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Party confides on stalwarts, Abul Hossain left out The ruling Awami League (AL) on Friday announced its final candidates’ list for 300 constituencies to contest the upcoming 10th parliamentary election scheduled for January 5 amid the opposition threat to boycott the polls. The party’s general secretary, Syed Ashraful Islam, announced the names of those who ... Read more

In an ironic twist of fate, a newsperson has become a news item herself. This teenage girl, who collected various news items every week, found herself on a hospital bed when unidentified miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at a running bus near the Children’s Park at Shahbagh area in the capital on Thursday evening. Two ... Read more

The Acting Secretary General of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, has asked the Election Commission (EC) to withdraw the schedule it has announced for the 10th parliamentary polls in order to accelerate the process of dialogue for resolving the crisis over the poll-time administration. “The EC has announced

A group of miscreants set fire to a multi-storey industrial unit of the Standard Group at Konabari in Gazipur on Thursday night, damaging the property that suspended the factory operation. No casualties, however, were reported as 27,000 people working there had left eight-storey building before it had been set on fire. Fire fighters took more than 15 ... Read more

The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, again wrote a letter to the leader of the opposition in the parliament, Khaleda Zia, also the BNP chairperson, requesting her to end the ‘bitter disputes’ over the forthcoming national elections slated for January 5. BNP vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury

New curriculum requires interns to work in upazila health complexes for 15 days MBBS students will require to take four professional exams, instead of the existing three, from the 2013–14 academic session under a new curriculum that has been put in force. The curriculum that the government effected in March also requires each of the ... Read more

Calls on Khaleda Kazi Zafar Ahmed formed a new faction on Friday, a day after his expulsion from Jatiya Party by its chairman HM Ershad. Kazi Zafar is the chairman of the new faction while Golam Mosih the secretary general, according to a press release. The faction was formed after a meeting at Mosih’s Gulshan ... Read more

The Primary and Ebtedayee examinations already rescheduled for Saturday have been rescheduled again for Dec 6 (Friday). The exams were rescheduled for a fresh spell of opposition’s 72-hour blockade from 6am Saturday. The religious education, Quran-Tazbeed and Aqaid-Fiqh examinations will start at 9:30am on Friday, Director General of the Directorate of

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has alleged that the government has implicated at least 16 senior BNP leaders, including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in connection with Thursday’s arson attack on a bus that left a youth dead and 16 people injured. In a written statement, Khaleda said the government has unleashed the politics of vengeance. She ... Read more

Jatiya Party chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad has iterated that his party will not take part in the parliamentary election unless a congenial atmosphere is created for holding it onJanuary 5. “Just wait for my signal after submission of your nomination papers. If we think that the election will be credible, we would contest it. Go ... Read more

A Chittagong court has rejected two bail petitions of Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin, an advisor to the BNP chairperson. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Mashfiqul Islam also rejected two remand petitions against Nasir and sent him to jail on Friday. During the day’s proceedings, the police produced Mir Nasir, arrested in two separate cases filed ... Read more

Senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta, MP, on Friday urged the oppositions to join the all party government to maintain the progress of democracy, giving up the path of anarchy and violence. “The prime minister does not hold the supreme power. However, if the opposition wants to reduce the power of the prime minister, the ... Read more

India is planning a new tiger sanctuary inside the world’s largest mangrove forest after a previously undiscovered group of the endangered beasts was discovered, wildlife officials have said. The reserve is planned inside the Sundarbans, a forest that straddles West Bengal’s border with Bangladesh, to protect the tigers from poachers and try to boost their

A man was shot dead and 25 people, including two cops, were injured in a triangular clash involving activists of the ruling party and BNP, and police in Chakaria municipality area on Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Zaker Hossain, 48, son of late Akbar Ahmed of Miazirpara in the municipality. Local BNP claimed Zaker ... Read more

One person was killed and 17 others, including a TV journalist, a lawyer, a banker, a policeman and the driver of a bus sustained severe burn injuries when the vehicle was set ablaze by unidentified miscreants near the Children’s Park in Shahbagh on Thursday evening, police said. After setting the vehicle on fire, the arsonists ... Read more

The BNP-led 18-party alliance is planning to organise a week-long blockade next week if the Election Commission does not withdraw the election schedule announced on Monday. While launching a “tough agitation”, the Opposition will also be involved in indirect negotiations with the government facilitated by diplomatic

BNP leader Mir Nasir held At least 200 people were injured, while more than 20 vehicles were torched and vandalised in the city and elsewhere in the country as supporters of the BNP-led 18-party alliance clashed with law enforcers and ruling alliance activists on the third consecutive day of the 71-hour blockade programme on Thursday. ... Read more

Train Schedule Disruption Passengers continue to suffer Massive disruptions in train schedules in almost all routes have intensified passengers’ suffering in the wake of attacks on railway establishments and violence during the opposition’s countrywide blockade programme. The railway communication between Dhaka and outlying destinations became almost paralysed for the third consecutive day on Thursday due

The Awami League Parliamentary Board (ALPB) has so far finalised candidates for around 200 constituencies. The decision was taken in a series of meetings, which started from Wednesday, specially arranged to scrutinise the party’s nomination papers. Party insiders said that the ALPB might finalise the names of candidates for the remaining seats by Thursday and

Hasina asks Khaleda Taking a dig at Khaleda Zia for staying in the house after announcing agitation pogramme, Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the Opposition Leader to take the field if she really wanted to go for any movement. “If you want to wage any movement, come to the ... Read more