Dhaka, July 7 – BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday said their party will not join the next parliamentary elections without Khaleda Zia.
Category: Governance
Inclusive polls not possible without BNP: Moudud
BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Saturday said the government must reach an understating with their party for holding a participatory general election.
Khaleda’s counsel Lord Carlile unlikely to get entry into India
BNP Chairperson’s legal consultant Lord Alex Carlile is unlikely to get entry into India as the country ‘does not want to see any harm’ in its ongoing friendly relations with Bangladesh.
‘Drug trader’ injured by bullet in Rajshahi ‘gunfight’
A suspected drug trader sustained bullet injuries in a reported gunfight with detectives at Yusufpur in Charghat upazila early Saturday.
Max Hospital fires its doctors over Raifa’s death
Two physicians of Max Hospital have been sacked as a probe committee found their negligence in the treatment of minor girl Raifa Khan that caused her death.The two physicians are Dr Debashish Sengupta and Dr Shuvra Deb.
Pakistani court gives ex-PM Sharif to 10 years in prison
A Pakistani anti-graft tribunal on Friday announced a much-awaited ruling in a corruption case against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sentencing him to 10 years in prison over purchases of luxury apartments in London.
BNP gradually losing confidence in judiciary: Mahbub
BNP senior leader Khandaker Mahbub Hossain on Friday said their party is gradually losing confidence in the judiciary as the way courts are passing orders in its chairperson Khaleda Zia’s different cases.
PM assures EU envoy of free, fair election
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today assured new ambassador of European Union (EU) of a free, fair and credible general election to be held at the end of this year.
BNP’s protest rally in capital rescheduled for Saturday
Denied permission to hold its protest rally in front of its Nayapaltan central office at 2pm today (Thursday), BNP rescheduled it for Saturday.
17th Const amendment for 50 women seats in BD Parliament
Dhaka, Jul 5 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked her party MPs to close their gap with grassroots leaders and activists in their respective constituencies as the next general election will be a participatory one.
Years of untold suffering at Ethiopia’s Jail Ogaden
Ethiopia’s Regional Special Police Tortured, Beat Detainees Audrey Wabwire, Felix Horne In the Somali region of Ethiopia, it seems like everyone knows someone who was locked up in the dreaded Jail Ogaden, but no one wants to speak about the…
Worker held over sexual harassment at RU
Rajshahi, July 5 – A worker of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Hall of Rajshahi University has been detained over harassing a female student of the hall on Thursday.
Rohingya rape survivors’ babies arrive: Tale of woes
By Kristen Gelineau Ukhiya, Bangladesh (AP) — Tucked away in the shadows of her family’s bamboo shelter, the girl hid from the world. She was 13, and she was petrified. Two months earlier, soldiers had broken into her home back…
PM Hasina asures EU envoy of free, fair election
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today assured new ambassador of European Union (EU) of a free, fair and credible general election to be held at the end of this year.
SC to hear Khaleda’s review petition July 9
The Supreme Court will hear on July 9 a review petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia against its order that asked the High Court to dispose of her appeal by July 31 challenging the lower court verdict sentencing her…
FIFA rebukes Maradona for criticising World Cup refere
Moscow,(AP/UNB) — FIFA’s patience with Diego Maradona’s World Cup antics finally ran out on Wednesday.
Khaleda’s bail pleas in two cases rejected in CMM court
Dhaka, July 5 – Two separate courts here on Thursday rejected the bail petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two cases — one for celebrating ‘fake’ birthday and the other for undermining the country’s map, national flag and…
Refer Myanmar to ICC for crimes against Rohingya: UNHCR
Dhaka, July 4 – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday urged the UN Security Council to immediately refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court (ICC) so that all allegations of crimes against humanity and…
Save us from stalkers – Twin sisters to Charbhadrasan UNO
Faridpur, July 5 – Following weeks of harassment by a group of stalkers enjoying the protection of local influentials, a pair of twin sisters submitted their written allegations in letter form to the Charbhadrasan Upazila Nirbahi Officer, after fleeing an…
Badda AL leader murder suspects killed in Dhaka ‘gunfight’
Dhaka, July 5 – Two suspects in a Badda Awami League leader Farhad Hossain murder case was killed in a reported gunfight with detectives in Dhaka’s Uttar Badda area early Thursday.
Alleged drug seller couple sent to jail
Dhaka, July 4 – A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent a couple to the jail on the charge selling the drug. Earlier, on Tuesday they were arrested from Rajabari area under Turug Thana of the capital Dhaka.
Court defers report on ‘propaganda’ in quota reform movement
Dhaka, July 4 – A Dhaka court on Wednesday deferred submission of the report in the case filed in connection with provocative propaganda in quota-reform movement.
Seymour Hersh’s memoir full of useful reporting secrets
By Matt Taibbi May 2018 – Late in his new memoir, Reporter, muckraking legend Seymour Hersh recounts an episode from a story he wrote for the New Yorker in 1999, about the Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
DU teachers, students protest police assault on its professor
Dhaka University Teachers and students on Wednesday held a human chain at the foot of ‘Aparajeyo Bangla’ protesting the assault on Prof Fahmidul Haq by police on Tuesday.
BNP rejects media reports on strained relations with Jamaat
Trashing media reports on the party’s strained relations with alliance partner Jamaat, BNP on Wednesday said all the components of the 20-party combine decided to work together for single mayoral candidates in Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barishal city polls.
Scheme soon to bring edu institutions under MPO: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday told Parliament that the government will take a scheme soon to bring educational institutions under the Monthly Pay Order (MPO) following a recently formulated policy.
Charges against 453 Opposition activists admitted in Ctg court
A court here on Wednesday accepted a charge-sheet against 453 leaders and activists of BNP and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in a case filed over the violence in the city on January 5, 2015, the first anniversary of the 2014 general election.
Suspected drug trader killed in Mymensingh ‘gunfight’
Mymensingh, July 4 – A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Habirbari in Bhaluka early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Jalal Uddin, 38, of the village.
Three of a family killed in Pabna ‘by mentally retarded man’
Pabna, July 4 – A young man allegedly hacked three of his family members to death at Shona Padma village in Bera Upazila early Wednesday.
The Rohingya villages UN investigators can’t visit
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled last year’s brutal military crackdown in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar. Hundreds of villages were burnt to the ground, and there were widespread rape and murder.