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A total of 30 death convicts have been pardoned by Presidential clemency during the last eight years. Of them, death penalty of seven was reduced to life term. State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal disclosed this while replying…

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found inconsistencies in accumulating wealth by former ministers and sitting lawmakers, who were quizzed by the commission recently, says ACC Commissioner M Shahabuddin. “We have found inconsistencies between their (ministers and lawmakers) affidavits and given…

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said people have woken up against the current ‘illegal and repressive’ regime and they have demonstrated that in the recent upazila elections. “The upazila elections have proved that people have…

Replying to a written query from M Abdul Latif (Chittagong-11) in Parliament whether the government has taken measure to hold polls of all the tiers of the local government – Union Parishad, Upazila Parishad, Zila Parishad, Municipality and City Corporation-…

Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu on Tuesday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s claim about the number of killings, forced disappearances and cases filed against her party activists was purely false, and asked her to come up with a list of…

The third Bimstec summit ended here Tuesday adopting the Nay Pyi Taw Declaration renewing the commitments to strengthen cooperation on agreed sectors including trade and investment, energy, and counter-terrorism and transnational crime.

State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has sprung to the defence of police with human rights bodies directing a barrage of criticism at them over alleged ‘encounters’. “Police are left with no option but to engage in a battle…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Monday. Both the ladies lost their fathers to assassins, and they joined politics after the assassination of their fathers. Both fought against military rulers for long to…

BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday alleged that the government is conspiring to make ruling party loyalists presiding officers for the remaining upazila elections in a bid to manipulate the results. “We’ve come to know from different…

Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Monday said BNP’s participation in the upazila polls is questionable as its chairperson Khaleda Zia herself does not believe in the upazila system. “BNP doesn’t believe in upazila system. Assuming power in…

BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Monday criticised Awami League presidium member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim for calling opposition activists anarchists and threatening to cut their limbs, and demanded his removal from the ruling party within 48 hours.…

Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Monday alleged that some civil society members through television talk-show programmes are instigating the BNP to wage movement. “We are witnessing that some civil society members are instigating BNP through talk-show to…

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) will begin a three-day public hearing Tuesday on the proposals submitted by five state-owned electricity distribution companies to raise retail power tariff. The hearing will take place at the BERC meeting room on March 4…

Three people, including two suspected kidnappers, were killed in separate incidents of ‘shootout’ in the city and Savar on the outskirts of the capital on Monday. In the capital, two alleged kidnappers were killed in a ‘shootout’ with Rapid Action…

Red carpet was rolled out when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived here Monday morning on a two-day official visit to Myanmar to attend the third Bimstec Summit. The summit of the seven-nation regional body of South Asia and South East…

Shahid Afridi quick-fired 34 off 18 deliveries to help Pakistan survive anxious moments to overcome India by one wicket in a thrilling last-over finish in their third Asia Cup match in Shere-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Sunday. With the…

BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that the ruling Awami League’s ‘strategies’ to manipulate the first and second phase results of the Upazila Parishads have failed. He said in a discussion in Dhaka on Sunday that…

There are about 4,097 illegal buildings in the city which were built without approval of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkhaya (Rajuk). Most of the buildings belong to different real estate developers and eminent personalities. Minister for Housing and Public Works Engineer…

A violent clash between supporters of the president and the general secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Jahangirnagar University has left seven students injured. Witnesses said the two groups got into a fight at noon on Sunday even…

Upholding the returning officer’s decision, the Election Commission on Sunday rejected Kader Siddiqui’s appeal challenging the cancellation of his nomination paper in the March 29 Tangail-8 by-elections. The commission, at its meeting held with the Chief Election Commissioner in the…

The Bangladesh Bar Council, a statutory body regulating the lawyers, on Sunday urged the Chief Justice to increase the number of High Court benches for the disposal of petitions seeking pre-arrest bail. Addressing a press conference, Bar Council vice-chairman Khandker…

The Pay and Services Commission will recommend a hike in salaries and other benefits of 1.3 million public servants in such a way that they would not feel the urge to fall for illegal income to maintain their lifestyle, Commission…

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday urged the people of the country to get ready for an anti-government movement after upazila parishad elections saying that movement is the only way to unseat the ‘illegal government’ to restore ‘democracy and peace’.…

Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its current issue of the Bangladesh Economic Update (MEU) revealed that fall in growth in collection of revenue, rising per capita debt burden and shrinking public sector investment may contract expansion of gross…

The US government’s report on Bangladesh’s human rights situation in 2013 is baseless and inaccurate, says State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan. “The USA is a friendly country for us…it’s our development partner. Its report on Bangladesh’s human rights…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday commissioned two modern warships – BNS Abu Bakar and BNS Ali Haider – procured from China as part of modernising the country’s naval force. The two modern frigates will replace two of their namesakes…

An activist of the pro-BNP student wing Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal (JCD) has accused the police of ‘shooting him in his left leg after forcibly picking him up from his house” about two months after being injured. However, police refuted the…

A French journalist has given his passport to the Liberation War Museum which bore a visa stamp carved out of a potato. Freedom fighters had issued Philippe Marc Edouard Alfonsi, now 74, an on-arrival visa on April 3, eight days…