Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Affairs Adviser and son Sajeeb Wazed Joy yesterday expressed his firm optimism about the win of the ruling party in the 11th general election. "I am fully confident about the win," he said while talking to reporters after casting his vote at Dhaka City…

Ismat Jahan, 20, came to the Habibullah Bahar University College polling centre to cast her vote for the first time. After casting her vote at 12.30pm, she came out all smiles. “I am very happy. I have voted for the first time. I want peace to prevail in the country,” she said. Like her,…

Around 100 candidates, mostly of opposition parties, boycotted yesterday's (Sunday's) elections, alleging capture of polling centres, attack on their agents and supporters and forcing their agents out. Of them, all the 26 Jamaat candidates including four of its independent candidates, two Jatiya…

Mobile network operators have suspended the operation of 3G and 4G services across the country two hours after resuming it. Earlier yesterday evening, they resumed 3G and 4G internet services after 27 hours of shutdown. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) sent an email to all…

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday freezing federal workers' pay for 2019, following through on a proposal he announced earlier in the year. The move, which nixes a 2.1% across-the-board pay raise that was set to take effect in January, comes as hundreds of thousands of federal…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to meet the South's President Moon Jae-in "frequently" next year to discuss denuclearisation of the peninsula in a rare letter sent to Seoul, Moon's office said yesterday. The leader of the isolated North met with Moon three times this year --…