The Election Commission has ordered Awami League MP and whip in Parliament Atiur Rahman Atik to leave election areas under his constituency (Sherpur-1) for allegedly violating the electoral code of conduct ahead of the Union Parishad election, reports UNB from Sherpur. Atik Rahman was also asked not…

An HSC examinee was beaten to death in the city’ s Khalishpur area on Thursday night, reports UNB from Khulna. The deceased was identified as Mahibullah, son of Tajibur Rahman of Platinum Kancha Colony area of the city. He was appearing at the Higher Secondary Examination from Haji Muhammad Mohsin…

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested the construction firm owner in connection with the use of bamboo sticks instead of iron rod in the construction of a DAE building in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga, reports UNB. Tipped off, a team of Rab-4 arrested Moni Singh, owner of M/S Joy International…

Veteran journalist and Jatiya Press Club lifetime member Toab Khan was hospitalised on Thursday night as he fell ill, reports UNB. He was admitted to LabAid Hospital around 9:45pm with pneumonia. Toab Khan, advisory editor of vernacular daily The Janakantha and an Ekushey Padak recipient, was kept at…

National Moon Sighting Committee would meet today to fix the date of Holy Lailatul Baraat of Hijri 1437 and review reports of moon sighting of Shaban month, reports BSS. The meeting would be held at the Islamic Foundation’s Baitul Mukarram National Mosque meeting room at 7pm, said a press release…

Turkey's president yesterday told the EU that it will not change its anti-terror laws in return for visa-free travel, BBC reports. "We'll go our way, you go yours," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. The EU says Turkey needs to narrow its definition of terrorism to qualify for visa-free travel…

A Hindu devotee was injured in an attack by some miscreants for refusing to pay extortion at Shalkhali village in Ashashuni upazila of Satkhira yesterday, reports UNB. Shamiran Sarkar, brother of the victim, said miscreants swooped on Pankaj Sarkar, 50, who lives in a room adjacent to Shyamsundar Iskon…

A senior BNP leader yesterday urged the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (SC) to dissolve the present Parliament by issuing a suo motu rule. “Please dissolve the illegal Parliament by issuing a suo motu rule,” said BNP vice-chairman Shah Moazzem Hossain. He was speaking at a memorial meeting…

Three officers and three employees of the election offices in Natore allegedly received death threat from Purba Banglar Communist Party yesterday, reports UNB. The threat was issued in separate calls over the mobile phones of the victims. District election officer Sarker Mohammad Ashraful Alam said…