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Awami League leader Mohammad Nasim has asked Khaleda Zia, the Leader of the Opposition, to resign from her post.

Law minister Shafique Ahmed has said that the ministers’ resignations were ‘merely a formality’.

Dhaka – The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 Monday indicted ATM Azharul Islam, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, for committing crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation.

The third day of the 84-hour countrywide shutdown, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, passed off on Tuesday amid stray incidents of blasts, vandalism, arrest and clashes at different parts of the country, leaving one dead in Pabna.

Leader of the opposition Khelda Zia on Monday said the opposition would consider withdrawal of hartal immediately when the entire cabinet led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigns. She made this comment during a meeting with a 16-member delegation led…

Dhaka – The second day of the 84-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, started Monday morning amid stray incidents of crude bomb blasts across the country.

GreenWatch Desk Three people, including two female garment workers, were killed and 30 others injured as a bus collided with a truck at Simrail under Siddhirganj Police Station in the city on Monday morning. In another accident in Borogoja area…

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has sought to know why the Yunus Centre is housed inside the Grameen Bank headquarters. He has also said the centre was an impediment to the bank’s activities.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that her invitation to the Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia for talks is ‘still open’.

GreenWatch Report The BNP-led 18-Party Alliance has opted to go for another spate of 60-hour from November 4 to press the demand for election under non-party neutral government. The decision is expected to be announced today.

Dhaka – Amid the country’s fast-evolving political situation, the main opposition BNP has planned to place its polls-time government formula in Parliament on Wednesday.

Dhaka – A day after rolling out an alternative polls-time government formula, opposition BNP on Tuesday sent a letter to Awami League seeking initiatives from the ruling party to arrange dialogue over the issue.

Dhaka – The European Union (EU) on Tuesday urged both ruling Awami League and main opposition BNP to engage in constructive dialogue to bridge the gap between them, and to arrive at a politically acceptable way forward.

Dhaka – The International Crimes Tribunal-2 has convicted and sentenced to prison unto death Abdul Aleem, for his crimes against humanity, including genocide, arson and loot, during the Liberation War in 1971 and jailed him unto death.

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Dhaka – BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday said that the ruling party should reach a consensus with the opposition over the nature of polls-time government to save the country from confrontations and uncertainty.

Ten people were killed in a fierce fire at a readymade garment (RMG) factory in Beraida Chala area of Sreepur upazila of Gazipur on Tuesday evening. Three of the deceased were identified as Rasheduzzaman, 30, assistant general manager (AGM) of…

Dhaka – The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has given approval to file two cases against two employees of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakhhya (Rajuk) for hiding of 57 files on design endorsement.

Mostafa Kamal Majumder The readymade garment (RMG) sector is fighting two odds to keep its production and export performances rolling and has convened the annual Bangladesh Apparel and Textile Exposition (BATEXPO) from 10-12th of this month, one month ahead of…

Sylhet – Opposition leader and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia has called for formation of all-party Sangram Committees centring each polling centres across the country, to stop the  ruling Awami League holding one sided elections.

Reaffirming her firm resolve to execute the verdicts of the ongoing war crimes trial, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday warned the opposition leader that she would not able to protect the war criminals no matter what she does.  

More than 60 percent residents of the country’s city corporations and municipalities are unhappy with the civic amenities they are provided with, says a study conducted by Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

Miscreants decamped with nearly Tk 1.7 million collected sale of tickets after murdering a railway employee at Dhaka’s Kamlapur railway station.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again blamed her political opponent Khaleda Zia for the 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally that killed two dozen workers and leaders of the party.

A lawyer has moved the Supreme Court seeking a non-party caretaker government to supervise the next two national elections in Bangladesh.

Awami League presidium member and former Home Minister Mohammad Nasim today alleged that failing to launch a movement, BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has now been hatching conspiracy to go to power through illegal way.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 fixed Sunday for order on the prosecution plea seeking to issue notice asking senior advocate Khandkar Mahbub Hossain to explain why contempt proceedings should not be drawn against him for his  ‘disparaging’ remarks on the ongoing…

Dhaka – Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB), an international non-government organization working as a catalyst of social movement against corruption, has found no existence of 10 NGOs out of 63, which were given allocation of projects under Bangladesh Climate Change Trust…

Dhaka – The cabinet on Thursday approved a draft of the Grameen Bank Bill-2013 with some amendments for bringing change in the bank’s capital structure, management system and other necessary regulations.