DHAKA: Uncertainty was looming over voting in some 14 centres outside Dhaka as miscreants burnt the ballot papers in those places here on Saturday.Returning officers of the centres started sending letters to the EC seeking directives in this regard.The centres according to the letters

DHAKA: Some 25 foreign journalists representing print and electronic media arrived in Dhaka on Saturday to cover the 10th national elections on Sunday. Government sources confirmed that journalists from BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera, NHK and USA, UK, Switzerland, India and Bhutan have reached

THAKURGAON: Miscreants beat to death an assistant presiding officer by attacking a polling centre in Raipur union under sadar upazila of the district at around 11:00pm Saturday.The deceased was identified as SI Zobaidul Haque.During the time, two police members were injured in a clash

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday exhorted the youth to uphold the honour of the national flag at any cost.She also congratulated the Bangladesh Army for creating the world’s largest ‘human flag’ for Bangladesh – a feat recognized on Saturday by the Guinness Book of

NARAYANGANJ: Miscreants blasted more than one hundred cocktails in several places of Rupganj upazila of the district on Saturday night.Witnesses said miscreants blasted more than one hundred cocktails in 15 polling centers of the upazila from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.Officer-in-Charge of Rupganj

JHENAIDAH: Miscreants chopped three police personnel including a Sub-Inspector (SI) and set fire to Mamunsia polling centre under Court Chandpur upazila of the district at around 10:30pm Saturday.The injured were identified as SI Milon, police personnel Zamirul Islam and Ohidul

KUSHTIA: Two people sustained burn injuries as pickets hurled petrol bombs in a sand laden truck in Mirpur upazila of the district on Saturday night.The injured as truck driver Asadul, 35 and his fellow helper Sazal, 23 hailed from Meherpur district. Officer-in-Charge of Mirpur Thana

SAVAR, DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-4) personnel held eight people with 49 cocktails and three sharp weapons from Jamgora-Savar area, outskirt of Dhaka on Saturday.RAB officials said that, acting on tip-off RAB personnel held them while they were preparing for sabotage ahead of 10th

DHAKA: Bangladesh will go to the polls on Sunday amid a boycott by the BNP-led 18 party opposition alliance demanding elections under a caretaker government which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina refused to concede.  The government today announced it has taken all precautions for free, fair

JHEENAIDAH: A presiding officer was killed in a road accident in Sastar Bazar area under Moheshpur upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Abul Bashar, 45, an assigned presiding officer of the area for 10th parliamentary polls and Lecturer of Moheshpur

JESSORE: At least four people were injured, including a RAB official, in a clash between Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Jamaat-Shibir activists at Rupdia union under Sadar upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon.Sources said the clash started as a group of Jamaat-Shibir men chucked

NILPHAMARI: Two schoolboys were found dead at Nauatari village under Domar upazila of the district on Saturday morning.The deceased were identified as Sumon, 14, and Shanto, 13. They both were JSC-passed students and residents of Ambari village under Gomanoti union of the upazila.Zorabari

DHAKA: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed categorically said that false news over upcoming parliamentary elections can be dangerous for nation.He came up with the assertion while addressing an inauguration ceremony of media center at election commission secretariat in

SIRAJGANJ: Bangladesh Army has distributed warm clothes to the poor people in different areas of the district on Friday night.Bengal Regiment-36 distributed the clothes to destitute in Bazar station, Kata Wapda, rail gate and Thana road areas.Commander Colonel lieutenant Bashir Ahmed,

DHAKA: Security along India-Bangladesh border was further tightened and paramilitary troops were on high alert on Friday in wake of the ongoing political turmoil in Bangladesh ahead of the January 5 general election.The Border Security Force (BSF) has been put on high alert in Lankamura

DHAKA: A leading Bangladeshi educationist has mooted a four-point formula to break the political stalemate casting a shadow on the legitimacy of Sunday elections to the national parliament. Harun-Or-Rashid, Vice Chancellor of National University says the current crisis can be resolved by

DHAKA: University Grand Commission (UGC) chairman Professor AK Azad Chowdhury categorically said violent situation has been created in the country to foil trial of war criminal not for protesting the 10 th parliamentary elections.He came up with assertion while addressing a seminar at a

NATORE: At least nine passengers injured as miscreants hurled cocktails and petrol bombs in a train at Natore railway station on Saturday morning.Rail station sources said that in guise of passenger, some hartal supporters blasted petrol bombs and broke windows of the train while

DHAKA: Professor of Dhaka University Mezbah Kamal alleged that a class of intellectuals was still trying to implement Minus-2 formula.“They are saying it is fight of two women. But in fact, it is a fight between two ideologies,” he added.He came up with the observation in a seminar

DHAKA: The government has imposed a restriction on the plying of motorcycle from January 3 midnight to January 7 midnight in order to maintain law and order and to avert sabotage.The precaution was taken in a bid to hold the national election on January 5 smoothly. Any violation to the