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Lawyers meet Khaleda at jail

-- 2018-09-07 20:09:54

Four lawyers of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia met her at the Old Dhaka Central Jail at Nazimuddin Road on Friday. The four Supreme Court lawyers, led by BNP standing committee member Jamiruddin Sircar,...

National unity to turn into political unity: Mosharraf

-- 2018-09-07 19:02:24

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said different political parties' current efforts to forge a national unity for holding a fair election will soon turn into a political unity. "Count...

Awful project implementation

-- 2018-09-06 22:23:51

The Roads and Highways Department's submission of the second revision proposal for completion of 29-kilometre Jamalpur-Madarganj road-widening work is nothing but the perennial problem bedevilling the...

Muhith won’t contest JS polls

-- 2018-09-06 21:03:17

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said he will not contest in the upcoming parliament elections. “I am not contesting elections. I will propose my younger brother MA Momen’s name in...

Jatiya Party to contest in 300 constituencies: Ershad

-- 2018-09-06 19:49:22

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Thursday said their party will fill candidates in all the 300 constituencies in the upcoming national election, aiming to return to power for ensuring good governanc...

Bangladesh now a ‘repressive state’, terms BNP

-- 2018-09-06 17:04:49

Claiming that its 1,500 leaders and activists were arrested and 80,000 unidentified people were made accused across the country in 12,000 cases over the last two weeks, BNP on Thursday said Bangladesh...

Making most of inland waterways

-- 2018-09-05 21:23:11

The ministry of shipping (MoS) has once again urged businesspeople to make good use of the waterways between the Chittagong Port and Pangaon Container Terminal at Keraniganj, Dhaka. It is intriguing w...

BNP announces two-day programme for Khaleda’s release

-- 2018-09-05 15:21:17

BNP on Wednesday announced a two-day countrywide programme demanding its Chairperson Khaleda Zia's release from jail. The programme includes holding of an hour-long human chain on September 8 and a t...

Duty on sugar: Why should consumers suffer?

-- 2018-09-04 21:51:31

'One doth the scathe and another hath the scorn' is an adage that fits in well with the government's reported move to raise the import duty on both raw and refined forms of sugar, a widely used swee...

Police arrest 16 BNP men in Sylhet

-- 2018-09-04 17:10:30

Police in a drive detained a total of 16 local leaders and activists of BNP from Goalbazar union parishad chairman's residence under Osmani Nagar upazila in Sylhet on Monday night. Acting on a tip-of...

Govt conspiring to create communal division, Rizvi claims

-- 2018-09-04 16:42:59

BNP's senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that the government is conspiring to create a communal division in the country to fish in troubled waters. The BNP leader made the a...

Police detain UK BNP leader in Sylhet

-- 2018-09-04 10:38:48

Police have detained BNP UK unit Joint General Secretary Shohidul Islam Mamun from his residence in Badambagich area of Sylhet. Based on obvious allegation, the law enforcers arrested him from his re...

Victims of teenage gang rivalry

-- 2018-09-03 22:16:46

Teenage groups' gang rivalry has claimed yet another victim in the capital's Dakkhin Khan, a kilometre or two east to the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Such gang rivalries made screaming hea...

Govt’s political vengeance leads to Tarique’s long exile: BNP

-- 2018-09-03 14:23:02

BNP on Monday alleged that its acting chairman Tarique Rahman has long been in exile being subjected to the government's political vengeance. "Today, we remember the day when Tarique Rahman was relea...

Unremitting child labour  

-- 2018-09-02 22:29:25

With 93 per cent of the country's child workers still active in the informal sector comprising hazard-filled factories and services, children seem to be destined to pass through unremittingly difficul...

Developments will stop if AL doesn’t return to power: Tofail

-- 2018-09-02 22:13:43

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday claimed that all the development works will stop if the Awami League (AL) does not return to power in the upcoming national polls. The AL leader made the clai...

BNP will endanger the Hindu community: Quader

-- 2018-09-02 18:17:09

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has reminded the Hindu community of the communal violence they faced after the BNP’s electoral victory in 2001 and warned that it may recur if...

Quader suggests BNP to follow democratic path

-- 2018-09-02 16:26:43

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged BNP to follow democratic path to get people’s mandate in the next general election. The road transport and bridges minister made the rema...

AL must step down before polls: BNP

-- 2018-09-02 14:59:29

BNP on Sunday warned that the government must quit as people will not allow Awami League to hold the national election under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Speaking at a press conference at the party'...

Yet another TIB assessment on graft situation  

-- 2018-09-01 22:10:19

What the Bangladesh chapter of the Transparency International (TI), the Berlin-based anti-graft watchdog, has revealed in its latest household survey on graft situation in the country is unlikely to c...

BNP pushes for greater political unity

-- 2018-09-01 19:29:38

Senior leaders of BNP have urged all, other political parties, to forge a greater unity to 'restore' democracy. They made the call while addressing a public rally marking the 40th founding anniversar...

Draft Public Service Act gives rise to fresh questions

-- 2018-08-31 21:27:46

The cabinet recently gave final nod to the draft Public Service Act, 2018 (PSA) for the second time after relegating it to the back-burner for almost a decade. Earlier, another such approval was accor...

'Election train will not wait for any party'

-- 2018-08-31 19:06:18

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said Awami League has nothing to do if BNP does not take part in the upcoming general elections. Obaidul Quader said, “Taking part in elec...

Reopening Malaysian labour market  

-- 2018-08-30 22:12:34

The announcement of the closure of Malaysian labour market for Bangladeshi workers with effect from September 01 is indeed a disquieting development. As claimed by the Malaysian government, this has b...

BNP to get befitting reply, if tries to create anarchy, says Quader

-- 2018-08-30 16:48:44

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today (Thursday) said a befitting reply will be given, if BNP tries to create anarchy in the name of movement. &l...

AL relies on machine over people: BNP

-- 2018-08-30 15:24:21

Strongly opposing the Election Commission's move to use Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the next general election, BNP on Thursday said Awami League is now 'depending on machine losing confidence...

Schools without hygienic facilities

-- 2018-08-29 22:04:40

The world so advanced in science and technology lives with many of its imperfections. But not all imperfections have equally telling impacts on the future of mankind. Apart from the arms race which is...

Quader takes responsibility of treatment of two road crash victims

-- 2018-08-29 18:02:48

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday visited National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) in the city to see...

Resolving the Rohingya crisis  

-- 2018-08-28 22:07:49

Saturday marked the first anniversary of the latest mass exodus of the stateless Rohingya refugees from Myanmar's Rakhine state into Bangladesh. An ethnic cleansing resorted to by the Myanmar military...

Upcoming election a big challenge for AL, says Fakhrul

-- 2018-08-28 16:40:02

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said the next election is a big challenge for Awami League, not for BNP, as people will not cast votes for the ruling party. "Facing peopl...