BNP has termed the “issuance of red alert by Interpol” in the name of party senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman a drama, evil tactic and misleading. “Interpol does not issue any red alert rather it disclose the information provided by…
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Bangla New Year’s Day celebrated Tuesday amid festivities
Pahela Baishakh, the Bangla New Year’s Day was celebrated on Tuesday amid traditional festivities and fervour acrossBangladesh. Baishakhi fairs, colourful processions, musical soirees at public places were the highlights of the day’s programmes and festivities. Most families had their own…
6 Bnp activists held at close of Khaleda’s Pahela Baishakh program
Six activists of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bnp) were picked up from the party’s Naya Paltan central office premises soon after its chairperson Begum Khaleda set off at the close of the Pahela Baishakh, Bangla New Year’s Day celebrations…
Water insecurity costs $500b yearly, hinders global growth
Water insecurity costs the global economy some US$ 500 billion annually, according to Global Water Partnership (GWP). That figure does not take into account environmental impacts so the total drag on the world economy could be 1% or more of…
Pahela Baishakh being celebrated Tuesday
Pahela Baishakh, the Bangla New Year’s Day is being celebrated in Bangladesh amid traditional festivity and fervour. Baishakhi fairs, colourful processions, musical soirees, poetry recitation sessions, discussion meetings and cultural programmes are being held across the country marking the day.
CEC asks law enforcers to avoid harassment
Amid the growing demand by all the candidates that the Election Commission must ensure fair polls in the three city corporation elections, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Monday reaffirmed that their top priority is to hold credible elections…
HC orders police not to arrest Abbas till bail hearing
The High Court on Monday asked the police not to arrest or harass BNP-backed Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayoral candidate Mirza Abbas until order on his interim bail petitions. An HC bench comprising Justice Quamrul Islam Siddique and Justice…
CEC asks police not to harass candidates sans reason
The chief election commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad has ordered police not to harass any candidate without any reason. The CEC gave the order at an interaction with mayor and councillor candidates of Dhaka North City Corporation at Farmgate’s KIB Complex…
Money loan court summon against Khaleda to newspapers
Dhaka’s Money Loan Court-1 (Artha Rin Adalat-1) on Sunday directed the authorities to publish gazette notification in newspapers summoning BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and three others in the case filed for the loan default of Dandy Dying Limited. Judge…
Professionals want Mirza Abbas to come to the open, seek votes
A pro-BNP intellectual on Sunday urged Mirza Abbas, who is contesting the mayoral post for Dhaka South City Corporation, to come out in public to campaign for the elections instead of remaiing underground. “Mirza Abbas has to come out in…
Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman hanged
The death penalty of Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman was executed at the Dhaka Central Jail at 10-31 pm on Saturday night, different sources confirmed last night. The sources said as per norms the IG Prison Brig Gen Syed Iftekharuddin, additional…
Khaleda has lost right to do politics, says Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and her associates, before coming to people to woo their support, must give answer to deaths of scores of people in petrol bomb attacks. “Carrying out horrendous atrocities on…
IG Prison in Jail apparently for Kamaruzzaman’s execution
The Inspector General of Prisons entered the Dhaka Central Jail along with other officials on Saturday evening in what appeared to be the start of formalities for execution of death row convict Jamaat Leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman Bangladesh authorities are expected…
Symbols allocation for Mayoral candidates started on Friday
The allocation of symbols among the mayoral aspirants of Dhaka North City Corporation(DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation(DSCC) elections started on Friday morning. Among the major candidates, Awami League-blessed candidate Annisul Huq was given ‘Table Clock’ while BNP-sponsored candidate Tabith…
Prof. Emajuddin demands army deployment for city polls
Prof Dr Emajuddin Ahmed, convenor of Adarsha Dhaka Andolon, yesterday reiterated his demanded to deploy army in Dhaka and Chittagong during the ensuing three city corporation polls scheduled to be held on April 28.
