The BNP high command has lost interest in staying in the union parishad polls race due to “gross irregularities” in the first two phases

Some 73 percent of Bangladeshis feel the country is going in the right direction, according to a survey of US-based International Republican Institute (IRI).

Bangladesh is expecting to pass the test for European security standards at the Dhaka airport in the upcoming audit, creating grounds for the withdrawal of the UK ban on direct air cargo from here to London.

All he wanted was to see and enjoy the festivity of voting.

Like in the first phase, violence and irregularities marked the second-phase polls to union parishads yesterday, leaving at least eight people dead and around 130 others wounded in clashes and firing. One of the dead is a 10-year-old boy, who went with his uncle to see voting, and another a Dhaka University student who went to his village ahead of the polls.

“If we VIPs drive along the wrong side [of the road], then from whom will the common people learn?”

The West Indies achieved their "mission" of shattering India's dreams of a World Twenty20 title on home soil after they stunned the hosts by seven wickets to reach the final Thursday.

National Human Rights Commission Chairman Dr Mizanur Rahman yesterday said the spot, where Tonu's body had been found, looked unusually clean, suggesting that some evidence might have been tampered with.

Filipino businessman Kim Wong, who is tagged in the $81 million cyber heist, yesterday turned over $4.63m to the Philippines' Anti-Money Laundering Council for safekeeping with the country's central bank.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 27 others in connection with a case filed for an arson attack on a passenger bus in the capital's Jatrabari in January last year.

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was made BNP secretary general yesterday, around six years after serving the party as acting secretary general.

Police yesterday exhumed the body of Sohagi Jahan Tonu for a fresh autopsy, with various law enforcement agencies still struggling to identify a single suspect in her murder.

Another 639 unions in 47 districts go to the polls today, a week after violence in the first phase of the elections left around two dozen people dead.

Opener Jason Roy's 78 helped England sail into cricket's World Twenty20 final with a crushing seven-wicket win over New Zealand in the last four in New Delhi on Wednesday.

The Saat Rasta-Holy Family Hospital part of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover was plagued with long tailback moments after it was opened to traffic yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government wants to improve the country's road network to boost its socio-economic development. “The more the country's communication network is developed, the greater will be the changes in its socio-economic scenario,” she told the inauguration programme of the Saat Rasta to Holy Family Hospital part of the Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover at the city's Officers Club.

The necessity for exhuming the body of Sohagi Jahan Tonu for a fresh autopsy has raised questions over the investigators' sincerity in probing the murder.

The government yesterday reconstituted the board of Biman Bangladesh Airlines making Air Marshal (retd) Muhammad Enamul Bari chairman for the year 2016.

England hope in-form batsman Joe Root and "home" advantage can make the difference against undefeated New Zealand in the first World Twenty20 semifinal on Wednesday.

Kim Wong, the Filipino casino operator dubbed the “missing link” in the cyber heist of $81 million in Bangladesh Bank reserves, said he is willing to return up to $14.3 million he received from two Chinese nationals linked to the stolen funds.