Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday issued a strong warning to Tarique Rahman for his remarks about Bangabandhu and advised BNP chief Khaleda Zia to ask her son to hold his tongue. “I would like to tell the BNP chief,…
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Get united to save ‘besieged’ democracy: Tarique
BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman has called upon people from all walks of life to get united to save Bangladesh’s besieged democracy. The country is now under the grip of the cohorts of 1971 occupation forces, he said. “Democracy…
Bangladesh parties should use political space peacefully: US envoy
Outgoing US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena on Wednesday said political parties in Bangladesh need to use their political space peacefully to strengthen democracy. “Of course, the political parties need to use political space peacefully…we discussed the important role…
Dhaka-Yangon border talks begin in capital
A four-day high level border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Myanmar Police Force (MPF) began at BGB’s Peelkhana headquarters here on Wednesday. BGB Additional Directorate General and Northeast Region Commander M Latiful Haidar is leading a 16-member Bangladesh…
Catastrophic oil spill endangers rare species – dolphins, tigers
Chuck Bednar for redOrbit.com An oil spill from a crashed tanker is causing what officials are calling an ecological “catastrophe” in the Sundarbans mangrove region of Bangladesh, putting two rare species of dolphin and several other forms of wildlife at…
Govt has destroyed Liberation War spirit: BNP
The BNP on Tuesday alleged that the regime has destroyed the Liberation War spirit through annihilating democracy and snatching people’s rights and termed the government an ‘illegal and usurper’ of power. “People had spontaneously joined the Liberation War in 1971…
PM denounces Taliban attack in Peshawar
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday strongly condemned the killings of over hundred civilians, including school children, in a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. In a condolence message, Hasina said, “Such barbaric and heinous killings have shocked…
Pakistan mourns after Taliban Peshawar school massacre
The Pakistani city of Peshawar has begun burying its dead after a Taliban attack at a school killed at least 132 children and nine staff. Mourners crowded around coffins bedecked with flowers, while other families waited at hospitals for news.…
Tarique Rahman labels Bangabandhu a ‘Razakar’
BNP leader Tarique Rahman has labelled Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a ‘Razakar’ and claimed that he had accepted Yahya Khan as Pakistan president by striking a deal with him just before the proclamation of independence. The BNP senior vice chairman…
44th Victory Day celebrated Tuesday
The 44th Victory Day commemorating its glorious victory in the nine-month bloody war against the occupation forces in 1971 was celebrated on Tuesday with a pledge to uphold the spirit of the Liberation War. Thousands of people paid rich tributes…
Settlers torch 13 houses of hill people after orchard damage
Bangalee settlers on Tuesday torched at least 13 houses and some shops of hill people over damaging a pineapple orchard at Chouddamile in Naniarchar under Rangamati district on Tuesday. Locals said the Bangalee settlers went berserk in the morning after…
Mymensingh Sramik Dal leader, wife, 2 daughters killed
A local Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal leader, his wife and their two daughters have been murdered at Lobonkota village in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh district. Police recovered their bodies on Tuesday morning. Sramik Dal is the labour associate of the main…
Rating agency trafficking financial information?
Greenwatch News The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has started inspection into the alleged ‘trafficking’ of coutnry’s thousands of financial information to a neighbouring country by the Bangladesh Rating Agency Limited (BDRAL), informed sources said. The securities regulator’s inspection…
Taliban kill 141, including 132 children, in Peshawar school massacre
The Pakistan Taliban launch their deadliest attack ever, leaving 132 children and nine adults dead at a school in Peshawar. All six of the militants who entered the building are said to have been killed, at least one of them…
Let nature play a role in climate adaptation, experts urge
LIMA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When the rainy season comes and floods the fields, poor families in northwest Bangladesh once cut trees to survive or went hungry. Now, however, they are raising fish in the floodplains – a change that…
Bangladesh’s 44th Victory Day Tuesday
Bangladesh will celebrate the 44th Victory Day on Tuesday with elaborate programmes to pay homage to the martyrs who laid down their lives for the country. On this day in 1971, occupation had forces surrendered after a nine-month war resulting…
Cricketer Rubel gets bail for 4 weeks in actress Happy case
The High Court on Monday allowed an anticipatory bail for four weeks to national cricketer Rubel Hossain in a rape case. An HC bench comprising Justice Syed AB Mahmudul Haque and Justice M Akram Hossain Chowdhury passed the order following…
Environmental disaster set in motion in the Sunderbans
The furnace oil that spilled in the Sundarbans’s Chandpai range from an oil tanker is gradually being absorbed in the ground leading to a reduction in the volume of the oil in the water, locals have said. The oil spread…
Hegemonic forces still active to snatch independence: Khaleda
Though Bangladesh was liberated in 1971, hegemonic forces are still conspiring to snatch the country’s independence and sovereignty, said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday. “Though our beloved motherland was freed from the grasp of enemies in 1971, the plots…
Khaleda doesn’t hesitate to kill pol opponents: Hanif
Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, MP, today said BNP chairperson does not hesitate to kill her political opponents. The Awami League leader said this in reply to Begum Zia’s remarks that ‘there will be no need to kill…
2 killed as Australian commandos end cafe siege
Australian commandos have stormed a cafe in Sydney, ending a 16-hour siege by a gunman identified as an Iranian refugee who took dozens of hostages. Paramedics carrying stretchers raced towards the cafe moments after the commandos entered the building. Several…
Even 5 million police can’t save government: Fakhrul
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the government ultimately would not be able to save itself even with five million police. Addressing a discussion meeting at Institute of Engineers Bangladesh to mark the Victory Day, he…
No permanent shutting Shela River route: Shipping Minister
Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan has shot down an environment ministry recommendation to permanently shut down Sundarbans Shela River route. “We are not thinking about closing the route yet,” he said after an inter ministerial meeting Sunday. Ministry of Environment and…
Is the batle to recover Sunderbans spilled oil lost?
The Forest Department looks fighting a losing battle to manually clean up the spilt-oil from rivers in the Sundarbans as it has already dissolved in river waters. “Most of the oil has already dissolved or spread faraway,” Divisional Forest Officer…
UN members assent deal at Lima climate talks
United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change. Delegates have approved a framework for setting national pledges to be submitted to a summit next year. Differences over the draft text caused the two-week talks…
Extortionists shot dead farmer, injure 6 others in Comilla
A farmer was killed and six people sustained bullet wounds as extortionists opened fire during extortion in Daudkandi upazila on Sunday evening. The deceased was identified as M Ishque Miah, 60, son of late Lal Miah of Krishnapur village in…
BCL activist shot dead in CU campus factional clash
An activist was shot dead and five others were wounded in a fierce clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on the Chittagong University campus on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Taposh Roy, a second year…
AL did not want independence, now smashing its ideals: Fakhrul
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday urged the intellectuals, and free thinking persons and believers of democracy to come forward in the transition period of the country. “Country’s human rights are now undermined. Let us join a…
Stop return of BNP, Jamat to power: PM
Terming BNP-Jamaat Pakistan’s collaborators, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged all to remain alert so that this quarter cannot return to power to play with people’s fate. “We all have to remain vigilant so that those Pakistani collaborators can’t…
Martyred Intellectuals’ Day Sunday
“Martyred Intellectuals Day” will be observed on Sunday. This day in 1971, on the eve of the country’s independence the occupation army in collusion with their quislings the para-military force, Al-Badr, picked up and killed the cream of Bangladesh’s intelligentsia.…