Pakistan's military fanned out across the country ahead of today's election, deploying hundreds of thousands of troops to oversee polling stations in a short but acrimonious contest that analysts say is still "up for grabs".

The two-storey college building on a 166-decimal plot with a lush green field at the front promises a congenial environment.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday instructed the deputy commissioners to make sure that project funds are spent properly and quickly for timely implementation of all the projects.

The High Court yesterday denied BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia bail in an arson case lodged under the Special Powers Act in Comilla in 2015.

With days left before the July 30 city corporation polls, police in Sylhet filed a case on Sunday accusing 39 BNP leaders and activists of obstructing the law enforcers from performing their duties.

The Anti-Corruption Commission, which yesterday began probing the coal going missing from the Barapukuria mine, shifted to high gear and is already smelling graft.

Police yesterday pressed charges against eight of the 21 militants who they say wanted to destabilise Bangladesh by initiating the country's worst-ever terror incident over two years ago.

Nearly three decades ago, section 16(2) was dropped from the Special Powers Act, 1974. But strangely, police filed a case under the section and even arrested two accused in Manikganj's Singair this May.

Opener Tamim Iqbal and all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan were in the midst of a stirring partnership to lift the beleaguered Bangladesh team in the first ODI against West

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), via Twitter yesterday, requested the Supreme Court of Pakistan to "initiate appropriate process to ascertain the veracity of the allegations" made by Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the Islamabad High Court.

Rifts within the Awami League and the BNP have been a major concern for the parties' mayoral election nominees in Sylhet, Rajshahi and Barisal cities.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said a disciplined and strong army always played a very helpful role in establishing and integrating democracy in any

Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman suffered injuries yesterday as BCL men allegedly attacked him on the court premises in Kushtia after he was granted bail in a defamation case.

All the successive governments made moves to reform the civil service but none of them brought about the much-needed changes due to lack of political will and resistance from a section of bureaucrats.

Amid the charged political environment, representatives of different civil society organisations and main political parties in Pakistan, barring Imran Khan-led PTI, yesterday condemned the alleged electoral irregularities and 'interference' ahead of the July 25 polls.

The Bangladesh national cricket team will look to turn the tide after their humiliating two-match Test series defeat against West Indies when they take on the spirited hosts in the first of a three-match ODI series in Guyana today. The game will get underway at 7:30 pm Bangladesh standard time.

With the city polls in Sylhet, Rajshahi and Barisal only a week away, arrests of BNP leaders and activists remains a major concern for its mayoral candidates.

Government hospitals across the country are facing a serious shortage of some key medical supplies -- saline, infusion and transfusion sets, and blood bags -- as their production at the state-run IPH remained suspended for about a year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged people to vote for “boat” for a poverty- and hunger-free Bangladesh by 2021. She urged them to vote like they had done to liberate the country.

Three more suspected drug peddlers were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Chittagong and Comilla yesterday.