Category: Lead News

BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia went to her Gulshan office after a five-day pause on Wednesday night.

The new US Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal is coming to Bangladesh next week after her visit to Japan.

BNP leaders Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Md Salauddin have been implicated in a case concerning the torching of a running bus at Matuail in Dhaka.

Terming BNP and Jamaat terrorist outfits, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday blasted the opposition leader saying that she was out there to fulfill her vengeance through burning people to death during hartals as she failed to grab power through…

Production at 70 ready-made garment (RMG) factories in Gazipur and Savar were suspended for Wednesday after workers clashed with cops demanding implementation of the new salary structure recommended by the government-appointed wage board.

The BNP has demanded the Prime Minister’s resignation to ‘solve the current political impasse’. Party spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said forming a poll-time government would only add fuel to the fire. “We believe collecting resignation letters from the ministers…

Awami League leader Mohammad Nasim has asked Khaleda Zia, the Leader of the Opposition, to resign from her post. He said this on Tuesday, a day after the BNP demanded the Prime Minister’s resignation as a step to solving the current…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has warned that Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia would be tried ‘someday’ for the deaths during the recent shutdowns. “She (Khaleda) will have to take responsibility for them,” Hasina told a rally in Gopalganj, her ancestral home, on…

RMG factory owners have decided to keep factories at Ashulia industrial belt shut on Wednesday amid a fresh wave of labour unrest. Their platform BGMEA said that the decision was made keeping security concerns in view. Earlier on Tuesday, RMG workers…

Demanding resignation of the Prime Minister within 72 hours, Krishak Sramik Janata League (KSJL) President Bangabir Kader Siddiqui on Monday urged the President to take a statesmanship initiative for saving the country from the political disaster.   He also urged Prime Minister…

BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday termed tendering of the resignation of government ministers a part of old blue print. “The minister tendered their resignation. Now the people are waiting to see the resignation of the prime minister,” he…

Ministers and State Ministers on Monday tendered their resignations to the Prime Minister during the Cabinet meeting to clear the way for reconstituting the Cabinet for an all-party election time government.   The Ministers and the State Ministers present in the meeting…

Criticising the opposition for enforcing successive hartals inflicting sufferings on the common people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday alleged that BNP only talks in the language of arms.   “They (BNP) only know the language of arms…they don’t want peace…

Leaders of the BNP are avoiding party chief Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan residence fearing arrest since police picked up two fellow party men from there on Friday night. A large number of police were deployed in front of Khaleda’s residence minutes after the…

Anti-corruption experts have termed the passing of Anti-Corruption Commission (Amendment) Bill 2013 unnecessary, “since it sends a wrong signal and may bring embarrassment to the government”. Reacting sharply on the Anti-Corruption Commission (Amendment) Bill 2013 which was passed by Parliament…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed concern over the violence during the Opposition shutdown in the past two weeks.

Accusing the government of carrying out horrific mental torture on its party chief, opposition BNP on Sunday alleged that the government is conspiring to isolate Khaleda Zia from people and opposition activists.

Denying the opposition’s allegation that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been kept under the house arrest, Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir on Sunday said law enforcers have been deployed around her house for security reason.

Canada is still hopeful of a dialogue between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia to find a way to resolve the country’s ongoing political crisis over polls-time government.

Parliament on Sunday passed the ‘Anti Corruption Commission (Amendment) Bill 2013’, inserting a provision for taking prior government approval to initiate corruption case against any public servant.