Category: Lead News

India is not on the ‘same page’ with US on Bangladesh, senior officials in Delhi said on Wednesday.

Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has said the people do not want to see any unelected government in power.

The USA will soon be working with Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka to share lessons learned with the aim of further protecting these landscapes vital to the region’s fisheries, broader economy, and way of life, said an US official.

Voicing concern over the latest wave of deadly violence in Bangladesh, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged all parties to ensure an environment conducive to credible and peaceful elections.

A Supreme Court lawyer has served legal notice on Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu and acting Information Secretary Martuza Ahmed to take legal action against those who made public the contents of telephonic conversation between Prime Minsiter Sheikh Hasina and…

BNP says leaking the Khaleda-Hasina phone conversation was a ‘clear violation’ of the Information and Communication Technology Act.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the opposition leader not to enforce any agitation programme that harms the academic life of students.

US envoy Dan Mozena left for Washington on Thursday for ‘consultations’. The US embassy in Dhaka said he will also visit his family.

Bangladesh seal their series win over visiting New Zealand with a 40-run victory in the second match on Thursday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur.

The board formed to fix the minimum wage afresh for the garment workers at its meeting on Thursday failed to reach a consensus in finalising a new wage structure for them.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday finalised the much-talked-about Grameen Bank Bill-2013 with a minor correction, according to committee sources.

Communist Party of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal leaders are holding a meeting with the opposition chief Khaleda Zia, a day after they met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that she had to take ‘insults’, all of which for ‘the sake of the nation’ while speaking on the telephone with Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia.

BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Wednesday said the Prime Minister’s phone call to the Opposition Leader was nothing but a drama to mislead people.

The BNP has alleged that government has incited bomb explosions at the residences of leaders of the Opposition party.

Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has told ambassadors in Dhaka they must respect diplomatic norms and “talk to us if they have concerns”.

The 60-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, ended at 6pm on Tuesday amid violent clashes, vandalism, arson and crude bomb blasts, leaving a total of 12 people dead across the country.

It was the conversation the nation had eagerly waited for — but listening through the more than 37 minutes of the Hasina-Khaleda conversation would not inspire much hope for a country desperately looking for political reconciliation.

The government is playing a ‘dialogue game’, the opposition BNP spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said.

The BNP-led 18-party alliance will stage countrywide rallies on Thursday protesting the killings and arrests of opposition leaders and activists and repression on them allegedly by the law enforcers and ruling party “cadres”.

Urging the country’s two top political leaders to reach a consensus peacefully, FBCCI President Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed on Tuesday said they will mount pressure on the politicians to resolve the political crisis politically and peacefully ensuring a sound business…

Foreign diplomats in Dhaka have continued to express their worries over the increasing violence arising out from the country’s political impasse over the nature of election-time cabinet that cast a shadow on the next general election.

Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) on Monday said the red telephone at opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s residence is operative at present.

A major Indian newspaper has reported that the US ambassador in Dhaka Dan Mozena went to Delhi “uninvited” and discussed Bangladesh.

Widespread violence, clashes, vandalism and huge crude bomb blasts marked the second day of the 60-hour countrywide shutdown enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, killing at least six people.

Parliament has endorsed a new law that will allow politicians to change sides as they deem fit. As the bill becomes a law, it revokes the RPO requirement to be a member for three years in order to become a…

It is the government that should reinitiate a dialogue, the BNP’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said.

Emphasising the importance of having respect for the Constitution and democratic practice by all, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ruled out the possibility of grabbing power by the army what had happened in 2007.

Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) are going to sit with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia separately in a bid to find out a solution to the political impasse over election time…