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Representatives of the European Union (EU) missions in Dhaka on Wednesday stressed a politically acceptable and constitutionally viable mechanism about the form of election-time government.

Indicating opposition BNP, Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Wednesday said the lies and drama over the death toll in the Motijheel crackdown might cause an image crisis abroad but not because of the steps taken by the law enforcement…

Apparently rejecting Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner’s version over Sunday night’s crackdown on Hefajat activists, opposition BNP on Wednesday claimed that the country’s people could not take it into confidence.

The first day of the two-day dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance, was observed amid stray incidents of violence across the country Wednesday.

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday urged Bangladesh authorities to immediately set up an independent and impartial investigation into the use of force after at least 44 people died in violent clashes between protesters and the police.

The BNP has demanded an international investigation into “mass killing” in evicting the activists of Hifazat-e Islam in the city’s Motijheel on Sunday night.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the political and religious leaders in Bangladesh to engage in constructive dialogue and help defuse tensions.

Sixteen cases have so far been filed in connection with the May 5 city violence unleashed by Hefajat-e-Islam activists.

Terming the predawn crackdown by law enforcers on Hefajat-e-Islam activists at Motijheel Shapla Chattar, the main business district of capital Dhaka, a planned genocide, opposition BNP Monday claimed that over a thousand people were killed while hundreds of bodies concealed…

At least 22 people, including two policemen and a member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), were killed and over 200 others injured, 100 with bullets, in a series of clashes between the activists of Hefajat-e-Islam and police in Sadar upazila…

In a pre-dawn drive, law-enforcers, including police, BGB and Rab personnel, on Monday removed Hefajat-e-Islam activists from the city’s Shapla Chattar area. According to different agencies 37 persons died in the action at dead of night. Hefajat sources claimed at…

DHAKA: Ameer of Hefajat-e-Islam Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi has been  sent to Hathazari in Chittagong from his Dhaka city office at Lalbagh in the city on Monday afternoon. Police earlier raided his office and cut off his communication with followers.

The government has knocked off the air Diganta and Islami Televisions with citing any reason, an official of the private station said.

Amid the escalating violence, the massive rally of Hefajat-e-Islam at the city’s Shapla Chattar continued on Sunday with a threat to continue it until its 13-point demand is met.

The death toll rose to 626 in Savar Rana Plaza collapse with the recovery of 57 more bodies the debris till 9:00pm Sunday on the 12th day of the incident.

Turning down the BNP chief’s 48-hour ultimatum, Awami League general secretary Syed Ahsraful Islam on Sunday categorically said they will not accept the opposition’s demand for restoration of the non-party caretaker government system.

At least three person were killed and 200 others hospitalised with bullet injuries, 40 of them with critical wounds, in clash of police and Awami League activists with Hefazat-e-Islam activists at the Paltan intersection throughout yesterday. Thousands of shots were…

DHAKA: Hefajat-e-Islam has blockaded Dhaka from the early hours of Sunday to press home their 13-point demand including trial of atheist bloggers.

Leader of the Opposition Begum Khaleda Zia on Saturday gave the government a 48-hour ultimatum to clearly announce that the next general election will be held under a non-party administration or face tougher programmes.

The death toll from the disastrous Rana Plaza collapse at Savar reached 514 on Friday evening with the recovery of six more bodies from the ruins of the collapsed building in the last five hours commencing from 3:30 pm.

The government on Friday permitted the BNP-led 18-party alliance to hold its Saturday’s rally at Shapla Chattar in the city’s business hub Motijheel area.

Leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Friday vowed to make its scheduled May 5 ‘Dhaka Siege’ programme defying all odds.

Rescuers retrieved 16 more bodies from the wreckage of Rana Plaza on Thursday as the 2nd phase of the rescue operation continued for the third consecutive day, raising the death toll to 433.

Some 68 schoolgirls were admitted to hospital with stomach pain in Shibaloy Upazila of the district on Thursday morning.

A five-member core committee, headed by Chairman of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipaksha (RAJUK) Engr Nurul Huda to identify risky mills and factories with the Rajuk area, BGMEA president M Atiqul Islam said here on Thursday.

Terming the current regime a wicked one, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday said this government started its journey with blood by killing 57 army officers in February, 2009 and set to complete its tenure with the blood of workers.

Twenty more bodies were recovered from the wreckage of the collapsed Rana Plaza on Wednesday as rescuers continued their 2nd phase rescue operation for the second consecutive day, raising the death toll to 411.