DHAKA CITY POLLS Taposh wins, Atiq leads amid intimidation, rigging
Ruling Awami League candidate Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh unofficially declared elected while M Atiqul Islam was set to be declared elected in Saturday’s ..
AL terms polls best in 100yrs
The Awami League termed Saturday’s elections to Dhaka north and south city the best in the last 100 years.
UAE to reopen labour market for Bangladeshis soon
United Arab Emirates is set to reopen its labour market to Bangladeshi migrant workers ‘very soon’ after an eight-year ban, Bangladesh’s envoy to the UAE has revealed.
BNP rejects polls, calls hartal for Sunday
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday evening called a dawn to dusk hartal in Dhaka city on Sunday rejecting the results of elections to two city corporations in Dhaka.
CEC faces fingerprint mismatch
Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Saturday cast his votes with assistance from a presiding officer as his fingerprint did not match...
Obaidul hospitalised with breathing difficulty
Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader was admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical ..
The UK has left the EU -- and the implications for the world are huge
Brexit has happened. After 1,316 days of political turmoil, the UK now stands alone as the first nation to have ever left the European Union.
Dhaka to ask Doha to recruit more workers, recognise skills
The government prepares to request the Qatari authorities to increase recruitment of workers from Bangladesh in the current year, said officials in Dhaka.
Senate impeachment trial: Wednesday acquittal vote scheduled after effort to have witnesses fails
The Senate on Friday voted to block any witnesses from being called in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, a move that marked the beginning ..
Voting in DSCC, DNCC polls begins
The voting in the polls to Dhaka South City Corporation and Dhaka North City Corporation began at 8:00am on Saturday.
