Amid criticisms by the BNP-led alliance that the government is hanging onto power through using arms, Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Saturday said that the present government is in power with people’s support, not using arms. “The Awami League government…
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury returned home on Saturday afternoon after a four-day visit to India. The Speaker made the visit at the invitation of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. She leavesDhaka for Tehran on Monday to attend the conference…
Jessore – Seven primary school students were killed and 40 others injured as a bus carrying picnickers plunged into a pond at Jhautala in Chaugachha upazila on Jessore-Meherpur Highway on Saturday night. Officer-in-charge of Chaugachha Police Station Motiur Rahman said…
The BNP has asked the government to call fresh general elections heeding the appeals made by Western countries, including the United States. The party’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir voiced the demand at a discussion in the capital…
Communication Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said that BNP lost to the political strategy of Awami League, by boycotting the January 5 general election. “BNP must have realised its mistake… they’ve now plunged to the fray in the upcoming upazila…
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Friday said the size of the country’s national budget for the next fiscal year is likely to be Tk 2.5 trillion. “The budget for the next fiscal year may be two and a half lakh…
Dhaka – BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Friday said the government has “become unnerved” seeing the BNP’s participation in the upazila elections and feared it might resort to manipulate the election. “The government is hatching conspiracy to…
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said the US is making a mistake by pressuring Bangladesh on matters related to its internal politics and other issues. And the BNP had stayed off the general election just because of its…
New Delhi — Anti-graft activist Arvind Kejriwal quit Friday as the top elected official in the New Delhi state government after lawmakers blocked the introduction of a bill to create a strong ombudsman in the Indian capital. Kejriwal’s resignation came…
While the government is pursuing a policy to cut public expenditure on education and research in public universities, the insufficient allocations are also wasted in unplanned recruitment and promotion of teachers and staff, observed former student leaders. They voiced a…
Dhaka – Terming the present Jatiya Sangsad a quicksand, BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman on Thursday said the country’s democracy might disappear in this parliament of quicksand. “The parliament which has been formed without election is…
Dhaka – The fourth phase election in 92 upazilas of the country will be held on March 23, announced Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Thursday. He came up with the schedule of the fourth phase upazila elections at…
India is interested to extend cooperation in strengthening parliamentary activities in Bangladesh. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar expressed the interest during a meeting with Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Chaudhury who is on a visit to New Delhi ,…
Two leaders – one of the ruling party and another of the Opposition – had never sat back at a function at the National Press Club without trading barbs, Hasan Mahmud said. “But we have made it possible,” he went…
Dhaka – The government through the central bank can help the owners of garment factories recover the heavy losses caused by political instability across the country last year, says a top banker. “There’s no long-term fund to help the garment…
Dhaka – The High Court on Thursday directed the authorities concerned to dismantle a jetty being constructed on the bank of the Meghna River in Ashuganj of Brahmanbaria illegally and remove the construction materials within seven days. An HC bench…
Dhaka – Canada has urged all the political parties in Bangladesh to engage in a genuine dialogue to reach an agreement soon on a process for the next set of elections that Bangladeshis will consider credible. “We continue to urge…
A senior US official at a Senate hearing has warned that the ‘flawed’ elections of Jan 5 have put ‘strategically important’ Bangladesh at risk of instability. “The election did not credibly express the will of the Bangladeshi people,” maintained Assistant…
The Awami League has poured cold water on the idea of a snap general elections demanded by the BNP and many foreign countries including the United States. “The 11th parliamentary election will be held after five years and according to…
An activist of the Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), student affiliate of the Jamaat-e-Islami, died after being shot during a ‘gunfight’ with police.The encounter had taken place at Satkania Upazila, Chittagong, on Wednesday. Officer-in-Charge of the Satkania Police Station Khaled Hossain…
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned two ruling party lawmakers and former ministers—AFM Ruhul Haque and Mahbubur Rahman—to quiz them for amassing illegal wealth beyond their known sources. The ACC on Wednesday served two separate notices to former minister for…
Two armymen and three BGB personnel died on Wednesday after a mortar shell exploded disconcertingly during a training at Tangail. The lnter Services Public Relations Directorate’s (ISPR) Assistant Director Noor Islam has been quoted as saying that the mortar shell…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on law enforcing agencies to be more alert to prevent anti-liberation forces from destablising the country. “I ask every law enforcing agency including the Ansar to be alert so that anti-democratic and anti-liberation forces…
Results of an opinion poll conducted by the US -based International Republican Institute (IRI) shows Bangladeshis are deeply concerned about the condition of the country and remain pessimistic about its future. In the IRI’s latest survey, 59 percent said the…
Potato growers formed a human chain at Muktarpur on the suburb of the district town on Tuesday demanding fair price of their produce Potato cultivators from different areas of the district joined the human chain programme that began around 9…
The government has moved to bring Bangladesh’s 4.5 million people aged between 15 and 45 years under a basic literacy programme. It cleared a Tk 4.53 billion project on Tuesday at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National…
Dhaka – Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Tuesday ruled out mid-term polls saying neither the existing situation demands it nor the BNP can force any early vote. “The current situation doesn’t demand any mid-term election and BNP has also no…
Cox’s Bazar – Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive arrested 200 people, including 63 foreign nationals, from the Bay of Bengal near Saint Martin’s Island in Teknaf upazila early Tuesday foiling their bid to migrate to Malaysia in…
The US relations with Bangladesh are not warm due to the Jan 5 general elections, American Ambassador Dan Mozena has said. But, he said after a meeting with BNP Chairpreson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday evening, that his government would continue…
Dhaka – Four people, including two drivers, were found dead in separate incidents in Narayanganj, Faridpur, Pabna and Gazipur on Monday and Tuesday. In Narayanganj, police recovered the body of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver from a pond in Mizmiz area…