A probe panel has found no involvement of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in the abduction of gold trader Mridul Chowdhury. Chowdhury, owner of Dulhan Jwellers at Chittagong’s New Market, was kidnapped from his residence at the Old Telegraph Road in…
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No real opposition in Parliament, says TIB
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Tuesday said that in real sense there no opposition in the present Parliament. “There is no opposition in Parliament in real sense. There is an opposition in alphabetical meaning but not in real sense. Indeed,…
JP finds TIB report on opposition biased
Jatiya Party has termed the report of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) “partial” and “biased.” In a press statement, opposition leader’s political secretary Golam Mosih protested the TIB report saying that it is apparently influenced by a quarter and it is…
Jhenidah Grameen Bank branch looted at gun point
Shahneawz Khan Sumon The Grameen Bank, Bishoikhali branch under Moharajpur union porishod in Jhenaidah sadar upazila has been looted by some unidentified miscreants in broad day light by brandishing arms at about 4:30 PM on Tuesday. At that time, at…
Tigers meet Nepal Tuesday in T20 World Cup
Hosts Bangladesh will take on ICC associate member Nepal on Tuesday in their second Group-A match of the ICC World Twenty20 at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong. The match will begin at 7:30pm. Earlier, in the opening day of…
3 die in microbus gas cylinder explosion
Three women were killed and five others injured when a gas cylinder exploded in a microbus at Chittagong’s Fatikchharhi on Monday. Police and fire fighters had initially reported four casualties. Bhujpur Police OC Md Kabir Hossain later told journalists there…
BNP protests jailing of 3 senior leaders
BNP staged demonstrations across the country on Monday protesting the sending of its three senior leaders to jail by a Dhaka court. The party leaders and activists brought out processions in all the cities, district towns and upazila headquarters throughout…
PM seeks coop to free country from militancy
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought cooperation from all and sundry to rid Bangladesh free of militancy and terrorism. She made the call at an event marking the National Children Day at Tungiparha in Gopalganj on Monday. The day is…
Jubo Dal calls countywide demo Tuesday
Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the youth wing of BNP, will stage demonstrations across the country on Tuesday protesting the hike in power tariffs and jailing of top BNP leaders. The programme is also meant for mounting pressure on the government to…
2 corpses recovered from river Meghna
Police said they have recovered two dead bodies from the river Meghna after locals sighted them at Hatia, Noakhali’s island Upazila. But they could not yet be identified. One dead body was salvaged from Bogula Khal at Charking Union at…
Jubo Dal man shot dead in Laxmipur
Unidentified miscreants shot dead a local Jubo Dal activist in Sadar upazila on Monday evening. The deceased was identified as Babar Hossain, an activist of the BNP’s youth wing and son of Tofail Ahmed of Sonapur village in the upazila.
Khaleda blasts Govtg for Jailing BNP leaders
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday described sending of three senior party leaders including acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to jails rejecting their bails as a manifestation of severe repressive attitude of the government to the party. In…
BNP’s UZ polls participation to continue
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will continue its participation in the next phases of Upazila (UZ) Parishad polls in spite of bringing allegation of massive rigging of votes and capturing of polling centres during the third phase of election that was…
Bangabandhu’s birth anniversary Monday
The 94th birth anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be celebrated on Monday as the National Children’s Day. The day is a public holiday. On March 17 in 1920, the architect of the nation was born at Tungipara in…
German envoy questions some of BD’s energy choices
German Ambassador in Dhaka Dr Albrecht Conze has expressed concern over the government’s recent decisions to construct a coal-fired power plant not far from the Sundarbarns and a nuclear power plant near Pabna. Questioning some of Bangladesh’s energy choices, especially…
Fresh hunt for BNP leaders: Fakhrul, Abbas, Salam in jail
A court here on Sunday sent BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and its two other leaders to jail rejecting their bail petition in three cases, including a murder case, following arson attack on a bus. The two…
Tigers face Afghanistan in T20 World Cup opening match Sunday
Bangladesh take on Afghanistan in the Twenty20 World Cup opener at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Sunday. The first match of the fifth edition of the world event will commence at 3:30pm local time. Defeat against Afghanistan…
Social Business Design Lab held at Yunus Centre
The 13th Social Business Design Lab was held at the Yunus Centre in the capital on Saturday with around 150 different organisations taking part. Innovators of six new social business plans presented their projects at the Design Lab. Chaired by…
Mahathir urges Muslims to seek science, technology
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad on Saturday said that the Muslim world should have better knowledge in science and technology to protect themselves from the aggressors of the world. “Today the Muslims and their countries are…
Polls halted in 6 Hajiganj, Kachua centres in Chandpur
Voting was suspended in six centres of Chandpur’s Haziganj and Kochua due to rigging and invasion of polling centres during the third phase of the Upazlia election on Saturday. The centres in Haziganj were – Purbo Rajargaon Government Primary School,…
EC happy over 3rd phase UZ polls
The Election Commission on Saturday said the elections in 81 upazila of 41 districts were largely free and peaceful. “The polls were held in a free and fair manner barring some stray incidents… we’re happy,” said Election Commissioner Mohammad Abdul…
Awami League under attack: HT Imam
The Awami League has countered the BNP’s charges of rigging votes claiming that it was the ruling party-backed candidates who had come under ‘political and administrative attack’ during the third phase of the Upazila elections. The administration had played a…
Ruling party men captured polling stations: BNP
Bringing the allegation of vote fraud in the third phase of upazila polls, BNP on Saturday alleged that the ruling party men with the help of law enforcers captured most of the voting centers in 41 districts. “We had expressed…
Violence mark UZ polling, 2 killed: Hartal called in Bagerhat
The third phase of the ongoing upazila elections has already been marked out by the level of violence and allegations of election irregularities raised on the day, even before voting hours closed. BNP called a daylong hartal in Bagerhat sadar,…
Moeen goes to Saudi Arabia
General Moeen U Ahmed, widely believed to be one of the architects of the January 1, 2007 emergency, has left the US for the first time after he was granted permanent residentship there. He left for Saudi Arabia on Thursday…
DSE set to introduce new trading cycle on Apr 16
The much-talked-about T+2 trading cycle (trading day plus two days) for share settlement is set to be introduced at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the country’s premier bourse, on April 16, aiming to give a further boost to the share…
PDB still to face Tk 6000cr loss in bulk business
Although the power tariffs were raised by 6.96 percent at the retail level to offset revenue loss, yet the government may have to provide subsidy of about Tk 6,000 crore in the current fiscal. According to official sources, the total…
BNP protests power tariff hike
BNP on Friday staged demonstrations across the country protesting the hike in power tariffs. The demonstrations were held in all the cities, district towns and upazila headquarters throughout the country. As part of the countrywide programmes, different thana BNP units…
Designs on capture centres, manipulate UZ election results: BNP
Apprehending manipulation in the third phase of upazila polls set to be held on Saturday, BNP on Friday threatened to lay a siege to the Election Commission (EC) in case of any vote fraud. “We together with people will lay…
BNP-backed panel wins SC Bar Asociation polls
The BNP-backed Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Parishad (JAOP) swept the Supreme Court Bar Association elections against the ruling Awami League-supported Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parishad (SASP). JAOP bagged 13 posts, out of 14, including the posts of the president and the general…