For the first time in the Chattogram City Corporation polls history, none of the BNP or Jamaat-supported councillor candidates won in any of the 41 general and 14 reserved wards in Wednesday’s election.

Two separate murder cases were filed, accusing several, over two deaths on Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election day.

The government has a plan to build four international stadiums in the country, State Minister for Ministry of Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russel informed the parliament yesterday.

Innocent people are lured in with the promise of a job in Europe by human traffickers. This time, the frauds attempted to gain people’s confidence by giving them a chance to verify the job offer letters and visas of Ireland, but that plan backfired as the Police Bureau of Investigation caught the trafficking racket.

With residents of Sylhet eagerly waiting for the Covid-19 vaccine, the authorities concerned are struggling to ensure a smooth vaccination campaign.

Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have suspended 10 students from all academic activities for a year and another for two years after they were found guilty of ragging a first-year student and beating him till he lost consciousness.

A five-member selection committee has been formed to fill up the posts of two commissioners of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

A Chattogram court today placed BNP-backed councilor candidate Ismail Hossain Bali in the Chattogram City Corporation polls on a one-day remand in connection with a case filed over vandalising two EVM machines at a polling centre during yesterday’s election.

A ten-year-old boy was killed today after an auto-rickshaw hit his bicycle in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh area.

Three Dhaka University teachers have been demoted on charge of plagiarism in their research papers.

Terming the latest Chattogram City Corporation election a model of polls irregularities, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder said the authorities concerned need to find a way out to hold future elections in a more fair and credible manner.

Mayor-elect to Chattogram City Corporation Rezaul Karim Chowdhury today said the polls were held in a “free and fair environment” except for a few isolated incidents.

None of the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami supported councilor candidates won in any of the 41 general and 14 reserved wards in yesterday’s Chattogram City Corporation election.

The Civil Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was passed in Parliament yesterday with a provision to raise the financial jurisdiction of lower court judges for disposal of civil cases.

The High Court yesterday refused to grant bail to Erfan Salim, son of Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Salim, in a case filed on charge of attacking Lt Wasif Ahmed Khan of Bangladesh Navy in Dhanmondi area of Dhaka in October last year.

A video editor of Ekattor TV was killed after a bus of Victor Classic Paribahan hit his motorcycle and dragged his body for some distance near Jamuna Future Park on the capital’s Pragati Sarani yesterday afternoon.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday presented Cumilla City Corporation Councillor Abdus Sattar before a Cumilla court in a case filed over the murder of Awami League activist Jillur Rahman Jilani.

Bangladesh Civil Society for Migrants yesterday urged the government to develop a common guideline for case evaluation of migrant workers whom host countries have sent back involuntarily.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday informed the parliament that about 1.67 crore people, from around 20 different sectors of the country, will receive Covid-19 vaccine on a priority basis.

The family of the youth who died in gunfight between supporters of two councillor candidates alleged that the miscreants used police’s firearms to shoot the victim.