A court in Dhaka on Monday asked Tarique Rahman, senior vice chairman of BNP, to appear before it, in connection with a case for making derogatory remarks on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate…
The cabinet on Monday gave approval to five instruments including proposals for signing a SAARC agreement on the motor vehicle regulation and amendment to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Malaysia on manpower export. Cabinet secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan…
Bangladesh Navy on Monday seized a Myanmar flag hoistng trawler in the deep see with at least 625 people on board, including many Myanmar nationals, heading towards Malaysia illegally. A source at the Naval Headquarters said that the trawler was…
Political Adviser to the Prime Minister HT Imam today said a section of media distorted his statement tactfully to demean him. “Some print and electronic media portrayed my partial speech to give wrong message to the nation” he told a…
Hearing in the leave to appeal filed by BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia against the High Court (HC) order in connection with Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, started at the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday. The five-…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Sunday alleged that Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina had taken the politics in a dangerous corner. “She (Hasina) is standing on shifting sand and has lost the ground under…
‘Queen of reality TV’ Kim Kardeshian is coming to India for the first time. She will promote her own perfume brand there. She will also enter the house of Bigg Boss season 8 on November 22. She also may stay…
Four workers were killed and one was injured during a hazardous chemical leak at a DuPont industrial plant in suburban Houston, company officials said. The chemical, methyl mercaptan, began leaking from a valve around 4 a.m. Saturday in a unit…
Commissioner of the Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) Barrister Mahbubur Rahman has been transferred to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, two days after the gruesome murder of Rajshahi University Professor AKM Shafiul Islam. According to a notification, issued by the Home Ministry…
Washington DC – In time for Thanksgiving, this year’s crop in the White House kitchen garden for the first time included orange sweet potato, a root vegetable that is rich in vitamin A. The sweet potato was chosen to highlight…
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury has said the country’s political parties, including Awami League, got a rebirth as BNP founder Ziaur Rahman had introduced multiparty democracy. “Ziaur Rahman had been brought to power through the…
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the government is trying to brand BNP as a militant and extremist party though militancy emerged in the country during Awami League rule. “Militancy emerged in the country during Awami League…
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Sunday lamented that though he had quit power for the sake of democracy, the two major parties — Awami League and BNP– have failed to restore democracy and give people peace due to their…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday said that the country’s independence has has been at stake because of the signing of secret deals with foreign countries ignoring public opinion. In a statement marking the 38th death anniversary of Moulana Abdul…
Muhammad Yunus Will the present economic system be able to establish appropriate level of moral, social, and material balance in the world? I don’t think it can. The present system is like an impersonal sucking machine which thrives on continuously…
An emergency meeting of the International Farakka Committee (IFC), New York, environment and water rights watch group, will be held at 72-26 Roosevelt Avenue (Popular Driving School) New York, at 3 pm on 23 November to decide on the course…
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited opened its 290th branch at Oxyzen More in Chittagong city on Sunday. Mohammad Monjur Alam, Mayor of Chittagong City Corporation inaugurated the branch as the chief guest.
Two members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) battalion-16 were killed and four others injured as a grenade went off during training in Khagrachhari Cantonment on Sunday. The victims were identified as nayek subedar Abul Kashem, hailing from Chandina in Comilla,…
Amid a fresh threat by a group of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) to resume their protest programme against the newly formed committee of the student body, five crude bombs were exploded near BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on Sunday. Witnesses said…
Amid strong protests against the murder of Rajshahi University teacher Prof AKM Shafiul Islam, police arrested 20 people, including a college principal, in connection with the killing. Officer-in-charge of Motihar Police Station Amagir Hossain said local police and detectives launched…
Naudero: He was a 19-year-old Oxford undergraduate when his family named him chairperson of country’s oldest dynastic party – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). In the years that followed, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, now 26, has been groomed to take over the…
The government has fixed an all-time record target of producing 95.55 lakh tonnes winter vegetables from 4.90 lakh hectares of land in the country during the current 2014-2015 Rabi season, official sources said.
Experts at a divisional level views-sharing meeting here have stressed for comprehensive and well-coordinated efforts of all stakeholders for eradicating the completely curable disease of tuberculosis from the society.
Speakers at a discussion yesterday said Begum Rokeya clearly understood the essence of spreading female education for women renaissance and socioeconomic and political empowerment of the womenfolk.
Former Bangladesh and Indian diplomats have called on their respective governments to train their focus on economic engagement and intensify security cooperation. Participating in a two-day first ever Bangladesh-India High Commissioners’ Summit organised by the international relations department of Dhaka…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 in a drive arrested an alleged arms trader with a foreign made pistol and two magazines from Durlavpur village under Shibganj upazila of the district on Saturday evening.
Police in a drive arrested a hemp trader with 47-kg hemp from Boubazar-Balasul area under Srinagar upazila of the district last night.
Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police detained two leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) for quizzing in the Tangail district Awami League leader Faruk Ahmed killing case on Saturday night.
Police recovered the body of a saloon owner with the throat slashed from a mango orchard at Ballavpur village in Mujibnagar upazila on Sunday morning.
An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed in an attack by his rivals in Pathantula area of the city on Saturday night.