Category: Lead News

The import of onion, a key cooking ingredient, from neighbouring country Myanmar has started to ensure sufficient supply in the overheated market ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, said a Commerce Ministry official on Monday.  

DHAKA – The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday approved four cases against 22 people incumbent managing director SOM Kalim Ullah and three former managing directors of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL over their alleged involvement with illegal Voice over Internet…

A board has been formed to autopsy the skeletons found discarded in a sack in the waste pile of capital’s Matuail a couple of days ago.

DHAKA – Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday recommended utilising of Ansar and Village Defense Party (VDP) along with police and elite force Rapid Action Battalion to resist terrorism and militancy.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e Islami will not be able to contest the Barguna-2 by-elections with ‘Scale’ as its electoral symbol as the High Court’s verdict is still in effect.  

Thirteen political parties, out of the 39 registered with the Election Commission, have failed to submit their annual audit reports for the year 2012 in time and the Commission treats them as defaulters.   Of the 39 parties, 26 had been…

In a reshuffle in the police administration, 14 senior police officials, including five Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, have been given new postings.  

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said if BNP is voted to power the opposition leader would open a new ‘Hawa Bhaban’ and start a new era of corruption and looting in the country.  

Opposition BNP on Saturday welcomed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s offer for talks between the government and the opposition to ensure a free and fair national election with the participation of all.

DHAKA – Ministers of Awami League-led 14-party grand alliance government on Saturday blasted Noble Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus for his statement about election under a non-partisan government and said that Dr Yunus unmasked his face through the assertion.

DHAKA – Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Saturday said his party won’t take part in the next general elections under the present Election Commission (EC).

The recent calls from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and foreign diplomats to top Bangladesh leaders for talks are the expression of their worries over what is happening in Bangladesh’s political landscape, said an international relations expert.   “It’s very normal.

Oishy Rahman had alone murdered her parents — Special Branch Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Begum — the  Detective Branch of police has claimed.

The Election Commission (EC) is unlikely to be able to hold the Upazila Parishad elections in due time as the national election is due in January next. 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday had talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and urged the opposition to join the next parliament session and place its proposal over the election-time government.  

Who is prompting Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to canvass for a caretaker government, wonders Awami League Advisory Committee member Mohammad Nasim.

BNP standing committee member Abdul Moin Khan on Friday accused the government of trying to snatch people’s democratic rights in the name of following the constitution.

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Friday said the political problems of the country should be resolved through peaceful talks within the framework of the Constitution.  

A West Bengal-based rights body on Friday demanded immediate arrest of a constable of the Border Security Force (BSF) for allegedly raping a Bangladeshi woman recently at a bordering village in state’s 24 Parganas (North).

Four cops and a criminal were injured in a gunfight between police and a gang of terrorists at Zianagar village in Keraniganj upazila on Thursday night.  

As the stalemate at Jahangirnagar University (JU) refused to die down, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid stepped in on Friday to resolve the crisis.  

DHAKA – Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Thursday said the two major parties have to take the initiative for talks to resolve the prevailing political impasse over the election time government.

Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus on Thursday said the next national election must be held under a non-party neutral government to make it credible, acceptable and peaceful.  

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said it is not the government but Grameen Bank (GB) founder director Nobel Laureate Prof Mohammad Yunus who have been trying to destroy the bank of the poor.

BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah on Thursday threatened that they will soon take to the streets  with harsher programmes like hartal and blockade to force the government to reinstate the caretaker government system.

Prime Minister’s Advisor Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Thursday expressed the government’s strong stance on implementation of the 1320 MW Rampal coal-fired power plant near the Sundarbans under joint venture with neighbouring India.

The national committee set up to review cases filed on ‘political considerations’ has recommended withdrawal of 72 cases.

The Anti-Corruption Commission will investigate allegations of embezzlement against human rights group, Odhikar.

Prof Anwar Hossain, the Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, has remained confined to his office for the second consecutive day due to a gherao by a faction of the university teachers, who has been demanding his resignation.