The High Court yesterday rejected a writ petition that sought its directive on the chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council not to issue a gazette notification on the results of the council's elections held on August 26.

The Election Commission-appointed enumerators will start going door-to-door in Dhaka metropolitan area from today to collect data of citizens to update the electoral roll and prepare National Identity (NID) cards.

A former municipality mayor and an incumbent councillor of Bandarban were arrested yesterday on charge of making derogatory comments on Bangabandhu

A man was killed and at least 25 others were injured in clashes over land disputes in Sylhet and Lalmonirhat districts on Friday night.

It is in the distant past that the landlord of Atia, Said Khan Panee, set his mind to the task of building a mosque on the bank of the

The election to Bangladesh Bar Council, the licencing and regulatory body for lawyers, will be held today.

Nine civil society and rights organisations yesterday launched a campaign, "Women Count", aiming at creating awareness among people

The Election Commission (EC) yesterday requested the public administration ministry to withdraw an EC project's deputy director while a

Bodies of three fetuses are found from a canal in Mymensingh town.

The Supreme Court receives the video recording of a private satellite channel Ekattor TV on a report and talk show on conversation between two judges.

President Abdul Hamid calls his Indian counterpart over phone to inquire about the health condition of his wife now undergoing treatment at Army Hospital there.

Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified man, aged about 40, from a field in Sujanagar upazila of the district yesterday.

With the political crisis over the mode of a polls-time cabinet still unresolved, the High Court has come up with two formulas for the interim government to assist the Election Commission in holding the next two parliamentary elections.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 decides to try six accused from Jamalpur in absentia for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War.

Four Bangladesh nationals are killed and four other injured in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in Saudi Arabia.

The election of panel mayors of Chittagong City Corporation will be held at Nagar Bhaban on August 20.

Students for the first time will elect their representatives of students' cabinets through elections to be held at over 1,000 secondary

The Election Commission will start producing smart national identity card (NID) card by early next month to be distributed among voters free of cost.

Around seventeen Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men were injured in clashes in two upazilas of Habiganj district on Saturday night.

The Election Commission yesterday again brushed aside any possibility of enrolling a person below the age of 18 in the electoral roll.