Although he declined to make any comment about the High Court verdict that declared illegal registration of Jamaat-e-Islam, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said his party is always against banning any political party.
Over two and half years into the incident, the trial of the murder of Bangladeshi girl Felani is going to begin on August 13 at a court constituted by Indian Border Security Force (BSF).
Jatiya Party Presidium Member Kazi Zafar Ahmed on Friday called upon the Prime Minister not to push the country towards a civil war.
In the wake of the High Court’s verdict declaring illegal the registration of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Friday said the Islamist party has no right to stay in Bangladesh.
The Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded outlawing the Awami League and its associate fronts, a day after the High Court cancelled its registration, giving rise to widespread calls to ban it.
The BNP has again warned of ‘tough’ street protests after the Eid-ul-Fitr to press for the restoration of a non-party caretaker administration to oversee the national elections.
The US embassy’s announcement earlier today that it will remain closed on Sunday, August 4, is linked to a perceived terror threat from Al Qaeda, it’s been learned.
Although different measures have been taken by the authorities to stop irregularities, black marketers are still active at Sylhet railway station.
A comprehensive mapping of elephant routes and corridors is essential to carry out development works in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) averting man-elephant conflicts in elephant ranges, say experts.
Acupressure practitioners here on Friday urged the government to initiate a special section under the Directorate General of Health Services to promote naturopathic treatment in the country.
A battalion commander-level flag meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) was held in Jaintapur Upazila on Monday.
A special squad of Coast Guard in a drive recovered 300 cubic feet teak timber worth about Tk 16 lakh as they were being amuggled after raiding in Khalurgat bridge area under Chandgaon thana in the city on Friday, Coast…
Agriculture experts at a ceremony on Friday stressed the need for expanded cultivation of short duration, off-season and indigenous parija paddy adopting newer cropping pattern for food security amid adverse climate.
The government has taken an initiative to modernise Thakurgaon Sugar Mills in a bid to reduce its ‘process loss’ through replacing its old machinery and introducing another option for sugar production from beet sugar alongside boosting its output from sugarcane. …
With the holy Eid- ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, is coming nearer, the Eid-shopping has started gaining momentum in Netrakona district town day by day.
Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan (JIP) has sought intervention of the international community against, what it claimed, victimisation and targeting of Jamaat-e-Islami and its leaders in Bangladesh.
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has planned to conserve 53 natural water-bodies in the city in order to retain its surface water resources for protecting the environment from further degradation.
The results of this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be published today March 3.
World stocks were mostly higher as investors awaited key U.S. data later Friday that they hoped would add further evidence of a strengthening recovery in the world’s biggest economy.
Members of BGB arrested one person with 85 grams of heroin worth Tk. 1,70,000 from a residential hotel in Chapainawabganj town in the early hours of Friday.
Two people were killed and ten injured in separate incidents in Sherpur Sadar on Thursday.
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