The Thai army says that it is imposing martial law amid a political crisis “to preserve law and order”. The surprise announcement also granted the army wide-ranging powers to enforce its decision. The military insisted that its assumption of responsibility…
It seems BNP’s Acting Secretary General Mirza Fokhrul Islam Alamgir has not gone through the history of India – as per a comment made by the veteran leader of AL and commerce minister of the sitting government. In 1996 their…
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son and party vice president Rahul Gandhi Monday offered to resign for the party’s worst performance in a general election, but the Congress Working Committee unanimously rejected it, senior leader Amarinder Singh said. “Sonia…
A policeman and a female assistant teacher of a primary school on election duty were killed in separate road accidents in Sadar Dakkhin upazila on Monday. The deceased were identified as Kamrun Nahar, an assistant teacher at Chashapara Government Primary…
A special squad of police arrested five suspected members of a kidnapping gang, including a woman, a spokesman said on Monday. The “Anti-kidnapping Squad” under Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan police made the arrests from Mirpur in the capital and…
Additional Attorney General MK Rahman has been relieved of his service for reasons unknown. The President relieved Additional Attorney General MK Rahman, better known as M Khalilur Rahman, of his responsibilities through an order, said a Law Ministry notification on…
The High Court on Monday asked Desh Energy chairman Annisul Huq to buy back the shares of two founder directors’ at an ‘appropriate price’. An HC bench with Justice M Rezaul Hasan passed the order, following a petition filed by…
A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Monday challenging the legality of duty-free import of cars by parliament members. Lawyer Yunus Ali Akand filed the writ petition with the HC in the morning. The HC bench of…
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said China Major Bridge Engineering Company got the main construction work of the much-talked-about Padma Multipurpose Bridge. He came up with the disclosure while addressing a discussion at Awami League President’s Dhanmondi political office…
Etihad Airways on Monday announced that it is establishing Etihad Flight College, a world-class flight training facility in the United Arab Emirates, for Emirati and international cadet pilots. As a first step in establishing the college, Etihad Airways is in…
Observing that Bangladesh has good relations with India, Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi on Monday said the ties will reach a new height with the new Indian government being in place. He came up with the remarks…
The Election Commission has decided to hold bypoll at Narayanganj-5 parliamentary constituency on Jun 26. Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed announced the schedule of the bypoll on Monday. The seat fell vacant after the death of Jatiya Party MP…
Police have filed a case four days after a launch capsized in the Meghna River at Munshiganj’s Gazaria, killing scores of people. Gazaria Police Station SI Haider Hossain Akhand filed the case early on Monday accusing the owner of the…
Diplomats of Muslim countries in Dhaka believe Bangladesh will consolidate its global standing as “a progressive and forward-looking nation” for international peace and security. According to the foreign ministry, the diplomats also reiterated their conviction that Bangladesh will continue to…
The annual development programme (ADP) for the upcoming 2014-15 fiscal year is being fixed at Tk 790.31 billion, a 17 percent increase over the current FY. Tk 81 billion is being earmarked for the construction of the Padma bridge, country’s…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will attend a protest rally organised by party-backed lawyers on May 24. Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum, a BNP-backed lawyers’ body, has planned the rally to protest the murder of fellow lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar in Narayanganj and…
Incensed by the police not showing disgraced RAB officers arrested in the multiple-murder case, lawyers at Narayanganj have called for Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya’s resignation from the cabinet. The demand came from a rally on Monday at the Narayanganj court…
Awami League loyalists swept the sixth phase upazila elections held on Monday, bagging eight chairman posts against BNP favourites’ two. According to unofficial results, AL-backed chairman candidates won polls in Gangachhara and Sadar of Rangpur, Kamarkhand of Sirajganj, Taltali of…
Merlisa Lawrence Corbett Serena Williams played coy about her health and readiness going into the Italian Open in Rome. But as if she wanted to quiet the skeptics and feed her fans, Williams erased all doubts by defending her title…
Victoria Azarenka has confirmed she will miss this month’s French Open.
Tyrion Lannister struggled to find a champion, The Mountain returned to King’s Landing and The Hound opened up to Arya Stark about his troubled childhood, all before one character met their exit in the latest episode of HBO’s “Game of…
Every third of the newly elected member of the Lok Sabha has a criminal background, an analysis of the disclosures they have made in their affidavits has shown, news agency IANS has reported from New Dlehi
Bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst has given her first public concert since her Eurovision victory this month, performing in Vienna on Sunday.
George Kennedy With the onset of hybrid technologies, automakers are making it possible for daily drivers to use less and less fuel, but wouldn’t the ideal solution be to not have to use a car at all? One city in…
Antarctica is now losing about 160 billion tonnes of ice a year to the ocean – twice as much as when the continent was last surveyed.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops near Ukraine’s border to withdraw, the Kremlin says.
About 1,200 poor eye patients were treated by a group of doctors at a daylong free eye camp here on Sunday.
Police arrested two alleged terrorists with a firearm and bullets from Bejpara-Naldanga area in Jessore town last night.
At least 10 people were injured as a nor’ wester lashed several union parishads in Shalikha and Sadar upazilas of the district on Sunday night.
A Bangladeshi young man was beaten to death allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) troops on Putkhali border in Sharsha upazila early Monday.