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The High Court (HC) yesterday directed the government to take effective steps towards ensuring security of the minority people who came under attacks across the country after the January 5 general election. The High Court in the rule asked the government to explain why repression on the minorities should not be stopped and why it should ... Read more

Russia, Myanmar, Nepal, Belarus greet Hasina The United States will continue working with the new government of Bangladesh although it is disappointed over the January 5 polls, the State Department said on Monday. Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson of the State Department, divulged the information at a regular press briefing when asked if Washington recognised

The European Parliament (EP) is scheduled to see a debate on recent Bangladesh elections at its debate chamber in Strasbourg, France on Thursday, reports UNB. The debate will focus on fundamental freedoms, human rights and democracy in general in Bangla-desh, according to the EP. The EP included debate on Bangladesh in its agenda following a ... Read more

The High Court (HC) yesterday directed the government to collect samples of five kinds of spices marketed by the Pran Agro Limited from the open market and conduct a laboratory test to find out whether those items contain any ingredients harmful to public health. The HC also asked the chairman and the chief of the ... Read more

Severe cold and fog for the past two weeks have damaged about 35 to 40 per cent of Boro seedlings across the country. Most farmers apprehend they would not be able to cultivate Boro in the current season due to shortages of seedlings and agricultural inputs. Many farmers told The Independent that

Most of the trains of the Bangladesh Railway are still running behind the schedules after railways came under attacks during recent political programmes including strikes and rail-road-waterways blockades. The officials said they did not know when the situation would become normal as some damage would take long to be repaired. Since February 28 last year,

Unidentified assailants slaughtered four members of a family at their house near Indian frontier in Kurigram on early Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Sultan Ahmed, 55, the owner of the house at Deadanga village under Bhurungamari upazila, his wife Hazera Begum, 45, and granddaughters Romana Begum, 14, and Anika, 7. The only other member of

At least three people, including a couple and a woman, were killed in a collision between a battery-run easy-bike and a passenger bus at Shanir Akhra area in the city on Tuesday. However, a four-year-old physically challenged girl, Meem, survived the crash. She suffered minor injuries. The victims were identified as Ajmeri Begum Merry, 35, ... Read more

Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said there was no evidence so far that British Special Forces played a role in India’s 1984 Amritsar Golden Temple assault, reprots AFP Cameron ordered an inquiry after previously secret documents showed that former premier Margaret Thatcher approved sending an officer from the elite

Court stays voting in Kurigram-4 The Election Commission (EC) is all set to conduct polls in seven constituencies, where polling was put off following violence during the January 5 general election. The constituencies that will cast their votes on Thursday are Jessore-5, Laxmipur-1, Dinajpuir-4, Gaibandha-1, 3 and 4 and Bagura-7. According to the EC, voting was ... Read more

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is likely to file a case against five officials of a MLM company on charge of swindling nearly Tk 33 crore of the investors’ money, reports UNB. The Commission has already given clearance to file a case against five officials of Aimway Corporation, a multi-level marketing (MLM) company, for swindling ... Read more

cientists have built what they say is the first flying machine that hovers in a stable manner by flapping its wings. Previous designs for so-called flapping wing aircraft have mimicked the wing motions of insects, but the new design is based on the way jellyfish swim. The prototype built by scientists at

Govt expresses intention to start dialogue with BNP Apart from absorbing the pressure from the international community for holding early elections, one of the government’s key priorities is to ensure good governance and law and order in a bid to have better electoral performance in the next election whenever it is held. Though the new ... Read more

The rank and file of the Jatiya Party (JP), especially grassroots activists of the party, are still not clear whether party chief HM Ershad has willingly joined the government or has been forced to do so. Though a section of JP leaders, including Rawshan Ershad, wife of the JP chief, claimed that Ershad was in ... Read more

BNP briefs foreign diplomats The BNP-led 18-party alliance is planning a fresh spell of anti-government campaigns for the sake of its political existence and to mount a pressure on the government for immediate negotiations that will lead to a free, fair, inclusive, and peaceful election, party insiders said. To put an uninterrupted pressure on the ... Read more

Pranab telephones PM Chinese premier Li KeQiang have congratulated Sheikh Hasina for being the Prime Minister of Bangladesh for the third time. The Chinese premier, in his message on behalf of the Chinese government and people, extended warm congratulations and best wishes to Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of assuming the office of the prime ... Read more

President Abdul Hamid has summoned the first session of the 10th parliament on January 29, reports UNB. The session will start at 6:00 pm on the day, said a Parliament Secretariat media release on Monday. It said the President summoned the maiden session of the new parliament exercising the power bestowed upon him as per article 72 ... Read more

First cabinet meeting of the newly formed Awami League-led 14-party government will hold at 10 am on Thursday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The cabinet division issued a circular in this regard on Monday and it was sent to the cabinet ministers for attending the meeting. Led by Hasina, 29 ministers,

Holy Eid- e-Miladunnabi to be observed in the country today commemorating the birth of Great Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) 1,441 years ago on this day of the month of Rabiul Awal with divine blessings for the mankind. The Muslims across the country will join special prayers and stage colourful street marches to mark ... Read more

Former Chief Justice Habibur Rahman was laid to rest at city’s Banani graveyard following his second Namaz-e-Janaza at the Gulshan Azad mosque after Asar prayer yesterday. Justice Habibur Rahman, also a former chief adviser to the caretaker government, died of brain haemorrhage on Saturday night after falling sick at his Gulshan