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Fakhrul sees BD's diplomatic failure over Rohingya issue

Fakhrul sees BD's diplomatic failure over Rohingya issue

-- 2018-04-21 21:00:30

The government failed to resolve the Rohingya crisis and some issues with India due to its diplomatic failure. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the allegation on Saturday while...

PM mourns death of AL leader Abdul Karim

PM mourns death of AL leader Abdul Karim

-- 2018-04-21 17:01:41

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed deep shock at the death of Awami League Jatiya Parishad member and one of the organisers of the great Liberation War Md Abdul Karim. In a condolence...

Mobile courts to conduct drive

Mobile courts to conduct drive

-- 2018-04-21 00:24:43

KHULNA, Apr 20 (BSS): Ten mobile courts will begin drives on Tuesday ahead of Khulna City Corporation polls. Consisting with 10 executive magistrates, the mobile teams will take steps against the peo...

Pollution of Surma and smaller rivers   

Pollution of Surma and smaller rivers  

-- 2018-04-20 22:35:07

The continued pollution and grabbing of many relatively smaller rivers in the country go on mostly unnoticed. To the woes of their users, they remain out of the national-level focus. The Surma and Kus...

Relatives fail to meet Khaleda in jail: Fakhrul

Relatives fail to meet Khaleda in jail: Fakhrul

-- 2018-04-20 20:49:14

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that relatives of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia were not allowed to meet her in jail. Fakhrul said some of Khaleda's relatives, including h...

BNP spreads rumours to foil JS polls: Maya

BNP spreads rumours to foil JS polls: Maya

-- 2018-04-20 19:55:45

Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bir Bikram, has said BNP is out to spread rumours centring baseless issues to thwart the next Jatiya Sangsad (JS) election. "...

Allowing electioneering by MPs would be unconstitutional: BNP

Allowing electioneering by MPs would be unconstitutional: BNP

-- 2018-04-20 18:42:37

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said it will be a violation of the constitution if the Election Commission (EC) allows MPs to carry out election campaigns in Khulna and Gazipur city...

Get united to wage demo for election under neutral govt

Get united to wage demo for election under neutral govt

-- 2018-04-20 00:17:39

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urged on Thursday all the political parties to get united in waging movement for holding the next general election under a non-party neutral governmen...

Illegal installations in the vicinity of the Sundarbans   

Illegal installations in the vicinity of the Sundarbans  

-- 2018-04-19 22:46:35

The latest information about more than a hundred small and medium-sized industrial units' location in the vicinity of the Sundarbans makes a bad case not just for the environmentalists but also for...

Hearing on charge framing against Khaleda in Niko graft case May 13

Hearing on charge framing against Khaleda in Niko graft case May 13

-- 2018-04-19 18:53:12

A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed May 13 for holding hearing on framing charges against BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia in Niko graft case. Mahmudul Kabir, judge of Dhaka Special Judge Court-9, set the dat...

Pro-AL panel sweeps DU syndicate polls

Pro-AL panel sweeps DU syndicate polls

-- 2018-04-19 18:18:34

Pro-Awami League 'blue panel' teachers on Thursday swept Dhaka University syndicate, academic council, and finance committee elections by securing 12 posts out of 13. The white panel, backed by BNP...

Filing case against unfit vehicles is no solution

Filing case against unfit vehicles is no solution

-- 2018-04-18 22:38:32

One hundred and two cases filed against unfit vehicles in the city on a single day is a clear indication of the gravity of the problem facing the transport business in the metropolis. It is an open se...

Govt now targets Tarique: BNP

Govt now targets Tarique: BNP

-- 2018-04-18 18:00:38

BNP on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is now devising a new roadmap to take political revenge on its acting chairman Tarique Rahman. “She (Hasina) has now made Tarique Rahm...

Bangladesh wants Tarique back: Hasina

Bangladesh wants Tarique back: Hasina

-- 2018-04-18 12:42:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said they are trying to get the British government extradite BNP leader Tarique Rahman from London to face justice in Bangladesh. Now heading the BNP from exile, Tari...

Land acquisition abused for making money   

Land acquisition abused for making money  

-- 2018-04-17 22:15:28

How costs of public sector development projects soar in the process of their execution is illustrated by the request for an additional allocation from the Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) for the ong...

