Category: Lead News

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has decided to keep Mohammad Ashraful away from all forms of cricket as he confessed to the BCB president about his involvement in the match/spot fixing.

Election Commission (EC) decided to deploy Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel as ‘Striking Reserve Force’ in the upcoming four city corporation elections.

Dr Akbar Ali Khan, a former advisor of caretaker government, on Tuesday said the citizens of the country will have to undergo serfdom unless their right to vote in an acceptable election is ensured.

The High Court on Tuesday issued rule asking a Dhaka lower court judge and another to explain by June 18 as to why contempt proceedings should not be drawn against them for flouting its order on a cheque bounce case.

Hours after joining parliament, the BNP-led opposition MPs on Monday walked out of the House in protest against the ban on public rallies and meetings.

Chief Justice M Mozammel Hossain on Monday urged all concerned not to create any controversy over the court by making sweeping remarks against the justices and judges.

Reiterating Centre for Policy Dialogue’s concern that the implementation of the Padma Bridge project with government’s own fund will involve uncertainty over its construction quality, its distinguished fellow Debapriya Bhattacharya on Monday said, “let’s not hope Padma Bridge becomes a…

The last budget session of the current Parliament began on Monday marking a number of important events, including the return of the opposition lawmakers after their prolonged boycott of 83 workdays.

Although the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) team could not collect substantial documents related to the Padma Bridge graft case during its recent Canada visit, ACC chairman Ghulam Rahman on Sunday said the visit has been satisfactory.

A Dhaka court framed charges against 21 Chhatra League leaders and activists in connection with tailor Biswajit Das killing.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Sunday recommended that a special law be formulated to ban parliament boycott by MPs on partisan grounds.

Rights activists at a roundtable discussion here on Saturday accused the ruling Awami League of reneging on its election pledge to ensure poor people’s right to Khas lands.

Advocating for reverting to presidential form of government, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Saturday said his party will come out winner if the election is held under the presidential system after necessary constitutional amendment.

Expressing hope that the opposition BNP will join the budget session of the parliament, Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury said the matter of releasing the BNP leaders would be solved under the legal process.

Communication Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the next national election would be held by January 25, 2014.

After a prolonged scattered anti-government campaign, the BNP-led 18-party alliance is now planning to intensify its movement with tougher programmes after mid-June to give the government a jolt before Ramadan to concede its demand for restoration of the caretaker government…

Though various government and private sector organisations promptly came forward with their various supports for the survivors of the Rana Plaza collapse, lack of proper coordination is likely to take its toll on the good gesture, says a survey report…

Although four years have elapsed since the devastating cyclone Aila bore down the country’s coastal belt, majority of the affected people are still facing severe crisis of safe drinking water.

Accusing the opposition of leader of instigating arson attacks on trains in recent months, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday wondered whether Khaleda Zia has any transport business.

Opposition BNP on Thursday requested Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury to take necessary steps for releasing its two arrested MPs — MK Anwar and Barkatullah Bulu — before parliament goes into its budget session.

The verdict of Kuazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, detained in USA for plotting to blow up a Federal Reserve Bank, is set to be pronounced at Brooklyn Federal court on Thursday.

Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been urged to bring home thousands of nationals from camps in Bangladesh.

Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu on Wedneday categorically said the verdicts of war crimes trial would be executed by in July-August.

UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women Rashida Manjoo on Wednesday called for adopting a unified family code to ensure equal treatment to all citizens, and also more specially, protecting the rights of women in terms of marriage, divorce, separation…

The daylong countrywide shutdown, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, passed off amid stray incidents of clash, vandalism and crude bomb blast across the country on Wednesday.

Leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Wednesday alleged that the government pushed its secretary general Junaid Babunagri towards death through torturing him on remand days after days in a planned way.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday warned Khaleda Zia that she would not succeed to topple the government by killing people; rather she would be lost from politics.