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No-one convicted for breach of Emergency Powers Rules will be able to run for the parliament, election commissioner M Sohul Hossain on Thursday.

A number of organisations are observing 'Dr Milan Day' on Thursday in remembrance of Dr Shamsul Alam Khan Milan who was killed this day in 1990 protesting against military dictator HM Ershad's autocratic rule.

Bangladesh on Thursday condemned the terrorist attack on India's financial capital of Mumbai.

BNP parliamentary board began interviewing its nomination seekers at 11am Thursday, a party spokesman said.

Pressure built on Thailand's military to intervene in a political crisis threatening to descend into widespread civil unrest on Thursday after Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat rejected calls to quit.

Some 9 million people in Asia have been infected with HIV over the last 20 years, while full-blown AIDS has claimed 3.8 million lives including 330,000 children over the period, said a report out Wednesday.

Registered female voters outnumber male ones for the first time, in the national voter list for the 9th Jatiya Sangsad election, the Election Commission said on Wednesday, indicating the fate of candidates may be in the hands of more women than ever before. EC deputy secretary Mihir Sarwar told bdnews24.com on Wednesday women voters have never outnumbered men in voter rolls to date.

BNP has so far sold over 2000 nomination forms, up to 9pm on Wednesday, said office secretary Rizvi Ahmed. "An 11-member parliamentary board headed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will start interviewing the aspiring nominees at the chairperson's Gulshan office on Thursday at 10am," he said.

Mahbub Anam has been elected senior vice president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, while Ahmed Sajjadul Alam Bobby and Asaduzzaman Khashru were elected vice presidents unopposed on Wednesday.

Awami League has again said it has doubts over the general elections taking place in time and accused the Election Commission of favouring 'a party'.

Finance adviser AB Mirza Azizul Islam Wednesday said that the overall capital market situation is satisfactory.

The Truth and Accountability Commission wants to finish its tasks by Dec 16 since a one-month stay on a High Court ruling, declaring the commission illegal, ends by that date.

Berth operation system at Chittagong port needs to go a few notches up, port users say but acknowledge that there have been improvements with the port handling after the emergency government took office. Private operators to run yards and berths have not yet been appointed and the port users and businesspeople blame the port authority for the delay.

Handlers of a popular polar bear, brought to mate with a female in a zoo in northern Japan, found their breeding plan was doomed when they noticed that he, in fact, was a she.

A pair of glass-eyed idols led marine archeologists to the wreck of a Spanish ship that once carried an illegal cargo of African slaves believed to be the ancestors of many of today's inhabitants of the British colony of Turks and Caicos.

U.S. health officials have found trace amounts of the chemical melamine in one sample of infant formula sold in the United States, a Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

Malaysia's prime minister said Wednesday Muslims should still take up yoga, reversing an outright ban that has drawn widespread protests amid concerns over growing Islamic fundamentalism in the multiracial nation.

Four foreign nationals, arrested by the CID for possession of equipment to forge US dollar bills, were taken into five-day remand Wednesday.

Where in the United States, fruit farmers pay to have bees trucked thousands of miles to pollinate their crops and in parts of China, humans with feather dusters have taken on the task, in Britain most bees go nature's way.

And then there was light -- and it was powered by the sun. The Vatican on Wednesday activated a new solar energy system and announced an ambitious plan that could one day make it an alternative energy exporter.