BNP demands army deployment in Gazipur, Khulna city polls

BNP demands army deployment in Gazipur, Khulna city polls

It seeks immediate withdrawal of Gazipur SP Harun 2018-04-17 13:35:48

BNP on Tuesday demanded deployment of army at least seven days before the mayoral elections to Khulna and Gazipur city corporations billed for May 15. The party also sought immediate withdrawal of Ga...

BNP delegation sits with CEC

BNP delegation sits with CEC

-- 2018-04-17 13:17:58

A six-member BNP delegation sat in a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Tuesday morning ahead of the mayoral elections to Khulna and Gazipur city corporations. The meeting bega...

BCL expels 24 female activists over quota reform protests

BCL expels 24 female activists over quota reform protests

-- 2018-04-17 10:40:41

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has permanently suspended twenty-four of its central and Dhaka University (DU) Kabi Sufia Kamal hall unit leaders and activists for their alleged involvement in the Apr...

Cleanliness drive in city   

Cleanliness drive in city  

-- 2018-04-16 22:27:33

A mass cleanliness drive initiated by the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) last Friday is likely to earn it a place in the Guinness Book. Although the mayor of the DSCC claims his primary intention...

BNP demands Khaleda be moved to Hospital

BNP demands Khaleda be moved to Hospital

-- 2018-04-16 21:26:21

BNP has demanded that Khaleda Zia should be transferred to Gulshan’s United Hospital without delay after her health ‘deteriorated even further’. “Yesterday, we said the leader...

DU BCL’s factional clash leaves six injured

DU BCL’s factional clash leaves six injured

-- 2018-04-16 20:56:51

Six leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have been injured in a factional clash on the Dhaka University campus over their upcoming national council. The injured BCL members allege...

Ershad criticises Hasina for not keeping election pledges

Ershad criticises Hasina for not keeping election pledges

-- 2018-04-16 20:18:34

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina failed to keep her election pledges. Ershad said that Sheikh Hasina came to power promising to provide the poor with rice...

No negligence shown towards Khaleda’s treatment: Nasim

No negligence shown towards Khaleda’s treatment: Nasim

-- 2018-04-16 19:41:30

Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Monday said no negligence was shown in the treatment of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in jail, reports UNB. Talking to the reporters at the secretariat the minister sa...

Narail court to hear Khaleda’s bail plea on May 8

Narail court to hear Khaleda’s bail plea on May 8

-- 2018-04-16 16:08:28

A court on Monday fixed May 8 for hearing on appeal petition filed seeking BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail in a case over ‘derogatory remarks’ against freedom fighters. Judge of...

Eviction drive in Chattogram foiled   

Eviction drive in Chattogram foiled  

-- 2018-04-15 22:06:15

An administrative drive to evict residents from illegally fabricated houses at a foothill in Chattogram was foiled by people of small means living there as tenants. The district administration is unli...

B Chowdhury doubtful about fair election

B Chowdhury doubtful about fair election

-- 2018-04-14 22:05:41

Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Saturday expressed his doubt about a free, fair and neutral election for the government's 'illogical and anti-democratic steps'. &n...

Quota system abolition a wrong decision: Ershad

Quota system abolition a wrong decision: Ershad

-- 2018-04-14 21:16:07

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said it is wrong to fully abolish the quota system in government service.  "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced to abolish the quota system. However,...

Former MP Khurram passes away

Former MP Khurram passes away

-- 2018-04-14 15:09:18

Khandaker Md Khurram, former MP of Sherpur-3 constituency, died at a hospital in Dhaka due to old age complications on Saturday. He was 65. Md Khurram, member of Awami League executive committee, bre...

Do not let BNP, Jamaat take power: PM

Do not let BNP, Jamaat take power: PM

-- 2018-04-14 13:54:39

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all to remain united so that evil forces like BNP-Jamaat clique cannot grab power as they will undermine the country's heritage, culture and existence....

Celebrating Pahela Baishakh   

Celebrating Pahela Baishakh  

-- 2018-04-13 21:26:50

The nation is celebrating Pahela Baishakh, the Bangla New Year's Day, today. The eagerly-awaited day begins, as has been the custom, in Dhaka with Chhayanaut's musical session at Ramna Batamool. The M...