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Police on Monday morning retrieved the bullet-hit dead body of a BNP leader of Barisal who went missing in Dhaka. The deceased, Golam Mostafa Nanna, 48, was vice president of Babuganj upazila unit of the main opposition

Foreign Office minister Ivan Lewis will visit Tibet this week as part of a fact-finding mission to China, the first such trip by a British minister, his office

Taiwan’s premier quit Monday over the government’s handling of last month’s deadly typhoon as the China-friendly administration struggled to end its worst crisis since

Intellectuals, teachers and students at a solidarity meeting on the Dhaka University campus on Monday demanded dismissal of Home Minister Sahera Khatun and a total ban on exporting national resources

The import of reconditioned vehicles has declined significantly due to imposition of import duties by the government and increase of prices in the international

The government is going to introduce exclusive bus services for school children by late October as part of its efforts to ease traffic jams in the

The National Human Rights Commission has virtually ceased to exist as the government is yet to reconstitute the quasi-judicial body in line with the National Human Rights Commission Act enacted by the

BKMEA set to clear salaries, bonuses of its workers for Eid In the wake of the demand from different trade organisations, Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday made it clear that the disbursement of the stimulus fund would be made only through the decision of the

In the absence of specific rules against contempt of parliament, the speaker of Jatiya Sangsad now intends to place in the house a panel’s recommendations for measures against those defying

JS body works on unfair sacking, retirement of defence officials A parliamentary committee yesterday sent 90 applications of armed forces officials to the defence ministry for verifying who were “deprived or harassed or sacked on political grounds” in the last

Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun yesterday said that the ongoing drive in the country’s south-western region was continuing in accordance with the list prepared by the law enforcing agencies to contain the

Two suspected criminals were killed in separate ‘crossfire’ with the members of Rapid Action Battalion and police in Faridpur and Kushtia early Sunday.  Of them, Tofazzal Hossain alias Tapu Khan, a local Juba League leader, was killed in a gunfight with the

Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank Managing Director Prof Muhammad Yunus totally denied his involvement with any political party in Bangladesh. “I am not involved with any political party,” Prof Yunus told UNB over

Burial today Leaders, workers and supporters of BNP and other political parties, colleagues and well-wishers yesterday paid homage to veteran political leader Saifur Rahman, who died in a road crash

Zia Orphanage Trust case Leader of the opposition in parliament and BNP chairperson, Begum Khaleda Zia will appear before the metropolitan session judges court today (Monday) at 1.00pm for hearing of charge, in the

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni leaves for New Delhi today to discuss with her Indian counterpart S M Krishna all of the bilateral issues between the two neighboring countries, such as trade and investment,

I have lost an old friend, he says Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh expressed his profound shock at the sad demise of former Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman. In a condolence message sent Saturday to his son Naser Rahman, the Indian Prime Minister said

Ashuganj police started investigation into the deadly road accident on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Brahmanbaria that killed former finance minister and BNP standing committee member

The distribution of Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) rice for Tk 3 per KG across the country is being contemplated by the government. VGF rice was so long distributed free of cost among the extreme poor

Twenty-four hours of incessant rain, caused by a low in the Bay of Bengal, has left hundreds of thousands marooned as some 65 villages in Khulna and Barguna districts inundated, WDB officials said on