Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 40 people, including women and children, while they were going to India illegally through Putkhali border here on Saturday morning. Acting on secret information, a patrol team of BGB launched a drive in…
Hefazat-e-Islami Bangladesh (HIB) has refuted its link with audio message of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri. Ameer of HIB Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi and secretary general Allama Hafez Muhammad Junayed Babunagori in a joint statement issued on Saturday said that…
Dhaka – BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday demanded an exemplary punishment of the law enforcers who allegedly killed its activist Jahangir Hossain of Mohanpur village in Sirajganj after his enforced disappearance. In a statement, Alamgir…
BNP chairperson’s adviser and Bangladesh Bar Council vice-chairman Khandaker Mahbub Hossain on Saturday urged the government to arrange a referendum to test its popularity. “The government doesn’t believe in people’s power …it hasn’t been elected through people’s votes. The government…
Police recovered the body of a young man with bullet wounds from the west side of the Bangabandhu Bridge in Kamarkhad upazila on Saturday morning.
Amid criticisms by the BNP-led alliance that the government is hanging onto power through using arms, Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Saturday said that the present government is in power with people’s support, not using arms. “The Awami League government…
Gardening around homesteads in both summer and winter seasons in the region including its vast Barind tract has been gaining popularity with production of different fruits and vegetables.
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury returned home on Saturday afternoon after a four-day visit to India. The Speaker made the visit at the invitation of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. She leavesDhaka for Tehran on Monday to attend the conference…
Jessore – Seven primary school students were killed and 40 others injured as a bus carrying picnickers plunged into a pond at Jhautala in Chaugachha upazila on Jessore-Meherpur Highway on Saturday night. Officer-in-charge of Chaugachha Police Station Motiur Rahman said…
Joint forces in separate drives have arrested 13 persons for their alleged involvement of election related clashes from different areas here on Friday.
Dr. M. S. Haq During 2012 US presidential elections season, I wrote newspaper articles that dealt with inter alia: 01. analyses of election related ground realities of GOP, Democratic party, and others concerned; 02. identification of strengths of, and developmental…
According to a report of the human rights wing of the UN, one-third of women are raped or physically tortured during their life, which is around one billion across the world. To raise awareness and to end of violence against…
A fire broke out at a tannery washing plant in the capital’s Hazaribagh on Friday. Fire Service sources said the fire originated in Karim Leather & Washing Plant around 2:35 pm.
Comilla – Five people, including three of a family, were killed and seven others injured in separate road accidents in Comilla, Chuadanga and Sirajganj districts on Friday. In Comilla, three members of a family were killed and seven people injured…
Dhaka – Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has expelled its five leaders, including national executive committee member Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid.
Dhaka – Touring Sri Lanka won the two-match T20 series 2-0 after beating hosts Bangladesh by 3 wickets in the 2nd T20 match at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Friday. Earlier, in the first T20 match, Bangladesh conceded…
Awami League MP Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim on Tuesday urged the Indian central government and West Bengal government not to allow any Bangladeshi militant to take shelter in their territories. Taking floor on point of order in Parliament, Selim urged…
Saudi Arabia is allowing Bangladeshi workers to change their ‘Iqama’ or residency permit. The move means the kingdom is now again open for Bangladeshi labourers, said Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain.
The 12th Social Business Design Lab will be held at Yunus Centre in the capital on Saturday. The Yunus Centre Social Business Design Lab is a meeting place for the people of diverse backgrounds having the goal of developing and…
Police and joint forces in their separate drives have arrested 113 people, including nine Jamaat activists, from different places of Sylhet division and Chuadanga district on various charges. In Sylhet division, at least 100 people were arrested by police from…
Winged guests seem to have shown little interest about Hakaluki Haor, one of the country’s biggest haors and a protected Ramsar site, as fewer of them have visited it this year compared to previous years due to local disturbances, loss…
Leaders of RMG workers on Friday at a rally in the city demanded of the government to compensate the families of the Rana Plaza victims immediately.
The BNP has asked the government to call fresh general elections heeding the appeals made by Western countries, including the United States. The party’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir voiced the demand at a discussion in the capital…
Communication Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said that BNP lost to the political strategy of Awami League, by boycotting the January 5 general election. “BNP must have realised its mistake… they’ve now plunged to the fray in the upcoming upazila…
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Friday said the size of the country’s national budget for the next fiscal year is likely to be Tk 2.5 trillion. “The budget for the next fiscal year may be two and a half lakh…
Dhaka – BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Friday said the government has “become unnerved” seeing the BNP’s participation in the upazila elections and feared it might resort to manipulate the election. “The government is hatching conspiracy to…
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said the US is making a mistake by pressuring Bangladesh on matters related to its internal politics and other issues. And the BNP had stayed off the general election just because of its…
New Delhi — Anti-graft activist Arvind Kejriwal quit Friday as the top elected official in the New Delhi state government after lawmakers blocked the introduction of a bill to create a strong ombudsman in the Indian capital. Kejriwal’s resignation came…
While the government is pursuing a policy to cut public expenditure on education and research in public universities, the insufficient allocations are also wasted in unplanned recruitment and promotion of teachers and staff, observed former student leaders. They voiced a…
When pondering our obsession with immigration, I’m reminded of how people in the ridiculous dystopian film Idiocracy were watering their crops with an energy drink called Brawndo.