Five people including a member of police were injured in a clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) over forming a committee at Chattogram College yesterday, reports UNB. Two groups of BCL men chased one another and one of the police officers on duty was injured in the clash, said…

The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) will go into its 23rd session on October 21 which is likely to be the last session of the 10th parliament formed after the 2014 national election, reports UNB. The 23rd session will begin around 4:30 pm on the day (Sunday), said a PID handout. President M Abdul Hamid convened…

After the intolerable heat and humidity of the past few days, the weather started improving yesterday with cool and pleasant winds blowing across Dhaka. The weather had started showing signs of cooling since Wednesday night with Nikli to the northeast of Dhaka in Kishoreganj recording 41 mm of rains…

Road communication on Dhaka-Chattogram highway remained suspended for four hours as local people put-up barricade on the highway following the injuries of a schoolgirl in a road accident at Kanchpur in Sonargaon upazila yesterday, reports UNB. Mohammad Khorshed Alam, additional superintendent of Narayanganj…

The BNP yesterday peacefully handed over a memorandum to divisional commissioners across the country to press home the party’s seven-point charter of demands. These include the release of Khaleda Zia and dissolution of Parliament before announcement of the schedule for the next national polls.…

The Election Commission (EC) is going to recruit 2,000 people in 517 upazilas before the next parliamentary election. “The manpower will be added before the general election. They will be used in the parliamentary poll. Right now, the commission has about 3,000 employees. Once the new recruitments…