Kamaruzzaman’s death sentence execution apparently postponed
Jail authorities on Friday evening apparently postponed a decisioin to go ahead with executing the verdict given against Jamaat Leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman who has remained in a death row for sometime. Earlier two magistrates visited the Dhaka Central Jail to…
Bnp supports Awal Mintoo’s son Tabith for Dhaka North
Finally, BNP has extended its support to Tabith Awal, son of party chairperson’s adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo to contest the mayoral polls in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia endorsed him hours after the Supreme Court upheld…
24 passengers killed 22 hurs as bus hits tree in Faridpur
In a worst bus accident of recent times in Bangladesh, twenty four people, including five women, were killed and 22 people seriously injured on the Faridpur-Barisal highway at Koidhubi in Bhanga upazila early on Thursday.
3 Ex-Rab officials, AL leader charged in N’ganj 7-murders
Police have submitted charge-sheets in court over the sensational seven-murder in Narayanganj against 35 people, including three former RAB officials and Awami League leader Nur Hossain. The chargesheets were submitted in two cases with Senior Judicial Magistrate Chandni Rupam’s court…
Mahi B Chowdhury seeks Bnp blessings, launches campaign
Mahi B Chowdhury, a mayoral aspirant for Dhaka North City Corporation, yesterday sought blessing of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to support him to contest the polls. “An opportunity has been created following cancellation of Mintoo Bhai’s nomination paper. For that…
SC verdict reaches prison, Kamaruzzaman to see lawyers
Dhaka Central Jail authorities on Wednesday afternoon received the copy of the Supreme Court verdict rejecting the review plea sought by Jamaat leader M Kamaruzzaman against death penalty. The verdict was read out to the Jamaat leader who sought time…
Hasina says, Khaleda returns with disgrace of defeat
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said BNP leader Khaleda Zia has gone back to her home with the disgrace of failure and defeat after staying in her office for long 92 days aiming to topple the government. “She (Khaleda)…
Second memo to PM office for Salahuddin, writ hearing Wednesday
Hasina Ahmed, wife of disappeared BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed yesterday submitted another memorandum to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeking her intervention to trace her husband. She handed over the memorandum to an office assistant of the Prime Minister’s Office. Hasina…
Stop arrests, release pol prisoners for tranquil environ: Bnp
BNP leaders yesterday accused the government of fielding what it said loyal administration and Election Commission after the ir party decided to contest the city corporation polls denying them a walkover. “The government wants to create crisis and anarchy anew…
Suspend seath sentence of war crimes accused: HRW
New York – The Bangladesh Supreme Court’s rejection on April 6, 2015, of the death penalty review petition for Muhammed Kamaruzzaman permits his imminent execution despite a seriously flawed trial, Human Rights Watch said today. Kamaruzzaman, a leader of the…
Teerful Khaleda offers fateha at Koko’s Banani grave
A tearful BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday visited her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko’s grave at Banani Graveyard and offered fateha. She also recited verses from the holy Quran beside the grave and offered a munajat seeking salvation of…
Mintoo’s writ rejected, Bnp backing for Mahi looks bright
As the High Court scrapped the last hope of BNP chairperson’s adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo to run the mayoral election for Dhaka North City Corporation yesterday, the prospect of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh leader Mahi B Chowdhury has become brighter to…
SC rejects Kamaruzzaman’s review, upholds death sentence
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday rejected death-row war crimes convict Kamaruzzaman’s review petition against its previous verdict in favour of his death penalty that was earlier awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal-2. A four-member bench of…
Return of Khaleda to her residence marks blowing of new wind?
With the return of Khaleda Zia to the Gulshan residence after getting bail, the political situation appears to have started improving across the country though the BNP is yet to make any decision to withdraw its non-stop blockade. “A new…
Ban ki-moon wants city polls to be transparent, inclusive, credible
The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has appealed to the authorities in all relevant institutions in Bangladesh to ensure that the April 28 city elections will be transparent, inclusive, and credible, according to a posting made at the…