Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has said the February 12 general elections would set a benchmark for all future polls in Bangladesh.

Poet and columnist Farhad Mazhar yesterday described the reported relationship between Jamaat-e-Islami and the United States as a “dangerous warning sign”.

The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has detained another alleged shooter in connection with the murder of Swechchhasebak Dal leader Aziziur Rahman Musabbir.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Pabitra Kumar Barua, the manager and administrative officer of Sharmin Academy in Dhaka’s Nayapaltan, to jail in a case filed over the assault on a four-year-old student.

Dr Manisha Chakraborty, candidate of Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) from Barishal-5 constituency in the upcoming national parliamentary elections, has drawn considerable public attention with her campaign.

Gonotantrik Juktafront yesterday unveiled its election manifesto ahead of the 13th national election scheduled for February 12, calling for a complete democratic restructuring of the state and an end to inequality, corruption, and authoritarian rule.

Endemic corruption in the Bangladesh–Malaysia migrant worker system is enriching a powerful few while trapping migrants in a punishing economy of exploitation, Bloomberg reported in an investigative piece published yesterday.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said that voters must support his party if they want development.

Sugarcane cultivation, once a key cash crop in the Rangpur region, has shrunk by more than 90 percent over the past five years following the closure of local sugar mills.

Comparing Jamaat-e-Islami’s ideals and activities with “kufr” and “shirk” is “irresponsible, ignorant, and a violation of Islamic principles”, the party’s Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar said yesterday.

Political parties need to prioritise law and order, macroeconomic stability, and ease of doing business in their election manifestos, say business leaders and trade bodies.

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday said his party has always stood by the people and, if voted to power, is ready to deliver the change they want.

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman yesterday said five years would be enough to transform the northern region, asserting that “the region is not poor but has been kept in this condition through deliberate neglect”.

Bangladesh Jamaat e Islami and the National Citizen Party (NCP), two components of the 10 party alliance, in separate press briefings yesterday alleged that BNP leaders are violating the electoral code of conduct.

Bangladesh has strongly rejected Myanmar’s recent submissions to the International Court of Justice, saying references to the Rohingyas as “Bengalis” distort history, undermine their identity, and seek to justify atrocities committed during the 2016–17 violence.

Ameer of Islami Andolan Bangladesh (IAB) Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim, popularly known as Charmonai Pir, has launched an 18-day election tour following his party’s withdrawal from Jamaat-e-Islami’s alliance ahead of the polls.

Two deceased teachers have been assigned duties as assistant presiding officers for the 13th National Election in the Jamalpur-1 constituency (Dewanganj-Bokshiganj).

Joint forces arrested 278 suspected criminals in raids carried out across the country between January 16 and January 22, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a release issued yesterday.

Three unnatural deaths were reported within six hours in Kalmakanda upazila of Netrakona yesterday.

Shafiqur Rahman says Bangladesh will remain Bangladesh under Jamaat rule