An outlawed party activist was killed and another injured in an explosion allegedly while they were making bombs in Ataikula upazila of Pabna district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Mongal Pramanik, 38, son of Malik Pramanik of Dharmagram…
Three leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, including Chouddagram upazila unit president of Shibir, were killed in separate incidents of ‘shootouts’ in Comilla, Rajshahi and Jessore on Friday. Shahbuddin Patwari,28, president of Shibir’s Chouddagram…
Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG047, en-route from Chittagong to Dubai, made an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka early Friday morning after one of its engines experienced an in-flight surge. “None of the passengers on board was hurt…
The Bnp-led 20-party alliance on Friday called a 72-hour nationwide hartal beginning at 6am on Sunday till 6am on Wednesday protesting “killing of many leaders and workers in ‘crossfire’, maiming and injuring some of them in shooting and ‘mass arrests…
Blasting BNP-Jamaat nexus for burning people to death and unleashing rampage by enforcing hartals and blockades, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said the BNP-Jamaat are committing the same crimes the Islamic State (IS) is doing in the Middle East.…
BNP vice chairman Maj (Retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed yesterday sought explanation from the government as to whether BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is arrested or free as people of intelligence agency sit in front of her office with a register book…
BNP-led 20-party alliance yesterday called upon the law enforcers to stop extra judicial killing, refrain from carrying out repression on opposition leaders and activists, injuring innocent people by shooting at them, mass arrest, conducting raids in homes of activists and…
A Rajshahi University Chattra Shibir leader was killed in a gunfight with the police here last night.
The Triennial council of the district Awami League will be held tomorrow at Shaheed Abdur Razzaque Park here.
Farmers of the region are seen showing much interested to seed-potato farming in net house method for multiplying the tissue-culture based seed-potato successfully.
A Nosimon driver was killed in a road accident at Gajaria on Faridpur Sadar- Charbhadrasan road here on Thursday.
Chittagong district police in a series of drives detained 29 activists of BNP-Jamaat-Shibir from different upazilas of the district on Wednesday night and today.
The SSC and equivalent examinations began today in Rajshahi and its adjacent districts amid tight security as the indefinite blockade called by the BNP-led 20-party alliance continues.
By Nava Thakuria For three days, the journalist fraternity of Assam demonstrated their angers against the police atrocities on various occasions. The media persons expressed apprehension that the police commissionerate, which was introduced in Guwahati city of northeast India since…
The United States has expressed grave concern over the ongoing unrest and violence in Bangladesh and deplored the unconscionable attacks, including bus burnings, throwing incendiary devices, and train derailments that have killed and wounded innocent victims. “We condemn in the…
By Mary Beard Professor of Classics, Cambridge University When we listen to politicians, we often complain that their words don’t seem to mean anything. And that’s because they don’t. There’s a mismatch between political ideas and politicians’ words. It’s not…
Saroop Ijaz The Pakistani government’s execution of two convicted Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) militants symbolizes a victory of form over substance in its avowed battle against extremist insurgents. The authorities hanged Attaullah Arif Qasim and Muhammed Azim Arif Sharif on February 3…
Doha – Qatari authorities should implement labor reforms to protect migrant workers from serious human rights abuses; proposed reforms in 2014 are a welcome step but need to go further, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2015.…
Eric Goldstein The brutal murder of Jordanian pilot First Lt. Muath al-Kasasbeh by the extremist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS) set off a wave of outrage and sadness across Jordan, sparking calls in the streets and media for…
Mohammad Zainal Abedin, writes from New York Though democracy in 1971 was the immediate spirit and reason of Bangladesh’s liberation war, it is now imprisoned in the country. As soon as Radio Pakistan in its 2-PM news bulletin broadcast on…
Police yesterday opened a registration log book in front of BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office to preserve details of visitors. Shamsuddin Ahmed Didar, a member of chairperson’s media wing, confirmed it saying that the city SB opened the register at about…