At least 10 people, including two children, were killed and 50 others injured in a fatal road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Tribordi in Sonargaon upazila yesterday noon, reports UNB. One of the deceased was identified as Yasmin, a worker of Ananta Trading garment. A Chittagong-bound 'MD…

The Cabinet has approved the draft Hajj Package-2018 by fixing the minimum cost for a pilgrim at Tk. 397,929, up by Tk. 16,421 from that of the previous year, under government management. The Bangladesh Hajj-jatri and Haji Kallyan Parishad and the Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) have…

The Election Commission is most likely to complete the registration process of new political parties by March as 76 parties seek registration with the Commission ahead of the 11th parliamentary elections, reports UNB. An EC committee, headed by its additional secretary Mokhlesur Rahman, has started…

Twenty-nine senior police officers in the rank of Superintendent of Police (SPs) have been transferred and given new postings, reports UNB. The Home Ministry issued a notification in this regard. Earlier, sources in the Public Security Service Division of the home ministry said they are going to post…

South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged the United States to "lower the threshold for talks" with North Korea yesterday as his aides held rare talks with a Pyongyang general on ways to defuse tensions, reports AFP from Seoul. Moon has sought to use the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that ended…