Small traders, especially fish, fruits, vegetables and traders and food vendors, are facing a surge in extortion demands by a section of corrupt law enforcers and different political elements to do their business in the capital. Sources said small traders…
Green activist Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s husband and businessman Abu Bakar Siddique, who was freed on Thursday midnight from captivity of the kidnappers, yesterday said he still feels insecure. “I could not think that I would be able to return alive.…
BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said that prominent environment lawyer Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s husband Abu Bakar Siddique was abducted by the very people who had carried away BNP Organising Secretary M Ilyas Ali. He made the allegation…
At least 12 local guides have been killed after an avalanche on the slopes of Mount Everest, Nepali officials say. The avalanche struck around 06:45 local time (01:00 GMT) in an area known as the “popcorn field”, just above Everest…
Businessman Abu Bakar Siddique , who was set free by the abductors after 35 hours of abduction, was taken to the office of Superintendent of Police here on Friday morning. A police pick-up van took AB Siddique to the SP…
The local administration of Saint Martin’s Island has temporarily banned tourists from swimming in the Bay of Bengal. The decision follows a tragedy at the island that took the lives of four private university students when they went swimming last…
The High Court will deliver its order on Sunday on a revision petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking to quash the trial court indictment orders against her in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases.…
Bangladesh’s exports earnings have reached $22.24 billion, showing a 13 percent rise in the first nine months of the current 2013-2014 financial year over $19.68 billion earned in the corresponding period the previous fiscal. The exports earnings reached to the…
Voicing utter dismay over the non-rescue of its missing leader M Ilias Ali in two years even after the Prime Minister’s assurance, BNP on Thursday vowed to wage a united strong movement to “take revenge on the government for his…
The alliance of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) jointly launched their three-day ‘Teesta march’ after a rally in front of the National Press Club on Thursday afternoon. The CPB-BSD jointly orgainsed the ‘Teesta March’ programme…
The husband of the award-winning environmental lawyer Rizwana Hasan was whisked away in a blue microbus from Narayanganj, when on its way to Dhaka, police said. Narayanganj’s Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md Shahidul Islam said that they have identified…
The European Rohingya Council (ERC), a Netherlands-based NGO, has requested the people and government of Bangladesh to play a key role in finding out a ‘just and lasting’ solution to the longstanding Rohingya problem in the interest of Bangladesh and…
Heartbreaking text message exchanges between students trapped in thesinking ferry off the coast of South Korea and their anxious parents are offering a glimpse into the desperate situation in the crippled vessel. “Dad, don’t worry. I’ve got a life vest…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday morning paid glowing homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing floral wreath at the portrait of the great leader at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum marking the historic 17th April-Mujibnagar…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will stage a two-day long march towards the Teesta Barrage in Nilphamari on April 22-23 demanding due share of the river water from India and protesting the government’s failure. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam…
The High Court on Wednesday started hearing on a revision petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking to quash the trial court indictment orders against her in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases. An HC…
Even though BNP organising secretary M Ilias Ali has been traceless for the last two years, his family members and party colleagues are still hopeful of his safe return. Two years back on April 17, 2012, former BNP MP Ilias…
Expressing deep concern over the abduction of Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s husband, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday night demanded the government take immediate steps to rescue him for his safe return to his family. In a statement, Khaleda also demanded…
Assailants have kidnapped businessman Abu Bakar Siddiqui from Narayanganj in broad daylight on Wednesday. He is the husband of Rizwana Hasan, executive director of the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) and winner of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award. Siddiqui, 47,…
The High Court has accepted appeals of the four death row convicts including Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami against the verdict of the 2004 Chittagong arms haul case. The bench of Justice Mohammad Rezaul Haque and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore…
BNP will stage a long march towards the Teesta Barrage in Nilphamari on April 22-23 demanding due share of the river water. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme at a press briefing on Wednesday at…
Two people have died and more than 100 remain unaccounted for after a ferry carrying 476 people capsized and sank off South Korea. So far, 368 people have been rescued, local reports say. A major rescue operation is under way,…
Defending party senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman’s recent remarks against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, BNP on Tuesday asked the Awami League to come up with evidence if there is any mistake in the BNP leader’s assertions. “Tarique Rahman’s recent statement…
The government has sent a report on progress in fulfilling conditions needed to get back the Generalised System of Preference (GSP) in the US market, commerce minister Tofail Ahmed has said. “Most of the 16 conditions set by them have…
The High Court on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to form an expert committee for formulating a policy to halt the fast reduction of agricultural lands and the use of those in non-farm activities. The court also issued a rule…
The four students of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) who went missing in the Bay of Bengal near St Martin’s Island on Monday are still untraced. Thirty-four students of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from…
Around Tk 9,070 crore of investors money was swindled out by cooperatives and money-lending organisations over the last one year, says a new study of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). “According to news reports published in newspapers during March 10,…
A Ganajagaran Manch activist has been stabbed in the capital’s Banglamotor. Hasibi Shahidi Shishir, who took treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday afternoon, accused Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker of masterminding the attack. Right after the incident,…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday expressed her vow to restore democracy in the country at any cost. “We have made the country independent but it has been threatened. Our movement to sustain our independence will continue,” she said while…
Bangladesh garment factory owners say they are soaking up much of the cost of nearly doubling wages as some global retailers balk at price hikes, leaving less money for safety improvements urged by apparel chains after last year’s Rana Plaza…