Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar yesterday said he did not want the upcoming polls to two Dhaka city corporations to be like the ones held in Barishal, Gazipur and Khulna city corporations last year.

The water was once so clear that you could see to the bottom. Locals used to drink water from the canal and also bathed in it. Now what one would find there is black liquid flowing down the river. It smells so bad that it is hard to stand beside it, said Tara Mia, an elderly man from Barabari village.

Local players dominated the day with a 53-ball 76 from Rajshahi Royals all-rounder Afif Hossain trumping an unbeaten century from Cumilla Warrior batsman Dawid Malan as Rajshahi registered a seven-wicket win in their Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League match at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

Muktijuddho Moncho, which hit the headlines for attacking Ducsu VP Nurul Haque Nur and Chhatra Dal activists in the last couple of months, has current and former Chhatra League leaders at its helm.

June 30, 2018 By BCL men in front of DU Central Library when he was leading quota reform protests

A number of civil society members and parents of several Dhaka University students yesterday submitted a memorandum to the DU Vice Chancellor Prof Md Akhtaruzzaman criticising him for his alleged support to the controversial activities of Chhatra League.

The Christian community is set to celebrate the Christmas Day in the country, as elsewhere across the world, today to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ.

It’s a house right on the zero line. Transnational syndicates have turned its kitchen into a storeroom of smuggled motorcycles. They also use it for assembling bikes, bringing in parts like tanks, wheels, headlights and seats from across the border.

Raisul Alam Mondal, secretary at the fisheries and livestock ministry, will serve as a senior secretary just for a day.

While an all-round performance from Mahedi Hasan ensured a five-wicket win for Dhaka Platoon during their Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BBPL) encounter against Cumilla Warriors, it was an all-round team effort from Rajshahi Royals that helped them register a seven-wicket victory over Khulna Tigers under lights at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

India’s main opposition Congress party and its allies yesterday won Jharkhand state elections amid nationwide protests against the government’s new citizenship law.

More than half of primary schoolkids do not have the expected level of competence in mathematics and Bangla, reveals a new government assessment, raising questions about the quality of the country’s primary education.

Detectives yesterday detained two leaders of Muktijuddho Moncho over the attack on Ducsu VP Nurul Haque Nur and his supporters on Sunday.

About 700 lower-tier DMP officials, including 16 officers-in-charge of Dhaka metropolitan police stations, were transferred over the last two and a half months following information that they were involved in corruption and other criminal activities.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday sought to reassure India’s Muslims as a wave of deadly protests against a new citizenship law put his Hindu nationalist government under pressure like never before.

Activists of a faction of Muktijuddho Moncho, mostly comprised of Chhatra League men, again beat up and injured Ducsu Vice President Nurul Haque Nur, storming into his office at the Ducsu building yesterday.

He is known as a rakhal (cowboy) as he brings in cattle smuggled from across the border. But what the 36-year-old says about his additional source of earning is no less startling. The inhabitant of Shibganj upazila in bordering Chapainawabganj district is a carrier of mad drug.

The elections to Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation will be held on January 30, the Election Commission announced yesterday.

Abed Bhai, as Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was lovingly called by almost all those who knew him, was well into his fatal illness when Cyclone Bulbul struck Bangladesh.

Hundreds of people braved the morning chill yesterday as they thronged the Army Stadium to pay tribute to Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, who passed away in a hospital in the capital on Friday night.