President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday urged the Election Commission to uphold its image and public trust and ensure free, fair and impartial elections.

Three people were killed in road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondent and a news agency.

Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin yesterday said the Election Commission hopes to announce the schedule for local government elections by September, with polling likely to begin at the end of November or in December.

Transport workers in Dinajpur yesterday blockaded several roads and besieged Kotwali Police Station, demanding the release of a leader of the district transport workers’ union.

Speakers at a seminar yesterday urged the government to review existing laws and national policies to safeguard the rights of women and girls with disabilities and take immediate steps to remove physical, legal and digital barriers to public services.

Members of the Harijan community yesterday formed a human chain demanding a place to live and protesting the proposed eviction of sanitation workers from their residential quarters adjacent to Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital, also known as the “sweeper colony”.

The Bangladesh Army will establish a modern factory on the premises of the closed Jalil Textile Mills at Fouzdarhat in Chattogram’s Sitakunda to produce military equipment and arms, Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman said yesterday.

Students of Char Karfarma Government Primary School in Galachipa upazila of Patuakhali have to swim across as many as five canals to attend classes, leaving many soaked by the time they reach school and some reluctant to attend.

Frequent power cuts, weak rural policing and irregularities in fertiliser distribution took centre stage at a parliamentary party meeting of BNP at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban yesterday.

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly attempted to push six men into Bangladesh through the Ramdaspur border in Gomostapur upazila of Chapainawabganj yesterday morning, but the attempt was foiled, said the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

Opposition MPs burst into protest in parliament yesterday after Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed compared their speeches to those delivered at Shahbagh and Paltan Maidan. 

Zahir Uddin Swapon to head Planning Committee, Naushad Jamir to lead Law Committee

Home minister says democracy will suffer if parliament fails to remain effective

Mitford sanitation workers say their families have lived in the hospital quarters for generations as an August 30 eviction deadline approaches

Prince Faisal bin Farhan praises Bangladeshi expatriates’ contribution

CDA's mobile court also fines owners of 13 buildings Tk 22 lakh for violating approved designs

Foreign minister says income came from peacekeepers’ allowances and rent for Bangladeshi vehicles and equipment used in missions

Similar steps taken against other fugitives hiding abroad, Salahuddin tells parliament

Khalilur Rahman says Bangladesh has ‘buried the era of submissive diplomacy’

Foreign minister says Bangladesh would consider joining the Mecca defence pact positively if invited by its current members