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‘Ershad not arrested’ The ruling Awami League senior leader Mohammad Nasim Friday urged the members of the law enforcement agencies to get tougher against the leaders and activists of Jamaat-Shibir. “The law enforcers should take stern action against the Jamaat-Shibir activists so that they cannot stand politically in the country,” he said while addressing a ... Read more

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad Friday hinted that the scope for an election with participation of all political party on January 5 is getting thin with the passage of time. “It’s going to be difficult, but the scope is there always. If all (political parties) reach a realistic decision, then they’ll tell us how ... Read more

The ruling Awami League on Friday requested the Election Commission to allocate its election symbol ‘boat’ to 10 candidates from its three alliance partners to contest the January-5 general election. Of the 10 candidates, four each are from Bangladesh Workers’ Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasad, and two from Tarikat Federation. The candidates are

Mohammad Zahirul Haque, the chief train controller of Bangladesh Railway, Dhaka has been suspended for providing wrong information to news media about rail communications. He was suspended on Friday following an order issued by railways minister Mohammad Mazibul Hoque, said a press release. The release

War crimes convict Abdul Quader Molla, also an assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, was hanged Thursday night at Dhaka Central Jail amid heightened security. The jail authorities executed Quader, convicted of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, after the government

At least six people, four in Lakshmipur, died in violence as law enforcers fired into blockaders and blockaders attacked vehicles on the last of the 144-hour countrywide blockade of road, railway and waterways the opposition started enforcing on Saturday. Four died in Lakshmipur as the Rapid Action Battalion

The supply of urea and non urea fertilisers to the dealers has drastically dropped due to severe road communication disruptions caused by the nationwide blockade, officials said. They, however, said that there were sufficient fertilisers in the stocks at the national level. They also said that unscrupulous fertilizer traders

The participation rate in schools of children from national minorities is significantly below the national primary enrolment rate. The rate of literacy, the ability of a person to write a letter, amongst those belonging to national minorities is also far behind the national rate, government surveys and studies conducted by development partners and research

Law enforcers picked up the Jatiya Party chairman, HM Ershad, from his house at Baridhara about 11:40pm on Thursday, the party’s secretary general ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader, said. ‘RAB 1 personnel picked up our leader. He was later admitted to Dhaka Combined Military Hospital because of “illness” after he had officially

Amid the current political turmoil in Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Thursday called on India to show respect to the ‘demands’ of people over the dispute relating to the poll-time government. “I urge influential neighbour India and its people to express solidarity with the world community by showing respect to the aspirations and demands of

Ganajagaran Mancha erupted into joy and chanted slogans soon after the announcement of the execution of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah for committing crimes against humanity during the country’s war of liberation. The activists of the Mancha chanted slogans like ‘Ei Matro Khobor Elo, Quader Mollah’r Fasi Holo (Here comes the news, Quader Mollah

The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike for December 15 in protest at the execution of its assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Molla, convicted of committing crimes against humanity in the independence war in 1971. The acting Jamaat amir Makbul Ahmad in a statement

UK senior foreign office minister Baroness Warsi, who came to Dhaka on a one-day visit on Thursday, stressed the importance of free, fair and transparent elections saying that the acceptability of the elections would be determined by the people of Bangladesh. Warsi visited Bangladesh for the second time

Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Hossain Mohammad Ershad has requested the Election Commission (EC) not to give the symbol — Plough — to any party or individual as it is JP’s logo. In a letter to EC secretary Dr. Muhammed Sadik, Ershad said that as chairman of a registered political party he has the right to ... Read more

The Bangladesh railway authorities on Thursday suspended all railway services across the country for about four hours fearing sabotage shortly after the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Molla. Dhaka divisional railway manager Sardar Shahadat Ali told New Age that the authorities had suspended all train services for about four

The Bangladesh Railway is facing uncertainties in launching its trial basis train tracking system on mobile phones for the benefit of the passengers. The launching scheduled for last month became uncertain due to political unrests, said BR officials. They said that the plan was to display

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad has said the army is ready to get deployed during the 10th parliament elections slated for January 5. “The army has already been alerted…they’re ready to get deployed,” he said while talking to reporters Thursday evening. Kazi Rakibuddin, however,

A schoolboy was killed in a road accident in front of Lafarge Cement Factory colony in Chhatak upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Al-Nabin Sadik, 14, student of class IX of Kamar Ali High School and son of Saudi expatriate Chand Mia, hailing from Chhonkhair village of the upazila. Shahjalal Munshi, officer-in-charge of Chhatak police ... Read more

ACC grills 6 bank officials The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday interrogated six officials of Sonali Bank in connection with the much-talked-about Sonali Bank loan scam, reports UNB. A seven-member investigation team, led by its deputy director Mir Zainul Abedin Shibly, interrogated them at the Commission head office in the capital as witnesses of ... Read more

AL, BNP stick to stances The much-hyped Taranco mission ended inconclusively on Wednesday as both the ruling and the opposition parties remained firm on their respective stances over the poll-time government format, the apple of discord of the current impasse. But according to many, the UN Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco has at least been ... Read more