Category: Lead News

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated that the next general elections will be held as per Bangladesh’s Constitution.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday pushed for an amicable negation over the polls-time government to avoid any violence.  

Amid the sudden price hike of onion in the domestic market, the government is now planning to import it through the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB).  

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Saturday said Awami League will form district councils with elected representatives if it returns to power through the next general election.  

Egypt’s prime minister has proposed disbanding the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted President Mohamed Mursi, the government said on Saturday, raising the stakes in a bloody struggle between the state and Islamists for control of the country.

Protests by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi turned violent across Egypt on Friday, with witnesses reporting four dead in central Cairo and at least 12 killed in northern cities as the Muslim Brotherhood staged a “Day of Rage”.

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The government will not compromise or sit in talks with those who celebrate birthdays on the National Mourning Day, the Awami League Spokesperson has said hinting at opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s birthday bash on Aug15.

Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed on Friday said the statement of the New York-based rights body Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the ICT verdict against former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam is baseless and illogical.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has questioned the trial process of Jamaat-e-Islami’s guru and a war-crimes convict Ghulam Azam, an observation which has been viewed by Law Minister Shafique Ahmed as interference in a subjudiced matter.

A police officer and his wife were found dead at their residence in the city’s Chamelibagh area on Friday evening.

Egyptian authorities on Thursday significantly raised the death toll from clashes the previous day between police and supporters of the ousted Islamist president, saying more than 500 people died and laying bare the extent of the violence that swept much…

Police have arrested Tangail’s Madhupur Municipality Mayor and BNP leader Shahidul Islam, better known as Sarkar Shahid. Shahid is the second elected mayor affiliated to the BNP arrested in the last few months. Another such mayor faces charges of war…

BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s grandchildren have wished her on her ‘birthday’ on Thursday.

In the wake of opposition BNP’s threat to wage a tough movement to realise its demand, Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Thursday said no movement could bring any amicable solution. 

Police arrested four local leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from the city’s Gopibagh area on Wednesday night.

The hope for holding the election to bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations any time soon fade as the polls process lost way in fresh bureaucratic tangles. The elections to the two city corporations — Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka…

The United Nations voiced concern about the recent arrest of a prominent human rights defender in Bangladesh and urged the Government to secure his immediate release.

War crimes accused Nagarkanda municipality mayor in Faridpur Zahid Hossain alias Khokon will be tried in absentia as he failed to appear before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 within the stipulated time.

The second day of the 48-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, passed off amid stray incidents of clashes, vandalism and crude bomb blasts across the country, leaving a Shibir leader dead.

The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has said it has got a hit list containing the names of 12 eminent people, including three ministers, prepared by a radical Islamist network, ‘Ansar Ullah Bangla Team’.

A Dhaka court on Wednesday deferred until September 17 the recording of the depositions of the witnesses against 46 leaders and activists of the 18-party alliance, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in an arson attack case.  

Richard Branson and Kerry Kennedy are among global leaders urging Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed not to seize control of the microfinance lender founded by Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus.

By Yasmine Saleh and Tom Finn

The United States has expressed its concern over the arrest of rights activist Adilur Rahman Khan and demanded his immediate release.

In the latest reshuffle in the judiciary, 13 Additional District Judges and equivalent officials and five Joint District Judges and equivalent officials have been transferred.  

The Election Commission has suspended the election process in eight municipalities at the request of the Local Government Ministry.  

The Anti Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed a petition with the High Court challenging a lower court order grating bail to controversial Hall-Mark Group chairman Jesmin Islam in one of the 11 cases filed against her.