Leaders of pro-BNP Sammilita Peshajibi Parishad (SPP) on Sunday demanded immediate cancellation of the general election and to summon Parliament into session to pass caretaker government provision for holding a fresh inclusive election within 90 days.
Observing that the voting was taking place in a fair manner, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Sunday apparently acknowledged the low voter turnout in the 10th national election.
Dhaka – Fourteen candidates in constituencies under nine districts boycotted the national election on Sunday on various allegations.
Dhaka – The ruling Awami League is heading towards absolute majority bagging 40 seats out of 147 in Sunday’s parliamentary elections that was marked by violent clashes in different parts of the country amid boycott by the opposition alliance.
In a little noted initiative the General Assembly on November 26, 2013 voted to proclaim 2014 the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) observed its 66th founding anniversary Saturday with a fresh vow to build a technologically modern and developed Digital Bangladesh. To mark the day, district and city units of BCL chalked out programmes including hoisting of the…
Leader of an organised inter-district dacoits’ gang Badshah Miah was killed by unknown assailants in Koikuri area of Gangachara upazila this morning, police said.
A former Israeli army Chief of Staff, a man of limited intelligence, was told that a certain individual was an atheist. “Yes,” he asked, “but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?”
Pro-hartal activists attacked a Dhaka-bound tomato-laden truck at Belpukur on Rajshahi-Natore highway under Puthiya Upazila of the district today.
A US ice-breaker is to help two ships that are stuck in thick ice in Antarctica following a rescue mission.
The parents of a 16-year-old girl who died after being gang-raped and set on fire in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta have vowed to fight for justice.
Kathmandu – The two archaeologists had a hunch that the Buddha’s birthplace in southern Nepal held secrets that could transform how the world understood the emergence and spread of Buddhism.
‘ It is “highly unlikely” ancient woodland would be destroyed under new plans to speed up the planning process, the government has insisted.
Thousands of people have been taking part in protests in Australia over a plan to kill large sharks.
Australian Lleyton Hewitt won his first title since 2010 with a three-set victory over top seed Roger Federer in the Brisbane International final.
Radamel Falcao is fit again and will start Monaco’s Coupe de France tie at Vannes on Sunday, head coach Claudio Ranieri has confirmed.
Lisa Robin Kelly, the troubled actress who played bad girl Laurie Forman on the Fox sitcom “That ’70s Show,” died of multiple drug intoxication, the Los Angeles County coroner’s department said Friday.
Comedian Natasha Leggero says she isn’t sorry for a joke she made about Pearl Harbor veterans during NBC’s “New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly.”
Civil society and almost all from each party urge the government to stop one sided election of the 10th Parliament.
The 10th Parliamentary election will get place history for its bad instance and would be the worst election in Bangladesh. Earlier, AL talked of Magura-style election, and now people will talk of AL-style election.
Masum Billah Bangladesh has occupied a unique position in the globe in many respects both in positive and negative senses. The distribution of new textbooks at the beginning of every academic year free of cost among the learners of primary…
Dhaka – Despite the political unrest, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Saturday decided to go ahead with the Asia Cup in Bangladesh as scheduled from February 25-March 8, a top Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) official said. BCB media committee chairman…
At least 30 student activists have been injured in clashes between Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) at Pabna’s Ishwardi. The clashes between the student fronts of Awami League and BNP that started from Railgate area on…
Rajshahi – Two policemen were injured in a crude bomb attack on a polling station in Paba upazila on Saturday evening. The injured were identified as constables Belal and Sajiul.
Savar – At least 10 people were injured when activists of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal went on the rampage here on Saturday night. Witnesses said the activists of the youth wing of main opposition BNP brought out a procession from Hrishipara…
Jhenidah – A presiding officer was killed as a human hauler (Alamsadhu) plunged into a roadside ditch at Sastar Bazar in Maheshpur upazila on Saturday afternoon.
A suspected killer of a Union Parisad member has died in an alleged gunfight with police in Khulna. Two constables-Mamun and Israfil – of Dumuria Upazila’s Tolna Police Station were also injured in the gunfight on Friday night, said Assistant…
A woman was killed and another person injured as a gas cylinder exploded in the city’s Dhaniya under Jatrabari Police Station on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Josna Begum, 36, wife of Mosharraf Hossain Fulchand of 576 Dhaniya Bazar…
Guinness World Records authorities have officially certified Bangladesh’s human flag record of 27,117 people created on December 16 last as the world’s largest human national flag. The record has also been officially posted on the Guinness World Records website Private…
(London) –The Bangladesh government should end its crackdown on the political opposition leaders and activists, and create conditions for free and fair elections, Human Rights Watch said today. Opposition parties should condemn and end violence by their supporters, which have…