Category: Lead News

The appeal hearing for Abdul Quader Molla took more than five months, but those of others including Delwar Hossain Sayedee and Mohammad Kamaruzzaman may take less time, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said Tuesday.

After a daylong drama over his resignation from parliament, ruling Awami League MP Golam Maula Rony on Tuesday retreated from his plan to quit saying he now leaves to the party.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday asked the defence counsel to produce the remaining two defence witnesses on Wednesday justifying the plea of alibi during the 1971 Liberation War as claimed by war crimes accused BNP MP Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Begum Khaleda said on Monday that free and fair elections had never been held under the Awami League government.

Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Monday said the DC (Deputy Commissioner) Conference has not been called for discussing how the elections will be held; rather it is for giving directives to the DCs for full implementation of the…

BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Monday said political instability is lurking if the next election is not held under a non-party caretaker government.

Calling upon the government to immediately hand over charges to the newly elected city corporation mayors and councilors, senior BNP leader Moudud Ahmed on Monday said people through electing the BNP-backed candidates in the city polls have given a message…

The Tripura government has urged the civil aviation ministry to operate flights from Agartala airport to Bangladesh and adjoining countries to boost trade and tourism, officials said here Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of the Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar living in the Kingdom, who had received Bangladeshi passports in 1978-79 to flee Buddhist persecution in the Burmese state of Arkan, have been urged by Dhaka to forgo Bangladeshi passports.

The much-talked-about Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (Ticfa) between Bangladesh and the USA is likely to be signed within the next few weeks, aiming to boost bilateral trade and investment.

Javier Duarte de Ochoa, the Governor of Veracruz, the third richest state of Mexico, has announced to launch social business in his state by making a grant of US$ 4.5 million to Yunus Social Business Fund to be created by…

Dhaka is all set to hand over top ULFA leader Anup Chetia to India. A senior diplomatic official told Mail Today that a conducive timing is being considered for the move though the arrangements have already been worked out at…

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi expressed the hope that India-Bangladesh extradition treaty will be ratified soon as the process was moving in the right direction.

The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office on Friday outlined a series of steps that it urged Bangladesh to take to improve factory conditions and workers rights in order to have U.S. trade benefits restored.

The newly elected mayors of Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet city corporations were sworn in today (Sunday).

A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred ‘for the last time’ the hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson and others in Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases.

Politicisation and lack of transparency accelerate corruption in the Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED), according to a study of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to resume peace talks with Israel only after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gave him a letter guaranteeing that the basis of the negotiations will be Israel’s pre-1967 borders, two senior Palestinian officials said…

Renewing her party’s demand for restoration of the caretaker government system, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said people will reject the current regime with hatred if the next polls are not held under a non-party administration.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her party is preparing for the next general election alongside strengthening democracy in the country.

Though the BNP leaders are repeatedly talking about launching tougher action programmes after Eid to force the government to reinstate the caretaker government system, the movement is unlikely to gather pace before mid-September.

Young ruling party MP Golam Maula Rony allegedly assaulted two journalists of Independent Television at Topkhana Road in the city on Saturday.

Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the people of the country want to see no fresh commitment from the government as they want to see more follow-up actions.

The newly elected mayors of Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet city corporations will be sworn in here on Sunday.

Pakistan does not want to make any comment over the verdicts delivered by the International Crimes Tribunals (ICTs) against Jamaat top leaders as it does not feel like interfering in the internal affairs of Bangladesh, said an official.

Experts at a discussion meeting on Friday revealed that more than two crore of people in Bangladesh are affected by any of Kidney diseases, of whom 40,000 patients die of total kidney failure. At least five people die every hour…

In a scathing attack on the opposition leader for her fresh vow to introduce a new trend in governing the country if BNP returns to power, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday said Khaleda Zia would destroy the country’s independence and…

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said party senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman will be back home from London as soon as he fully recovers from his illness.

Talking on the current political trend, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said the people are annoyed with politicians for their negative politics.

The body of a Bangladeshi man, who was tortured to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF), was recovered from the Jamuna River in  Joydharbhanga area in Panchagarh Sadar upazila on Friday morning.