Category: Nation

The Election Commission will sit with the top brasses of law enforcing agencies on February 6 to finalise the security measures for the 4th countrywide upazila elections, beginning on February 19.

Dhaka – A youth, accused in a murder case of a former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader, allegedly attempted to commit suicide by slitting his throat in police custody in the city on Wednesday. Police said Motiur Rahman Ripon tried…

RAJSHAHI, Jan 29, 2014 (BSS)- A mobile court in the city fined seven pharmacies Taka 38,000 last night.

Speakers at a seminar have unequivocally called for substantial and sustainable development of the country’s animal resource sector through removing its existing problems to face the nation’s protein deficiency.

Cabinet Purchase Committee on Monday approved six (6) proposals including appointment of a private firm to issue machine readable passports (MRPs) among 600,000 Bangladeshi expatriates in Malaysia.   The committee’s nod to the proposals came from a meeting, attended by senior…

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive recovered 25.5 kgs of Indian silver at Bhadiali village in Kolaroa upazila on Saturday night.

At least 27 Bangladeshi people returned home through Benapole check post on Friday night after languishing for two years in an Indian jail.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 40 bottles of Indian liquor worth Tk 60,000 from Masimpur Uttarpara village in Bishwambharpur upazila on Saturday.

A university student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in South Surma upazila on Thursday afternoon.

Police arrested a college teacher from Shilmaria Bazar in Puthia upazila on Wednesday afternoon on charge of circulating video footages of his romantic moment with a female student.

Speakers at a seminar have unequivocally called for substantial and sustainable development of the country’s animal resource sector through removing its existing problems to face the nation’s protein deficiency.

Different government and non-government organisations extended their helping hands towards the cold-hit poor people in the district.

A truck driver was killed as his vehicle overturned while outrunning pickets after a chase during the 24-hour countrywide blockade of the 18-party alliance on the Feni-Begumganj Road in Senbagh upazila on Sunday night.

Rajshahi Kkrishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) has distributed 230 blankets among the cold-stricken Freedom Fighters and ethnic people in Rajshahi city on Saturday.

The Election Commission will deploy army members in eight constituencies of six districts during re-voting in 392 polling centres there on January 16.   The commission at its meeting on Wednesday took the decision over the army deployment before and after…

A female worker of a shoe factory was killed and 14 people, including three policemen, were injured in a clash between police and workers at Korean EPZ under Karnaphuli Police Station on Thursday.   The deceased was identified as Pervin Akhter,…

The 60-hour countrywide hartal enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance alongside its nonstop blockade demanding the cancellation of January-5 election results ended at 6pm Wednesday amid stray incidents of violence, leaving three people dead.   The opposition combine originally enforced a…

Dhaka – The voter turnout in the general election in 139 constituencies was 39.83 percent, the Election Commission Secretariat sources said on Tuesday, two days after the January-5 parliamentary elections were held on Sunday. The commission on Sunday announced unofficially…

Dhaka – As many as 126 candidates out of 369 in the 139 constituencies lost their security money as they failed to bag at least one-eighths of the casting votes during the Sunday’s parliamentary elections. The statistics were found analysing…

Dhaka – Denouncing the attacks on minorities over the 10 parliamentary polls, the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government to effective steps to protect them from such attacks and compensate the victims. In a statement on Tuesday, TIB…

The BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is not under “house-arrest”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told the foreign media. In a briefing at Ganabhaban on Monday, a day after the national election, she rejected the BNP chief’s earlier claim of being…

Three persons have died on Monday in a clash between supporters of the victor and the vanquished candidates of Dhaka-1 constituency at Bilashpur in Dohar Upazila. According to the local people and police, supporters of Bilashpur Union Parishad (UP) chairman…

Bangladesh’s ruling party is defying pressure to open talks with the opposition after its walkover win in an election marred by unprecedented bloodshed, boycotts and low turnout. Despite warnings that Sunday’s crushing victory did not amount to a mandate, the…

The ruling Awami League on Sunday expressed its satisfaction over voter turnout during the 10th parliamentary polls, saying the ‘valiant people rejected” the opposition call to boycott the election. This was stated by Co-chairman of Awami League Election Steering Committee…

A suspected killer of a Union Parisad member has died in an alleged gunfight with police in Khulna. Two constables-Mamun and Israfil – of Dumuria Upazila’s Tolna Police Station were also injured in the gunfight on Friday night, said Assistant…