Türkiye yesterday reaffirmed its strong commitment to supporting Bangladesh’s democratic transition and institution-building efforts as the country moves toward elections early next year.

The construction of a key bridge over a branch of the Padma river in Faridpur Sadar upazila remains incomplete even after two deadline extensions and seven years since work began, causing deep frustration among locals.

A man was found dead in his grocery shop, just 150 yards away from Mohanganj Police Station in Netrakona, on Monday night.

Four people, including a couple, were killed and two others injured after a bus hit a battery-run easy bike on the Bonpara-Kushtia highway in Baraigram upazila of Natore on Monday.

State defence counsel Amir Hossain, representing ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, yesterday claimed that the July uprising was part of a long-term plan and conspiracy.

Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher, nayeb-e-ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, has urged the government to “take some crucial decisions quickly and decisively” to implement the July Charter and ensure that the next national election is held in February as planned.

National Citizen Party Chief Organiser (North) Sarjis Alam yesterday slammed some advisers to the interim government, saying those seeking a “safe exit” should remember that “the only real safe exit is death.”

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman’s recent media interview has left the party’s leaders and activists excited and energised.

The government is set to declare oxygen as an “essential drug”, considering its importance in patient treatment, said Prof Sayedur Rahman, special assistant to the chief adviser for the health ministry, yesterday.

At least two dengue patients died while 715 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday urged teachers to extend their support to BNP in the upcoming national election so the party can form a government to build a knowledge and merit-based state and implement its plans for national and political reforms.

Election experts and former Election Commission officials yesterday urged the commission not to assign election duties to “politically biased officials” and those who had served in the past three national polls.

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