Case filed over Brahmanbaria woman AL leader murder

Police detain a man for questioning over the killing of women affairs secretary of Nabinagar upazila Awami League in Brahmanbaria.
23 November 2017, 07:20 AM

AL woman leader stabbed dead in Brahmanbaria

Unidentified miscreants stab dead a local woman leader of Awami League in Nabinagar upazila of Bahmanbaria. The deceased, Swapna Akter, 45, was the woman affair secretary of the upazila unit AL, our Bahmanbaria correspondent reports quoting police and the vice president of the upazila unit of party.
22 November 2017, 16:43 PM

Kawsar gets BNP ticket for Rangpur city polls

Rangpur city BNP’s Vice President Kawsar Zaman has been given the ticket from BNP to contest in the upcoming Rangpur City Corporation polls.
22 November 2017, 05:12 AM

Zimbabwe's Mugabe resigns, ending 4 decades of rule

Robert Mugabe resigns as Zimbabwe's president a week after the army and his former political allies moved against him, ending four decades of rule by a man who turned from independence hero to archetypal African strongman.
21 November 2017, 16:47 PM

AL MP Nizam Hazari behind Khaleda motorcade attack, says local party leader

A local Awami League leader accuses his party’s lawmaker Nizam Uddin Hazari of masterminding the attack on the convoy of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Feni last month.
21 November 2017, 09:55 AM

1971 veteran forces’ members will get allowance: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announces that the government would provide allowance from January next to the members of different forces who took part in the Liberation War.
21 November 2017, 08:39 AM

Khaleda calls her advisors tonight

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened a meeting of her advisory council tonight.
21 November 2017, 06:15 AM

Indonesia parliament speaker taken into custody by anti-graft agency

Indonesia's parliament speaker, Setya Novanto, is taken into custody by the anti-corruption agency after being arrested over his alleged role in causing state losses of $170 million linked to a national electronic identity card scheme.
20 November 2017, 09:19 AM

Zimbabwe's Mugabe has drafted resignation letter, CNN says

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has agreed to stand down and his resignation letter has been drafted, CNN says, citing a source familiar with his negotiations with the generals who seized power in Harare.
20 November 2017, 09:02 AM

Rangpur attack won’t sway city polls: CEC

The attack on Hindu community at Harkali Thakurpara village of Rangpur will not sway the Rangpur City Corporation Election, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda says
19 November 2017, 10:08 AM

Govt won’t intervene in EC: Shipping Minister

Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan says the incumbent government will not intervene in the Election Commission although it will discharge duty during holding the next general election.
19 November 2017, 09:02 AM

Ex-deputy speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui passes away

Former Deputy Speaker of the parliament Md Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui passes away at a private hospital in Dhaka at the age of 71.
19 November 2017, 07:38 AM

HC rejects Tangail AL MP Rana’s bail plea

The High Court rejects a bail petition filed by Tangail’s Awami League lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana in freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed murder case.
19 November 2017, 06:45 AM

Recognition of Bangabandhu’s 7th March speech a matter of joy: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says Unesco’s recognition to the historic 7th March speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is a matter of joy.
18 November 2017, 13:01 PM

Khaleda sits with BNP vice-chairmen

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia holds a meeting with her party vice-chairmen at her Gulshan office in Dhaka.
18 November 2017, 06:46 AM

Russian elite invested nearly $100m in Trump buildings

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J Trump downplayed his business ties with Russia. And since taking office as president, he is even more emphatic.
18 November 2017, 05:56 AM

BNP Vice Chairman Mintoo, family on Paradise Papers

Names of businessman and BNP Vice Chairman Abdul Awal Mintoo, his wife and three sons surface in Paradise Papers as shareholders of NFM Energy Ltd, a gas drilling exploration company.
18 November 2017, 05:01 AM

History can’t be erased: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon the countrymen to remain alert so that the defeated forces in the Liberation War of 1971 cannot get the scope to distort the history.
18 November 2017, 04:56 AM

Zimbabweans to march as Mugabe's future in the balance

Zimbabwe is set for more political turmoil with protests planned as veterans of the independence war, activists and ruling party leaders called publicly for President Robert Mugabe to be forced from office.
18 November 2017, 04:53 AM

Hariri says his Saudi stay was to discuss Lebanon's future

Saad al-Hariri, who resigned from his post as Lebanon's prime minister two weeks ago from Saudi Arabia, says he has been in Saudi for discussions "on the future of the situation in Lebanon and its relations with the surrounding Arab region".
17 November 2017, 15:00 PM