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Former general secretary of the ruling Awami League (AL) Abdul Jalil was dropped from the post of chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on commerce ministry yesterday. On a proposal from Chief Whip Abdus Shahid,

US ambassador James F Moriarty called on prime minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday morning before leaving Dhaka for Washington on a two weeks’ holiday. The two discussed the Bangladesh prime minister’s meeting with

LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday in parliament criticised newspapers for what he said negative reports on the city corporation bill. The bill was passed Monday rejecting a parliamentary body’s

The calls of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and the parliament speaker, Abdul Hamid, requesting the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party to join the parliament session rings hollow as, the BNP said, the treasury bench is

The government representatives of Birampur upazila in Dinajpur and its seven unions alleged that fair recruitment of fertilizer retailers has been impaired under the political influence of local ruling party lawmaker

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr ATM Shamsul Huda yesterday said that they would try to introduce e-voting, vote through electronic voting machine (EVM), at least in a ward during the election to Dhaka City

Traffic congestions resumed causing havoc for commuters in the capital, as vehicles began crawling on the city streets once again after more than a weeklong pause on the occasion of Eid and Puja. Traffic department, however,

Two more “criminals” were killed in separate incidents of ‘crossfire’ with the law enforcers in Faridpur and Chuadanga districts in the early hours of yesterday, pushing the death toll in “crossfire” to 102 since the Awami League-led

After Rahul Gandhi, the scion of Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, opposed the ambitious project of interlinking of rivers in India, Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh said the idea of interlinking India’s rivers was a “human and

Two months have passed since the Detective Branch (DB) of the police sent a letter to the Interpol in a bid to know details about the five most wanted Indian criminals recently arrested by them, but the Interpol has not

An independent team of investigators from Dhaka probing the abduction and rape of a class VII schoolgirl in Kalapara yesterday alleged that the local police refused to collaborate with them. Police officer Kabir Hossain who

Retired BDR member Torab Ali, also a ward-level Awami League leader, yesterday confessed to his involvement before a court in the BDR mutiny on February 25-26 at Pilkhana Headquarters. After 15-day remand in four

Parliament yesterday passed the local government (city corporations) bill rejecting a House body’s recommendation for making MPs advisers to the city corporations from where they were elected. The House also did not

Aiming to explore hydrocarbon potential in Bay of Bengal, Petrobnagla, the state run oil and gas company, on Monday started negotiations with the USA based oil and gas company ConocoPhillips in the city. The government

The government has taken an eight-year-long mega plan to bring back navigability in 53 important waterways by carrying out massive dredging with a cost of around Tk 11,474 crore, Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan informed

The much awaited hearing on appeals made by the condemned convicts in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Murder case began on Monday before a five-judge bench of the Appel-late Division of the Supreme Court after

The case of abduction and rape of a class VII schoolgirl in Kalapara on September 25 ‘ended’ two days later at an arbitration conducted by local Awami League (AL) leaders with police looking on, according to an investigation. Following

A new bill was tabled in the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday to ensure security to the family members of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Placing the bill home minister Advocate Sahara Khatun said some

Three suspected underworld terrorists were killed in three separate encounters with law-enforcers in the city early yesterday. Two of them were killed in an encounter with RAB personnel and another with police. The victims are

Only one-third of the recommendations put forward to the government by the Regulatory Reforms Commission have so far been implemented with no sign of progress in reform activities since the Awami League government