The Election Commission (EC) has made all preparations to hold the Tangail-4 by-election today. According to EC sources, three candidates are in the fray—the Awami League's (AL's) Hasan Imam Khan Sohel Hazari, Bangladesh Nationalist Front's (BNF's) Ataur Rahman Khan, and Imrul…

France won its first Miss Universe crown in 64 years yesterday in a made-for-television spectacle where finalists spoke out on the refugee crisis and…

The government has initiated moves to revive the circular waterways around the capital by raising the height of low bridges to prevent them from acting as barriers to the movement of cargo and passenger vessels. Meanwhile. the first meeting of the steering committee formed to combat city river pollution…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday morning appeared before a court here to place her self-defence statements in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission, reports UNB. Khaleda appeared before Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of Dhaka Special Judge's Court-3 at Bakshibazar…

United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee yesterday strongly condemned the brutal murder of Ko Ni, a prominent Muslim lawyer and constitutional law expert, who was also the legal adviser to the National League for Democracy (NLD). She called on the…