Pro-AL journalist leaders on Tuesday demanded resignation of those from Jatiya Press Club managing committee who were involved in making the club a centre of political party activities and providing scopes to outsiders to stay at night. They made the…
Joint General Secretary of the ruling Awami League Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Tuesday claimed that people of the country have rejected BNP’s ‘destructive indefinite siege programme’. “People have rejected Begum Khaleda Zia’s siege programme of terrorising them and politics of vengeance.…
Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Atiur Rahman has been awarded the “Central Banker of the Year 2015” for the Asia-Pacific. The Banker, a magazine of the London-based Financial Times, announced the award on Monday. Dr Atiur received the award for his…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has still remain confined at her political office at Gulshan since Saturday with he entrance of the House locked by police from outside. Her physician told journalists Khaleda is repeatedly having breathing problems and skin rash…
A mobile court yesterday (Monday) evening convicted one drug peddler and awarded one year rigorous imprisonment for possessing 4.800 kg of hemp (Ganja) in Shovarampur area adjacent to this town.
Janata Bank DistrictsLimited (JBL) distributed blankets to the people with disability and the distressed of the town here last few days to mitigate their sufferings caused by cold wave.
Commercial farming of strawberry has started gaining momentum in Rajshahi region as its cultivation is easier and highly profitable.
A three-day ‘Digital Innovative Fair-2015’ organized by local district administration was inaugurated here today at local Ambica Memorial ground.
Duttapara police last night rescued a schoolboy, after two days of his abduction, from Sobhanpur area under Chatkhali upazila in Noakhali district.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two Myanmarese nationals and recovered 70,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from their possession at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazaar early Tuesday.
Police arrested three suspected members of a robber gang after a ‘gunfight’ with them at Choigharia on the Satkhira-Jessore highway in Sadar upazila early Monday.
A tribunal here on Monday sentenced three men to death for raping a female health worker of a non-government organisation (NGO) in 2005.
Police arrested Bnp Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as he came out of the National Press Club ending his little over 24-hour stay to avoid arrest. The managing committee of the club was under pressure from the pro-AL…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhru Islam Alamgir, who took shelter there to evade arrest, talked to the media before leaving Tuesday Amid mounting pressure from AL and pro-AL journalist union leaders on its management committee. He was arrested at…
At least 10 BNP leaders and activists, including its district unit president Taimur Alam Khandaker, were injured in a clash with police on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said local leaders and activists of BNP, led by Advocate Taimur Alam Khandaker, brought…
Some 250 pro-opposition lawyers, including Bar Council vice chairman and BNP chairperso’s adviser Khandker Mahbub Hossain, have been sued on charges of obstructing law enforcers and attacking the car of Justice Farid Ahmed on the High Court premises on Monday.…
Prime Minister’s Media Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury today called for not using the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) as the centre of any political party’s programmes. He made the call at a press conference at JPC this evening.
BSS reported: The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) early Tuesday arrested Ekushey Television Ltd (ETV) chairman Abdus Salam from in front of ETV office at Karwan Bazar in the capital. “ETV chairman was arrested in connection with…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder There had been a new dimension in the movement of the opposition and the government’s technique of tackling the same. While the programme for the ‘democracy killing day’ of the Bnp-led 20-party alliance had began with the…