A two-day fourth annual Bangladesh-US partnership dialogue begins here on Thursday to advance the ‘robust’ and ‘growing’ bilateral relationship and give it a strategic direction. Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque will lead the home side, while Under Secretary of State…
Terming the Tuesday’s city polls farce, Adarsha Dhaka Andolon, a pro BNP group on Wednesday demanded thaka he cancellation of city polls in Dhaka and Chittagong and resignation of Election Commisison. Prof Emaj Uddin Ahmed, convenor of the organisation made…
There are credible reports that vote-rigging, intimidation and violence have marred the elections in Dhaka and Chittagong on 28 April, despite the calls from the international community to peaceful, inclusive and transparent elections, the Spokesperson of the European Union said…
As part of celebrations of the first International Day of Yoga, Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre will arrange a comprehensive discourse on its scientific theory and practice on Friday evening. The discourse, to be held at Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre, will…
A fire broke out in a seven-storey building at Fakirapool in the capital on Tuesday night. Three fire-fighting units were trying to put out the blaze that fire broke out around 9:50pm. It was not yet clear what actually…
The government has taken two mega agricultural development programmes seeking to enhance the capacity of farmers and improve water management and agri-business, and thus pull some one-fifth population of the country out of poverty. According to official documents obtained by…
An activist of a local unit of Jubo League was shot dead and another one injured by their rivals at Amishapara Bazar in Sonaimuri upazila on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Ibrahim, 28, son of late Korban…
Police arrested 54 people, including five activists of Jamaat-Shibir, from different parts of the district during a drive continuing for 24 hours till Wednesday morning on charges of subversive activities. Sheikh Emdad Hossain, officer-in-charge of the Special Branch of Satkhira…
Three civilians sustained bullet injuries as a clash broke out between a group of villagers and members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at Shomreshpur village in Patgram upazila on Tuesday night.
A court here on Wednesday sentenced five people, including a woman, to life term imprisonment and three women to one year for killing a man over land related dispute in 2005.
Police recovered the hanging body a young man at Baksibari in Baliwadi village of Kaliakoir upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as, Masfir Baksi, son of Nazim Uddin, a resident of the area. Police said they recovered Masfir’s…
The Bangladesh Bank has ordered suspension of all financial transactions through mobile banking until 5pm Tuesday at the Election Commission’s ‘request’, a senior bank official says.
The streets of Baltimore were largely quiet overnight, with only scattered arrests reported during a curfew imposed after the latest wave of rioting fueled by anger against US police killings of black men.
Believed to be more than 400 years old and nearly 200 times the size of a chicken egg, an extremely rare elephant bird egg will be auctioned in London this week, with an estimated price tag of up to $76,000.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said people of Bangladesh would never vote for a party like BNP and in future people of the whole country will reject them like yesterday’s city poll in Dhaka and Chittagong. “Why people will…
The Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT) between India and Bangladesh will be renewed after every five years instead of the current norm of three years. Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan announced the decision at a press briefing at…
Students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) have demanded exemplary punishment against sexual harassment of a indigenous female student on the ‘Pahela Baishakh’ night. The demand was voiced from programme under the banner ‘Nipironer Birudhe Jahangirnagar’organised in front of the administration building…
The secretary general of the United Nations Ban ki-moon want competent authorities to investigate all allegations of electoral fraud in the city corporation elections of Dhaka and Chittagong.
Nepal has declared three days of mourning for the victims of Saturday’s earthquake in which more than 5,000 people are now known to have died. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala says the government is doing all it can but is overwhelmed…
A registered election observer from Mass Line Media Centre, a local NGO that has been engaged in observing elections since 2003, was forced to leave a polling centre at gunpoint, as ‘ruling party men’ engaged in acts of rigging. The…
Awami League-backed candidates Sayeed Khokon, Annisul Huq and AJM Nasir were unofficially elected mayors of three major city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong in Tuesday’s elections amid boycott by pro-BNP contenders. Before the boycott was announced by the Bnp-backed candidates…
The Pir Shaheb of Charmonai, Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim on tuesday said that the backbone of the electoral process had been broken and a constitutional body like the Election Commission destroyed and turned into government’s plaything through vote rigging…
Swedish ambassador to Dhaka Johan Frisell inadvertently got a taste of the dark and rough side to politics in Bangladesh, as he found himself caught in the middle of a serious clash between two rival councilor candidates supporters. Independent candidate…
Afroza Abbas, wife of BNP-backed mayoral candidate Mirza Abbas for Dhaka South City Corporation, did not cast her vote as she had to rush to different polling stations after receiving complains that many polling agents of Abbas was being ousted…