The gold-winning performances of two Bangladeshi female weightlifters at the 4th Qatar Invitational International have evoked different reactions from the president and general secretary of the Bangladesh Weightlifting Federation (BWF). The two lifters, Mabia Akhter Simanta and Jahura Akhter Reshma,…

Experta said the appointments of the chief election commissioner (CEC) and other commissioners might be challenged in the High Court, if the government appoints them without enacting a law in line with the Constitution. Constitutional expert Shahdin Malik said, “Parliament should pass a law in…

The President’s dialogue with registered political parties on the formation of a controversy-free Election Commission (EC) is set to turn into a fiasco unless they can arrive at a consensus on different issues, including the search committee, experts opined. Experts claimed that the functionality…

Nearly 22 months after his arrest, Nagarik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna was released from jail on bail yesterday, reports UNB. Manna walked out of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj around 6:45 pm after the bail order had reached the jail, senior jail super of the jail Jahangir Kabir said. Nagarik…

A suicide bomber from the Islamic State group killed at least 48 Yemeni soldiers in Aden yesterday, the latest in a string of deadly attacks against recruits in the country’s second city, , reports AFP from Aden. Military officials and medics said dozens more were wounded in the attack that targeted…

Maqsudul Haque, the acting head of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC), yesterday ruled out any plan to exercise the provision of the regulator’s executive order to hike the price of gas. Talking to The Independent, he said the decision to announce the new gas price would come from…