BNP’s mayoral candidate Shahadat Hossain demanded that the Election Commission change the date of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) elections as many people may leave the city getting a three-day weekend before the polls day.

A parliamentary body recommends that only government officials who have at least four years left before retirement be sent abroad for training.

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain dissolves the party’s central committee amid expulsion and counter-expulsions by a section of party leaders.

The High Court questions the legality of a government decision to stand release Prirojpur’s District and Sessions Judge Md Abdul Mannan, who had ordered the authorities to send a former Awami League lawmaker and his wife to jail in three corruption cases.

An activist of ruling Awami League (AL) has been stabbed to death in Sharsha upazila of Jashore.

The “8th National SME Product Fair 2020” has kicked-off in the capital with a view to promote SME products and bring local small and medium entrepreneurs under one roof.

Two police officers and a loco master have been injured when a Chittagong University (CU) shuttle train and a goods-laden train collided at Forest Gate point in Chattogram’s Sholoshohor area.

Condemning recent attacks on minorities in India’s Delhi, speakers at a human chain yesterday said such incidents are tarnishing the values of the Indian constitution, which principally upholds a non-communal spirit.

Suddhananda Mahathero, foremost Buddhist religious leader and chief abbot of Kamalapur Dharmarajika Buddhist Mahabihar, passed away yesterday morning while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the city.

What she wouldn’t give for this around two months ago?

Tahera Wahid, charter president of Inner Club of Dilkusha, has been elected chairperson of Inner Wheel Dist 345 for 2020-21, says a press release.

With a 25-year illustrious career in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, Hasin Jahan was appointed the country director of WaterAid Bangladesh last year.

Engr MA Wahab has been elected district governor of Rotary International District 3281 Bangladesh for 2022-23, says a press release.

Parveen Akther (45), a resident of Joistopura village under Boalkhali upazila in Chattogram, used to hardly experience elephant attacks. The fear of elephant attack has never been a part of daily life for her. But in the last five or six years, a herd of elephants have regularly scoured their village in search of food, in the process attacking people and damaging crops.

Participated by underprivileged and street children, Fashion for Life-2020 was held in Chattogram city’s CRB Shirish Tola area on February 28, participated by distinguished personalities.

Sylhet city was highly praised recently for ridding one of its roads from cobwebs of overhead cables, but expanding the project to other areas of the city is like traversing a room full of wire-traps.

A Dhaka court yesterday directed court authorities to publish advertisements in two national dailies, asking former DIG Mizanur Rahman’s wife, Sohelia Anar Ratna, and his brother Mahbubur Rahman, to appear before it on April 2 centring a graft case.

The parliament, for the first time in its history, is going to hold a special session on March 22 and 23 to mark the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

In Gopalganj, an army personnel was killed and two were injured in a road accident at Tetulia area under Sadar upazila around yesterday afternoon.

At least 10 persons were injured in a clash among students of three departments at Rajshahi University, following a cricket match yesterday.