Three youngsters who made history by rescuing the body of 4-year-old Jihad from a 600-feet-deep water pipe minutes after government’s Fire Service abandoned their 23-hour operation declaring non-existence of any body there, were accorded hero’s reception by the Nagorik Okya…
A case has been filed against 43 top leaders of BNP and its ally Jamaat, including party acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Jamaat’s acting ameer Maqbul Ahmed for setting fire to and vandalising vehicles and explosion of…
At least 40 bodies have been recovered from the sea in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, the Indonesian navy says. The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo,…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the comments of some ruling party leaders including ministers and MPs suggest that they have become mentally deranged. ‘That’s why they (Awami League leaders) want to bite BNP leaders like…
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami bids farewell to 2014 and greet the New Year with a two-day hartal beginning today (Wednesday) protesting death sentence one of its assistant secretary general ATM Azharul Islam on the charge of crimes against humanity during the war…
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 Tuesday awarded death penalty to assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami ATM Azharul Islam on the charge of crimes against humanity in Rangpur during the War of Liberation of 1971. The three-member tribunal headed by its…
The government’s insincerity, mismanagement and negligence caused the train-covered van crash inside the Inland Container Depot (ICD) of Kamalapur Railway Station killing six people, says BNP. “This fatal accident has again proved that the government has totally failed to ensure…
At least six persons were killed and ten others injured seriously in a collision between a Dhaka bound passenger train from Narayanganj and a container truck inside the Kamalapur Railway station on early Monday afternoon. The accident occured when a…
Claiming that people are spontaneously observing heir hartal, BNP joint-secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday alleged that the government agents are torching vehicles and carrying out various subversive acts over their daylong shutdown programme. “The government has once again…
The countrywide daylong hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance to protest the ‘foiling’ of its Gazipur rally and demanding the release of its arrested senior, is underway amid stray incidents. The hartal began at 6am and will end at…
The inspector general of police (IGP) has defended the questioning of ‘Jihad’s father Nasir Fakir but denied allegations that he was tortured in custody. Hassan Mahmood Khandker says they interrogated Fakir in a ‘friendly manner’ to ‘crack the mystery’. Fakir’s…
A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Sunday seeking its order to form a high-level committee to investigate the failure of government organisations in rescuing minor boy Jihad alive from inside the pipe of a water pump…
A countrywide daylong hartal called by the BNP amd its allies in protest against the ‘foiling’ of their scheduled Gazipur rally and to press the demand for the release of arrested senior leaders begins Monday morning. The hartal that will…
China on Sunday proposed signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Bangladesh to boost trade ties between the two countries, minimising the trade gap against Bangladesh. The Chinese side came up with the proposal at bilateral talks between the two…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday accused the government of crimes against humanity including enforced disappearance, killing and abduction. “The monster government has destroyed all the achievements of Bangladesh. Carrying out enforced disappearance is treated as crimes…
Awami League will not be able to hold rally anywhere in the country easily if it creates obstacle to BNP programmes, a senior BNP leader yesterday said without elaborating. “Awami League’s Mr Hanif has given threat that BNP will not…
With the completion of the autopsy on Jihad’s body on Sunday morning, the autopsy conductors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) morgue came up with the suggestion that the four-year-old boy died from drowning. The autopsy was completed by a…
An AirAsia flight travelling from Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control with 162 people on board. Flight QZ8501 lost contact at 07:24 (23:24 GMT), Malaysia-based AirAsia tweeted. Search and rescue operations are under way. Malaysia’s national…
The recovery of the body of 4-year-old Jihad from inside the 600-feet deep pipe of Railway’s deep tubewell at the Shahjahanpur Railway Colony by some local people a few minutes after the Fire Service abandoned the rescue operation on late…
Shivring cold has gripped the country which is experiencing a mild to moderate cold wave which brought the season’s coldest day in Ishwardi of Pabna on Saturday with the mercury dipping to 7.2 degrees Celsius. Weathermen have said that the…
Issuing a stern warning, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said those who are making disparaging remarks about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will not be spared. “People know the country’s history very well…..kulangars (black sheep) are uttering derogatory remarks about…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Saturday called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal across the country for Monday demanding the withdrawal of all false cases filed against alliance leaders and the release of alliance leaders including Goyeshwar Chandra Roy immediately. The alliance…
The body of the ill-fated 4-year old boy has finally been retrieved from the 600 feet water pump well by local youngsters soon after the rescue mission was abandoned by the Fire Service and Civil Defence and other related services.…
Memorial services have been held in Indonesia and other nations for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on the 10th anniversary of the disaster. In Indonesia’s province of Aceh – the worst-hit area – Vice-President Jusuf Kalla led tributes…
The body of the ill-fated 4-year old boy has finally been retrieved from the 600 feet water pump well by local youngsters soon after the rescue mission was abandoned by the Fire Service and Civil Defence and other related services.…
The daylong hartal called in Gazipur district for Saturday by the BNP-led 20-party alliance, protesting the imposition of section 144 by the local administration ahead of its scheduled rally, has been observed peacefully till the mid-day. The 20-party alliance also…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday alleged that the government has intensified its repressive acts against opposition men in its last-ditch efforts to cling to power by force and strongly denouncing the arrest of her party’s senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra…
A Bangladeshi farmer was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Medinipur frontier in Jibonnagar upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Moshiur Rahman Moshi, 35, son of Abdur Rashid, resident of Harinagar village of…
Police took control over Bhawal College Ground on Thursday, amid growing tension over Bangladesh Chhatra League’s stance not to allow BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to attend a rally called by the 20-party alliance on the venue on Saturday. With only…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday asked party leaders to hold Saturday’s scheduled public meeting of 20-party alliance in Gazipur at any cost. She made the directives at a meeting with leaders of Gazipur district unit of BNP at her…