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BNP Standing Committee member Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain has said the ruling Awami League (AL) is mulling to bring a third force in power apprehending its inevitable debacle in the next general election. AL is engaged in hatching conspiracy to hand over power to the third force apprehending its inevitable setback in the next general election. ... Read more

Sumaya’s dream of earning a livelihood for which came to Dhaka has been shattered because of a workplace accident in which she lost her sight. Physicians have also diagnosed a cancerous tumour in the body as she is now being treated in Dhaka Medical College Hospital

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, will sit in a meeting with her party’s policymaking body today to review the current political situation and determine the next course of action for restoration of the election-time ‘non-party’ government. The meeting of the BNP national standing committee will start at Khaleda’s Gulshan office at

Fresh violence hit Egypt Thursday, with Islamists going on the counterattack a day after a crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi sparked clashes that killed hundreds and drew international censure.  The country awakened to an unusual calm after an overnight curfew imposed by the army-backed government, but Morsi supporters vowed

The nation paid glowing tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his 38th death anniversary on Thursday. Mujib, along with all but two of his family members, was killed by a disgruntled section of army officers at his Dhanmondi residence here on August 15, 1975. Since then, the day is being observed as National Mourning ... Read more

No compromise on constitution: Nasim Awami League general secretary and LGRD minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Thursday said that the opposition could not gain any benefit through the anti-government movement demanding restoration of caretaker government.  “The opposition could not gain any benefit out of movement. No solution would come from it. If you have any

Sarker Shahidul Islam Shaheed, Mayor of Madhupur Municipality of the district, was arrested on Thursday as clashes erupted between two units of the main opposition BNP in the area injuring at least 50 people including 10 cops. Food Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque MP of the constituency, while attending the National Mourning day programme at a ... Read more

Two rival factions of the Chittagong city unit of BNP locked into scuffle over cutting cake to celebrate the 69th birthday of the party’s chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia here in the port city on Thursday morning. Witnesses said that the brawl took place at Nasimon Bhaban, office of the city unit of BNP, and it ... Read more

Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Heather Cruden on Thursday voiced deep concern over the arrest of Adilur Rahman Khan, secretary of human rights organization Odhikar, and demanded his release from detention. “I’m deeply concerned by the arrest of Adilur Rahman Khan. Canada joins like-minded missions in Bangladesh to urge the government

Leader of the opposition in Parliament Khaleda Zia on Thursday celebrated her 69 birthday by cutting a large cake at her Gulshan office. Senior leaders and party activists, intellectuals and professionals including poets, writers, journalists, doctors, engineers and lawyers were present on the occasion. The BNP Chairperson cut the 69-pound cake at 9:05pm at a ... Read more

In sharp contrast with the current trend in many Asian countries which grow farmed fish in traditional-small-scale systems that benefit local communities, one third of ponds in Bangladesh are not used for scientific fish farming. Fish farming in all the ponds and dighis in the country, using modern technology, would multiply production, said fisheries officials.

2 children missing in Ctg boat capsize A father’s affection knows no bounds. One such father is Harun-ur-Rashid who drowned trying to save his two children after a boat capsize in the river Karnaphuli in Chittagong Wednesday evening. The bodies of the three could not be traced yet though a rescue operation has been on ... Read more

The website of the country’s telecom regulator was hacked yesterday and the hackers had put a bunch of links to porn sites with all the posts and notices at the site. Giasuddin Ahmed, vice-chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), last night said experts were working to recover the site.

The nation is set to observe the National Mourning Day on Thursday – the 38th martyrdom anniversary of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. On this fateful night of August 15 in 1975, Bangabandhu and most of his family members were brutally assassinated by a group of derailed army officers at

A government task force has failed to lay its hands on six convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, even 15 years after a court sentenced them to death. The task force, led by law minister Shafique Ahmed, however, has managed to trace the whereabouts of two of the absconders – former

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday after hearing both the sides in the war crimes case against Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, MP, said it would deliver the verdict at a later date. Curia advisari vult, or judgement CAV, is a Latin legal term meaning ‘the court wishes to deliver the verdict at a later date. After ... Read more

Forty eminent personalities of the world urged prime minister Sheikh Hasina  to reject the report of the government Commission on Grameen Bank (GB)  saying that implementation of the report ‘would jeopardise the role that GB and the Grameen family of businesses have played  in that  fight’.` Commending the leadership of the prime minister in the ... Read more

The finance minister, AMA Muhith, on Wednesday said that no ‘shouting’ would help Muhammad Yunus to get back Grameen Bank. ‘Yunus may shout a lot, but he would not be able to regain the Grameen Bank,’ Muhith told reporters after a meeting of the cabinet committee on economic affairs at the

A ward level leader of the Islami Chhatra Shibir was killed in a clash between police and pro-hartal activists on Wednesday, the second day of the 48-hour nationwide hartal called by the Jamaat-e-Islami. According to eyewitnesses, Khalilur Rahman was killed in police firing. Police, however, said that Rahman was crushed under the wheels of a ... Read more

The United Nations has voiced concern about the arrest of human rights activist Adilur Rahman Khan and urged the government of Bangladesh to secure his immediate release. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesperson Liz Throssell made urge in Geneva on Tuesday, reported the UN News Centre on