Dhaka, Apr 20 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Thursday morning from Bhutan wrapping up her three-day state visit.
Category: Politics
Ershad acquitted of radar purchase case
A Dhaka court yesterday acquitted Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, former chiefs of Air Force Momtaz Uddin Ahmed and Sultan Mahmud, and the then United Traders’ director AKM Musa of charges in 24-year-old radar purchase scam case.
AL move to removee intra-party feuds before next JS election
Dhaka – The ruling Awami League has taken a new initiative to tame the internal feud being alive across the country in a bid to make the party stronger, smarter and dynamic ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled to…
Turkish FM: Trump and Erdogan to meet in May
Istanbul – Turkey’s foreign minister says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet next month. AP/UNB news agency reported.
US gunman kills three ‘in race attack’
Three white men were olice hkilled and another wounded when a black gunman opened fire in Fresno, California, in a suspected race attack, pave said.
Stay on MP Rana’s bail extended
Dhaka – The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday extended stay till May 8 on a High Court order that granted bail to Tangail-3 lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in Freedom Fighter Faruk Ahmed murder case.
PM Sheikh Hasina off to Bhutan on 3-day state visit
Dhaka, Apr 18 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Thimphu on Tuesday on a three-day state visit to Bhutan. A Druk Air VVIP flight carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport…
US opposed to investment facilitation talks at G20
Geneva, 13 Apr (D. Ravi Kanth) – Attempts to finalize a non-binding outcome on investment facilitation at the meeting of G20 officials of the Trade and Investment Working Group (TIWG) in Berlin suffered a major setback after the United States…
Mujibnagar Day observed at RU
Rajshahi – The historic Mujibnagar Day was observed amid different programmes including discussion meeting and essay writing competition at Rajshahi University (RU) on Monday.
Constt. Article 70 against floor crossing in JS challenged
Dhaka – A writ petition was filed on Monday with the High Court challenging the legality of Article 70 of the Constitution, which allows the cancellation of parliament membership for voting against his or her political party that called ‘floor…
Why movement not get momentum: Mirza Fakhrul
Dhaka – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Monday asked the party leaders and activists to find out the reasons behind movement not getting momentum despite the party having huge popularity.
Quader asks AL men to remain united behind Hasina
Dhaka – Ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader Monday urged the party leaders and workers to remain united to strengthen the hands of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a bid to save her party AL and the country’s democracy.
Mujibnagar Day observed Monday
Dhaka, Apr 17 – The historic Mujibnagar Day is being observed today (Monday) marking the formation of Bangladesh’s first government that led the War of Liberation in 1971.
Turkey’s Erdogan proves a popular and polarizing figure
Istanbul, Apr 17 (AP/UNB) — Rising from humble origins to take the helm of Turkey’s government in 2003, Recep Tayyip Erdogan quickly attracted a fervent following. But Erdogan, who served as prime minister and then president, also became feared and…
BCL men suspended over extortion from RU student
Rajshahi – Two BCL men have been suspended over taking of extortion forcibly from a student at Rajshahi Universty (RU) on Sunday.
Hasina trying to woo Hefajat for Muslim votes: BNP
BNP on Sunday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is trying to woo Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh to get Muslim votes in the next general election. “She (PM) is now trying to bag Muslim votes in favour of her party as she…
Minister slams cheap politics over Dhaka-Delhi ties
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam on Sunday criticised those who indulge themselves in ‘cheap politics’ when it comes to issues relating to India. Apparently criticising the comments of opposition leaders on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s just-concluded New…
Enforced disappearances: BNP says AL to face trial one day
BNP senior leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Sunday warned that Awami League will have to face a trial of international standard someday for making around 500 BNP leaders and activists, including Ilias Ali, disappeared. “Our about 500 leaders and…
BCL for demolition of RU Intellectual Martyrs’ monument
Rajshahi -Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), Rajshahi University unit, has brought an allegation of contempt of Bangabandhu against the Rajshahi university authority.
Chief justice blamed vested quater for creating govt-judiciary distance
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Saturday alleged that a vested quarter is out there creating a distance between the government and the judiciary. “A vested quarter is there engaged in an evil design to create a distance between the…
Survivors of sex abuse say UN neglected them
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UN, Apr 14 (IPS) – Several survivors who were sexually abused by peacekeeping forces in the Central African Republic (CAR) continue to be neglected by the UN, an investigative team has found. Three years after cases of…
Country to move forward in new year: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed her firm optimism that Bangladesh will continue its march forward in the new year. “Bangladesh will make further progress in Bangla Nababarsha by removing all the wastes and trashes of the past year,…
Khaleda warns against interference in internal affairs
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday warned that people will not accept any other country’s interference in Bangladesh’s internal affairs. “As Bangladesh has achieved huge progress over the last 25 years, many countries now want to interfere in its internal…
Incendiary weapons burn again in Syria
Recent attacks on Saraqeb caught on video Mary Wareham Videos and photographs taken last weekend in the city of Saraqeb, in northwestern Syria, show the unmistakably bright trails produced by incendiary weapons. The ZAB incendiary submunitions used in the attacks…
HC stays trial proceedings of 4 cases against Khaleda
Dhaka – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court yesterday (Thursday) stayed the trial proceedings of four sabotage cases filed against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. The court also issued four separate rulings asking the government to explain as…
EU calls for moratorium on executions
Dhaka – The European Union in a statement on Thursday reitrerated its opposition to capital punishment which, it said, is not a deterrent against crime and renders miscarriages of justice irreversible.
AL’s meet with Quami Madrasa people polls campaign: BNP
Dhaka – A senior BNP leader on Thursday alleged that the government is building relations with qaumi madrasha people to sail through the next elections.
Suspected ‘female drug peddler’ killed at Naf River
Dhaka, Apr 13 – A woman, said to be a Myanmar national, was killed and four people others injured in a reported gunfight between members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and a group of ‘drug peddlers’ at Badarmokam in Teknaf…
US-Russia relations may be at ‘all-time low’- Trump
Washington, Apr 13 (AP/UNB) – Laying bare deep and dangerous divisions on Syria and other issues, President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that U.S. relations with Russia “may be at an all-time low.” His top diplomat offered a similarly grim assessment…
Raid on suspected ‘militant den’ in Rajshahi; 1 held
Dhaka, Apr 13 – Police arrested a suspected militant during a raid on a ‘militant den’ at Darikharbona in Rajshahi divisional city on Northwest Bangladesh early Thursday.