The Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP’s) mayoral candidate for Khulna City Corporation (KCC), Nazrul Islam Monju, wants to make Khulna a clean and green city. “We will certainly announce our election manifesto. We will prepare our election manifesto soon, wherein we will emphasise…

Eight nomination papers of the mayoral candidates in Gazipur and five nomination papers in Khulna for the upcoming city corporation elections were declared valid by the Election Commission yesterday. In Gazipur, one nomination paper was postponed and another nomination was cancelled by the returning…

The charge sheet accusing two expelled leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in a case filed over brandishing firearms during a hawker eviction drive in Gulistan area of the capital was placed before a court here yesterday, reports UNB. The two charge sheeted accused are BCL Dhaka south city unit…

The government has suspended the arrested acting chief engineer of the Department of Shipping (DoS), SM Najmul Haq, from service temporarily. The suspension will be effective from the date of his arrest on April 12. The shipping ministry yesterday issued a circular to this effect.Earlier, on Wednesday,…

China has issued a set of revised regulations on the fundamental rules governing the People's Liberation Army (PLA), which stress Xi Jinping thought on strengthening the armed forces, reports Xinhua from Beijing. The regulations included rules on military discipline, training management, soldiers'…

A total of 140 members of Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit-2 (BANFPU-2) serving as peacekeeper with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) have been awarded the UN medal for establishing peace in the West African country. The medal ceremony was held at MINUSMA's…