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A writ petition was filed with the High Court (HC) on Sunday seeking its directives to cancel the 56 percent quota in the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations.

Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus featured as one of the most influential business thinkers in a new ranking compiled by The Wall Street Journal.

Jamaat-e-Islami has called a daylong hartal across the country for Monday as an International Crimes Tribunal is set to deliver its verdict in the case of crimes against humanity of the party’s former Ameer Prof Ghulam Azam on the day.

Taking part in BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s iftar party on Saturday, leader of various political parties slammed the ruling Awami League for not turning up at the programme.

French Ambassador in Dhaka Michel Trinquier on Saturday said Bangladesh is heading towards an important time of its political history with the upcoming general election, and hoped that all the parties will be able to hold a fruitful dialogue paving…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina slated Hefajat-e-Islam Amir Allama Shafi for his derogatory remarks mocking the women, their freedom, education and employment.

Jatiya Party Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad has urged all political parties to stop fighting each other and focus on development.

The reviewed result of preliminary examination of 34th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination will be published today (Sunday).

Police on Friday foiled an attempted rally by government jobseekers and students who tried to gather at Shahbagh intersection to announce their next course of action demanding cancellation of quota system from BCS examination.

A total of 12 journalists were killed, 596 injured and 211 others assaulted during the last four and a half years across the country from January 2009 to June 2013, according a rights group report.

Communications Minister Obaidul Quader has described the Finance Minister’s position on the Padma bridge as ‘unrealistic’ and blamed him for delay in starting construction of the much-hyped project.

The authorities have slapped yet another case in connection with Thursday’s clashes and vandalism between demonstrators, seeking the scrapping of quotas in government jobs, and the police on the Dhaka University campus.

Government job seekers who were demanding the cancellation of the quota system in recruitment to government jobs announced fresh programmes on Thursday to realise their demand would organise demos also today (Friday).

A legal notice was on Thursday served to the Election Commission (EC) asking for holding the much-delayed elections to the bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations (DCCs).

Dhaka, July 11 (UNB) – Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday indicated not accepting a recent Chinese firm’s offer of investing US$ 2.4 billion for implementing the Padma Bridge project as he was not prepared to accept any fixed contract.

Opposition BNP on Thursday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) against Bangladesh Nationalist Front (BNF) for submitting an application seeking registration as a political party using BNP’s logo and portrait of its founder Ziaur Rahman.

DHAKA – About 20 people were injured as police was locked in repeated clashes with young government job seekers at Shahbagh intersection and on Dhaka University campus demanding immediate cancellation of the quota system in recruitment to government jobs.

State Minister for Law Quamrul Islam on Wednesday said the recent Transparency International TI report that branded politician and police most corrupt is aimed at assassinating the character of politicians and making the judiciary controversial.

Opposition BNP on Wednesday alleged that a government-backed syndicate of traders is pushing up the prices of essentials through market manipulation ahead of Ramadan beginning on Thursday.

If the Election Commission has its way, political parties will be empowered to cancel candidature in any constituency.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed three cases against Padma Oil’s Managing Director Abul Khayer and 92 others for corruption in appointment. ACC Deputy Director Mohammad Morshed Alam filed the cases with Sadarghat police on Wednesday.

Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury on Wednesday said the government has taken in hand a ‘special incentive programme’ to rehabilitate the farmers who were hard-hit by tropical cyclone ‘Mahasen’.

Admitting that there is corruption in the judiciary, Supreme Court Bar Association SCBA general secretary Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon on Wednesday claimed lawyers are in no way involved in it.

President of Bikalpadhara Bangladesh Prof Dr AQM Barruddoza Chowdhury and Krishak Sramik  Janata League chief Bangabir Kader Suddiky on Wednesday announced to form an alternative force to go to power.

Rejecting the Prime Minister’s remarks that the next general election will be held the way elections are held in other parliamentary democracies, opposition BNP on Tuesday urged the government to arrange it under a non-party caretaker government shunning its stubbornness…

Awami League presidium member Mohammad Nasim on Tuesday said that his party is neither frustrated nor worried by the defeat of five party supported mayoral candidates.

Political parties and police are the most corrupt sectors in Bangladesh followed by the judiciary, says a newly revealed report of the Transparency The report says about 60 percent people think that corruption has been increased in the country in…

Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Tuesday said that he did not make any mistake by extending his party’s support to Awami League-backed mayoral candidate of Gazipur City Corporation polls.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday invited Belarusian entrepreneurs to massively invest in Bangladesh availing attractive incentives, cheap labour and a huge domestic market of around 160 million people.

The government on Tuesday decided to withdraw both the cases filed by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) against Jhalakati college student Limon Hossain, maimed by the elite force two years back.