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Accusing Khaleda Zia of looking for newer pretexts to wage a fresh movement, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged the people of the country and her party leaders and workers to get united to stand against any evil power.…

BNP Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has criticised party’s central leadership’s handling of ‘traitors’. He said many of those expelled for anti-party activities after the traumatic the 1/11 (January 11, 2007) political changeover were later forgiven. The BNP leader…

The Rapid Action Battalion detained an upazila chairman candidate in the upazila polls billed for March 15 from Barmi area around 2pm while he was campaigning there. As the news of his detention spread around, Jalil’s supporters took to the…

The owners and manufacturers of battery-run rickshaws on Friday expressed their concern over imposing ban on plying such rickshaws in Dhaka city, despite giving permission to import and assembling such rickshaws. President of Dhaka District Rickshaw Owners Cooperative Society Fazlur…

Police in their separate drives arrested 37 activists of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir from different places of Chittagong and Bogra districts on Thursday night and Friday on charges of their involvement in vandalism and subversive activities. In Chittagong, at least 24…

The total unpaid domestic work carried out by women in Bangladesh is equivalent to 10.75 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the country, Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, revealed. The organisation found this in their nation-wide survey…

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will give a proposal to the government to sit across the table for holding free ad fair polls be participated by all political parties. Secretary General of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) Maj (Retd) Abdul Mannan told…

Chinese ambassador in Dhaka Li Jun believes a “peaceful dialogue” between the two major parties can end Bangladesh’s political impasse, but says Bangladeshis know “much better” than outsiders what to do. “You (people) are the real players,” Li Jun said…

State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has claimed police are looking for the people the BNP says have been ‘abducted’. These very people are accused of being involved in violent activities, he said on Thursday. The BNP has been…

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday accused the government of turning the country into a fascist state through repression and misrule. “A man accused of attacking Awami League leader Asaduzzaman Noor was shot dead in Bogra about one and a half…

A report published by a global watchdog finds Bangladesh’s justice system ‘inefficient’ with the courts afflicted by corruption and political interference. The ‘Rule of Law Index 2014’ published on Thursday by the World Justice Project (WJP) said the country had…

Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday told Parliament that the government would take lawful action against those had created anarchy and sabotage acts in the name of movement. “We will hold the trials of those…

A total of 30 death convicts have been pardoned by Presidential clemency during the last eight years. Of them, death penalty of seven was reduced to life term. State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal disclosed this while replying…

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found inconsistencies in accumulating wealth by former ministers and sitting lawmakers, who were quizzed by the commission recently, says ACC Commissioner M Shahabuddin. “We have found inconsistencies between their (ministers and lawmakers) affidavits and given…

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said people have woken up against the current ‘illegal and repressive’ regime and they have demonstrated that in the recent upazila elections. “The upazila elections have proved that people have…

Replying to a written query from M Abdul Latif (Chittagong-11) in Parliament whether the government has taken measure to hold polls of all the tiers of the local government – Union Parishad, Upazila Parishad, Zila Parishad, Municipality and City Corporation-…

Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu on Tuesday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s claim about the number of killings, forced disappearances and cases filed against her party activists was purely false, and asked her to come up with a list of…

The third Bimstec summit ended here Tuesday adopting the Nay Pyi Taw Declaration renewing the commitments to strengthen cooperation on agreed sectors including trade and investment, energy, and counter-terrorism and transnational crime.

State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has sprung to the defence of police with human rights bodies directing a barrage of criticism at them over alleged ‘encounters’. “Police are left with no option but to engage in a battle…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Monday. Both the ladies lost their fathers to assassins, and they joined politics after the assassination of their fathers. Both fought against military rulers for long to…

BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday alleged that the government is conspiring to make ruling party loyalists presiding officers for the remaining upazila elections in a bid to manipulate the results. “We’ve come to know from different…