Pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya (Blue Panel) swept the Dhaka Bar Association election for the session 2014-2015 bagging 15 –all but one executive posts plus six posts of members – out of 25 posts including President, Vice Presidents and General Secretary,…
A fine 103-run knock by Kumar Sangakkara guided Sri Lanka to earn the 2nd successive victory in the five-nation Asia Cup Cricket beating World Champions India by two wickets at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah on Friday. Replying…
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Friday urged the members of Bangladesh Ain Samity (BAS) to play a more effective role to help implement the existing time-befitting laws so that people can be benefited through legal coverage. “Country’s development will…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said the repressive acts against opposition leaders and activists by ‘Awami cadres’ during the staggered upazila elections came as part of the government’s deep-rooted conspiracy to annihilate its opponents. “The…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday afternoon inaugurated the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium ahead of the T20 World Cup fulfilling the long-cherished dream of the people of this area rich in natural beauty and natural resources. Hasina formally inaugurated the…
Three Bangladeshi workers died of smoke inhalation on Friday after a fire broke out in their room in Manama, the capital of Bahrain. Two more Bangladeshis suffered injuries in the fire incident that took place around 3:30am in a residential…
Dhaka – The curtain on the Ekushey Book Fair 2014 on Bangla Academy premises and at the adjacent Suhrawardy Udyan fell on on Friday with bookworms thronging area for the last minute purchase of new titles The publishers also heaved…
A Dhaka court has ordered reinvestigation into the 1981 murder of Maj Gen Md Abul Manzoor following a plea by the state. Dhaka’s First Additional District and Sessions Judge Khandaker Hasan Mahmud Firoz gave the order on Thursday. The CID has…
Accusing the ruling party of capturing the polling stations across the country like ‘char grabbing’ in the second phase of the upazila polls, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday demanded reelections to the grabbed voting centres.…
Prime Minister’s adviser HT Imam on Thursday said that many BNP-supported candidates boycotted the second phase of upazila parishad polls sensing their defeat. “The election boycott by BNP-backed candidates raises curiosity and question. Actually, they boycotted the polls sensing their…
Some 15 chairman candidates, mostly BNP-backed ones, boycotted the upazila elections in Khustia, Cox’s Bazar, Feni, Barisal, Bhola, Chandpur, Noakhali, Munshiganj and Jessore districts on Thursday on various allegations. In Noakhali, the Election Commission suspended polling in Sadar upazila following…
The counting of votes after the second phase elections in 115 upazila parishads of the country’s 52 districts began on Thursday afternoon. The voting that began at 8am closed at 4pm amid stray incidents of violence which left a Shibir…
Former Prime Minister Kazi Zafar Ahmed on Thursday called for a strong movement with the spirit of self-sacrifice by taking lessons from the late Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani to safeguard the independence and sovereignty of Bangladesh. Talking as the…
At least 42 people, including security personnel, were injured when voterts clashed with army and BGB personnel in polling stations during Upazila elections at Thakurgaon’s Baliadangi. Three Border Guard Bangladesh personnel injured in the clashes were admitted to Thakurgaon Sadar…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has alleged that the Upazila polls have been reduced to a ‘festival’ of taking over poll centres’ by supporters of the ruling party. “Our apprehensions over the last few days have come true. It has…
Captain Virat Kolhli hit a solid ton, and put up a huge partnership with Ajinkya Rahane to help India to a six-wicket win in the second match of the Asia Cup at Fatullah, Bangladesh, on Wednesday. The 19th century (136…
The BNP has warned of tough action if there was any rigging in the second phase of elections in 119 Upazilas on Thursday. “The entire country” will be shaken through movement if the Election Commission failed to deliver, said BNP…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued arrest warrant for Salauddin Salehin alias Sunny in the Humayun Azad murder case, a lawyer said. Sunny was one of the three convicts snatched from a prison van on Sunday. Assistant Public Prosecutor ABM…
Referring to its earlier stance, the reconstituted International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday set March 10 for hearing the summing-up arguments afresh in the case of detained Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami being tried on charges of crimes against humanity during…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expanded her cabinet by inducting a minister and a state minister turning it into a 49-member one. AH Mahmood Ali, an MP from Dinajpur-4 constituency, got back his old job – Foreign Minister –…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said her government is determined to take forward the country facing all odds, including the political trouble. “Political disturbance has become a common phenomenon in the country; we have to continue our…
Police have released photos of possible disguises two runaway Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants may adopt to evade arrest. The militants are Jahidul Islam alias Bomaru Mizan, 38, Salauddin Salehin alias Sunny, 38. In a daring daylight ambush, miscreants had…
A Dhaka court has awarded death penalty to eight persons, including three siblings, for the murder of Awami League leader and Dhaka’s Lalbagh ward commissioner Hazi Md Alim 18 years back. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions…
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury on Tuesday alleged that some ‘foreign powers’ are fostering militants in Bangladesh. “Some diplomats were holding meetings with the militants in madrasahs. This proves foreign powers are fostering militants. These diplomats don’t have any shame,” she…
The nation recalled on Tuesday the horrific carnage at Peelkhana BDR headquarters in the capital where 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed on this day in 2009. Relatives of the martyrs, government high-ups, and Border Guard Bangladesh and…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the government has completed its all measures to bolster its one-party rule by snatching people’s basic rights. “All the basic rights of people are being snatched one after…
Members of Parliament on Tuesday accused the BNP and Jamaat-Shibir and their leaders of patronising and promoting militancy in the country. Speaking in Parliament session on point of order, they also demanded the government to carryout investigation to find out…
Awami League leader Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday alleged that BNP-Jamaat alliance along with an international militant group was involved in the snatching of three convicted members of the banned militant outfit Jama’at-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). “BNP, Jamaat, JMB and al-Qaeda…
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday doubted that the government might have staged a ‘mysterious drama’ over the militant issue ahead of the upazila elections. “The incident of militant snatching seems very mysterious just before the upazila…
Security has been beefed up across the country on Monday a day after gunmen ambushed a police van freeing three convicted militants on way to a court in Mymensingh and leaving one policeman killed. One of the militants was killed…