Dhaka – BNP senior leader Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman on Friday said the Prime Minister’s instruction to the Election Commission (EC) to check irregularities and faults in the remaining phases of Union Parishad polls has manifested the Commission’s weakness…
UN (AP/UNB) – Leaders from at least 175 countries were signing the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday as the landmark deal took a key step forward, potentially entering into force years ahead of schedule. U.S. Secretary of State John…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim have formally announced the appointment of 10 heads of state and government, including Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, as well as two special advisers, to the high-level…
The Election Commission, in the interest of impartial and fair Union Parishad polls, has asked Awami League leaders and activists ‘not to cross limits’, reports agencies. The response came after the ruling party delivered to the EC office Prime Minister…
Bangladesh on Thursday announced the discovery of the biggest ever limestone deposit in its northern district of Naogaon, capable of meeting the entire demand of the country’s cement industry.
The Queen has lit the first of more than 900 beacons lighting up across the UK and overseas as part of her 90th birthday celebrations. The monarch, accompanied by Prince Philip, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall,…
The United Kingdom sees no improvement of human rights scene in Bangladesh last year. The UK in its annual report for 2015 designated 30 Human Rights Priority Countries including Bangladesh that that have shown no improvement in matters of human…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said Bangladesh government should urgently remove legal and practical obstacles to unionisation in its readymade garment industry. “Garment workers face daunting challenges to unionization, and remain at risk of interference and threats by factories three…
Staff Reporter BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday the government intends to divert attention from Bangladesh Bank cyber heist and Tonu murder incidents by arresting Shafik Rehman.
STAFF REPORTER Bangladesh has ranked 144th among 180 countries in terms of press freedom in 2015, according to a report of the press freedom index-2016.
Dhaka – At least 13 people, including two women, were killed and 42 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses at Teromile on the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway in Taraganj upazila on Wednesday morning, unb news agency reported. Ten of…
Dhaka – The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved Dohazari-Ramu-Cox’s Bazar and Ramu to Gundum single line dual gauge track construction project(revised) with Tk 18,034.48 crore in a bid to introduce railway communication in the…
Dhaka – Wheat blast, a fearsome fungal disease of wheat, has been spotted in Bangladesh, the first case in Asia, unb news agency reported. The blast disease has so far caused up to 90 percent yield losses in more than…
Dhaka, Apr 19 (UNB) – More than 160 countries have so far confirmed that they will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change on April 22, the first day that the agreement will be open for signature. “Next Friday will…
Brasilia, Apr 19 (AP) – President Dilma Rousseff said Monday she is “indignant” over a congressional vote to open impeachment proceedings against her and vowed to fight what she called the injustice. She again categorically ruled out resigning. In her…
New Delhi: India should not try to reclaim the famous Kohinoor diamond as it was neither stolen nor forcibly taken, the government said Sunday. That stand, the Supreme Court has warned, could mean “You will face a problem in the…
Another fire broke out at Abdullah Shila in Chandpai range of the Sundarbans in Sharankhola upazila on Monday morning, endangering its ecosystem.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the government will definitely take action against those who will be found involved in the conspiracy of killing Sajeeb Wazed Joy after abduction.
STAFF REPORTER The BNP yesterday inducted another batch of new faces in its national executive committee in a bid to rejuvenate the party rank and file.
Pedernales — The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast. President Rafael Correa said at least 272 people had died and rescuers were struggling to reach survivors trapped in the rubble.…
Dhaka – A court here on Sunday framed charges against five people, including three policemen and two police informants, in a case filed for torturing jhut trader Ishtiaque Ahmed Jony to death in police custody. Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge M…
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir ySunday termed putting veteran journalist Shafik Rehman in his eighties on remand as inhuman. “The arrest of such an elderly senior journalist on cooked up charges and taken him on remand was an…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ICT adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Saturday said senior “journalist” Shafik Rehman has been arrested for Rehman’s alleged involvement in a plot to kidnap and kill him in the US.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night urged all, irrespective of their left or right political ideologies, to get united for the ‘restoration’ of democracy in the country.
Army troops and other rescuers rushed Saturday to try to reach scores of trapped residents after a pair of strong earthquakes in southwestern Japan killed at least 41 people, injured about 1,500 and left hundreds of thousands without electricity or…
Dhaka – Law enforcers arrested Gazipur City Corporation Mayor MA Mannan from Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur on Friday night, unb news agency reported. A team of police picked up Mannan from Madhyapara around 8:30pm while he was returning to the…
Dhaka – The United States has said the government of Bangladesh took ‘limited measures’ to investigate and prosecute cases of abuse and killing by security forces. The US, in its 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, claimed authorities failed…
Dhaka – Putting emphasis on maintaining peace in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon all to live with tolerance to ensure further development and prosperity of the country. “(Maintaining) peace is the biggest matter…development is not possible…
Dhaka – BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday said that democracy will be ‘restored’ in the country in this Bangla New Year 1423 bringing an end to killings, enforced disappearances and repressive acts, unb news agency reported. “I hope the…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday alleged that the ruling party activists unleashed a reign of terror across the country ahead of the third and fourth phases of Union Parishad (UP) elections. “Country’s people have become tired and terrorised with the…