Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said EVMs should not be imposed hurriedly as the machines need to be introduced on a limited scale in national elections.

Police arrested an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Shyampur Police Station on Saturday night, in a new twist in the murder case of a businessman.

The Bangladesh Embassy in Saudi Arabia yesterday suspended two of its employees following allegations that they sexually exploited a woman when she was staying at an embassy-run shelter in Riyadh.

A mentally challenged woman has been raped inside a bus in Tangail's Bhuapur upazila, police said. The incident reminds one of the rape and murder of law student Rupa Khatun inside a moving bus in the district a year ago.

Leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance will be on the street from September 18 to fight conspiracies ahead of the upcoming general elections slated to be held at the end of December.

Palestinians reacted angrily yesterday to a US decision to end all funding for the UN agency that assists three million needy refugees, seeing it as a new policy shift aimed at undermining their cause.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said any anarchic activity by public university students is not acceptable at all as they are availing of the education facility with public money.

The BNP has demanded that the government release its chief Khaleda Zia before the schedule for the upcoming national elections is announced. There would be no elections keeping the BNP chairperson behind bars, said senior leaders at a huge rally marking the party's 40th founding anniversary at the capital yesterday.

The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics brutally", reads the caption.

The fourth Bimstec Summit concluded in Kathmandu yesterday with the member states inking a deal for cross-country energy grid interconnection and reaffirming strong commitment to working out a comprehensive approach to combat terrorism.

Police yesterday arrested an alleged source of a law enforcement agency over the abduction of small trader Mohan Miah from the capital's Mirpur in June.

Three people, including the driver, were sued yesterday in connection with the death of 13-month-old Akifa Yasmin who was hit by a bus.

Thousands of Bangladeshi and other expatriate workers in Malaysia are in fear as the country's immigration department is set to begin a major crackdown on undocumented migrants after an amnesty programme ended on Thursday.

Since its inception four decades ago, the BNP formed government four times -- once under the leadership of its founder Ziaur Rahman and thrice under the leadership of his widow Khaleda Zia.

Numb with grief, Harunur Rashid was standing outside Dhaka Medical College morgue yesterday afternoon to receive the body of his 13-month-old daughter Akifa Yasmin.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for expanding cooperation in Bimstec forum through creation of a free trade area, investment and energy collaboration.

Amid strong opposition from one election commissioner, the Election Commission yesterday decided to send a proposal to the government for amending the electoral laws so it can use electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the December national polls.

Bangladesh and India yesterday agreed to continue their joint endeavours to better the lives of their people as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks with her counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the 4th Bimstec Summit.

It took decades for the Indian Election Commission to accomplish the Herculean task of introducing electronic voting machines across the country for parliamentary elections.

A photo album is all Tasin has to see his father.