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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

The Election Commission (EC) has sent letters to the political parties to learn about their positions in the 10th Parliament so that 50 women candidates can be elected to the reserved seats of the national assembly. “We need to know the parties’ positions — whether they are in coalition or are independent. Then we can distribute ... Read more

Superintendent of Police in Dinajpur Ruhul Amin on Monday admitted that the police had failed to control the situation before and after the attack on Hindus at Kornai in Dinajpur Sadar upazila on January 5. The Dinajpur district authorities on Monday held a meeting at the Kornai Government Primary School and told the local people that ... Read more

The High Court (HC) yesterday granted bail to Abdul Majid, the chairman of a union under Satkhira district, on condition that he will plant 50 trees. The HC bench of Justice Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mohammad Ullah granted the bail for six months to Abdul Majid, chairman of Shialdanga union parishad,

Professor Anwar Hossain has finally resigned as the vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, after nearly a year-long protest by teachers, students and staff of the university. Talking to this correspondent yesterday, Anwar Hossain said, ‘I have sent my resignation letter to President Abdul Hamid, the chancellor of the university’.

The court of SM Mojibur Rahman, judge of the Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1, is scheduled to hand down the verdict in the Chittagong arms haul cases on January 30. Rahman on Monday fixed the date to pass the verdict, nine years after the country’s biggest arms haul cases, after hearing the argument of defence lawyers. Defence lawyers ... Read more

Two young men, including a suspected extortionist, were stabbed to death in separate incidents in the city’ s Mirpur and Bangshal areas on Monday, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Fazal, 21, son of Sirajul Islam of Third Colony under Darus Salam police station and Sahid, 25, of Gobinda Das Lane under Bangshal police ... Read more

Nine women in Sweden have successfully received transplanted wombs donated from relatives and will soon try to become pregnant, the doctor in charge of the pioneering project has revealed, reports AP from Stockholm. The women were born without a uterus or had it removed because of cervical cancer. Most are in their 30s and are ... Read more

28 new faces; JP plays dual role, only 2 tiny parties solely on opposition bench Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, who was sworn in as prime minister yesterday, formed her council of ministers by inducting lawmakers of four other parties into her cabinet. In the 49-member council of ministers, she included the chiefs of the ... Read more

After taking oath as the prime minister for the third time, Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that she would never bow to any national or international pressures regarding the just-concluded parliamentary polls. “You know well that Sheikh Hasina does not succumb to any pressure whether it is

The BNP yesterday said that Awami League has started its journey towards authoritarianism by abandoning all norms and morality of the democracy. “The country has been thrown into darkness again in a planned manner. The pro-democratic and independent minded people of the country would never recognize and accept it as a legitimate

Former President and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has been appointed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s special envoy with the rank and status of a cabinet minister. The Cabinet Division yesterday issued a gazette notification in this regards. According to sources, guests present at the oath taking ceremony started laughing at

At least 35 former ministers and state ministers of the previous Grand Alliance government have failed to secure berths in the new cabinet of Sheikh Hasina. The ministers and state ministers have been dropped from the cabinet because of their alleged poor performance and controversial roles. The influential ministers axed from

Some AL leaders who were ministers previously but were not included in the immediate past government have been made ministers in the new cabinet.Among them, Amir Hossain Amu has been made the industries minister, Tofail Ahmed the commerce minister and Mohammad Nasim has been made the health minister. Amu and Tofail were

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has picked up some new faces with clean image in her cabinet as ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers. Advocate Anisul Huq, AKM Mozammel huq, Asaduzzaman Noor, Emaj Uddin, Sayedul Huq, Syed Mohsin Ali, Shamsur Rahman Sharif Dilu and

Four former advisers to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have retained their positions in the new government. HT Imam, Moshiur Rahman, Gowher Rizvi and Maj Gen (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique were appointed as advisers to the prime minister yesterday. The Cabinet Division in a gazette notification said they were appointed with the rank and status of