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Voting ends in city elections amid 'low turnout'

Voting ends in city elections amid 'low turnout'

-- 2020-02-01 16:52:11

Balloting in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) came to an end at 4:00pm on Saturday amid ‘low voter turnout’ and reports of sporadic violence...

Fingerprint mismatch compels CEC to use NID to vote

Fingerprint mismatch compels CEC to use NID to vote

-- 2020-02-01 16:46:36

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda faced difficulties in casting his vote through the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) for his fingerprint mismatch, reports UNB. Later, he had to use his...

DMP arrests four drug suspects

DMP arrests four drug suspects

FE Online Report 2020-02-01 16:43:37

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a special anti-drug drive arrested four suspects from different areas of the capital for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of DMP, comprising Dete...

No BNP polling agent found at polling centres: EC

No BNP polling agent found at polling centres: EC

-- 2020-02-01 16:35:02

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar on Saturday said he did not find any polling agent of the mayoral candidates of BNP. He made the remarks after casting his vote along with his wife at Ispahani G...

No new dengue case in last 24 hrs: DGHS

No new dengue case in last 24 hrs: DGHS

-- 2020-02-01 15:24:33

No new dengue case was reported in the last 24 hours until 8:00am, the directorate general of health services (DGHS) said on Saturday. In its regular update, it noted that only 12 patients, including...

‘BCL activists’ attack BNP supporter on DU campus

‘BCL activists’ attack BNP supporter on DU campus

-- 2020-02-01 14:08:20

A man was assaulted reportedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists near the Curzon Hall on Dhaka University campus on Saturday morning after he voted for BNP candidates in the Dhaka city elec...

Coronavirus outbreak: Seven hospitalised with fever on arrival from China

Coronavirus outbreak: Seven hospitalised with fever on arrival from China

-- 2020-02-01 14:05:19

The government has sent seven people suffering from fever to hospital after they arrived from Wuhan amid a global emergency over the coronavirus outbreak. Shahriar Sazzad, a health officer at the Dha...

Dhaka city polls: Three journalists injured in attacks

Dhaka city polls: Three journalists injured in attacks

-- 2020-02-01 13:59:03

Three journalists were injured in separate attacks while covering the Dhaka city elections on Saturday. Mostafizur Rahman Sumon, a reporter of agami.com, was attacked allegedly by followers of an Awa...

DNCC polls: Bomb attack on Tabith’s agent

DNCC polls: Bomb attack on Tabith’s agent

-- 2020-02-01 13:27:52

BNP’s Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) candidate Tabith Awal’s main polls agent Moazzem Hossain Alal came under a bomb attack in Monipur on Saturday morning. A group of miscreants hurl...

Voters have no confidence in election system: Dr Kamal

Voters have no confidence in election system: Dr Kamal

-- 2020-02-01 13:17:51

Voicing dissatisfaction over low voter turnout, Jatiya Oikya Front Convener Dr Kamal Hossain has said voters are not coming to polling stations as they have no confidence in the election system. &ldq...

Coronavirus outbreak: 316 Bangladeshis return from China

Coronavirus outbreak: 316 Bangladeshis return from China

-- 2020-02-01 12:49:17

A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying 316 Bangladeshi nationals from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak, arrived in Dhaka city on Saturday mornin...

It’s a beautiful day, says US envoy

It’s a beautiful day, says US envoy

-- 2020-02-01 12:33:38

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller visited two polling centres in Dhaka city on Saturday morning but did not interact with media. He first visited Rampura Ekramunnesa High School voting centre...

City polls: AL candidates confident about victory; BNP aspirants cry foul

City polls: AL candidates confident about victory; BNP aspirants cry foul

-- 2020-02-01 12:09:36

Awami League’s mayoral candidates for Dhaka north and south city corporations have expressed optimism about victory while BNP’s aspirants alleged that their agents were obstructed from ent...

DNCC witnesses low voter turnout in early hours

DNCC witnesses low voter turnout in early hours

FE Online Report 2020-02-01 11:29:55

Elections to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) are in progress with drastically low presence of voters in the early hours. In the first two hours of the voting, less than five per cent of voters ca...

PM blasts diplomatic missions for listing locals as foreign election observers

PM blasts diplomatic missions for listing locals as foreign election observers

-- 2020-02-01 11:01:03

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday sharply criticised the diplomatic missions in Dhaka that made Bangladesh nationals foreign election observers saying that they have done a very outrageous deed...

