Welcoming the announcement of the schedule for the 13th national election, all major political parties yesterday said it has removed the uncertainty surrounding the polls.

The country’s existence and sovereignty will be at risk if the BNP’s leaders and activists do not take the upcoming national election seriously, said its Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday.

Experts have said the Secretariat staffers’ demand for a 20 percent allowance is unjustified at a time when a new pay scale is being prepared. They warned that meeting this demand could trigger similar demands across other sectors and destabilise the situation.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia remains under close observation in the intensive care unit of Evercare Hospital in Dhaka and has been placed on elective ventilator support to rest her lungs and other organs, said her doctors yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday approved a charge sheet against British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq in a case alleging she unlawfully obtained a flat from Eastern Housing Limited in Gulshan-2 in exchange for undue benefits

Any group trying to create trouble and disrupt the election environment will face a strong response from the government.

A businessman was shot dead in broad daylight yesterday in Old Dhaka’s Shyambazar area, allegedly over a longstanding rivalry, adding to a recent spate of similar killings.

Domestic worker Ayesha allegedly killed her employer, Laila Afroz, and Laila’s 15-year-old daughter, Nafisa Nawal Binte Aziz, at their Mohammadpur home after a confrontation over the theft of Tk 2,000, police said yesterday.

As rescuers finally lifted two-year-old Sajid from the suffocating darkness of the narrow shaft, the entire nation held its breath.

During the 1971 Liberation War, a series of daring operations unfolded across the country, with civilians and trained freedom fighters jointly conducting raids to secure funds for the resistance.

Two mild earthquakes were felt in Sylhet early yesterday, occurring just five minutes apart at 2:50am and 2:55am.

The Anti-Corruption Students’ Platform has demanded the disclosure of wealth statements of Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain and Mahfuj Alam, both of whom resigned from their posts as advisers to the interim government yesterday.

The wife of a Rab official was found murdered at their residence in Sarishabari upazila of Jamalpur early yesterday.

Daily wage workers of Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) staged a demonstration yesterday, wearing shrouds as they protested a new recruitment circular they claim undermines their long-standing demand for regularisation of their jobs.

A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activist was stabbed to death during a clash between two BNP groups in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram on Wednesday evening over what police described as a trivial issue.

Nearly 60 sawmills across the seven upazilas of Bandarban have been operating without any environmental clearance from the Department of Environment, according to the official record of DoE.

Around four lakh residents of Morrelganj and Sharankhola, on the far side of the Panguchi River in Bagerhat, have urged the authorities to provide telemedicine and river ambulance services until construction of a long-awaited bridge is completed.

Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) and the University Teachers’ Network yesterday strongly condemned Rajshahi University physics teacher Khandaker Mahmudul Hasan for calling women’s rights pioneer Begum Rokeya a “murtad” (apostate) and “kafir” (non-believer) in a Facebook post.

Today marks the 145th birth anniversary of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, the legendary political leader and visionary who inspired the struggle for an independent Bangladesh.

For the first time in history, three Election Commission officials have been appointed as returning officers (ROs) for four constituencies in the upcoming general election scheduled for February 12.