Detective Branch (DB) of police today apprehended former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal from the capital's Moghbazar area.

His arrest came two days after the detention of another former CEC, KM Nurul Huda, in a case filed against them and 22 others for alleged manipulation of national elections.

According to deputy commissioner of DB (Media and Public Relations) Muhammad Talebur Rahman, Kazi Habibul Awal was arrested around 2pm today. He was taken to the DB office on Minto Road.

Nurul Huda and Habibul Awal were CECs during the parliamentary election in 2018 and 2024 respectively.

Earlier, a Dhaka court granted a four-day remand for Nurul Huda in the case on June 23, a day after his arrest from his Uttara residence in the evening of June 22.

BNP national executive committee member Md Salah Uddin Khan filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on Sunday against 24 individuals, including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and three former CECs, for manipulating the national elections in 2014, 2018 and 2024.

Former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, four former Inspectors General of Police (IGP), several former Election Commissioners and former chiefs of Special Branch (SB), National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) were accused in the case.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Washington DC, the USA capital city, this afternoon after joining the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session and other high-level side and bilateral events in New York.

She reached Washington DC from New York by road at 6pm.

On her arrival in Washington DC, Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA Muhammad Imran received the premier with a flower bouquet, reports BSS.

Earlier, she left her Place of Residence, Lotte New York for Washington DC at 12:30pm.

She arrived in New York on September 17.

The prime minister will leave Washington DC for London, the capital city of the United Kingdom, on September 29.

She will stay in London till October 3.

After wrapping up her visit, the prime minister will leave London for home and scheduled to reach Dhaka on October 4.

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"An MoU will be signed between the National Payments Corporation of India and the Bangladesh Bank to make transactions in rupees and taka between Bangladesh and India easier," said the foreign minister in a press conference at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital on Thursday.

Besides, the neighbouring countries are likely to sign two more memorandums of understanding regarding cooperation in agricultural researches, and extension of the existing cultural exchange programme for two years, said the foreign minister.

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