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Opposition BNP on Wednesday protested the Prime Minister’s remarks involving it with the August 21 grenade attack, and said the ruling party is trying to shift the blame of the attack to its arch rival to make political gains.  

Dhaka — The U.S. ambassador in Bangladesh said Wednesday he was concerned about a contempt petition prosecutors were seeking against Human Rights Watch over a Bangladesh war crimes case.

The Chinese ambassador Li Jun has called upon the leaders of the ruling Awami League and the Opposition BNP to start a ‘face-to-face dialogue’, saying ‘it would be of great help.’

Police have finally taken the initiative to determine the age of Oishee Rahman, who allegedly had a hand in the murder of her parents.

Officials say an Egyptian court has ordered the release of ex-President Hosni Mubarak, but it’s not immediately clear whether the prosecutors will appeal the order.  

U.S. soldier Bradley Manning was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, the largest such leak in the country’s history.  

Syrian opposition groups have claimed that hundreds of people were killed in chemical weapons attacks by Bashar al-Assad’s forces on the outskirts Damascus on Wednesday morning.

DHAKA – Bangladesh prosecutors on Tuesday charged Human Right Watch with contempt of court after the New York-based rights group criticized the conviction of a top Islamist politician on war crimes charges.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said the ruling party is still rigid on its stance to hold the next election under its own arrangement fearing that it will skid off miles away from power.  

Amid a threat from an anonymous letter writer, the Egyptian embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday announced to keep its Consular section closed for 11 days from Wednesday.

Mocking the opposition leader’s threat to shake the ruling party’s existence through a movement, Awami League presidium member Mohammad Nasim on Tuesday said nobody can rival Awami League in the field of movement.  

A parliamentary oversight panel has recommended legal measures against suppliers of commercially produced ‘alternative baby food’ in case any children die or fall ill after consuming them.

Iranian Ambassador in Dhaka Hossein Aminian Tousi has said that what is happening in the domestic political scene of Bangladesh should be and certainly could be handled by the government, political parties and people of Bangladesh.   “It is a domestic…

Bashing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her remarks that there will be no retreat from their stance over the caretaker-government issue, opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Monday warned that the ruling party’s existence will be at stake if it sticks…

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Monday briefed foreign diplomats reiterating the Prime Minister’s stance that the next general election will be held as per the Constitution.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said they want to give the current regime more time to accept their demand for restoration of the caretaker government system with a hope that it will come to senses.

At least 40 people, including four policemen, were injured in a clash between the activists of ruling Awami League and opposition BNP in Daulatkhan upazila of the district on Monday morning.

An out of the usual run of things surfaced on Monday before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 over the identification of war crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami in the dock by the prosecution witness.

Egyptian judicial officials have ordered former President Hosni Mubarak freed from jail, a stunning turnaround for the 85-year-old strongman who ruled the nation for three decades before being ousted in a popular revolution, and a move that could plunge the…

WikiLeaks has released a trove of encrypted “insurance” data on Twitter and Facebook. The data can’t be read without an encryption key, but the movement’s supporters say that could be published later in case anything happens to leading WikiLeaks figures.

A day after a crucial meeting with her party’s policymakers, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia had a meeting on Sunday nifht with top leaders of the 18-Party Alliance to finalise their next line of action.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rejected the opposition’s demand for an election-time interim government.

DHAKA: Opposition BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday categorically said BNP would not take part the next general elections under the partisan government.

The Jatiya Party will not go to the parliamentary elections if BNP stays away from it, Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad has said.

Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the main construction works on Padma Bridge are unlikely to begin under the present government for various difficulties.

The defence counsel for war crimes accused Mir Quasem Ali, now a Jamaat-e-Islami policymaker, on Sunday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that the prosecution had submitted formal charge against his client that is ‘insufficient and has factual lacking’.

Egypt’s military leader vowed Sunday that the army will not tolerate further political violence after nationwide clashes that left hundreds dead, as security forces detained Muslim Brotherhood members in raids aimed at disrupting planned rallies.

Launching a broadside at the Awami League general secretary for his remark that dialogue is not possible with the opposition, senior BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday said the ruling party leaders are making reckless remarks as they have…