Coinciding the three-day national mourning for Nelson Mandela, the BNP-led 18-party alliance enforces its fresh spell of 72-hour road-rail-waterway blockade across the country at 6am on Saturday demanding that the next national election be arranged under a non-party government.
Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad has said Jatiya Party will go to general elections if the schedule is extended by 10 days and participation of all political parties ensured.
Some 25 Awami League candidates are going to be elected unopposed as there are no other candidates in their constituencies to contest the 10th parliamentary polls billed for January 5.
A man was killed and 10 others were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over land at Kenai Madhyapara in Faridpur upazila on Friday morning.
Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested an alleged smuggler along with 22 gold bars weighing 2.75 kgs from Sahapur Talpukur area in Sadar upazila on Friday morning.
A woman and a minor boy were killed and two others injured in separate road accidents in Jessore on Thursday.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three alleged arms trader with two firearms and ammunitions from Puthiya upazila headquarters in the district last night, RAB said.
A motorcycle of an official of National Security Intelligence (NSI) was torched by the hartal supporters at Palashbari upazila town in the district on Thursday.
US Vice-President Joe Biden concluded his Asia tour in South Korea on Friday following earlier meetings in Japan and China. Biden’s trip coincided with a moment of significant regional tension following China’s declaration last week of a new “Air Defense…
The scores are in from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, which, every three years, tests 15-year-olds from the world’s most advanced countries.
South Africans have gathered in Johannesburg and Soweto to mourn their former leader, Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday aged 95.
A storm that has wreaked havoc across northern Europe has claimed three lives in Poland, bringing to six the toll of people killed in hurricane-force winds.
Within hours of Nelson Mandela’s passing, commentary from around the world began pouring in – reflecting the greatness of the man and the impact his life had on the entire globe.
The news of the death of Nelson Mandela broke during a royal gala screening of the biographical film Long Walk to Freedom in London.
A Depression era view of New Jersey by Edward Hopper has sold for $40m (£24.4m), setting an auction record for the US artist.
In the study, scientists tracked lemon sharks in the Bahamas for 17 years to prove the case.
Researchers say that some monkeys in South and Central America eat as many as 50 different species of fruit a day.
Michael Clarke’s latest Ashes hundred underlined the Australia captain’s status as the best batsman in the world, team-mate Brad Haddin said.
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The demise of South Africa’s fatherly figure Nelson Mandela (95) on Friday has cast a pall of gloom not merely in the African republic that he has built from the ruins of apartheid to a nation of…
No one will disagree with me that bribery in the education sector has increased significantly. A few days ago when I talked with an NGO personal who has been in his job for about 10 years.
The Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal in a statement to the press on Thursday expressed its concern at the loss of life and property in blockade and hartal for several weeks. It blamed the government for its stubbornness in not accepting the…
Voicing disappointment over the current volatile situation, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Thursday said a compromise is good for all right now as the responsibility of violence goes to all.
Human Rights Watch has expressed its concerns over the recent spate of pre-poll violence in Bangladesh. A statement issued Wednesday, quoting its Asia Director Brad Adams, said that leaders of Awami League and BNP should take emergency measures to avoid…
Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Heather Cruden on Thursday said the international community would not play the mediator’s role in resolving the political crisis ahead of Bangladesh’s national election billed for January 5.
US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan Mozena on Thursday lauded Bangladesh for its ‘great contributions’ to global peacekeeping saying the world is safer, more secure and more stable today.
Opposition activists have clashed with police in Chittagong and vandalised a local Awami League office. Witnesses said blockade campaigners took out a procession from Chittagong’s City Gate area and marched towards the AK Khan area on Thursday. They hurled a…
A Dhaka court on Thursday placed BNP Vice-President Sadeque Hossain Khoka on a two-day remand in a case filed with Shahbagh Police Station of the city in connection with an arson attack on a bus at Shahbah on November 28.
Dhaka – Upset over the mindless violence across the country, apparel manufacturers have decided to form a human chain on Saturday in front of the BGMEA complex in the city, aiming to send out a strong message to the politicians…
Dhaka-To deliver hassle-free and quick service to the applicants of Machine Readable Passport (MRP) and Machine Readable Visa (MRV), the Government, for the first time, permitted five private commercial banks to collect fees through their online network.
Dhaka – Share price index at the country’s both bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittatgong Stock Exchange – ended the week in red as downturn continued for the second consecutive session on Thursday.