Eighteen more Bangladesh nationals are feared dead in two Europe-bound boats capsize in the Mediterranean. Six have already been declared dead. The chargé d’affaires Mozammel Haque of the Bangladesh embassy in Tripoli, is being run from Tunisia due to conflict…
Three garment workers were killed as a bus ran over them on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Ulail bus stand area in Savar on the outskirts of the capital on Saturday. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. However,…
Jatiya Party (Z) chairman and former prime minister Kazi Zafar Ahmed will be laid to rest beside his parents graves at Cheora village in Chauddagram upazila, Comilla on Saturday. “Four more janazas of Kazi Zafar Ahmed will held in Camilla…
A Dhaka court on Friday placed two members of banned militant outfit ‘Ansarullah Bangla Team’ on a 5-day remand each in connection with the murder of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy. Those remanded are Kawsar Hossain Khan and Kamal Hossain Sardar.
A local Jubo Dal leader was hacked to death by some miscreants at Siladi in Sadar upazila on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Sabuj Hossain, general secretary of no 1 Siladi union unit Jubo Dal and son of…
The first namaz-e-janaza of Jatiya Party (Z) chairman and former prime minister Kazi Zafar Ahmed was held at Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi on Friday morning. BNP central committee member Hasan Uddin Sarkar, general secretary of JP’s Gazipur city unit…
The government has fixed specific points in the capital and the port city of Chittagong for sacrificing animals during Eid-ul-Azha to avoid pollution and filthiness. Muslims have been requested to slaughter sacrificial animals at 493 spots in two city corporation…
The Appeallate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday stayed for two weeks a High Court (HC) bail order for BNP leader Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed…
The Maharashtra government is seeking the help of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the father of microcredit to introduce a microfinancing system for small and medium scale industries in the state, The Indian Express and The Hindu reported on Wednesday. State…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday deferred the hearing on charge framing against 26 BNP men including their Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir till October 1 in a sabotage case. Magistrate Atiqur Rahman of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM)…
Mumbai: Dr. Atiur Rahman, Governor of Bangladesh Bank, tuesday said the need of the hour is to develop socially inclusive, sustainable and environmental-friendly trade practices even as SAARC countries aim for financial integration in the region. In his special address…
A court of Dhaka on Tuesday issued warrant of arrest against 14 BNP leaders including MK Anwar, Selima Rahman, Maruf Kamal Khan and Shawkat Mahmud in a sabotage case, lodged with Khilgaon Police Station of the city.
A court Dhaka on Monday framed charges against 30 accused including Juba Dal President Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and BNP’s Educational Affairs Secretary Khairul Kabair Khokon in a case filed with Motijheel Police of the city on the charge of…
A Dhaka court on Monday placed Shaukat Mahmud, BNP Chairperson’s Adviser and also the President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), on one-day fresh remand in each of four cases lodged for creating violence. Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan of…
Slain Hazaribagh Thana Chhatra League President Arzu’s brother Md Masud Rana lodged a case against four people including three members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in connection with the death of his younger brother Arzu in a gunfight.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court order that rejected a writ petition filed by former Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Minister Abdul Latif Siddique challenging the legality of the Election Commission (EC) hearing on his…
The centenary of the country’s largest steel railway bridge ‘Hardinge Bridge’, built over Padma at Paksey point of Pabna in 1915, was celebrated on Saturday. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) and Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)…
Holding the slogan ‘Stop fighting, let’s Negotiate the Jahangirnaar University Model’ the United Nations Association will host a three-day long conference on 27 to 29 August at the campus. Md Riyajul Karim, secretary general of Jamuna, disclosed this at a…
by Joshua Kurlantzick In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Bangladesh, which for years had been an international symbol of poverty and catastrophe, seemed to have reached a kind of stability. The country’s economy, powered by its garment industry and…
Broad index at the country’s premier bourse — Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) — ended the week with slight gain as the investors are still maintaining cautious behaviour. The daily average turnover at the DSE was Tk 563.93 crore, a fall…
BNP yesterday alleged that the government is trying to control the law and order situation in the country in the name of “gunfights.” “The extrajudicial killing cannot be accepted,” said BNP spokesperson Dr Asaduzzaman Ripon while addressing a press conference…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday demanded the release of party standing committee member MK Anwar and journalist leader Shawkat Mahmud accusing the government of behaving in a vengeful manner. “We have been pained to see an elderly party leader like…
A local Jubo League leader suffered bullet injuries in an attack by miscreants in the city’s Wari area on Tuesday night. The victim was identified as Abdul Mannan, 30, general secretary of ward-31 unit of Jubo League, the youth wing…
Police Tuesday arrested Shawkat Mahmud, president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), from in front of Samarai Convention Centre in the city’s Panthapath area. Plainclothes police arrested him while he was trying to enter the convention…
Dhaka: Former Hazaribagh thana unit Chhatra League president Arzou, was killed in a reported gunfight in between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and alleged accomplices of the BCL leader in the city’s Hazaribagh area on early Tuesday. Arju was reported as…
The High court on Monday gave a split judgment asking for explanation as to why Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, who is facing corruption charges, still remains a minister and a member of parliament. An HC bench compromising…
A Dhaka court on Monday awarded ten years’ imprisonment to every six top officials of BCI (Bangladesh) Limited for manufacturing spurious drug that took lives of at least 76 children in 1990s. Judge M Atowar Rahman of Dhaka Judge Court…
The wreckage of an Indonesian plane which went missing with 54 people on board has been spotted in the remote western Papua region, officials say. The Trigana Air flight lost contact at 14:55 local time (05:55 GMT) on Sunday as…
Observing that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia hurts people’s sentiments by cutting her birthday cake on August 15, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Sunday said people will give a befitting reply to her act through votes in the 2019 national elections.…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday (Sunday) placed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) President Rajib Ahsan on fresh remand of five days in three cases. Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed the latest remand order in three sabotage cases…