Six fish traders were killed and seven others injured as a truck overturned on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Dhonpur area of Sadar upazila early Monday. One of the deceased was identified as Shafiqul Islam, son of Bhola Seikh, hailing from Gobindoganj…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance is likely to announce a two-day demonstration programme soon to protest the fresh hike in power and gas tariffs. The decision was taken at a meeting of the top leaders of the alliance held at BNP…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday urged the United Nations to take an initiative for forming an international probe team to look into enforced disappeasrances in Bangladesh and alleged that all such incidents took place at the behest of the…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday deferred the date for submission of report to September 19 in the defamation case filed against BNP Senior Vice President Tareque Rahman and Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir…
Prof. Emajuddin Ahmed, former vice chancellor of Dhaka University on Saturday called for dealing with the problem of common rivers by taking lessons from Europe and East Asia where these are treated as common properties. Addressing a roundtable on ‘international…
Mentioning that export growth has reduced by 11.96 percent in the first two months of the current fiscal year, the Exporters Association of Bangladesh (EAB) on Saturday observed that the recent increase in gas and electricity prices will again put…
Terming illogical and unacceptable the government’s decision to raise the prices of gas and power, BNP on Saturday demanded its immediate annulment. The party also urged the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) to revise the power tariff in accordance with…
The government is dishonouring verdicts delivered by courts, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said. She has alleged that her party leaders and activists are being arrested even after their securing bail from the High Court. In a statement issued Friday,…
Different political parties and organisations have started staging demonstration and issuing statements against the increase of gas and electricity prices and called for withdrawing the same. The Bnp, the Islami Andolan Bangladesh, the Islami Oikya Jote, Nezame Islam Party, Gono…
Eight Bangladesh nationals, including two children, were among those died after two boats carrying about 500 migrants sank off Libya, said an official on Friday night. “The death toll is so far eight,” Counsellor (labour), Bangladesh Embassy to Libya, now…
“On this international day, I urge all Member States to ratify or accede to the Convention without delay, and I call on the States parties to the Convention to implement it. It is time for an end to all enforced…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday called upon her arch rival Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to work together for a sustainable democratic system in the country as they did it in the past. In a statement, the BNP chief said,…
Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of Dhaka’s Special Judge Court-3 on Thursday heard the cross-examination of the complainant on Thursday in absence of BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia. Later, the court set September 3 for the next hearing of the case.…
BNP on Thursday termed the charges against its senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman as “bullshit stories.” Addressing a press conference, standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan claimed that the charge sheet against Tarique Rahman was submitted to diver the attention…
Legendary political leader Kazi Zafar Ahmed is no more. Chairman of his faction of the Jatiya Party the ailing leader suffered a massive heart attack early in the morning and passed away at the United Hospital in Gulshan where he…
Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Wednesday said a vested quarter is planning every day to attack Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through adopting various strategies. “BNP is a party of conspirators and killers who always hatch plots how…
Observing that the country’s people have lost their rights to freedom of speech, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Wednesday said they want to see true democracy in the country. “People have lost the rights to live…. They’ve lost the…
The government has formed a high powered committee to remove 43 illegal religious structures and educational institutes from the bank of river Buriganga. “We have decided to remove all illegal structures from the bank of rivers guarding the capital. The…
BNP on Tuesday claimed that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is inaugurating different development projects through video conferencing as she ‘fears to go’ before people. “This government is afraid of people as it’s not elected by them. We’re observing that the…
Visiting UK Minister of State for International Development Desmond Swayne on Tuesday said extrajudicial killings cannot be tolerated in any democratic country and called for bringing the ‘perpetrators’ to justice. “Bangladesh is a democracy, and it’s essential that democratic values…
BNP is taking preparation to launch movement anew taking people with it to restore democracy in the country. “We will launch a fresh movement by staging a big showdown after completion of reorganisation of the party,” said BNP standing committee…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The death of another wild elephant in Sherpur on Tuesday is an alarm signal, because this is the third wild elephant killed in a couple of months. Earlier two elephants were killed in the Cox’s Bazar area.…
A Dhaka court on Tuesday ordered judicial inquiry against three members, including the Commanding Officer of Rapid Action Battalion-2, in connection with the murder of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Hazabagh unit President Arzu Mia in a ‘gunfight’ on August 18.…
The Cabinet on Monday ratified the ‘Motor Vehicles Agreement for the Regulation of Passenger, Personal, and Cargo Vehicular Traffic with Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal’ (BBIN), aiming to boost road connectivity in the region. The ratification came from the regular…
The High Court on Monday banned for six months the screening of ‘Rana Plaza’, a film made on the rescue of victim Reshma alive from the ruins of Rana Plaza building after 17 days of its collapse, saying that the…
BNP on Monday demanded the resignation of president of Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal and Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu if he fails to make clear before the nation his role in killing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “We would like to tell…
Attorney General (AG) Mahbubey Alam yesterday said that the government would file a review petition with the Supreme Court seeking death for war crimes convicted and Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee. “We will file a review petition with the Supreme…
The High Court yesterday rejected two petitions filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking lower court’s records and the final report of Barapukuria coalmine graft case. After concluding hearing on the petitions, the HC bench comprising Justice Md Nuruzzaman and…
The need for greater awareness and mass mobilisation to create pressure on the government for preventing the transfer of Brahmaputra water to India’s south through the river interlinking project was emphasised at a largely attended opinion exchange meeting in Dhaka…
Yet in another heinous incident, a minor boy was brutally tortured to death at Ghopal in Sadar upazila on Thursday afternoon. The deceased was identified as M Akmal Hossain, 11, son of M Ekhlas Miah, a resident of Paharpur village…