With the Comilla City Corporation polls approaching, two prominent mayoral aspirants promise to address the city problems, if elected.
Infighting within the district Awami League might make it difficult for mayor candidate Anjum Sultana Shima to win the upcoming Comilla City Corporation polls.
Back in 1984, women in judicial services was a rare sighting. But that did not stop Kabita Khanam from joining as a BCS judicial cadre
With the ongoing transport strike intensifying and spreading across the country, a number of transport workers yesterday said they called the shutdown with full backing of some top leaders of their association.
Just because a killer bus driver was sentenced to life, transport workers in 10 southern districts yesterday brought road communications to a grinding halt going on strike for an indefinite period.
A Manikganj court yesterday sentenced a bus driver to life imprisonment in a case filed over the road accident that killed noted filmmaker Tareque Masud, media personality Ashfaque Munier Mishuk and three others in 2011.
The new Election Commission yesterday discussed how to create an atmosphere conducive to all-party participation in polls -- both at
The authorities concerned will launch a joint drive against over 20-year-old buses, unfit vehicles, and illegal drivers in the capital from March 1 to reduce congestion and the number of accidents on streets.
Passengers were looking for better train services as they started buying tickets at higher prices yesterday.
Elections to 752 union parishads, the biggest grassroots-level polls, will be held on March 22 on partisan lines for the first time.
The Election Commission yesterday complained to the prime minister and the Speaker that Awami League MP Sharif Ahmed had threatened a returning officer to influence the municipality polls.
To prevent road crashes, the government has lowered the speed limit to 50kmph on highways during foggy weather, despite the fact that similar decisions on road safety remain unimplemented for years.
The Election Commission is likely to ask the returning officers concerned today to look into the allegations of electoral code violation against around two dozen ministers and lawmakers, and take action against them if found guilty.
Although the municipality polls are only eight days away, many returning officers are falling behind with the probes into alleged violations of electoral laws by the ruling Awami League men.
With the Awami League men continuing to breach the polls code, an election commissioner yesterday sought the prime minister's intervention to check this.
Police want restrictions on journalists' access to polling stations in the December 30 municipal polls, but the Election Commission has
The Election Commission last night directed the returning officers of six municipality polls to investigate the allegations of violating electoral code of conduct by a minister and some lawmakers.
Ruling Awami League (AL) men allegedly continue violating the electoral code of conduct centring the municipality polls while apparently turning a deaf ear to the Election Commission's (EC) repeated directives.
