BNP’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the statements of Prime Minister’s Political Affairs Adviser HT Imam proved the voting in January 5 election held under the AL-led government was rigged. “HT Imam has made it clear…
Geneva – Evidence of the use of incendiary weapons in Ukraine and Syria highlights the need for stricter law to govern these weapons, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today with Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic.…
A young man was killed after being hit by a stray bullet fired accidentally from the gun of a local Awami League leader at Palerkhanda village in Morelganj upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Masum Sardar,27, motorcycle driver…
The overall general point-to-point inflation rate slightly declined by 0.24 percentage point to 6.60 percent in October this year from 6.84 percent in the previous month (September). Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal stated this while releasing the monthly Consumer Price…
Police arrested the son of former Awami League MP Khan Tipu Sultan of Jessore from city’s Dhanmondi area on charge of killing his wife on Thursday night. The arrestee was identified as Humayun Sultan Sadat, a resident of Dhanmondi area.
BNP has decided to intensify its movement with tougher programmes on completion of the party’s ongoing mass contact campaign outside the capital. The decision was taken at a meeting of BNP standing committee members on Thursday night held with Khaleda…
By Nava Thakuria The working journalists, more particularly the reporters covering insurgency related incidents, always face a two-edged sword. Often they face brickbats (reader threats) from both the insurgents turned terrorists and also the authority in power that implements counter-insurgency…
After a historic but awkward comet landing, the robot probe Philae is now stable and sending pictures – but there are concerns about its battery life.
Fifa’s report into allegations of corruption during the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups has been questioned – by the man who investigated claims of wrongdoing.
At least 20 people were injured in a clash between two groups of people at Ghashitula in the city on Wednesday night over a trifling matter.
Police and fire officials are searching for a tiger on the loose in a town outside Paris, local authorities say.
A police official sustained injuries in an attack by a robber gang at in Shibganj upazila on Wednesday night.
Swastika Mukerjee who will be playing an uber glamorous spy in Dibaker Banerjee’s Detective Byomkesh Bakshi has taken her role a tad bit too seriously and how!
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued six people, including three women, while they were being trafficked to India through Putkhali border point here early Thursday.
On the occasion of coming Victory Day, Abul Hayat has made a special play titled ‘Sakkhatkar’. Rashid Haider has written story of the play.
Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested two alleged drug peddlers in possession of 44 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from a house in Kalighat area of the city on Wednesday night.
A motorcyclist was killed and his two co-riders seriously injured when a truck crushed into their vehicle at Katakhali Bridge on the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway in Gobindaganj upazila on Wednesday night.
A local leader of the ruling Awami League was injured by stabbing in an attack by some miscreants in front of his house in Shalgaria of the district town on Wednesday night.
A daylong hartal, enforced by Parbatya Jubo Front, a platform of Pahari Bangali youths demanding the release of three forest officials kidnapped from Langadu on November 6, is going on peacefully in the district today (Thursday).
Customs officials seized 40 gold bars weighing 4.50 kg at Shah Amanat International Airport here on Thursday morning.
The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has fixed a record target of producing 13.33 lakh tonnes of wheat from 4.30 lakh hectares land in the country during the current Rabi season, official sources said.
A total of 250 poor but meritorious students, who will appear in the SSC and Dakhil exams-2015, received grant of Taka five lakh from Nahid Foundation (NF) on Wednesday to fill up their examination forms.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have detained two persons on charge of cyber crimes at Railway gate area under Godagari Upazila of the district yesterday, RAB sources here said this morning.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in anti smuggling drives seized huge Indian smuggled goods and drugs worth about Taka 70.3 lakh from different areas of the district last night.
Police detained 80 illegal immigrants, believed to have been working at a construction site in Cameron Highlands here, during two separate raids on two houses in Tringkap and Blue Valley, Kampung Raja on Wednesday. Cameron Highlands district police chief DSP…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said that PM’s adviser HT Imam’s reported assurance about arranging government jobs for Chhatra League activists has exposed the government’s extreme politicisation and nepotism. “The government has already politicised the…
A court here on Thursday indicted 89 BNP leaders and activists, including its joint secretary general Amanullah Aman, in two cases filed for vandalising and torching vehicles. Passing the order, judge Nazmul Haque Shyamal of the Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal…
Criticising the role of law enforcers in the incidents of ‘crossfire’, chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Prof Mizanur Rahman said on Thursday the state must ensure human rights even to offenders. He said this while addressing a…
Police on Thursday confirmed that they recovered the body of a missing crew of lighterage vessel ‘Karnaphuli-5’ from the Monpura upazila of Bhola district. The deceased was identified as Sheikh Enamul Haque Mukit, son of Mominul Sheikh of Attail village…
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in a supplementary charge-sheet submitted on Thrsday indicted eleven persons including BNP leader Harris Chowdhury, former political secretary to the party chief Khaleda Zia, the the Mayor of Sylher Ariful Haque Chowdhury, in connection with…