BNP on Thursday urged the government to demonstrate a human attitude by assisting the family members of its leader Salahuddin Ahmed to safely bring him back home from India instead of doing foul politics over his disappearance. “We’re very happy…
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Salahuddin tells relatives he was left blindfolded in Shilong
BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed has told two of his relatives who met him at a hospital in Shillong that he had been brought there blindfolded after changing vehicles for several times, according to a report released by BBC Bangla on…
GDP growth 6.51 pc, per capita income $1314: Minister
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday said the provisional GDP growth in the current fiscal year has reached 6.51 percent although the government was earlier hopeful of achieving 7 percent. “The GDP growth in the current fiscal year reached…
BCL factional clash, death prompts Bhashani Varsity closure
The authorities suspended all academic activities of Mawlana Bhasani Science and Technology University for an indefinite period after an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was killed in a factional clash on the campus on Wednesday. The deceased was identified…
Khaleda worried as Fakhrul, other Bnp leaders sick in jail
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday expressed her deep concern over the reports that many of the party leaders and activists including party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir have seriously sick in jails. In a press statement, she called…
Hasina Ahmed wants Govt help to bring Salahuddin back
Hasina Ahmed, wife of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, yesterday sought cooperation of the government to bring back her husband from India. “I always sought cooperation of the government since nothing is possible without their assistance,” she said while talking to…
Unidentified people kidnapped me: Salahuddin
Salahuddin Ahmed, the joint secretary general of BNP who went disappeared for over two months, says he does not know how he surfaced in this mountainous state capital of Meghalaya on Monday morning. Ahmed, who identified himself as a senior…
Bnp leader Salahuddin Ahmed traced in Meghalaya
BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, who was missing for over two months, has been traced on Monday morning at a mental hospital in the north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya, closed to the Bangladeshi border. Sources in the capital city…
Sylhet blogger hacked to death
Assailants have hacked to death blogger Ananta Bijoy Das in Sylhet on Tuesday, according to a report received in Dhaka. Das was an activist of the Ganajagaran Manch, that was set up after Jamaat leader Quader Mollah was awarded imprisonment…
Cop suspended for attack on DU sexual assault protesters
The authorities concerned on Monday suspended a Nayek of police for assaulting Chhatra Union activists, who were protesting on Sunday the sexual harassments of women on the Dhaka University campus on April 14, near the Officers’ Club. SM Jahangir Alam,…
Bnp condemns police attack on sexual harassment protesters
The BNP on Monday condemned Sunday’s police attack on Chhatra Union’s programme protesting the sexual harassment on women during the Bangla New Year celebration in Dhaka University premises. Addressing a press conference at party headquarters in the evening, BNP spokesperson…
1,600 Rohingya, B’deshi migrants rescued, thousands at sea
Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia — Hundreds of migrants abandoned at sea by smugglers in Southeast Asia have reached land and relative safety in the past two days. But an estimated 6,000 Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar remain trapped in…
Ministry sees murder accused Nur Hossain one year after
The government has removed Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, from the councillor post of Narayanganj City Corporation and has declared the post vacant. Additional secretary of the Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Ministry Ashok…
Bnp blames Govt for mass human trafficking, miseries
BNP spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon on Sunday alleged that human trafficking marked a sharp rise in the country as the government has failed to generate jobs for the unemployed people. “Most youths are now jobless and they are taking risk of…
‘Concerned Citizens’ want power balance, active President
Members of civil society group – Concerned Citizens – on Sunday placed some proposals to bring amendments to the Constitution for establishing banance of power by ending concentration of too much power in the hands of the Prime Minister. Representatives…
Return Sahahuddin or put him back to his place: Khaleda
BNP chief Khaleda Zia on Saturday night said that her party’s joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed was in Rab custody, warned that the consequences will not be good if the Rab does not return him to his family unharmed. “We’ve…
Most migrants found are Bangladeshis: Thai Police
Thai authorities on Saturday questioned more than 100 migrants discovered in the country’s south to determine whether they were victims of human trafficking, as Thailand races to meet a deadline to uncover people smuggling camps within its borders. The 117…
Tigers go down in second test giving visitors Test series
By Andrew Fidel Fernando Pakistan 557 for 8 dec (Azhar 226, Younis 148, Shafiq 107) and 195 for 6 dec (Misbah 82) beat Bangladesh 203 (Shakib 89) and 221 (Mominul 68, Yasir 4-73) by 328 runs Bangladesh plummeted to a 328-run…
Over 100 B’desh, Myanmar migrants found in Thai south
BANGKOK (Reuters) – More than 100 suspected Rohingya migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh have been found in Thailand’s southern Songkhla province, police said on Friday. Police said the 111 migrants had been left alone in the jungle after suspected human…
Bnp demands cancellation of Rajshahi Mayor’s suspension
Rajshahi BNP on Friday demanded the government cancel the order suspending the party- supported Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) elected Mayor Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul. Rajshahi city and district BNP made the demand at a press conference at the city BNP’s office.…
Pakistan tighten grip on second test, Tigers face 550 target
Pakistan set Bangladesh an improbable victory target of 550 runs and claimed the wicket of opener Imrul Kayes to inch closer to a series-clinching win in the second and final test on Friday. The visitors, who have failed to win…
PM welcomes. Modi phones Hasina. Khaleda gives thanks on LBA
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina extended her heartiest greetings to her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for the passage of the historic Land Boundary Agreement between Bangladesh and India by Lok Sabha on Thursday. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina extended her sincere greetings…
Yunus Centre’s response to reports on PM’s comments
Several daily newspapers have reported Honorable Prime Minister’s alleged remarks about Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus on 5 May, 2015 at the meeting of the Executive Committee of National Economic Council. We are shocked by the alleged comments, since…
Pak 323/3: Yunis dedicates century to Nepal quake victims
Younis Khan dedicated his century against Bangladesh on Wednesday, the 29th of his Test career, to the victims of Nepal’s mega earthquake. Pakistan at stumps on 323 for 3 in 90 overs on day one spurred by Younis-Azhar centuries alongwith…
Fresh assault on Yunus for WB stopping Padma Bridge fund
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday urged Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus to clear his position on the allegation of his role in having the fund for the Padma Bridge project cancelled by the World Bank. “I would like…
Khaleda, 37 others charge-sheeted in ‘arson case’
The Detective Branch (DB) of police on Wednesday submitted the charge sheets to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and 37 others including senior BNP leaders in two cases filed for Jatrabari…
Sunderbans flora, fauna under fresh threat as fertilizer ship sinks
A cargo vessel carrying potash fertilizer capsized in the Bhola River at Swarankhola Range of the Sundarbans East Zone. Amir Hossain Chowdhury, Divisional Forest Officer of the Sundarbans East Zone, has said that the cargo vessel – ‘Jabalenoor’ – ran…
Tigers eye win as second test begins Wednesday
Bangladesh hope to build on their new-found confidence by securing their first-ever Test victory over Pakistan when the second and final match starts in Dhaka on Wednesday. The Tigers are buoyed by a remarkable fightback in the drawn first Test…
Bnp leader Fakhrul taken back to jail from hospital
The condition of ailing BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was termed stable, by a panel doctors of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University where he was transferred to a prison cell as his on Tuesday as his health…
Nasiruddin pintu laid to rest, Khaleda offers fateha
Former BNP lawmaker Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu was to rest at Azimpur graveyard in the grave of his father after his third namaz-e-janaza at the Leather and Technology Institute in Hazaribagh after Asr prayers on Monday. Earlier his second namaz-e-janaza,…