President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday sought Norwegian support in shipbuilding and ship recycling sectors of the country. He sought the assistance while newly-appointed Ambassador of Norway to Bangladesh Merete Lundemo presented her credentials to him at Bangabhaban.
A court has asked police to arrest 17 runaway accused in the cases over Hall-Mark scam.
Bangladesh’s apex trade body the Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has demanded the release of Abdul Awal Mintoo, an adviser to Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia and a former FBCCI president.
Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy says attacks in which people end up burnt are an act of ‘murder’.
Japan and Germany have expressed their concerns over passage of the Anti-Corruption Commission (Amendment) Bill 2013 in Parliament.
Dr. M. S. Haq I recently wrote an article on political reconciliations in Bangladesh. It was published in Bangladesh by the green watch (the online daily), the financial express, and the news today on 22 October 2013, 02 November 2013,…
Agartala: The Regional Passport Office (RPO) in Kolkata under the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has decided not to issue fresh India-Bangladesh Passports (IBP) after November 30, an official said here on Wednesday.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday filed a case against two police officials for taking bribes of Taka one crore.
The BNP-led Opposition has not announced any fresh agitation plan after its 84-hour shutdown across Bangladesh.
Despite a backlash to its recent crackdown on the sale of counterfeit medicines in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, the government has vowed to continue fighting the growing industry of illicit, substandard, counterfeit and life-endangering medicines.
The Cabinet’s first meeting after ministers tendered their resignation letters to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be held on Nov 17.
By Bikram Vohra They did it again. In the still hot debris of the death by ambush of five Indian soldiers and a shrillness in the hostility, Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Manmohan Singh had a lukewarm coming together in…
BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia went to her Gulshan office after a five-day pause on Wednesday night.
By Al Bawaba News The White House warned Congress on Tuesday that imposing tougher sanctions on Iran could lead to “war” by leaving the president only with the option to use force to halt Tehran’s nuclear program.
Noted actress Jaya Bachchan is likely to make her small screen debut with a fiction show on Sony Entertainment channel.
The new US Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal is coming to Bangladesh next week after her visit to Japan.
BNP leaders Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Md Salauddin have been implicated in a case concerning the torching of a running bus at Matuail in Dhaka.
Terming BNP and Jamaat terrorist outfits, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday blasted the opposition leader saying that she was out there to fulfill her vengeance through burning people to death during hartals as she failed to grab power through…
Production at 70 ready-made garment (RMG) factories in Gazipur and Savar were suspended for Wednesday after workers clashed with cops demanding implementation of the new salary structure recommended by the government-appointed wage board.
Miscreants gunned down a local leader of Jubo League (JL), an associate body of the ruling Awami League, in Ratanpur area of Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.
The BNP has demanded the Prime Minister’s resignation to ‘solve the current political impasse’. Party spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said forming a poll-time government would only add fuel to the fire. “We believe collecting resignation letters from the ministers…
A mobile court convicted a drug peddler and sentenced him to six months jail for possessing ganja in Bakshiganj upazila here on Monday afternoon.
Awami League leader Mohammad Nasim has asked Khaleda Zia, the Leader of the Opposition, to resign from her post. He said this on Tuesday, a day after the BNP demanded the Prime Minister’s resignation as a step to solving the current…
The Narayanganj Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested two persons and recovered 2,000 pieces of yaba tablets from Langalbandha area on the Dhaka- Chittagong Highway under Narayanganj Port Thana here on Monday.
A dyeing factory was gutted by a fire that broke out at Konabari in the city on Tuesday morning.
A schoolgirl drowned as a boat capsized in the Jadukatha river near Chanpur in Jamalganj upazila on Monday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled Indian clothes and other goods worth Tk 50 lakh from Sadipur border here on Monday night.
Police in a drive arrested two people along with three crude bombs from Garikhana Road area of Jessore district town on Monday night.
A mobile court here sentenced two young men to six months’ imprisonment each on Monday for possessing hemp.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has warned that Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia would be tried ‘someday’ for the deaths during the recent shutdowns. “She (Khaleda) will have to take responsibility for them,” Hasina told a rally in Gopalganj, her ancestral home, on…