Rain played hide and seek throughout the day in Wellington before umpires eventually abandoned play for the second consecutive day of the second Test between Bangladesh and New Zealand yesterday.

In the first phase of upazila election, 78 of the local government bodies go to the polls today amid a lack of enthusiasm and festivity.

A blood-soaked sun dotted almost every roof. The flag inlaid with the map of Bangladesh could not be missed.

An eyewitness to an alleged shootout between drug peddlers and Rapid Action Battalion-7 in Chattogram's Muradpur area has been missing for almost five months.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday put emphasis on creating awareness in the society to eliminate discriminations and violence against women.

With the Ducsu election just a day away, many general students and rival candidates allege that they are being intimidated by some Chhatra League men.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday said the EC was planning to use electronic voting machines to make sure that ballot boxes could not be stuffed on the night before an election.

The first day of the second Test between Bangladesh and New Zealand was washed out without even the toss taking place at the Basin Reserve Stadium in Wellington yesterday.

More than 40 percent people in Bangladesh consider physical abuse to be the only form of violence against women, according to a Brac study.

It was a day of solidarity to demonstrate support for Bangabandhu's non-cooperation movement.

Candidates are campaigning giving special attention to female students who constitute about 36 percent of the total number of voters in the Ducsu polls on Monday.

Dhaka University authorities yesterday imposed a limit on the number of journalists each media house would be allowed to assign to cover Monday's Ducsu polls.

Construction of a rail track around the capital is expected to begin in June next year, to further ease the city's perennial traffic woes, officials said.

All the talk about needing to adapt to hostile New Zealand conditions should take a back seat for the visiting Bangladesh team when they take on the hosts in the second and potentially series-saving Test at the Basin Reserve in Wellington from today.

The $35 billion investment proposal submitted by Dhaka to Riyadh will be reviewed by a joint working committee headed by a senior minister of Saudi Arabia.

The Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry yesterday instructed all airports to ensure “foolproof” security checks amid allegations of security breaches at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to submit a list of intensive and coronary care units at hospitals across the country by April 24.

Dulali Khatun loves to introduce herself as one of the “Kallyanis” -- someone who tries to improve people's lives by offering goods, services and access to digital information.

After Bangabandhu's speech the previous day, the winds of the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, had changed.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed her government's firm stance on removing the warehouses of inflammable materials from Old Dhaka and other residential areas of the capital.