Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Monday said BNP’s participation in the upazila polls is questionable as its chairperson Khaleda Zia herself does not believe in the upazila system. “BNP doesn’t believe in upazila system. Assuming power in…
BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Monday criticised Awami League presidium member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim for calling opposition activists anarchists and threatening to cut their limbs, and demanded his removal from the ruling party within 48 hours.…
Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Monday alleged that some civil society members through television talk-show programmes are instigating the BNP to wage movement. “We are witnessing that some civil society members are instigating BNP through talk-show to…
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) will begin a three-day public hearing Tuesday on the proposals submitted by five state-owned electricity distribution companies to raise retail power tariff. The hearing will take place at the BERC meeting room on March 4…
Three people, including two suspected kidnappers, were killed in separate incidents of ‘shootout’ in the city and Savar on the outskirts of the capital on Monday. In the capital, two alleged kidnappers were killed in a ‘shootout’ with Rapid Action…
Red carpet was rolled out when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived here Monday morning on a two-day official visit to Myanmar to attend the third Bimstec Summit. The summit of the seven-nation regional body of South Asia and South East…
Shahid Afridi quick-fired 34 off 18 deliveries to help Pakistan survive anxious moments to overcome India by one wicket in a thrilling last-over finish in their third Asia Cup match in Shere-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Sunday. With the…
BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that the ruling Awami League’s ‘strategies’ to manipulate the first and second phase results of the Upazila Parishads have failed. He said in a discussion in Dhaka on Sunday that…
There are about 4,097 illegal buildings in the city which were built without approval of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkhaya (Rajuk). Most of the buildings belong to different real estate developers and eminent personalities. Minister for Housing and Public Works Engineer…
A violent clash between supporters of the president and the general secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Jahangirnagar University has left seven students injured. Witnesses said the two groups got into a fight at noon on Sunday even…
Upholding the returning officer’s decision, the Election Commission on Sunday rejected Kader Siddiqui’s appeal challenging the cancellation of his nomination paper in the March 29 Tangail-8 by-elections. The commission, at its meeting held with the Chief Election Commissioner in the…
The Bangladesh Bar Council, a statutory body regulating the lawyers, on Sunday urged the Chief Justice to increase the number of High Court benches for the disposal of petitions seeking pre-arrest bail. Addressing a press conference, Bar Council vice-chairman Khandker…
The Pay and Services Commission will recommend a hike in salaries and other benefits of 1.3 million public servants in such a way that they would not feel the urge to fall for illegal income to maintain their lifestyle, Commission…
China on Sunday blamed Muslim militants from the restive far western region of Xinjiang for the deadly attack on Kunming railway station in the country’s Yunnan province, in which at least 33 have died so far Four of those killed…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday urged the people of the country to get ready for an anti-government movement after upazila parishad elections saying that movement is the only way to unseat the ‘illegal government’ to restore ‘democracy and peace’.…
Test-playing Bangladesh suffered an embracing 32-run defeat against newcomers Afghanistan in their 2nd match of the five-nation Asia Cup Cricket at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah on Saturday. With the day’s maiden victory in one of the…
Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its current issue of the Bangladesh Economic Update (MEU) revealed that fall in growth in collection of revenue, rising per capita debt burden and shrinking public sector investment may contract expansion of gross…
The US government’s report on Bangladesh’s human rights situation in 2013 is baseless and inaccurate, says State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan. “The USA is a friendly country for us…it’s our development partner. Its report on Bangladesh’s human rights…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday commissioned two modern warships – BNS Abu Bakar and BNS Ali Haider – procured from China as part of modernising the country’s naval force. The two modern frigates will replace two of their namesakes…
An activist of the pro-BNP student wing Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal (JCD) has accused the police of ‘shooting him in his left leg after forcibly picking him up from his house” about two months after being injured. However, police refuted the…
A French journalist has given his passport to the Liberation War Museum which bore a visa stamp carved out of a potato. Freedom fighters had issued Philippe Marc Edouard Alfonsi, now 74, an on-arrival visa on April 3, eight days…
Pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya (Blue Panel) swept the Dhaka Bar Association election for the session 2014-2015 bagging 15 –all but one executive posts plus six posts of members – out of 25 posts including President, Vice Presidents and General Secretary,…
A fine 103-run knock by Kumar Sangakkara guided Sri Lanka to earn the 2nd successive victory in the five-nation Asia Cup Cricket beating World Champions India by two wickets at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah on Friday. Replying…
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Friday urged the members of Bangladesh Ain Samity (BAS) to play a more effective role to help implement the existing time-befitting laws so that people can be benefited through legal coverage. “Country’s development will…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said the repressive acts against opposition leaders and activists by ‘Awami cadres’ during the staggered upazila elections came as part of the government’s deep-rooted conspiracy to annihilate its opponents. “The…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday afternoon inaugurated the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium ahead of the T20 World Cup fulfilling the long-cherished dream of the people of this area rich in natural beauty and natural resources. Hasina formally inaugurated the…
Three Bangladeshi workers died of smoke inhalation on Friday after a fire broke out in their room in Manama, the capital of Bahrain. Two more Bangladeshis suffered injuries in the fire incident that took place around 3:30am in a residential…
Dhaka – The curtain on the Ekushey Book Fair 2014 on Bangla Academy premises and at the adjacent Suhrawardy Udyan fell on on Friday with bookworms thronging area for the last minute purchase of new titles The publishers also heaved…
A Dhaka court has ordered reinvestigation into the 1981 murder of Maj Gen Md Abul Manzoor following a plea by the state. Dhaka’s First Additional District and Sessions Judge Khandaker Hasan Mahmud Firoz gave the order on Thursday. The CID has…
Accusing the ruling party of capturing the polling stations across the country like ‘char grabbing’ in the second phase of the upazila polls, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday demanded reelections to the grabbed voting centres.…