The Election Commission (EC) is scheduled to begin the data collection for updating the voter list of 2015-2016 of 138 upazilas and thanas including the capital from today.    The commission has already completed the data collection of 376 upazilas, beginning from July 25. EC sources said…

A Narayanganj court yesterday passed an order for attachment of properties of absconding accused by the next hearing date on October 7 in the sensational 7-murder case. Senior Judicial Magistrate HM Shafikul Islam passed the order yesterday after twenty two arrestees accused in the two cases were produced…

The World Bank (WB) is conducting a study on 53 inland river routes including protocol routes in Bangladesh with a view to invest US$ 500 million. According to sources, the WB has showed its interest to invest the money in two phases and it has prioritized to invest US$ 250 million on ‘A class…

When students are tirelessly taking serious preparation at their reading tables in an attempt to get chance to their desired universities through admission test, the National University (NU) came up with the decision that they would admit the students without any entry test. The National University…

An alleged mugger was shot dead by police in Wari area of the capital. The deceased was identified as Akash alias Ferdous. According to Inspector Tapan Chandra Saha, officer-in-charge of Wari Police Station, three muggers attacked a banker on a rickshaw to snatch his valuables near the Ovisar Cinema…

The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday stayed a High Court (HC) order that had imposed a six-month ban on the screening of a movie made on the collapse of the Rana Plaza building. Altogether 1,129 people were killed in the incident, which occurred on April 24, 2013. The movie is centred around a woman named…