The ruling Awami League has finalised 39 nominees, mostly new faces, for elections to reserved women seats in the 10th Parliament. The candidates were listed in a media statement signed by the party’s Office Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap on Thursday.…
Sri Lanka smartly reached the final of the five-nation Asia Cup Cricket with all win record packing Bangladesh empty hand in the continental meet beating the Tigers by three wickets in the last league match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket…
Apprehending vote fraud in the remaining phases of the upazila polls, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Thursday warned that people will throw the ruling party into dustbin if it tries to manipulate the vote further. “You’ve been…
Chinese ambassador in Dhaka Li Jun believes a “peaceful dialogue” between the two major parties can end Bangladesh’s political impasse, but says Bangladeshis know “much better” than outsiders what to do. “You (people) are the real players,” Li Jun said…
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has claimed police are looking for the people the BNP says have been ‘abducted’. These very people are accused of being involved in violent activities, he said on Thursday. The BNP has been…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday accused the government of turning the country into a fascist state through repression and misrule. “A man accused of attacking Awami League leader Asaduzzaman Noor was shot dead in Bogra about one and a half…
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Rural Electrification Board (REB) has proposed 23.04 per cent increase in the electricity tariff for irrigation. As per the REB proposal, tariff of each unit of electricity for irrigation will go up to Tk 4.70 from existing Tk 3.39-Tk 3.96.…
A report published by a global watchdog finds Bangladesh’s justice system ‘inefficient’ with the courts afflicted by corruption and political interference. The ‘Rule of Law Index 2014’ published on Thursday by the World Justice Project (WJP) said the country had…
First year (Honours) classes of Rajshahi University (RU) under 2013-2014 academic session will start on March 10.
The viva-voce for the first year honours admission into Jahangirnagar University (JU) under 2013-14 academic session will begin from March 18. It will continue till March 20.
Two persons were killed in separate incidents in the district on Wednesday and Tuesday.
More than ten farmers in the district’s Godagari Upazila have attained unprecedented success in cultivation of flower commercially for the first time in the region as an alternative crop.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 300 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from his house in Chaklapara area of the district town early Wednesday.
Police in a drive arrested three alleged robbers along with huge arms from Satais area under Tongi Police Station in the city early Wednesday.
A motorcyclist was killed and his co-rider injured in a road accident on the Bhakurta Bridge on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway of the upazila on Thursday morning.
A schoolgirl reportedly committed suicide by jumping under the wheels of a running train at Rajabari level crossing in Kalihati upazila on Wednesday noon.
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The BNP is running after ‘a strange creature called caretaker government’, Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said. “They have to come around to other system, understanding the fact that it won’t work,” he said at a function at Kabi Nazrul…
Urging all to stand against the enemies of country’s development and to cooperate with police in uprooting terrorism, subversive activities and militancy, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday warned of harsh punishment to those who will join hands with the…
EU leaders are to begin an emergency summit to decide how strongly they should respond to Russia’s troop deployment in Ukraine’s Crimea region. Some members, particularly from Eastern Europe, want tough sanctions, while others, led by Germany, seek mediation. Ahead…
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has slashed revenue target by 8.08 percent from the projected figure of the 2013-14 fiscal. The revenue target was Tk 1,360 billion for the current fiscal.