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Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been urged to bring home thousands of nationals from camps in Bangladesh.

Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu on Wedneday categorically said the verdicts of war crimes trial would be executed by in July-August.

UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women Rashida Manjoo on Wednesday called for adopting a unified family code to ensure equal treatment to all citizens, and also more specially, protecting the rights of women in terms of marriage, divorce, separation…

The daylong countrywide shutdown, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, passed off amid stray incidents of clash, vandalism and crude bomb blast across the country on Wednesday.

Leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Wednesday alleged that the government pushed its secretary general Junaid Babunagri towards death through torturing him on remand days after days in a planned way.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday warned Khaleda Zia that she would not succeed to topple the government by killing people; rather she would be lost from politics.

Opposition BNP on Tuesday alleged that the government is not sincere about dialogue and threatened to overthrow it through a street movement.

The National Economic Council (NEC), the government’s highest economic policy-making body, approved a Tk 73,984 crore revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the current FY 2013-14.

BNP on Monday claimed the tentative meeting between opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and visiting US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy R Sherman and did not take place due to schedule problem.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday hoped that the opposition political parties will join the next general election as they are now participating in city corporation elections.

BNP spokesman Shamsuzzaman Dudu on Monday said party senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman will be back home soon and take over its charge.

Voicing her optimism over a credible and inclusive polls here, visiting US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy R Sherman on Monday said it is Bangladesh to decide how the election will be held.

India is reeling after at least 28 people were killed and many more were injured after up to 200 Maoist rebels attacked a convoy containing local leaders of the ruling Congress party.

Visiting US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy R Sherman on Sunday said violence is never acceptable in democracy, and hoped the next general election will be free, fair, inclusive and credible one.

Sherpas have found a bag of Mohammad Khaled Hossain Sajal at death zone near Mount Everest’s summit.

A Dhaka court on Sunday asked the government to bring back BNP senior vice chairman Tarrique Rahman, accused along with businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun in a money laundering case.

Opposition BNP on Saturday threatened to go on self-imprisonment if the government does not reinstate the caretaker government system to oversee the next general election.

BNP Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has urged the government again to sit for a dialogue to decide the framework on the election-time government.

Hartal supporters unleash violence in the capital on Saturday evening ahead of Sunday’s hartal called by opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance.

Bangladesh needs to consider the European Union (EU) threat to withdraw its duty-free, quota-free (DFQT) access to the EU market seriously and act promptly as the EU might take serious decisions dealing a big blow to the RMG sector in…

The 114th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be celebrated on Saturday in a befitting manner.

BNP-led 18-Party alliance has called for a nationwide general shutdown from 6am to 6pm on Sunday demanding reinstatement of a caretaker government provision, release of their party leaders and to protest ban on rallies. Shamsuzzaman Dudu, Advisor to BNP Chairperson…

On April 24, an eight-story commercial building in Bangladesh, home to a number of clothing factories, collapsed. A stunning 1,127 people were killed, along with over 2,500 people injured in what is being considered the deadliest garment factory accident in…

Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has urged opposition BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to withdraw Sunday’s hartal for the sake of country’s economy.

In its report of 2013 on Bangladesh, Amnesty International reveals that there were some 30 extrajudicial executions and 10 enforced disappearances.

BNP has claimed Amnesty International’s report on human rights situation in Bangladesh is just a tip of the iceberg.

Opposition BNP on Thursday renewed its demand to the government to arrange dialogue to reach a consensus over polls-time non-party government for holding the national election in a competitive manner with the participation of all political parties.

The committee, formed to investigate the Rana Plaza collapse, on Wednesday submitted its report recommending punitive actions against those responsible for the incident and giving compensation to the victims.