Tunisia's health minister Abdel-Raouf El-Sherif resigns after 11 babies mysteriously died within 24 hours in a hospital in the capital, state news agency TAP says.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court seeking its directives on the government to compensate Tk 1 crore to each of 14 people who were critically injured in a lift collapse at Dhaka District and Sessions Judge Court on March 7.

The death toll from Thursday’s boat capsize reaches to six after Fire Service and Civil Defence recovered the body of the last missing person from Buriganga river.

Imprisoned BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has denied to take treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) yet once again.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader is likely to be moved to a cabin from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) tomorrow as his health is improving.

Severe turbulence over the Atlantic Ocean tossed terrified passengers and crew around a Turkish Airlines plane cabin on Saturday, with 30 people suffering bumps, bruises, cuts and a broken leg before the flight landed safely at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport, officials said.

Nine policemen have been killed in a militant attack in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, police says, as tensions ratchet up in a state riven by ethnic and religious conflict.

Authorities suspend voting at fourteen centres in Sirajganj and Kurigram over the allegations of vote rigging, ballot paper snatching and other irregularities.

A text-generating "bot" nicknamed Tobi produces nearly 40,000 news stories about the results of the November 2018 elections in Switzerland for the media giant Tamedia -- in just five minutes.

At least fourteen people are killed in a plane crash in the Colombian plains province of Meta, the country's civil aviation agency says.

At least 15 people are killed and another seven wounded in a shooting at a nightclub early on Saturday in Mexico's violence-wracked Guanajuato state, according to the local prosecutor's office.

The first phase of upazila parishad elections to 78 upazilas ends.

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Getting aside from the norms of using transparent ballot boxes in the December 30 national elections, the Dhaka University authorities are going to use non-transparent ballot boxes in the election to Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) scheduled on Monday.

Leftist panel pledges to turn the Dhaka University (DU) into an occupation and muscle power free campus for upholding democratic rights of all students if it wins the Ducsu polls scheduled for Monday.

Election Commission (EC) will stop voting instantly if it finds any irregularities at any centre during the first phase of the fifth upazila parishad election.

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) is running their campaign with promise to make the Dhaka University “world class” and create job opportunities after education ahead of Ducsu polls slated for Monday.

Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Odhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad pledges to accommodate all the first-year students by ousting outsiders from the dormitories if it wins the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) polls scheduled for March 11.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) places its manifesto for the upcoming Ducsu election promising that they would work for making the campus free from violence and domination to woo voters.

Today’s episode of ‘The Ducsu Election Talks 2019’ brings Tilottama Sikder, member contester from the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) panel and Umme Habiba Benojir, general secretary candidate from the Bangladesh Chhatra Federation panel in the election to the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu).