A writ petition was filed with the High Court (HC) yesterday seeking its directives on the authorities concerned to engage the armed forces with the process of voting, counting of votes and publication of election results. Supreme Court (SC) advocate Eunus Ali Akond submitted the petition with the related…

Latif Siddique, Independent candidate from Tangail-4, yesterday announced that he will not contest the coming parliamentary polls due to absence of a…

The High Court yesterday ordered the Chattogram District Magistrate to dispose of BNP Vice-Chairman Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury's petition seeking division in jail within a span of 15 days. The HC bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahsan and Justice Rajik Al Jalil passed the order after hearing on the petition…

The road transport and bridges ministry, in a directive issued yesterday, has banned plying of all kinds of vehicles on the day of the general election. Besides, motorcycles will not be allowed to run from December 28 midnight till January 1, 2019, midnight. However, this ban will not aply to poll observers…

Brett McGurk, the US special envoy to the anti-Islamic State group coalition, has resigned, a State Department official said Saturday, capping a chaotic week that saw the departure of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Donald Trump's stunning decision to pull troops from Syria. McGurk's resignation,…