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After widespread clashes with the law enforcers across Bangladesh on Friday, 12 Islamist and like-minded parties called a country-wide shutdown for Sunday alleging police obstructions to their programme.

At least four people were killed and 281 others including cops and journalists injured during nationwide clash between workers of 12 like-minded Islamist parties and cops on Friday. The clashes ensued as police obstructed process

Opposition BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed said BNP will set up ‘ Gonotranta’ ( Democracy) stages across the country with a view to establish democracy, rule of law and freedom of judiciary. He came up with the discloser…

Demonstrators from the sit-in at Shahbagh on Thursday gave the government a Mar 26 deadline to start the process of trying and banning Jamaat-e-Islami.

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged the people to build a knowledge-based, prosperous, peaceful and secular country, free from war criminals and razakar.

The government is set to sign a loan deal with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Wednesday to finance the Metro Rail Project in the capital.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved Shikalbaha 225-MW Duel-fuel Combined Cycle Power Plant project aimed at reducing power shortage and meeting growing demand of power in greater Chittagong region.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the parliamentary elections will be held in January of the next year.

Senior BNP leader Tariqul Islam believes the ongoing war crimes trials have been targeted against Jamaat-e-Islami, its key ally.

“I found misdiagnosis of pneumonia … I found misuse of antibiotics,” Prof M S Akbar, a lawmaker and Chairman of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, said at the inauguration of a workshop in Dhaka on Tuesday. He said pneumonia was…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina categorically said the people have regained their confidence in the police. The premier came up with this statement while addressing a programme arranged on the occasion of ‘Police Week-2013’ at Razarbag police line on Tuesday. Mentioning…

Many called the verdict historic , as this may be the prelude to similar judgements against other Islamist leaders who sided with Pakistan in 1971 and may be found guilty of involvement and for abetting  “crimes against humanity”.

The High Court on Monday questioned the legality of using chemical based riot control options like pepper spray on people.

The Anti-Corruption Commission will file cases on any day next week against persons involved in the corruption conspiracy in the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project, according to highly placed source in the ACC. “The Commission is now thinking about as to…

Dhaka – The US$ 1 billion deal on arms purchase against state credit from the Russian Federation was to ensure, among other thin

The Bangladesh Bank has withdrawn a proposal to make counterfeiting currency notes a capital offence after Germany’s central bank said it would suspend a plan to help the Bangladeshi bank because of the death penalty threat.

Five suspected robbers were beaten to death by mob-lynch while a minor shot dead by robbers firing in Monoharganj upazila in the district early Wednesday.

General Bikram Singh’s remarks come amid mounting public anger in India after Delhi accused Pakistani soldiers of slitting the throat of one of the soldiers and decapitating him.

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have accused 60 people of manslaughter in the lynching of six students in Aminbazar in 2011.

The first phase of the Biswa Ijtema at Tongi near the capital ended Sunday with the offering of Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) joined by millions of Muslims from home and abroad.

Opposition BNP Standing Committee Member Tariqul Islam on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina legitimized the interim government of Fakhruddin-Moyeenuddin by addressing the nation marking the 1/11 anniversary.

BNP Standing Committee member ASM Hannan Shah says it was orchestrated to bring Awami League to power.

DHAKA: The record lowest 3° Celsius temperature has been recorded in Syedpur of Nilphamari on Thursday.

DHAKA: Five members of a family were seriously burned following a gas explosion in city’s Rampura area early Thursday.

DHAKA: The Pakistani military said Indian troops shot and killed a Pakistani soldier on Thursday, the third deadly cross-border incident reported in five days in the disputed Kashmir region.

DHAKA: With myriad devotees from home and abroad thronging the bank of Turag, the first-phase of Biswa Ijtema, billed second-largest Muslim congregation after the holy Hajj, will begin Friday with religious sermons delivered by Islamic scholars.

Bangladesh has, like neighbouring India, recorded the lowest temperature in over four decades amidst a raging cold wave.

The investigative team of the national antigraft agency seized the documents almost a month after it sued seven persons on charges of the conspiracy for appointing a Canadian company, SNC Lavalin, as the consultant for the country’s largest-ever infrastructure development…