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Awami League Presidium member Obaidul Quader says the debacle in the four city polls were “needed to shake the party up”.

Egypt’s military has moved against the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood a day after deposing President Mohammed Morsi.

“The ruling party men are violating the election code of conduct every day, but the toothless and clawless Election Commission is not taking any action.

Just two days ahead of balloting, the main opposition BNP on Thursday renewed its demand for deployment of army during the election to Gazipur City Corporation.

Bikalpadhara Bangladesh has been planning to create a third alliance comprising like-minded political parties to gear up the movement for restoration of non-party caretaker government to oversee the next general elections, according to party leaders.

CNG filling stations will go on an indefinite strike across the country on Friday protesting the harassment and extortion by a mobile court in a filling station in Sylhet.

Today’s milestone marks a new phase in the Egyptian revolution, one which many had awaited since Mubarak stepped down in February 2011. The statement, read out by military chief-of-staff Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, describes a roadmap that includes the ousting of President…

Live updates from Ahram Judge Adly Mahmoud Mansour, 67, head of Egypt’s High Constitutional Court (HCC) – who is now Egypt’s transitional president after former Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi was ousted after mass protests this week – was appointed…

Ousted President Mohammed Morsi was reportedly being held at an undisclosed location Wednesday night, hours after the military toppled him and suspended the constitution.

The countrywide daylong hartal enforced by Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the student body associated with Jamaat-e-Islami, was marked by stray incidents of vandalism and bomb blasts across the country on Wednesday.

Maj Gen Chowdhury Hasan Sorwardi, GOC 9th Division, on Wednesday refuted the news published in the British tabloid Sunday Mirror over the rescue of apparel worker Reshma by the army after 17 days of the Rana Plaza building collapse, terming…

A Bangladesh Army helicopter crashed during an emergency landing injuring two military officials in Dhamrai area on Wednesday morning.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said the country has been able to achieve tremendous successes in different fields over the last four and a half years as the present government is ‘highly ambitious’.

BNP-backed mayoral runner in Gazipur City Corporation polls MA Mannan on Tuesday claimed that Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad give him both moral support and blessings to win the election.

The Washington Times has stated that they carried an article by Khaleda Zia on Jan 30 only after being certain that she had written it, the bdnews24.com reported yesterday. In an email, its Executive Editor David S Jackson said they…

Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the associate body of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, is set to enforce a nationwide daylong hartal on Wednesday demanding the release of its central president and tracing of the missing leaders.

The Yunus Centre said on Thesday, “The Finance Minister should explain to Parliament, and so to the people of the country, how Professor Yunus could receive a few thousand crores of taka in dividends from an institution where he doesn’t…

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday told Parliament that the country’s economy is not in a mess, but Bangladesh is on the frontline in the world in terms of the average economic growth rate it achieved over the last five…

Bangladesh Bank has brought under its green banking refinance scheme, taken up four years back, more sectors in the wake of growing demand for renewable energy and environment-friendly growth in the country.

Egypt president Mohamed Mursi has rebuffed an army ultimatum to find a resolution to Egypt’s political crisis, saying that he has not been consulted and will pursue his own plans for national reconciliation.

DHAKA: The Egyptian army has given the country`s politicians a 48 hours ultimatum to resolve the current political stalemate, further emboldening opponents of Mohamed Morsi, the embattled president, and pushing the most populous Arab nation deeper into uncertainty.

Opposition BNP on Monday demanded a probe into the allegation that returning officer had engaged party functionaries to conduct the maiden Gazipur City Corporation elections.

Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh ameer Shah Ahmed Shafi has directed his followers to keep their morale up and take preparations for a movement to realise their 13-point demand.

Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Monday said the central bank after its inspections has not found anything that requires a major change in Grameen Bank’s operation.

Mentioning income tax would be the major source of government’s revenue earning in the near future, Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Monday hoped that the taxpayers in the country would total one percent of the population by FY15.

Dhaka University students, teachers and staff celebrated the university’s 92nd founding anniversary on Monday amid a great deal of festivity.

Is political polarisation in the offing with the announcement of Jatiya Party chairman former President HM Ershad to leave the Awami League –led 14-party ruling alliance.