Election to Comilla City Corporation (CCC) and by-election to Sunamganj-2 constituency that fell vacant following the death of Awami League lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta will be held on March 30. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda announced the schedule for the election and the by-election…

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu, MP, said yesterday that language was the first sign of identity of a person. Those who want to destroy it are rootless people and they are resorting to militancy to destroy it. Therefore, we’ve no choice but to eliminate them, reports BSS. The information…

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three suspected members of the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from different areas in Sonargaon upazila early Monday, reports UNB. RAB sources said that a team of Rab-11 conducted drives in different areas of the upazila…

BNP yesterday hit out at Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu for his comment on its chairperson’s graft case, saying he is just trying to appease the Prime Minister with such remarks only to keep his position intact in the cabinet, reports UNB. “Following the Prime Minister’s remark…

The High Court (HC) yesterday fixed February 27 for delivering its order on a writ petition filed challenging the legality of the president’s authority to appoint Supreme Court judges and control the lower court judges. After concluding hearing on the petition, the HC bench comprising Justice…

President Md. Abdul Hamid yesterday asked members of the newly constituted Election Commission (EC) to perform their job with the help of all political parties and others concerned to ensure holding of polls in a free, fair and credible manner, reports BSS. “Election is a conducive element of…

Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations for the past decade and leading international exponent of Vladimir Putin’s increasingly self-confident foreign policy, has died suddenly aged 64, the Guardian reports quoting Russian the foreign ministry in Moscow. In a statement…