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BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday alleged that the there has been a provocation from the Prime Minister herself in blemishing parliament with badmouthing.

A Dhaka court on Wednesday deferred until August 14 the charge-framing hearing against 41 opposition men, including BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed, in a case filed over March 6 city violence.

The government on Wednesday floated an international tender for the construction of the main infrastructure of the much-hyped Padma Bridge project, paving the way for implementing its election pledge.

Voicing his high hope that the bidders will respond to the international tender for Padma Bridge Project floated on Wednesday, Finance Minister AMA Muhith expressed his doubt about issuing the order by December next due to the ‘tight schedule’.

Director General (DG) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed on Wednesday said the country’s over 500-km border areas, out of 4,427 kms, are still unprotected.

WASHINGTON – Nine U.S. senators on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to suspend trade benefits for Bangladesh until the country where 1,129 people died in an April garment factory collapse improved its working conditions. “We urge that the administration suspend…

Criticising the government for what she said its repressive acts, BNP Chairperson and Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia on Tuesday said the country is under a horrific misrule.

Senior Awami League leaders on Tuesday expressed their resentment over the growing trend of badmouthing by some backbench MPs in Parliament.

A Chittagong court has ordered a day’s police remand for 44 people arrested in connection with Monday’s twin murders in the city as members of the Chhatra League and Juba League clashed over a railway tender bid.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said the opposition has no confidence in the current government and it will in no way go to the next general election under any partisan administration.

DHAKA: Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s new prime minister, has said that the former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who is currently under house arrest, should face trial for treason.

Burma has approved, in principle, to restart a long-delayed voluntary repatriation program for Rohingya Muslim refugees living in the country, Bangladesh`s foreign Secretary Mohammad Shahidul Haque said.

NEW DELHI – Bangladesh Supreme Court’s senior-most and lone Hindu judge, Surendra Kumar Sinha, on Monday sought assistance of India’s Supreme Court in training their quota-riddled judiciary to infuse judicial discipline in them.

The United Kingdom will impose a £3,000 deposit for visa-seekers from Bangladesh and six other Asian and African countries. “Sunday Times” says that under the pilot scheme, visa-seekers from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya will have…

On Jun 9, BNP lawmaker Rahana Akter Ranu had warned the government using her local language that “there was no scope for chudurbudur” – dillydally – with opposition’s caretaker demand.

Two, including an 8-year old, were killed in an armed clash between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League and Juba League over a railway tender bid in Chittagong City on Monday.

Dhaka – Opposition BNP on Monday alleged that the Prime Minister has violated the election code of conduct by forcing Awami League rebel candidate Jahangir Alam to stay off the race in the election to Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) slated…

Dhaka – Nine women borrower directors of Grameen Bank on Monday sharply reacted to the recommendations of Grameen Bank Inquiry Commission to change its structure, and vowed to resist any move to grab the globally acclaimed microcredit organisation.

A two-member BNP delegation on Sunday handed over a congratulatory letter of its chairperson Khaleda Zia to Dr Muhammad Yunus for receiving the US Congressional Gold Medal and said the party will remain beside the country’s lone Nobel laureate and…

Awami League rebel candidate Jahangir Alam on Sunday announced in public that he would stay off the race in election to Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) slated for July 6.

Awami joint secretary general Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Sunday said his party will not give the opposition any fresh proposal for dialogue on polls-time administration.

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Sunday said in Parliament that signing of the proposed bilateral Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (Ticfa) with the USA will neither hamper the country’s national security nor there is any possibility for the…

Bangladesh earned Tk 5085.42 crore as of June 2013 since January 2011 from the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions, Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni told Parliament on Sunday.

Outgoing chairman of the Anti Corruption Commission Ghulam Rahman on Sunday said he could not be successful in his task due to the delay in legal process.

Dhaka faced a severe gas crunch for ten hours on Sunday after a midnight pipeline leak disrupted supply from Bibiyana gas-field.

Identifying over 100 garment factories as ‘risky’ in Dhaka and its adjoining areas, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (Rajuk) are now seeking opinions from the experts of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) to work out strategies for the factories so…

In the wake of Awami League-supported mayoral candidates’ defeat in the recently held city corporation polls to their opposition rivals, partners in the 14-party grand alliance have suggested the Awami League to concentrate more on public issues to woo the…

The wide gap between mainstream education and the Madrasa-system can be reduced through exchange of information and ideas among the proponents of these two different education systems, according to participants of a discussion.

Criticising the government for its various misdeeds and corruption, BNP leader Shamsuzzaman Dudu on Saturday said his party will hold the trial of all graft incidents if it is voted to power through the next general election.

Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed on Saturday said 90 percent of dowry-related and women repression cases are false.