Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said her government wants to build a beautiful future for the Bangalee nation by maintaining a wonderful environment in the country. “We want peace, not clash…we want to maintain beautiful environment in the country…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will address the founding anniversary discussion of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the party, at Suhrawardy Udyan on Friday. The JCD will organise the discussion meeting to mark its 37th founding anniversary. The Dhaka…
Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday said Bangladesh’s journey towards progress will get further momentum as soon as it reaches a political consensus. The Chinese Minister made the remark at a meeting with Raushon Ershad at Sonargaon Hotel…
A woman school teacher was killed in Noakhali and many people were injured in the city and elsewhere in the country during the countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance yesterday. The female school teacher, Shamsunnaghar Jarna (35)…
At least six persons were killed and ten others injured seriously in a collision between a Dhaka bound passenger train from Narayanganj and a container truck inside the Kamalapur Railway station on early Monday afternoon. The accident occured when a…
Claiming that people are spontaneously observing heir hartal, BNP joint-secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday alleged that the government agents are torching vehicles and carrying out various subversive acts over their daylong shutdown programme. “The government has once again…
The countrywide daylong hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance to protest the ‘foiling’ of its Gazipur rally and demanding the release of its arrested senior, is underway amid stray incidents. The hartal began at 6am and will end at…
The inspector general of police (IGP) has defended the questioning of ‘Jihad’s father Nasir Fakir but denied allegations that he was tortured in custody. Hassan Mahmood Khandker says they interrogated Fakir in a ‘friendly manner’ to ‘crack the mystery’. Fakir’s…
A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Sunday seeking its order to form a high-level committee to investigate the failure of government organisations in rescuing minor boy Jihad alive from inside the pipe of a water pump…
A countrywide daylong hartal called by the BNP amd its allies in protest against the ‘foiling’ of their scheduled Gazipur rally and to press the demand for the release of arrested senior leaders begins Monday morning. The hartal that will…
China on Sunday proposed signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Bangladesh to boost trade ties between the two countries, minimising the trade gap against Bangladesh. The Chinese side came up with the proposal at bilateral talks between the two…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday accused the government of crimes against humanity including enforced disappearance, killing and abduction. “The monster government has destroyed all the achievements of Bangladesh. Carrying out enforced disappearance is treated as crimes…
Awami League will not be able to hold rally anywhere in the country easily if it creates obstacle to BNP programmes, a senior BNP leader yesterday said without elaborating. “Awami League’s Mr Hanif has given threat that BNP will not…
With the completion of the autopsy on Jihad’s body on Sunday morning, the autopsy conductors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) morgue came up with the suggestion that the four-year-old boy died from drowning. The autopsy was completed by a…
An AirAsia flight travelling from Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control with 162 people on board. Flight QZ8501 lost contact at 07:24 (23:24 GMT), Malaysia-based AirAsia tweeted. Search and rescue operations are under way. Malaysia’s national…
The recovery of the body of 4-year-old Jihad from inside the 600-feet deep pipe of Railway’s deep tubewell at the Shahjahanpur Railway Colony by some local people a few minutes after the Fire Service abandoned the rescue operation on late…
Deploring the recovery of four-year-old boy Jihad’s body from a deep pipe in the city after long 23 hours at a private initiative, BNP alleged that the entire nation was aggrieved and upset with State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman…
Shivring cold has gripped the country which is experiencing a mild to moderate cold wave which brought the season’s coldest day in Ishwardi of Pabna on Saturday with the mercury dipping to 7.2 degrees Celsius. Weathermen have said that the…
Issuing a stern warning, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said those who are making disparaging remarks about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will not be spared. “People know the country’s history very well…..kulangars (black sheep) are uttering derogatory remarks about…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Saturday called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal across the country for Monday demanding the withdrawal of all false cases filed against alliance leaders and the release of alliance leaders including Goyeshwar Chandra Roy immediately. The alliance…
Experts at a function on Saturday emphasised the need for taking joint effort by government and private sector to create awareness among the people about kidney diseases to prevent it effectively and in time. A joint effort of government and…
The body of the ill-fated 4-year old boy has finally been retrieved from the 600 feet water pump well by local youngsters soon after the rescue mission was abandoned by the Fire Service and Civil Defence and other related services.…
Memorial services have been held in Indonesia and other nations for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on the 10th anniversary of the disaster. In Indonesia’s province of Aceh – the worst-hit area – Vice-President Jusuf Kalla led tributes…
The BNP probe panel, formed to investigate the oil-tanker crash in Sundarbans’ Shela River spilling out huge oil, has said the damage done to the Sundarbans due to the government’s reluctance and lack of coordination after the crash may go…
The body of the ill-fated 4-year old boy has finally been retrieved from the 600 feet water pump well by local youngsters soon after the rescue mission was abandoned by the Fire Service and Civil Defence and other related services.…
The daylong hartal called in Gazipur district for Saturday by the BNP-led 20-party alliance, protesting the imposition of section 144 by the local administration ahead of its scheduled rally, has been observed peacefully till the mid-day. The 20-party alliance also…
A joint meeting of Awami League and its youth front Jubo League will be held on Saturday to discussion preparations to make the ruling party’s programmes scheduled for January 5 and 10 a success. The meeting will begin at 4:30…
BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy along with three other leaders were put on a three-day remand on Friday, following their arrest from different places in the capital. Earlier in the morning, plainclothes police arrested the senior BNP leader…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday alleged that the government has intensified its repressive acts against opposition men in its last-ditch efforts to cling to power by force and strongly denouncing the arrest of her party’s senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra…
A Bangladeshi farmer was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Medinipur frontier in Jibonnagar upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Moshiur Rahman Moshi, 35, son of Abdur Rashid, resident of Harinagar village of…