The dissident Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leaders yesterday threatened to resume non-stop agitation in front of BNP headquarters if Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie and Sultan Salahuddin Tuku are not removed from their responsibilities as guardians of the organisation. “A seven-day ultimatum…
Hiv infection rate has increased by 28 percent this year 2014 over that of the year before, according to statistics released by the government on Monday. Unaids estimates that only one-third of the HIV infected cases are coming to light.…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said that the government has got crazier and more repressive to annihilate the opposition. “When people are fed up with the brutal and despotic acts of the illegal regime that…
The government has stopped the operations of Mohona Hospital at Green Road in the city for functioning without licence. A team of the Health Ministry and the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), led by ministry joint secretary Mosharraf Hossain…
News Desk Bangladesh won the fifth and final match of the ODI series by 5 wickets to complete 5-0 whitewash. Winning the toss, for the first time in the series Zimbabwe opted to bat. They made a great start after…
Sheikh Hasina insists there is a ‘multi-party system’ of democracy in Bangladesh, or else Khaleda Zia would not have possibly addressed so many rallies. The prime minister was responding to the BNP chief’s claim in Comilla on Saturday that the…
Three alleged members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been arrested from Dhaka and on the suspicion of their being involved in bomb-making in West Bengal’s Burdwan. Dhaka Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman said they arrested the three alleged JMB…
Strongly criticising Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for calling its chairperson Khaleda Zia a traitor, BNP on Sunday said Sheikh Hasina has again exposed her bad taste and arrogance through her address at Habiganj rally. “The Prime Minister’s entire speech at…
Eminent artist Qayyum Chowdhury passed away after he fell sick at a musical event in the city on Sunday night. He was 80. The artist collapsed on the stage while addressing the Bengal Classical Music Festival at the Army Stadium…
Accusing Awami League leaders and activists for the violence in Araihazar upazila, Narayanganj, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday alleged the government is trying to cling to power by resorting to terrorism. “The current illegal regime…
The High Court on Sunday directed the government to take steps to preserve the 300-year-old ancestral house of famed scientist Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose in Munshiganj. The court asked the director general of the Archaeology Department, the deputy commissioner of…
A Dhaka court on Sunday fixed December 7 as the date for framing charge against sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique in a case filed for his blasphemous remarks on Prophet (sm) Hajj and Tablig Jamaat. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Asaduzzaman…
Mir Quasem Ali who has been convicted for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971, on Sunday filed an appeal with the Supreme Court challenging theath penalty awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal-2. Mir Quasem’s lawyers submitted the…
The Islamic University (IU) has been closed for an indefinite period as the students went berserk following the death of a fellow student in a road accident. The decision to close the university was taken at an emergency meeting of…
A Jubo League activist was hacked to death and 10 people were injured in a clash between the activists of Awami Leauge and BNP in Araihazar upazila of the district on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Amjad Hossain…
Barrister Nazmul Huda on Saturday floated his latest political party – named the Bangladesh Manabadhikar Party (BMP). “BMP will act as a driving force of the Bangladesh National Alliance (BNA) and they will work together,” he said, adding that BMP…
Senior journalist and international affairs analyst Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury was killed in a road accident in the city’s Karwan Bazar area on Saturday night. He was 69. Chowdhury, also former managing director and chief editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS),…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday urged people to get ready for a decisive movement as Awami League’s fall is imminent and said that she herself will be there on the streets with them. “The fall of Awami League looms……
Renewing her party’s allegation that Khaleda Zia boycotted the January-5 election sensing defeat, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the BNP chief had actually wanted to create a Thailand-like situation where martial law was declared amid the opposition’s movement.
Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal on Saturday said the United States advocates for a strong and inclusive democracy in Bangladesh and called upon all the political parties to hold political…
The Unnayan Onneshan (UO) in its Bangladesh Economic update cautions that limited access to affordable and reliable sources of energy puts energy security at risk. It says shortage of power supply, depletion of gas reserve and frequent price hikes in…
Optimum aquifer recharge in the Hard Barind area is very important to protect its overall public health alongside the existing agricultural ecosystem by managing a groundwater basin efficiently and effectively, scientists and researchers at a workshop here said Saturday. They…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia goes to Comilla on Saturday to address the 20-party alliance’s public rally aimed at drumming up public support in favour of their demand for snap polls under a non-party administration. The BNP chairperson will leave her…
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal has enquired with Raushon Ershad who heads the opposition in Parliament, about Bangladesh’s next general elections. Friday’s half-hour meeting started at Ershad’s Gulshan residence around 5:10pm.…
Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal at her meeting with BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday said her country wants to see strong democracies in the South Asian countries for the continuation…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said her government understands only one theory — ensuring the basic rights of people – and sharply criticised those who often come up with their various ‘theories and advice’ about Bangladesh future. “Many people…
Bangladesh has won the fourth ODI too after Zimbabwe made a strong reply with the bat for the first time in the series. They were just 21 runs short and had a great opportunity to record their first win in…
Two members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were killed as a truck crashed into their motorcycle in Fulbari upazila here on Friday. The deceased were identified Al Amin, 20, son of Golam Mostafa of Laxmipur, and Rubel, 22, son of…
A man died and at least 26 people went missing as a fishing trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal, on the outskirts of Saint Martin’s Island, early Friday. Port sources said a fishing boat named ‘FB Bandhan’ of Bengal…
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno Many questions are already being raised about the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri in August. However, many…