Dhaka – Police in a drive arrested five activists of Islami Chhatri Sangstha, female student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, along with some jihadi (religious uprising) books from Purba Gumdondi area of Boalkhali upazila of Chittagong on Tuesday, UNB news agency reported.
More than 80 million people viewed Monday’s first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, making it the most watched debate ever, according to Nielsen research. The previous record was the only debate between Republican Ronald Reagan and President…
Dhaka, Sept 27 (UNB) – Awami League and Bangladesh Chhatra League have cancelled their Wednesday’s scheduled programmes to observe the birth anniversary of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to show respect to late eminent litterateur Syed Shamsul Haq. UNB News Agency…
Dhaka: The 19th Saarc Summit, scheduled to be held in Islamabad in November, looks to be postponed as Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi reportedly decided to not to attend it. Bhutan and Afghanistan will…
Dhaka: BNP on Tuesday announced a four-day mourning programme following the death of its standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah. The party announced the programme at a press release signed by its assistant office secretary Taiful Islam Tipu. UNB News…
The 70th birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also the president of Bangladesh Awami League, will be celebrated on Wednesday.On September 28, 1947, Sheikh Hasina was born at Tungipara in Gopalganj district. She is the eldest of the…
Views from around the world on Monday’s first U.S. presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump: CHINA: WANG PEI, a graduate student in communications studies, was watching the debate from a cafe in Beijing and said he…
The new committee of Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, BNP’s women wing, was announced on Tuesday with Afroza Abbas, wife BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas, its president and Sultana Ahmed general secretary.Nurjahan Yasmin has been made its senior vice president, while…
Dhaka – BNP standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah passed away at a hospital in Singapore early Tuesday. He was 76, UNB news agency reported.
(CNN)The highly anticipated debut debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump lived up to its billing Monday as the candidates clashed repeatedly over the economy, tax cuts for the wealthy and ISIS. Clinton, the Democratic nominee, repeatedly sought to correct…
Awami League publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday said the Unesco report on Rampal power plant was prepared being influenced by those who are on a movement against its construction near the Sundarbans.
Dhaka: Two BNP senior leaders on Monday demanded that the government form the next Election Commission taking opinions from political parties that had representation in parliament in the past instead of a search committee. “Those who will form the search…
A pro-BNP intellectual yesterday suggested the government not to form search committee like the previous time to form the new Election Commission.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign plans to bring a one-time mistress of former President Bill Clinton to his showdown Monday night against Hillary Clinton at the first 2016 presidential debate. And you thought U.S. politics had hit its lowest point when…
The BNP has described Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s comments about ‘enough scope of politics’ in Bangladesh as ‘bereft of an iota of truth’.BNP Vice-Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu came up with the party’s reaction on Sunday to the prime minister’s recent interview…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rubbished BNP’s allegation that the Awami League government was ‘depoliticising’ Bangladesh.”There is enough scope for politics, of articulating views and opinions in Bangladesh and there is no doubt about it,” Hasina told Voice of America’s…
Saturday’s dedication of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture brought together the president who signed into law the funding for the museum and the president who was in office during its completion. But the gathering of the 43rd…
Dhaka-The 12th session of the 10th Parliament began yesterday with Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair. Opposition Jatiya Party (Ershad) lawmakers participated in the session.
White Plains: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are expected to meet separately with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ahead of their first presidential debate on Monday night. Netanyahu was expected to meet in New York with the presidential…
Dhaka: Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday urged judges to promptly dispose of cases and make sure the justice seekers are not harassed in any way. “It’s very challenging to keep public trust and faith in the court in a…
In any normal election year, we’d compare the two presidential candidates side by side on the issues. But this is not a normal election year. A comparison like that would be an empty exercise in a race where one candidate…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will have a crucial bilateral meeting with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in Goa on October 16, where they are likely to decide their attendance in the upcoming Saarc Summit, UNB news agency reported.…
Claiming that it never talked about midterm polls, BNP on Saturday demanded a fresh election to make the country’s parliament truly representative one.
Dhaka – Police arrested 36 people, including four activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, in a special drive from different parts of the district on various charges in Jhenaidah on Saturday,UNB News Agency Reported.
Dhaka – Police arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) from Court Road area in the district town in Chuadanga on Friday night on various charges.The arrestee was identified as Imran Mahaldar Rintu,25, son of Abdul Kuddus Mahaldar,…
Two people were killed and 20 others injured in a clash between two groups of Awami League over establishing supremacy at Machhpara village in Sadar upazila on Saturday morning.The deceased were identified as Iman Ali and Shahabuddin.
Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque has been relived from the advisory council of district Awami League for violating party discipline.The decision to relieve Sayedul, also the MP of Brahmanbaria-1 constituency, was taken at a meeting of the working…
BNP on Friday claimed that terrorists have got a free hand to carry out brutal activities as there is ‘no rule of law’ in the country.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday ruled out the possibility of any mid-term election in the country, questioning the necessity of such polls.
Dhaka – Local people snatched an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir, arrested in a violence case, from policemen, leaving two cops injured at Dumurkhali Bazar in Manirampur upazila of Jessore district on Thursday night, UNB news agency reported.