embassy in Dhaka.

Vehicular movement from Dhaka’s Baitul Mukarram National Mosque to Bijoynagar intersection remained suspended since this morning as several hundred activists of Hefazat-e-Islam staged protest against the recent comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Condemning cartoons insulting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in France, BNP yesterday expressed solidarity with the protests by people of all races and religions and the Muslim Ummah against such a dreadful crime.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is all set to begin a 10-day combing operation to destroy all breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes in areas under its jurisdiction from today.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday stayed until November 8 a High Court order that granted bail to contractor Asif Hossain in a case filed over the much-discussed corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

Intern doctors of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barishal have gone for an indefinite strike, demanding withdrawal of a case filed against them.

His plan was to grab Nawab Estate’s property by falsely identifying himself as a descendant of Nawab Salimullah Khan’s family. To get it, he had already filed five cases with land offices of Dhaka and Narayanganj.