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The 48-hour hartal, called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, was observed for second straight day on Thursday amid stray incidents of violence across the country.

Dhaka – An auto-rickshaw driver was killed and 10 persons including two cops were injured in sporadic violence throughout the country on Wednesday, the first day of 48-hour Jamaat-e-Islami sponsored hartal.

Opposition BNP on Wednesday sharply reacted to the Prime Minister’s remarks that the next general election will be held at any cost, and the opposition leader cannot foil it, saying that it is her audacity and disrespect to people’s power.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina suggested opposition chairperson Khaleda Zia to pay a visit to an eye doctor.

The new mayors of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) and Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) took the charge of their corporations on Wednesday, over three months after they had been elected.  

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has inspected the Indo-Bangla border in the state’s Dhubri sector to take stock of the border-related issues.

The RCMP has charged a former senior executive of SNC-Lavalin and two influential Bangladeshi businessmen and lobbyists with bribery related to the Montreal-based engineering giant’s failed bid to oversee the building of the $3-billion Padma Bridge in Bangladesh.

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party has called a 48-hour national strike after the country’s apex court Tuesday morning awarded the death penalty to a high-ranking leader for war crimes, including mass killings.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the next general election will be held at any cost, the BNP leader (Khaleda Zia) doesn’t have the ability to foil it, and we won’t allow her to do that. She was addressing…

Renewing his party’s demand for restoration of the caretaker government, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) president Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday said the next general election must be held under a non-party caretaker government.

Gonoforum president Dr Kamal Hossain on Tuesday lamented that the country is now under the grip of so-called democracy which is controlled by criminals.

Chief defence counsel Abdur Razzaq has said they would file a plea for a review of the Supreme Court verdict that handed down death sentence to Abdul Quader Molla even though the Attorney General says there is no such scope.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has said there is no scope for an appeal seeking review of the Supreme Court verdict that sentenced Abdul Quader Molla to death for murders and rape during the 1971 Liberation War.

Environment and Forests Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said believes the opposition leaders and activists will force BNP to participate in the next general election.

Bangladesh Supreme Court has sentenced a senior Islamist opposition leader to death for mass murder during the country’s 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.

A female journalist suffered serious injuries after she jumped from the fourth floor of her residence on the news that her minor daughter had died.

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday urged all political parities — big or small — to get united to force the government to hold the upcoming national election under a non-party caretaker government.   “Outside the 18-party alliance, there’re many political…

Mentioning that Bangladesh now at the crossroads, Vice Chair of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group Nick De Bois MP on Monday said it would be a gross failure for the politicians if people are not given a genuine free…

Election Commissioner Md Shah Nawaz on Monday hoped that political parties will soon reach a consensus over the format of the election-time government.

Tangail – Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has said that the government would execute the verdicts of the International Crimes Tribunals ICT.

Candidates contesting the next parliament elections can spend Tk 10,00000 more than their predecessors.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits Sylhet tomorrow (Tuesday) to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of a number of development projects.   After reaching Sylhet, Hasina will first visit the majar of Hazrat Shahjalal® and the Majar of Hazrat Shahparan ®.

By Nusrat Islam Khan

Renewing her demand for a non-party caretaker administration to oversee the next general election, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday categorically said Sheikh Hasina will not be allowed to head the election-time government.

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) chief Mujahidul Islam Selim has been injured in an attack by a group of suspected pro-government Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at a rally in Sylhet.  Selim has blamed Awami League student front for the…

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Sunday alleged that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is heating up the field of politics by what he said talking about the reconstitution of the present Election Commission (EC) in the name of creating a…

Dhaka – Bikalpadhara Bangladesh joint secretary Mahi B Chowdhury on Sunday said no acceptable election could be held without caretaker government. “We have to start politics based on knowledge and wisdom since country’ people don’t want politics of revenge anymore,”…

Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ruling Awami League president, categorically said police forces have to work for the people to attain their trust and respect as the force is the last shelter of people.

Dhaka: Terming the amended ‘Voter List Act-2013’ a defiance of human rights, Jamaat-e-Islami said that government initiated war crimes trial against humanity, but it violated human rights.

Crisis of natural gas in Dhaka and other parts of the country has worsened in recent days so much so that suspension of operations of around a dozen gas-fired power plants has failed to improve supply to households and industries.