In a country where scores of people perish each year from cyclones and floods, the death toll from lightning strikes—at least 350 people in recent years in the nine haor districts—paints a grim picture. Of them, over a dozen people fell victim to thunderbolts in the past couple of weeks,…

The Election Commission (EC) is highly unlikely to go for digital voting in the next national election as the two major political parties -- Awami League and BNP -- are now at loggerheads over the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs), reports UNB. EC officials said the Commission will require some…