Category: Lead News

DHAKA: Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s new prime minister, has said that the former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who is currently under house arrest, should face trial for treason.

Burma has approved, in principle, to restart a long-delayed voluntary repatriation program for Rohingya Muslim refugees living in the country, Bangladesh`s foreign Secretary Mohammad Shahidul Haque said.

NEW DELHI – Bangladesh Supreme Court’s senior-most and lone Hindu judge, Surendra Kumar Sinha, on Monday sought assistance of India’s Supreme Court in training their quota-riddled judiciary to infuse judicial discipline in them.

The United Kingdom will impose a £3,000 deposit for visa-seekers from Bangladesh and six other Asian and African countries. “Sunday Times” says that under the pilot scheme, visa-seekers from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya will have…

On Jun 9, BNP lawmaker Rahana Akter Ranu had warned the government using her local language that “there was no scope for chudurbudur” – dillydally – with opposition’s caretaker demand.

Two, including an 8-year old, were killed in an armed clash between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League and Juba League over a railway tender bid in Chittagong City on Monday.

Dhaka – Opposition BNP on Monday alleged that the Prime Minister has violated the election code of conduct by forcing Awami League rebel candidate Jahangir Alam to stay off the race in the election to Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) slated…

Dhaka – Nine women borrower directors of Grameen Bank on Monday sharply reacted to the recommendations of Grameen Bank Inquiry Commission to change its structure, and vowed to resist any move to grab the globally acclaimed microcredit organisation.

A two-member BNP delegation on Sunday handed over a congratulatory letter of its chairperson Khaleda Zia to Dr Muhammad Yunus for receiving the US Congressional Gold Medal and said the party will remain beside the country’s lone Nobel laureate and…

Awami League rebel candidate Jahangir Alam on Sunday announced in public that he would stay off the race in election to Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) slated for July 6.

Awami joint secretary general Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Sunday said his party will not give the opposition any fresh proposal for dialogue on polls-time administration.

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Sunday said in Parliament that signing of the proposed bilateral Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (Ticfa) with the USA will neither hamper the country’s national security nor there is any possibility for the…

Bangladesh earned Tk 5085.42 crore as of June 2013 since January 2011 from the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions, Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni told Parliament on Sunday.

Outgoing chairman of the Anti Corruption Commission Ghulam Rahman on Sunday said he could not be successful in his task due to the delay in legal process.

Dhaka faced a severe gas crunch for ten hours on Sunday after a midnight pipeline leak disrupted supply from Bibiyana gas-field.

Identifying over 100 garment factories as ‘risky’ in Dhaka and its adjoining areas, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (Rajuk) are now seeking opinions from the experts of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) to work out strategies for the factories so…

In the wake of Awami League-supported mayoral candidates’ defeat in the recently held city corporation polls to their opposition rivals, partners in the 14-party grand alliance have suggested the Awami League to concentrate more on public issues to woo the…

The wide gap between mainstream education and the Madrasa-system can be reduced through exchange of information and ideas among the proponents of these two different education systems, according to participants of a discussion.

Criticising the government for its various misdeeds and corruption, BNP leader Shamsuzzaman Dudu on Saturday said his party will hold the trial of all graft incidents if it is voted to power through the next general election.

Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed on Saturday said 90 percent of dowry-related and women repression cases are false.

Youngone Corporation that owns Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) on Saturday urged the government to take immediate steps to remove the longstanding stalemate over the transfer of its land deed.

Six days into defeats in the city polls, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina optimistic about winning the general elections saying the people will cast their votes in the right place in the right time.

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has thanked Bangladesh for its support in making possible the first unit of 726-megawatt gas-based power plant at Palatana in India’s north-eastern state of Tripura.

Efforts to bring back ULFA leader Anup Chetia have resumed ahead of a crucial round of negotiations between the Indian government and the rebel group’s pro-talk faction.

US Assistant Secretary Robert Blake has said they see quite an important strategic opportunity now to build on the progress that India has made with Bangladesh over the last four years to increase not only their trade but counter-terrorism and…

Names of the collaborators, who had sided with Pakistani army during the nation’s Liberation War in 1971, are likely to be struck down from the electoral rolls.

President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Friday urged all the opposition parties to get united for launching a vigorous street movement after Eid-ul-Fitr to push for restoration of the caretaker government system.

Opposition BNP on Friday condemned the recommendations of Grameen Bank Inquiry Commission to bring a change to the legal structure of the bank terming it a plot to destroy the globally acclaimed microcredit organisation.

Cautioning the opposition about the consequence of a caretaker government, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has claimed that if an unconstitutional government assume power it would try to rule the country till the “end of the world.”