Two BNP councillor candidates attacked

Two BNP councillor candidates attacked

-- 2020-02-01 10:48:08

Two BNP councillor candidates in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) were attacked by their rivals on Saturday morning when they were going to cast their votes. Sirajul Islam was attacked while e...

Metro rail, expressway projects key polluters

Metro rail, expressway projects key polluters

MUNIMA SULTANA 2020-02-01 10:31:58

The under-construction metro rail and Dhaka Elevated Expressway are the major air polluters in the capital, leaving people in severe health hazards, according to the Department of Environment (DoE)....

Voting underway in Dhaka city election

Voting underway in Dhaka city election

-- 2020-02-01 10:22:43

Voters in the capital are exercising their franchise to elect mayors and councilors to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC). Balloting began at 8:00am and will...

PM to cast vote at Dhaka City College

PM to cast vote at Dhaka City College

-- 2020-01-31 22:15:14

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will cast her vote in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) polls at Dhaka City College centre Saturday morning. “The Prime Minister will c...

Don’t include Bangladeshis in election observer teams: Govt to foreign missions

Don’t include Bangladeshis in election observer teams: Govt to foreign missions

-- 2020-01-31 22:04:40

The government has asked foreign missions in Bangladesh not to include their local Bangladeshi employees in observer teams for Saturday’s Dhaka city elections, reports UNB. In a letter to the fo...

Polling centres will be safe: CEC

Polling centres will be safe: CEC

-- 2020-01-31 20:52:05

The chief election commissioner (CEC) has urged the voters to turn up to cast their ballots assuring them safe polling centres in the city corporation elections. Beside the election officials, law-en...

Quader in 'stable condition'

Quader in 'stable condition'

-- 2020-01-31 19:02:50

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader is now in a 'stable condition' after visiting the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital with sudden breathing problems. "His condition is...

Coronavirus outbreak: Bangladeshi students head to Wuhan airport

Coronavirus outbreak: Bangladeshi students head to Wuhan airport

-- 2020-01-31 18:59:19

The authorities have started moving the Bangladeshi students in Wuhan to the airport in the Chinese city for evacuation from the locked down epicentre of a deadly coronavirus outbreak, reports bdnews2...

Bangladeshis listed as 'foreign observers' shouldn't be allowed in poll centres: Momen

Bangladeshis listed as 'foreign observers' shouldn't be allowed in poll centres: Momen

-- 2020-01-31 18:11:58

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen believes diplomatic missions have flouted election guidelines by registering its Bangladeshi staff members in Dhaka as international observers for the upcoming city pol...

Three dead in Jhenaidah road crash

Three dead in Jhenaidah road crash

-- 2020-01-31 17:50:55

Three motorcycle riders have died after their two-wheeler crashed into a tractor in Jhenaidah's Maheshpur Upazila. The incident took place in the Upazila's Jagusha village around 3:00pm on Friday, ac...

Seven DB men suspended over crossfire threat, extortion

Seven DB men suspended over crossfire threat, extortion

-- 2020-01-31 17:42:09

Seven members of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka police were suspended on Thursday for allegedly extorting money from a businessman threatening to kill him in crossfire. The suspended DB members inclu...

Dhaka ranks worst city in AQI again

Dhaka ranks worst city in AQI again

-- 2020-01-31 14:49:35

Dhaka topped the list of cities with the worst air again for the second consecutive day in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Friday morning. The capital city of Bangladesh had an AQI score of 313 at 08:...

Coronavirus: 361 Bangladeshis to return from China tonight

Coronavirus: 361 Bangladeshis to return from China tonight

-- 2020-01-31 14:35:42

A special flight is set to bring back 361 Bangladeshi nationals from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of a deadly coronavirus outbreak. They will arrive in Dhaka on Friday night and will then...

Quader admitted to BSMMU with breathing problems

Quader admitted to BSMMU with breathing problems

-- 2020-01-31 14:29:56

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader was admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Friday morning with respiratory complications. “The AL general secretar...

BD set to send plane to fly its citizens from coronavirus-hit Wuhan

BD set to send plane to fly its citizens from coronavirus-hit Wuhan

-- 2020-01-31 14:03:05

Bangladesh is set to send a plane to the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of a deadly coronavirus outbreak, to evacuate its nationals. The Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight will depart Dhaka on Fr...