Dhaka – Demanding immediate cancellation of Sunday’s ‘farcical‘ elections, opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Monday urged the government to quit and reach a compromise for holding a free, fair, peaceful and inclusive national election under a non-party neutral administration. In…
Dhaka – As expected, the international press has unanimously denounced Sunday’s election to the 10th Jatiya Sangshad in Bangladesh, with most propagating the fear that the polls marked by an opposition boycott and violence portends an uncertain period for the…
Prospect of boosting cotton production in the region is bright as its topography and climatic condition suitable for the cash crop.
Sunday’s general elections held in 139 constituencies had a 40 percent turnout, according to the Election Commission. Polling in the halted those centres under eight constituencies will take place on Jan 16.
A housewife allegedly committed suicide over family feud in Doarabazar Polly area under Doarabazar upazila of the district last night.
The first day of the fresh 48-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, demanding cancellation of the 10th parliamentary elections held on Sunday, passed off peacefully on Monday.
Cracks have appeared in the building of a community clinic in Dakkhin Surma upazila triggering fear of some deadly accident any time causing loss of lives.
A Juba League (JL) activist, who was injured in an attack allegedly by the 18-party opposition alliance activists in Sonaimuri upazila on Sunday evening died at a hospital in the town early Monday.
Two people, including a madrasa student, were stabbed to death in separate incidents in Sadar and Kazipur upazilas on Sunday night.
Police recovered the body of a man with the throat slit from Gaserdiar village in Daulatpur upazila on Saturday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered the body of a man from the Ichhamati River in Sadar upazila of the district on Saturday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled Indian clothes worth Tk 2 crore from Boro Achra border point here early Saturday.
China WindPower Group Ltd. (182), an operator of renewable-energy projects with a market value of HK$5.62 billion ($725 million), said it will get as much as 5.7 billion yuan ($942 million) in loans from the China Development Bank Corp.’s Qinghai…
Pittsburg — In at least four states that have nurtured the nation’s energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and pollution was confirmed in a number of them, according to a…
Foreign airlines may be allowed to operate internal flights during this year’s football World Cup, the Brazilian president’s chief of staff, Gleisi Hoffmann, says.
England owed their Ashes victory over Australia last year to an ability to win the key moments in often tight battles between two sides far more evenly matched than the 3-0 scoreline suggests.
Actress Lupita Nyong’o, who was in the hotly-tipped film 12 Years A Slave, is among five young actors nominated for this year’s Bafta Rising Star award.
Victims of Jimmy Savile are calling for a single inquiry into how the ex-BBC DJ and presenter managed to evade justice.
An eight-year-old Afghan girl wearing a suicide vest has been detained by police in southern Afghanistan.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has fractured a bone in her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident in Switzerland, her spokesman says.
Parts of the US are braced for potentially record-breaking low temperatures as a “polar vortex” brings more freezing weather.
Aoung authors of fiction from Gaza, some of whom say they are finding Palestine on the internet while unable to see it exist in reality, have just published a collection of stories, written in English, marking the five-year anniversary of…
Many people can recall reading at least one cherished story that they say changed their life.
Scientists have found a genomic deletion that affects fertility and milk yield in dairy cattle at the same time.
India on Monday said that elections in Bangladesh on Jan 5 were a constitutional requirement and democratic processes must be allowed to take their own course. “They (elections) are a part of the internal and constitutional process of Bangladesh. It…
Three persons have died on Monday in a clash between supporters of the victor and the vanquished candidates of Dhaka-1 constituency at Bilashpur in Dohar Upazila. According to the local people and police, supporters of Bilashpur Union Parishad (UP) chairman…
Dhaka – The BNP-led 18-party alliance on Monday threaded to continue the ongoing movement if the government does not take effective steps for fresh elections to restore peace in the country. “We urge the Prime Minister to take steps for…
Dhaka – BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, now in London, ruled out the possibility of further dialogue with Awami League branding the incoming government an ‘illegal’ one. “There’s been a farcical election already. The government that comes to power through…
Dhaka – Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Monday renewed her offer to BNP to have a dialogue for the next election in the country, but not for any early polls. “I’ll urge all, including the opposition leader, to come…
Dr. M. S. Haq One of the leading English dailies of Bangladesh of today (06 January 2014) – quoting reports from The Indian Express – states India plans to muster international support for Hasina. The country is reportedly planning to…