544 candidates collected BNP nomination forms on the first day of the election for reserved women's seats of the 13th National Parliament. BNP media cell member Shairul Kabir Khan confirmed this information to the media on Friday evening.
The first session of the 13th National Parliament has been adjourned until 11am on Wednesday (April 15). Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed Bir Bikram made the announcement after the session ended on Friday.
Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed told an agitated Hasnat Abdullah in parliament, "This level of intolerance will not do, Mr Abdullah. This is not Shahbagh Square, this is parliament. You must wait patiently and listen. Oral remarks have very limited scope. Give notice, it will be adjudicated on the notices."
The Dhaka Central University Bill, 2026, aimed at improving higher education quality and resolving long-standing administrative complications by bringing seven government colleges in the capital under a common academic framework, has been passed in the National Parliament.
Four more children have died with measles symptoms in the last 24 hours from Thursday morning to Friday morning, April 10, according to a health directorate press release. Two deaths occurred in Barishal, one in Mymensingh and one in Sylhet.
Fifty seats for students aged 12 and under already exist in the National Parliament gallery. Education and Primary and Mass Education Minister Dr A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon wrote to the speaker requesting an additional 100 seats for students in the visitor gallery. The speaker approved the request.