The Election Commission (EC) has asked the Satkhira superintendent of police and officers-in-charge (OC) of five police stations of the district to appear before it tomorrow to give statements about the irregularities that took place in the recent Union Parishad (UP) polls.

The just concluded Union Parishad election has been questionable because of "nomination trading" by political parties, violation of the electoral code by candidates and supporters, and disputed role of the Election Commission, a civil society organisation said yesterday.

Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a legal aid and human rights organisation, yesterday expressed deep concern over the law enforcement agencies' alleged harassment and pressure on Sohagi Jahan Tonu's family to give statements they had prescribed.

Today is the 16th death anniversary of Faria Amena Rashid; daughter of Mamun Rashid, an engineer; says a press release.

The Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges has introduced a new payment plan for motorbike registration fees.

Brig Gen (retd) AKM Azizul Haque AMC passed away following a cardiac arrest at Combined Military Hospital Dhaka on Friday. He retired in 1990 as the chief psychiatrist of Bangladesh Armed Forces.

The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) is going to provide pure drinking water at a nominal price through two vending machines to be set up on a pilot basis at water pumps in Mirpur and Fakirapool.

The inception meeting of the 18-month Brac-Chevron pilot partnership project "Alternative Livelihood" for the socio-economic development of the people around the Chevron gas fields was held in Sylhet Zila Parishad Conference Hall yesterday.

A boy died after being found in Gagla village under Mymensingh's Gouripur upazila last night bearing injuries police believe were inflicted with sharp weapons.

Shirin Akter, a professor of the Bangla department, has been appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor of Chittagong University yesterday.

The US Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Alan Bersin will lead an interagency

The High Court yesterday stayed the process for holding election to the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) for a month.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmud yesterday, without elaborating, claimed that problems arose due to non-enforcement of the anti-graft body's powers, which were adequate.

A fire that broke out in the Sundarbans under Chandpai Range of Bagerhat on Sunday afternoon damaged foliage on 1.66 acres of the mangrove forest , said Belayet Hossain, assistant forest conservator of the range yesterday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will present the 2016 Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award to a group of extraordinary women from around the world today at the US Department of State, a US State Department release said yesterday.

Four years after taking the initiative, the government yesterday approved in principle the draft of "The Accreditation Council Law, 2016" with a view to ensuring standards of higher education in the country.

Bangladesh Students' Union threatens to march to the Prime Minister's Office if the authorities fail to catch the killers of Comilla college student Tonu.

Islam retains the status of state religion with the High Court rejecting a writ petition challenging the legality of a constitutional provision in this regard.

Police arrest a young man along with five gold bars at Kamalapur railway station in the capital this morning.

A Taliban splinter group says it carried out a suicide attack on a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore, which killed more than 70 people, including children. The Jamaat-ul-Ahrar group said the attack had deliberately targeted Christians celebrating Easter Day.