Junior scholarship exam set for Dec 31 postponed after Khaleda Zia's death

Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- Education authorities have postponed the junior scholarship exams scheduled for Wednesday following the declaratoin of state mourning for former prime minister and BNP chief Khaleda ... Read More

'Our truest guardian': Tarique reflects on mother Khaleda's 'unbreakable resilience'

Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- Tarique Rahman, the acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has paid tribute to his mother Khaleda Zia, describing her as a leader who shaped the country's democra... Read More

Nearly 200 BNP hopefuls defy party line in race for parliament

Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- After seven years off the ballot, hundreds of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders sought the party's "sheaf of paddy" symbol - and many were refused. Now, in open defiance of ... Read More

Stranded children rescued from freezing cold roadside in Chattogram

Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- Two children left by the road near Chattogram's Anwara have been rescued. An auto-rickshaw driver found them shivering in the cold on Sunday evening amid the worst cold spell this w... Read More

Parliamentary polls: Which seats have the highest and lowest candidates?

Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- The highest number of nomination papers submitted for a single seat in the parliamentary elections is 18, while the lowest is two. On Monday, 2,582 candidates tendered their nominat... Read More

Khaleda Zia: The reluctant widow, the pro-democracy warrior and the BNP saviour

Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- Khaleda Zia, one of the two women who were plunged into politics and who most profoundly shaped Bangladesh's post-1975 politics, has now taken her final leave, marking the end of a t... Read More

Over 2,500 candidates enter the fray in a political carnival for parliamentary elections

Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- The first act of the decisive post-July Uprising parliamentary election has unfolded with almost festival-like energy. Across the nation, candidates have filed their nomination pape... Read More

BNP chairperson's office steeped in sorrow as party mourns its leader Khaleda Zia

Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- A heavy stillness hangs over the BNP chairperson's office in Dhaka's Gulshan. Staff members move quietly through the corridors, their faces marked by grief, as the party comes to ter... Read More

Jagannath University set to hold first central students' union election

Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- Jagannath University is set to hold its first-ever central students' union election, two decades after becoming a full-fledged university. Alongside the election to the Jagannath Un... Read More

Tarique leads BNP Standing Committee meeting after Khaleda Zia's death

Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- Senior leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are holding a meeting to decide their next steps following the death of the party's chairperson and former prime minister Kha... Read More

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