DU rover scouts initiation camp under way in Gazipur
After a long 50 years, the initiation camp of Dhaka University Rover Scout Group is being held outside the university campus.
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Bodies of two among 8 missing fishermen recovered in Chattogram
The bodies of two fishermen, who were among eight missing after a fishing trawler capsized near the outer anchorage of Chattogram port in the Bay of Bengal, were recovered at Patenga around 5:30pm on Saturday.
Locals block Dhaka-Ctg highway as road accident kills minor boy
Protesting at the death of a small boy in a road accede`nt, local people in Munshiganj blocked the Dhaka-Chattogram national highway at Gazaria upazila on Saturday.
Dhaka-Barishal highway blocked
Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Barishal highway was suspended on Saturday as students blocked the highway for the third consecutive day on Saturday to press home their three-point demand.
AGM Shamsul Kamal dies
The founding chief executive officer of the Chittagong Stock Exchange and the Central Depository Bangladesh Limited AGM Shamsul Kamal died at the Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on Saturday.
Cumilla Press Club holds AGM
The annual general meeting of the Cumilla Press Club was held on Saturday.
Nat鈥檒 minorities demand constitutional recognition, end to rights violation
National minority leaders and civil society representatives have iterated their demand for constitutional recognition and an end to repression and rights violation.
Interim govt performances under fire
Speakers, including academics, cultural activists, and researchers on Saturday said that the interim government failed to meet people鈥檚 expectations after the July mass uprising...
JP splits for 7th time
Jatiya Party split for the seventh time on Saturday as a council loyal to senior leader Anisul Islam Mahmud elected a new central committee of the party.
EC to publish draft updated voter list today
The Election Commission will publish the draft of updated voter list today, ahead of the upcoming 13th National Parliament election...
Tarique Rahman is future prime minister: Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said that the party鈥檚 acting chairman Tarique Rahman would be the future prime minister of Bangladesh...
Bringing voters to polling stations key challenge, says CEC
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Saturday said that peoples鈥� trust in the election system had been destroyed, making it a major challenge to bring voters to polling centres in the upcoming elections.
Tarique urges allies to prepare for polls
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chair Tarique Rahman on Saturday urged the leaders of the like-minded parties and alliances, involved in the simultaneous movements in the past, to prepare for the upcoming national election.
HC verdict in jony鈥檚 custodial death today
The High Court is scheduled for today to deliver verdict in the appeal filed by three convicted police personnel against a lower court judgement that jailed them for life for the custodial death of car driver Ishtiaq Hossain Jony in 2014...
Three dengue patients die, 325 hospitalised in 24hrs
Three dengue patients died and 325 others were hospitalised across the country in the past 24 hours till Saturday morning...