Sixteen people were killed and four others injured in truck accidents in Tangail, Naogaon and Manikganj districts on Wednesday. In Tangail, 10 people, including four members of a family, were killed and three others injured in a fatal road accident…
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Military hardware import on cards to modernise army: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said a process is under way to procure significant amount of military equipment from various countries including China and Serbia to make Army more modern, time befitting and all-round. She stated this while addressing…
Countrywide demo Friday. Khaleda’s motorcade was target: BNP
Accusing the ruling party activists of attacking their peaceful gathering at Bakshibazar in the capital, BNP on Wednesday announced a countywide demonstration for Friday in protest against the incident. Fakhrul said the programme will be observed in the all district…
ACC now gives clean chit to AL MP Enamul
In another controversial decision, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has relieved Awami League MP Enamul Haque of graft charges. The Commission recently cleared the ruling party MP from the allegation of illegal wealth accumulation worth Tk 213 crore, ACC officials…
50 injured in JCD-BCL clash as Khaleda goes to court
At least 50 political workers, most of them belonging to the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and some members of police were injured when members of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, BNPs student associate, met in a clash with Bangladesh Chhatra League,…
8 killed 40 hurt as bus plunges into ditch in Barisal
At least Eight people were killed and 40 injured as a bus lost control and plunged into a roadside ditch at Biswasbari in Rajapur upazila of Barisal district on Tuesday afternoon. Four deceased passengers out of the eight so far…
Duel gauge double rail track from Akhaura-Laksham on anvil
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a project for Bangladesh Railway (BR) to set up two dual gauge double rail tracks from Akhaura to Laksam aiming to develop rail communication and the Akhaura-Chittagong section…
Cases against Khaleda geared up with political motive: BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party has expressed its concern over not getting of justice in the ongoing two much hyped cases against party chairperson and former premier Khaleda Zia. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir expressed the concern at a…
Tribunal sentences Kaiser to death for 1971 war crimes
Former Jatiya Party minister Syed Mohammed Kaiser has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 delivered the verdict in Kaiser’s presence on Tuesday. The tribunal found him guilty in 14 of the…
Arrest warrants pile up against Tarique
More courts on Monday issued either arrest warrants or summons against him in separate cases filed for his disparaging remarks about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Besides, freedom fighters staged demonstrations in various places across the country protesting his remarks and…
PM orders stern action against criminals
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday directed the law-enforcement agencies for taking stern actions against those indulging in crimes, including terrorism, militancy, drug smuggling and anti-social activities irrespective of their party affiliations. “We must maintain the law and order…stern actions…
UN experts reach Sunderbans to assess oil-spill impacts
An expert team of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reached Mongla Port, Bagerhat on Monday afternoon to assess the impacts of the oil spill caused by the oil tanker crash to the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. “The…
AL student wing BCL out to resist BNP, allies’ Dec 27 rally
Local BCL on Sunday announced to hold a rally at the Gazipur venue where the BNP-led 20-party alliance called a rally for December 27 unless Tarique Rahman seeks unconditional apology for his disparaging remarks about Bangabandhu. District and city units…
New York gunman told public ‘watch what I’m going to do’
The man who shot dead two New York police officers told members of the public “watch what I’m going to do” shortly before the attack, police say. Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, had a history of violence and mental instability. Candlelit vigils…
BNP showdown on Khaleda’s court appearance Thursday
BNP has decided to stage showdown in the city on Thursday as party chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before the special court set up at Dhaka Alia Madrasha Ground in charge of Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Cherritable Trust cases,…
Prove me wrong, Tarique asks AL
Claiming that none of his recent remarks on the historical figures in the Liberation War of 1971 was speculative or spurious, BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman has thrown a challenge to Awami League leaders to prove him wrong. In…
Mobile court jails 7 for production, sale of fake cosmetics
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Sunday sentenced seven people upto two years simple jail on charge of manufacturing and marketing fake cosmetics in the city’s Chawkbazar area. Members of Rab-10 in a drive at Khan Market…
People want change, their back is on the wall: Khaleda
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturrday said they would launch a movement very soon as the government did not respond to their demand for holding an election contested by all political parties under a non-party administration. “Peoples back are now…
Nature body for impact study, BNP forms its team on Sunderbans
WildTeam, a nature conservation organisation based in Bangladesh, has urged the authorities concerned to prepare a baseline report on the immediate impact of the oil spill on the Sunderbans which would help assess the ecosystem recovery in the long term.…
51 noted Bangladeshis decry curving freedom using court contempt
Fifty-one noted citiznes, writers and activists from home and abroad have expressed deep concern over the use of contempt of court law in curbing freedom of expression. In a joint statement released globally on Friday, they also expressed concern over…
Human chain protest move for 16 new barrages on Ganges
The International Farakka Committee (IFC) today orgaised a human chain to protest the move to construct another 16 barrages at the upper reaches of the Ganges and unilateral withdrawal of water of the Teesta and all other common rivers, in…
Bangladesh’s Rooppur NPP engineering survey tender floated
Atomenergoproekt, sister concern of Russian state nuclear company- ROSATOM, for general designing of nuclear power plants has announced a tender for engineering survey, environmental monitoring and development of project documents for the Rooppur NPP site. The contract value is estimated…
3 killed 20 hurt as bus fell into Bogra roadside ditch
At least three people, including a woman, were killed and 20 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch amid dense fog at Manohorpur in Kuliarchar upazila early Saturday. Two of the deceased were identified as Jasim Uddin,60,…
BNP’s observes half-day hartal in Bogra
The half-day hartal, enforced by the local unit BNP demanding the release of its five leaders whom a court sent to jail in a case for crude bomb blast in front of district Awami League office, is going on peacefully…
Sony ‘will not drop’ North Korea film The Interview
Sony Pictures says it is looking at different ways to release the film satire the Interview, after scrapping its opening following a cyber-attack blamed on North Korea. It said it had only cancelled the film’s Christmas Day release after cinemas…
Environ minister tones down oil spill impact on Sunderbans
Environment and Forests Minister Anwar Hossain Manju on Friday said the oil-spill impacts on the Sundarbans’ biodiversity are not as adverse as it was feared. “The biodiversity and the aquatic animals have surely been affected by the oil slick caused…
BNP ‘won’t be allowed to take to the street’: Nasim
Awami League presidium member and spokesman of the 14-party alliance Mohammad Nasim on Friay said that BNP-Jamaat would not be allowed to torch properties on the streets in the name of movement. “Begum Zia will not be allowed for a…
Crude bomb hurled at JP MP’s Bogra house
Miscreants threw a crude bomb at the house of opposition whip in parliament Nurul Islam Omar in the district town on Friday evening. Witnesses said a group of unidentified miscreants hurled the crude bomb at the main gate of the…
Kurds claim breaking Islamic State mountain siege
Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are claiming their biggest victory yet against Islamic State (IS) militants. They say they have broken the IS siege of Mount Sinjar, where thousands of Yazidis and other displaced Iraqis have been trapped since August.…
Warrant issued, legal notice served against Tarique
A Dhaka court on Thursday issued a warrant for the arrest of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in a case filed for calling Bangabandhu a “great Razakar”. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate M Yunus Khan issued the arrest warrant after M Mostafizur…