The BNP-led 20-party alliance will sate demonstrations across the country on Sunday to press for their various demands, including a fresh inclusive general election under a non-party administration and safe return of missing BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed.
Pakistan ace spinner Saeed Ajmal has been roped back into the national team’s squad for all three formats for the forthcoming series against Bangladesh. Ajmal, who missed the recently concluded World Cup due to an illegal bowling action, was cleared…
A former Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was injured in an attack allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League men in Sreepur upazila on Saturday. The victim was identified as Jahurul Haque Milon, former president of Sreepur upazila unit of JCD.
At least 11 persons were killed and dozens others injured as a nor’wester lashed different districts in the country on Saturday afternoon. Of the dead two were from the capital, three each in Bogra and Rajshahi, and one each in…
The authorities yesterday rejected the appeals of BNP leader Abdul Awal Mintoo and Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu challenging the cancellation of their nominations for mayoral elections for Dhaka North and Dhaka South City Corporations. Dhaka Divisional Commissioner Zillar Rahman, the appellate…
A few activists of the main opposition Bnp entered their central office at Naya Paltan in Dhaka City on Saturday evening after police withdrew their siege laid on the office since January 03 midnight. This was the second reopening of…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to return her Gulshan residence Sunday after appearing before the special judge’s court at Bakshibazar in the city today, for hearing in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust corruption cases, according to…
Dr. Sinha M. A. Sayeed ‘Dreams inspire and propel us. Philosophers, politicians, writers and musicians have been saying so for centuries. “Hope is a waking dream,” Aristotle once wrote. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only…
Lawyers of Mohammad Kamaruzzaman Jamaat-e-Islami leader and death-row war crimes convict met him at the Dhaka Central Jail on Saturday. His counsels Shishir Monir, Ehsar A Siddique, Mashiul Alam, Matiur Rahman Akhand and Maujahidul Islam Shahin entered the jail at…
Kenya is mourning 148 people killed in Thursday’s al-Shabab attack on Garissa university campus, amid questions over why warnings were ignored. Kenyan newspapers say there was intelligence information of an imminent attack on a school or university. Locals question why…
The death toll from Thursday’s trawler capsize in the Buriganga river at Aliganj Ghat in South Keraniganj rose to 16 with the recovery of another five bodies from the river on Saturday. Three of the deceased were identified as Abdus…