Election Commission (EC) Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed claims that around 50 per cent votes were cast in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) by-election.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader asserts the government's zero tolerance stance regarding cross border terrorism and terror groups in bordering areas.

A day after Indian and Pakistani fighter jets were engaged in aerial combat, Indian Ministry of Defence officials say airspace intrusion by Pakistan jets was an attempt to attack military installations.

The Indian Army, Navy and the Air Force will hold a joint press conference at 5:00pm amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan ever since the 14 February Pulwama terror attack and the subsequent IAF strike against a terrorist training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) across the LoC.

The US-North Korea nuclear summit in Hanoi ends abruptly without a deal, with President Donald Trump saying he had decided to "walk" in the face of Kim Jong Un's demands to drop sanctions.

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Singer Shafin Ahmed, the mayoral candidate of Jatiya Party for Dhaka North City Corporation by-election brought the allegation of some irregularities in voting.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder says he also witnessed low turnout of voters till the morning in the election to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC).

Pakistan will return a captured pilot "as a peace gesture" to India, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan says, amid efforts by the United States to defuse a crisis between the two nuclear powers a day after both downed enemy jets.

A Jubo League leader is shot dead and three others are injured in an attack allegedly by supporters of Awami League-rebel candidate of upazila election in Dewanganj upazila of Jamalpur.

Pakistan authorities have suspended the services of Samjhauta Express that runs between Lahore and India’s New Delhi until further notice amidst tense bilateral ties in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack.

British Secretary of State for Foreign and Common wealth Affairs Jeremy Hunt telephones Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

Two alleged robbers are killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Satkhira range of the Sundarbans.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) starts its month-long drive against chemical warehouses at Old Dhaka.

The United States, Britain and France have moved a fresh proposal in the United Nations Security Council to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.

A youth is held for vandalising a Hindu idol at a temple in Mirpur area of Dhaka this morning.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda shrug off responsibility for the low voter turnout in Dhaka city elections.

India has said Pakistan shelled and fired small arms on Indian army’s forward posts along the de facto border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district.

A string of violent escalations have pushed India and Pakistan to the brink of conflict, sparking global alarm and calls for restraint between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Many polling centres in Dhaka (north) have been seen without any voters’ turning out when The Daily Star’s correspondents were visiting the centres.