Category: Lead News

The government is going to import 20 more new trains from China to ease sufferings of the common people through railway communication.

The Election Commission will meet on Thursday to decide on the actions against the Jamaat-e-Islami as certain clauses in the party’s charter are in conflict with the Constitution and the Representation of the People Order, an Election Commissioner has said.

Jahangirnagar University Vice-Chancellor Prof M Anwar Hossain on Wednesday night said he decided not to press ahead with his resignation following requests from students.“I have withdrawn my previous decision to resign my post following requests of my students,” he told…

The 19th witness against the BNP’s influential policymaker from Chittagong said that he was bound and blindfolded before being taken to Goods Hill home on Jul 5, 1971 by a band of Pakistani soldiers.

Twelve people have been were killed in police firings and violence during panchayat elections in India’s northeastern state of Assam. The victims include two women.

A Dhaka court has given police three days to grill Shamim Hossain Sayedee, son of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee, and four others.

A group of activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir fired at police, blasted crude bombs and vandalised at least 50 vehicles in Dhaka Tuesday afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia have not bought any duty-free cars as Members of Parliament, the Finance Minister said on Monday.

The appointment of two new prosecutors for the International Crimes Tribunal has been halted hours after the decision was made on Tuesday for what the authorities said were unavoidable reasons.

Parliament on Sunday officially rallied behind the demands that continued to reverberate around Shahbagh for the sixth consecutive day, striking a popular public chord.

A school teacher was stabbed to death in Keraniganj when he tried stopping a student from cheating during the ongoing SSC examination, police say. Mostofa Bhuiyan, 35, an English teacher at the Chunkutia Girls’ High School, was killed by the…

A Tangail court rejected the bail plea of former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu in a case filed for his alleged attacking residence of an Awami League leader, stealing cattle and the head of tube-well.

Police detained a son of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee, who is facing war crimes charges, from the capital’s Uttara Model Town on Monday. Shamim Hossain Sayedee was detained for questioning along with three others from near a shop in…

Opposition BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Monday categorically said judges of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) should resign as new generation even Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed ‘no confidence’ in ICT.

A bus crashed through the side of a bridge and fell into a river at Chakoria in Cox’s Bazar early on Monday. Police say atleast 18 passengers have died. Chakoria police station OC Ranjit Kumar Barua said the accident was…

Journalists of different media groups will stay off work for 24 hours from 6:00am on March 11 to demand justice for journalist couple Sagar Swawar and Meherun Runi, a union leader said on Monday.

The protesters at Shahbagh have called upon all Bangladeshis to stand up for three minutes at 4pm Tuesday to push for the execution of all war criminals.

Opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance has postponed their pre-scheduled protest rally which was set to be held on Saturday afternoon. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, on Friday night, said they were compelled to postpone the protest programme as police…

The dawn-to-dusk hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami was observed in greater Chittagong on Saturday amid stray violence. Pickets vandalized a bus in the port city in the morning and tried to bring out processions across the city during the hartal hours.

Bangladesh information minister Hasanul Hoque Inu has stressed on “cooperation and mutual market access” to develop the Bengali film industry. “If the two Bengals join hands , then we have much to gain,” Inu told the “Ananda Bazar Patrika” in…

Authorities have called off search after rescuers recovered 14 bodies following Friday’s ferry capsize in the river Meghna. Twelve more bodies were retrieved on Saturday after MV SM Sarash with some 50 passengers went down on the Meghna at Gazaria…

Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a three-day official visit to discuss bilateral and regional issues of mutual interest at a foreign secretary-level meeting. Bangladesh’s Acting Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque told bdnews24.com that they…

The law enforcers are still in the dark about the motives behind the murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi, a year after the homicide. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said after arresting a ‘suspect’ of the couple’s…

Believe it or not, the report on the Teesta river that West Bengal government had commissioned last year has been shelved unceremoniously. Hydrologist Kalyan Rudra submitted his ‘preliminary’ report to chief minister Mamata Banerji in person in early December, highly…