The BNP on Friday refuted claims that its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s calling international attention for ‘reinstating democracy in Bangladesh’ was an act of ‘sedition’. Khaleda wrote in the ‘Washington Times’ opinion column dated Jan 30, under the title “Zia: The…
Communication Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said Malaysia, China and India are interested in bridging the Padma, hours after Bangladesh formally withdrew its bid to secure World Bank funding for the $2.9-billion bridge. “The funding will be confirmed within this…
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakib Uddin Ahmed on Thursday said political parties would take the decision over the method under which the tenth general election will be held. “The election commission is ready for holding election under any systems…
The first war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh said it will appoint a defence lawyer to conduct BNP MP Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s trial. After accepting the BNP policymaker’s application cancelling the appointment of his two lawyers, tribunal Chairman Justice A T…
The cabinet approved in principle the drafts of five laws including the extradition treaty with India, Freedom Fighter-Public Servants (Retirement) Act-2013, Rural roads maintaining policy, Alternative Child Food Marketing Controlling Act-2013. Cabinet also approved the proposal of announcing April 28…
The 16th session of the ninth Parliament began but the main Opposition BNP stayed away in keeping with its recent tendency to boycott the House. The session’s proceedings, presided over by the Speaker Abdul Hamid, started around 3:30pm. President Mohammad…
Jan 8: The left-leaning parties of the country called a countrywide half-day hartal on January 16 in protest against the latest fuel price hike.
BNP Standing Committee Member Khandker Mosharraf Hossain on Monday described claims of government successes “as nothing but false information.” “What the government gifted in the last four years is corruption and embezzlements, including the one took place in Padma bridge…
The BNP has alleged that the government was forced to effect the fuel oil price hike due to its own corruption. The government raised the prices of diesel, octane, kerosene and petrol on Thursday for the fifth time in four…
Dhaka – The declining private sector investment appears to be the potential risk for the economy in the coming months making the projected 7.2 percent economic growth unachievable in the current fiscal, said a civil society think thank on Saturday.
Two Dhaka courts on Thursday placed central Jamaat-e-Islami leader and former lawmaker Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher on a seven-day remand for police interrogation in connection with two arson cases filed against him. The two cases were filed over Wednesday’s fierce…
Dhaka –After his resignation as the Communication Minister over his suspected involvement in the bribe exchange conspiracy in the Padma bridge project, Syed Abul Hossain had no place in the fully fledged Central Working Committee that the Awami League announced…
DHAKA: Opposition BNP Standing Committee Member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Monday said the year 2012 was full of frustration and anarchy. “We are entering a year with uncertainty and fear,” he sad. The senior leader of the party came up…
SYLHET: Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossainalso eminent lawyer of the country, said the ruling Awami League is lying assuming power through election.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday responded to the government’s proposal for talks, saying the discussion has to be on a non-party polls-time government’s outline.
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The historic Victory Day has been celebrated on 16 December in remembrance of the victory of our nine-month-long War of Independence on this day in 1971 over the occupation forces, that led the emergence of Bangladesh as…
banglanews24.com The Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh has expressed deep concerned over the frequent observance of hartals with sporadic incidents of violence against innocent civilians. The concern came from a statement given by the Embassy in Bangladesh on Monday. The…
bdnews24.com/Reuters Egyptians voted on Saturday December 15 on a constitution promoted by its Islamist backers as the way out of a prolonged political crisis and rejected by opponents as a recipe for further divisions in the Arab world’s biggest nation.…
bdnews24.com A Kolkata newspaper has resurrected the 1995 Purulia armsdrop controversy, implicating the leader of a Bangladesh freedom fighters’ team now there in the Victory Day celebrations of the Indian army. Retired Maj Gen Shubid Ali Bhuiyan is leading a…
bdnews24.com The haze over how many people have been detained over the killing of Old Dhaka youth Biswajit Das refuses to recede as the government contradicts police. Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad echoed Home Minister MK Alamgir’s claim…
bdnews24.com A High Court bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday sought explanations why orders will not be issued to detain and try those behind the publication of an alleged conversation between a former ICT judge and an expatriate legal…
bdnews24.com The leader of the opposition Begum Khaleda Zia on Thursday responded to the call of the businesses to shun shutdowns by asking them to join the anti-government movement instead. The BNP Chairperson said this at the closing ceremony of…
BNP Standing Committee Member Tariqul Islam said on Thursday that the BNP-led 18-Party Alliance was unlikely to announce any fresh agitation until Dec 26 to allow for peaceful observance of the Victory Day programmes. ”The Victory Day programmes will begin…
Police on Thursday informed a Dhaka court that they had arrested four suspects allegedly involved in the murder of Biswajit Das. But Home Minister M K Alamgir insisted that 11 arrests have been made in this connection so far. The…
London: ON 6th DECEMBER 2012 the presiding judge of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, Mohammed Nizamul Huq, passed an order requiring two members of The Economist to appear before the court, demanding that they explain how we have come by e-mails…