The High Court clears the way for the Election Commission for holding the Dhaka North City Cooperation and Dhaka South City Corporation elections on January 30.

Motorcyclist has been killed as truck hit his bike in Dhaka’s Fakirerpool area.

A total of 14 flights at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport are delayed while eight others are diverted due to dense fog.

Eminent citizens yesterday called for “credible investigation” into the attempted murder on Liberation War Museum Trustee Sarwar Ali, saying such an attack was carried out to shrink space for freethinking and progressive movements.

Mayoral candidates of both Awami League and BNP running for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), yesterday expressed confidence in getting people’s mandate in the upcoming city polls.

A sixth-grader was killed and her classmate was injured in a road accident at Gouripur Madhyabazar area in Mymensingh yesterday.

With campaigns for Dhaka city corporation elections going into full throttle, citizens are beginning to feel the heat as mayoral candidates’ campaigns are parading the streets.

Abdul Jalil Howlader, former assistant headmaster of Rampura Ekramunessa High School in the capital, passed away from pneumonia at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Sunday. He was 74.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar yesterday urged the commission to issue a specific circular stating that lawmakers and ministers will not be able to take part in any election-related activities during the upcoming Dhaka city corporations’ polls.

The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to former BNP minister Nazmul Huda’s wife Sigma Huda and their two daughters -- Antara Selima Huda and Srabanti Amina Huda -- for eight weeks in two separate money laundering cases involving Tk 6.73 crore.

Awami League-backed candidate Moslem Uddin Ahmed won the by-election to Chattogram-8 constituency yesterday amid a low turnout of voters, reports BSS.

A team of Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) of police yesterday arrested a life-term convict of the 2005 series bomb-blast case from Patuakhali.

Fatema Kabir, and activist and wife of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir, passed away early yesterday, while undergoing treatment at the ICU of Labaid Hospital. She was 68.

A man was brutally murdered and dismembered at Naotola area of Cumilla’s Chandina upazila early yesterday.

A woman and her son were killed and eight people injured as a passenger launch hit another vessel on the river Meghna in Barishal early yesterday.

Barrister Harun ur Rashid passed away last night, said a press release. He was suffering from old-age complications.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has moved to identify two passengers for taking apart two monitors of the in-flight Entertainment (IFE) system of two seats of a brand new Boeing 787-9 aircraft, which was recently added to the Bangladesh Airlines fleet.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday suggested that the century-old Evidence Act of 1872 be updated by incorporating provisions of using digital evidence, as much of the communication and commercial activities are now performed on digital platforms.

The trial of Buet student Abrar Fahad’s murder case was shifted to the Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge’s Court from the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A labour court in Dhaka has asked Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus and three other top officials of Grameen Communications to appear before it on February 6, in a case filed over violating labour laws.