The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed a High Court order that had overturned an Election Commission’s decision barring BNP leaders Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku and Ruhul QuddusTalukder Dulu from contesting the 11th parliamentary elections.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized around 9.50kg of gunpowder from bordering Kukripara area in Shibganj upazila on Wednesday afternoon.
Time magazine on Tuesday recognised journalists, including the slain Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, as its 2018 Person of the Year in what it said was an effort to emphasize the importance of reporters’ work in an increasingly hostile world.
Dhaka, Dec 12 – Two children died after falling into a water tank while playing beside it in Dhaka city’s Mohammadpur area on Tuesday.
Moscow, Dec 11.2018 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks has detected more than 40 000 compromised user credentials of online government services in 30 countries around the world.
Brussels, 10 Dec 2018 – The European Commission has released an additional €5 million to provide life-saving food assistance to the Rohingya communities stranded in Bangladesh.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred the hearing on the appeal petitions filed challenging the High Court order that cleared the way for BNP leaders Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku and Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu to contest the 11th parliamentary election.
Although one year has passed, the ‘Bandhan Express’ running between Bangladesh and India has been incurring a loss of around TK 6 lakh on each trip for not having sufficient number of passengers.
Facing almost certain defeat, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday postponed a vote in Parliament on her Brexit deal, saying she would go back to European Union leaders to seek changes to the divorce agreement.
A high-level meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (CoP24) on global warming will be held in Poland on Monday.
The BNP is participating in the December 30 election as part of its movement against the incumbent government, the party’s standing committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan said Monday.
A Swedish think tank said Monday that Russia has emerged as the world’s second-largest arms producer after the United States. Russia surpassed Britain, which had held that spot since 2002 and remains Western Europe’s No. 1 arms maker.
Heads of Mission of the European Union (EU) and the heads of Mission of Norway and Switzerland here on Monday urged all the political parties to meet their democratic responsibilities and refrain from election violence.
BNP contestant from Munshiganj-1 constituency Shah Moazzem Hossain on Monday demanded that the Election Commission ensure his security and that of his supporters in his electoral area.
The International Human Rights Day is being observed in the country on Monday as elsewhere across the globe.
The government accepted the resignation of four technocrat ministers on Sunday ahead of the upcoming general billed for December 30.
Dhaka, Dec 9 – Failing to get candidacy from the election commission, the aspirant candidates have started to move the High Court against the rejection order of the election commission (EC) in order to get their candidacies so that they…
A court here on Sunday granted bail to Hasna Hena, a teacher of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, in a case filed on charges of provoking a ninth-grader student to commit suicide.
Jatiya Party, led by HM Ershad, will contest the upcoming national election in 29 constituencies as a partner of the grand alliance while independently in 143.
A 12-day solo photography exhibition of Shibly Siraj titled ‘American Landscape’ hosted by Edward M Kennedy (EMK) Center for Public Service and the Arts kicked off in the city on Saturday.
As hundreds of decision-makers are gathering in Marrakech to agree new standards for global migration, the United Nations climate change conference ‘COP24’ is looking at concrete ways to help countries tackle large-scale displacement caused by the impacts of climate change,…
Dhaka, Dec 9 – The Begum Rokeya Day is being observed marking the 138th birth and 86th death anniversary of Begum Rokeya Shakhawat Hossain, the pioneer for women’s rights in the Indian subcontinent.
Dhaka, Dec 7 – Students of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College continued their demonstration in front of the institution on Bailey road for the third consecutive day demanding the release of their class teacher.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested an alleged member of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Chandipur Bazar in Sadar upazila early Saturday.
Mentioning Bangladesh Army as a symbol of pride for the nation , President Abdul Hamid said that the force is much more developed, skilled and smarter now with modern training and equipment.
William R Keating, a Republican lawmaker submitted a resolution on December 6 which was then referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The lawmaker has sought the Congress to ask the US government to promote free, fair, transparent, and…
Over the past two decades, holy men in India have gone on dozens of fasts demanding governments honour their promise to revive the polluted Ganges, a river revered by Hindus. The recent death of one of the most prominent hunger…
Police in special drives arrested 42 people, accused in different cases, from different areas of seventeen upazilas from Friday to Saturday.
The Election Commission on Saturday kept the decisions pending until 5pm today (Saturday) on the petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Krishak Sramik Janata League President Kader Siddiqui.
Katowice, 7 Dec (Prerna Bomzan and Meena Raman)- At a stocktake plenary held on 6 Dec, the Co-chairs of the UNFCCC’s Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA), informed Parties the time had come for the Chairs to…