AL picks Ivy for NCC poll
The ruling Awami League has nominated incumbent mayor Selina Hayat Ivy as party’s mayoral candidate in the Narayanganj City Corporation election.
Golapbag Stadium under illegal occupation of flyover contractors
Dhaka South City Corporation failed to recover Golapbag Stadium from illegal occupants in over two weeks since launching an eviction drive.
Khaleda demands EC formed on consensus
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday unveiled the party’s proposals for forming new Election Commission based on consensus among registered political parties through a five-member search committee of consensus.
Two killed as bus plunges into Madaripur ditch
At least two people were killed after a bus slipped off a road and fell into a water body at Dashar in Madaripur early Saturday.
Khaleda proposes for search committee for forming EC
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday in her proposal regarding the formation of new Election Commission demanded appointment of honest, skilled and politically neutral person as election commissioner.
Let Santals reap their rice: HC
The High Court Division on Thursday directed the government to either allow Santals to reap rice they had grown on Rangpur Sugar Mill’s land or ask the mill authorities to harvest and give the crop to the Santals.
BNP to boycott district council polls, contest NCC polls
Bangladesh Nationalist Party Standing committee decided to boycott the upcoming elections to district councils observing that the elections would give results already prepared by the government.
Arrest of Khaleda ordered
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Thursday issued a warrant for aresting Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed against her for celebrating her birthday on August 15.
Oil price cut soon, says Muhith
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said that the government would cut the prices of fuel oils in the local market soon for higher economic ‘momentum.’
Case filed, five held four Santals get bail in police case
A case was filed Wednesday night for the attack on Santals at Shahebganj-Bagda Farm of Rangpur Sugar Milla at Gobindaganj in Gaibandha in which two of them were killed, 20 were injured and their houses were robbed and set on fire on November 6.