They made the comments when results announced by the presiding officers until 4:00am show that Islami Chhatra Shibir-backed vice-president candidate Abu Shadik Kayem was leading the Ducsu polls

Counting going on till 6:00am; turnout 78% in polls marked by festivities

The Bangladesh Public Service Commission is working to reduce the duration of recruitment process from three and a half years to one year, under the slogan “One BCS, One Year,” in an effort to establish a merit-based and discrimination-free institution.

Significant number Chhatra Shibir leaders and activists among them

Party says it doesn’t want any chaos related to Ducsu elections

The government yesterday formed committees at the district and metropolitan levels in an attempt to identify and discharge individuals falsely implicated in cases filed over the crimes committed during last year’s mass uprising.

A police officer told the International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday that he was forced by a senior officer to conceal pellet injuries in the inquest report of Begum Rokeya University student Abu Sayed, who was killed in Rangpur at the beginning of the July uprising.

Around 4,000 unidentified people have been sued over the death of a man during a clash at the darbar sharif of Nurul Haque, locally known as “Nural Pagla”, in Rajbari’s Goaland upazila on September 5.

Voters stood in long queues in blazing September heat yesterday, eager to cast what was, for most, the first ballot of their lives.

Brimming with excitement and hope, thousands of students cast their votes in the Ducsu and hall union elections yesterday, as renewed democratic spirit and festive energy swept through the Dhaka University campus.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent former secretary Bhuiyan Mohammad Shafiqul Islam to jail in an anti-terrorism case.

Mushtuq Husain, who was elected Ducsu general secretary in 1989, expects the rise of a new generation of politics in Bangladesh in the wake of this year’s central student union polls in Dhaka University.

It was 78% this time, a leap from 50-60% in the 1970s and ‘80s

Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with the murder of Comilla University student Sumaiya Afrin and her mother, Tahmina Begum.

The interim government will procure around 300 vehicles for use during the upcoming national election, Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed said yesterday.

A journalist died yesterday while covering the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union election at Curzon Hall on campus.

Women in Bangladesh carried out an estimated Tk 570,000 crore worth of unpaid household and care work in 2021, according to the country’s first Household Production Satellite Account (HPSA).

Over a month after cobbler Ruplal Robidas was killed by a mob in Rangpur’s Taraganj upazila, his 14-year-old son Joy Robidas is trying to rebuild his life -- this time with books in hand instead of a needle and thread.

Mohammad Sharan Ehsan, general secretary candidate for the left-leaning “Sampritir Oikya” panel in the Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union election, will work to include the election schedule and dates in the academic calendar to ensure continuity if elected.

The 12-day campaign for the Jahangirnagar University Central Students' Union (Jucsu) and hall elections, which began on August 29, ended yesterday.