Category: Lead News

Renewing its demand to the government to reach a compromise over the polls-time government, opposition BNP on Friday threatened to wage a strong movement after Eid-ul-Fitr if the ruling party sticks to its present stance.

A roadside tea stall owner, who was stabbed during a clash between two groups of criminals in the city’s Dhanmondi area on Thursday evening, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) early Friday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has no jurisdiction to bring back BNP’s senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman from abroad.

The 10-hour long countrywide hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami was observed amid stray incidents of violence but mostly ignored by public transport owners and shopkeepers.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the government will provide the information about those who were engaged in vandalism in the Shahbagh demanding the scrapping of quota system in the PSC so that these rowdy elements could not get…

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up three Bangladeshi nationals from Medenipur and Benipur border points in Jibannagar upazila on Wednesday.

The listed cross-examination of the defence witness for war crimes accused BNP MP Salauddin Quader Chowdhury could not take place due to nonappearance of DW-3 Qayum Reza Chowdhury at the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday.

In a wholesale promotion in the administration, some 345 deputy secretaries have been elevated to the rank of joint secretary.

The BNP will create a new form of government once it is elected to power, Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said.

International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) on Monday awarded 90 years’ imprisonment to former Jamaat Ameer Ghulam Azam for his involvement in crimes against humanity during the Liberation War of 1971.

There are signs of revival of the Ganajagaran Manch on news that the verdict for Jamaat-e-Islami founder Prof. Ghulam Azam on charges of war crimes in 1971 is due.

The Indian government for the first time has provided compensation of Rs 5,00,000 to the family members of a Bangladeshi national killed in firing by its Border Security Force (BSF).

Senior opposition lawmaker Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Sunday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister Dipu Moni to withdraw their remarks against the elected mayors of five city corporations and advised them to make apology to the people.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court (HC) on Sunday seeking its directives to cancel the 56 percent quota in the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations.

Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus featured as one of the most influential business thinkers in a new ranking compiled by The Wall Street Journal.

Jamaat-e-Islami has called a daylong hartal across the country for Monday as an International Crimes Tribunal is set to deliver its verdict in the case of crimes against humanity of the party’s former Ameer Prof Ghulam Azam on the day.

Taking part in BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s iftar party on Saturday, leader of various political parties slammed the ruling Awami League for not turning up at the programme.

French Ambassador in Dhaka Michel Trinquier on Saturday said Bangladesh is heading towards an important time of its political history with the upcoming general election, and hoped that all the parties will be able to hold a fruitful dialogue paving…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina slated Hefajat-e-Islam Amir Allama Shafi for his derogatory remarks mocking the women, their freedom, education and employment.

Jatiya Party Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad has urged all political parties to stop fighting each other and focus on development.

The reviewed result of preliminary examination of 34th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination will be published today (Sunday).

Police on Friday foiled an attempted rally by government jobseekers and students who tried to gather at Shahbagh intersection to announce their next course of action demanding cancellation of quota system from BCS examination.

A total of 12 journalists were killed, 596 injured and 211 others assaulted during the last four and a half years across the country from January 2009 to June 2013, according a rights group report.

Communications Minister Obaidul Quader has described the Finance Minister’s position on the Padma bridge as ‘unrealistic’ and blamed him for delay in starting construction of the much-hyped project.

The authorities have slapped yet another case in connection with Thursday’s clashes and vandalism between demonstrators, seeking the scrapping of quotas in government jobs, and the police on the Dhaka University campus.