The two-day annual election to Supreme Court Bar Association's (SCBA) 14 executive posts, including those of president and secretary, will begin in the bar building in the capital on Sunday.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday announced that the party will be backing prospective mayoral candidates Bahauddin Ahmed Babul and Hazi Saifuddin Ahmed Milon in the Dhaka north and south city corporation elections respectively.

The opposition Jatiya Party announces to back Bahauddin Ahmed Babul and Hazi Saifuddin Ahmed Milon as mayoral candidates for long-pending polls to Dhaka city corporations

Opposition leader Khaleda insisted yesterday that there could be no resolution of the growing political crisis unless Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina agreed to stand down and allow new elections.

India's Narendra Modi is forecast to suffer the first major setback of his premiership as exit polls yesterday showed his party had been defeated in elections to Delhi's state assembly by a self-styled anarchist.