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The High Court Tuesday issued a rule upon the government to explain within two days why Ghulam Rahman’s job as Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman after expiry of his tenure on May 1 should not be declared ‘illegal’.

The World Bank has handed over a probe report into the alleged corruption in the Padma project to Finance Minister AMA Muhith, six months after its investigators left the country.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police have given the BNP the go-ahead to hold its Wednesday`s rally at Suhrawardy Udyan instead of Naya Paltan in the city.

The government on Monday announced a Tk 1-lakh bounty for giving information leading to the arrest of absconding Mustafizur Rahman, the suspected killer of trade union leader Aminul Islam.

As part of its changed movement strategy, the opposition BNP has shifted its focus to the city corporation elections as the party considers the polls as an acid test both for the government and the Election Commission ahead of the…

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed on Monday claimed that the code of conduct is being violated in four City Corporation Polls.

The High Court on Sunday directed the authorities concerned to conduct DNA tests of the family members of 37 people reportedly missing in the fire incident at Tazreen Fashions Ltd that killed 112 workers in November last year.

Former caretaker government adviser Dr Akbar Ali Khan feared that huge amount of money from proposed budget might be used by ruling party in next election.

Jamaat-e-Islami has called countrywide daylong hartal for Monday protesting the jailing and fining of 3 Jamaat leaders for making derogatory remark on war trial.

BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah on Sunday warned that the ruling party men will have to pay a heavy price if another 1/11-like episode takes place in the country due to the government’s stubbornness.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Saturday said the proposed budgetary provision to legalise black money as an example of institutionalisation of corruption by policy capture.

Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett were honored before the world’s wealthiest business leaders and groundbreaking social entrepreneurs at the second annual Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy.

Rights activists on Saturday demanded that the draft Food Safety Bill 2013 remove the conditionality for banning genetically modified (GM) food to ensure people’s right to safe food.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the handover of power this time will be held under uninterrupted democratic system as per the Constitution.

The government’s apparent keenness for an Opposition adjournment motion on the caretaker issue was a carefully conceived trap and the BNP did well not to step into it, BNP leader and once Opposition chief whip Rafiqul Islam Miah said on…

Terming the proposed budget a ‘surreal’ episode, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Friday said though a big budget sounds good, there is water in it and the election-centric violence might put it at risk.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday reaffirmed that the next general election would be held as per the parliamentary system of democracy and there would be no deviation in any way. She Urged the opposition to shun the path of…

Defending his Tk 2,22,490 huge budget for fiscal 2013-14, Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Friday said there exists no risk other than political one in implementation it.

Despite working 12 hours a day and exposing herself to toxic chemicals, 55-year old Taslima Begum, a tannery worker in Hazaribagh, an industrial neighbourhood in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, earns just US$40 per month.

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith today rolled out a Tk 2,22,491 crore national budget for the fiscal 2013-14 attaching priority to luring investments for higher growth.

Opposition BNP on Thursday termed the proposed Tk 222,491-crore budget for fiscal 2013-14 not highly ambitious but unimplementable due to the sordid administration and economy.

The government has proposed a special allocation of Tk 6,852 crore for the Padma Multipurpose Bridge with a view to constructing the bridge with own fund.

Vehicular movement on the busy Dhaka-Aricha highway was disrupted here for two and a half hours on Wednesday as workers from different garment factories blocked it in front of the collapsed Rana Plaza.

Opposition BNP on Wednesday protested the Foreign Minister’s remarks that its leader Tarique Rahman a fugitive and no longer a political figure, and threatened to give the ministers and other ruling party leaders a befitting reply at the appropriate time.…

At least 500 workers of a garment factory fell sick after having tap water at the factory in Bhogra area of the city on Wednesday.

United States Secretary of State John F Kerry would pay a short visit to Dhaka on June 25.

At least five Bangladeshis and four others were killed and seven others injured in a gas cylinder explosion at a pesticide factory in Sharjah of United Arab Emirates.

The visiting UK minister of state understands dialogue between the two major political parties in the current political standoff is ‘difficult’ but reminded them of the fundamental rules of democratic politics so that elections could be conducted.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday reiterated that the next general election in the country will be held as per the system which is followed by major developed nations of parliamentary democracy, including the United Kingdom.