PM sends Eid card to Khaleda

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sends an Eid greeting card to her political opponent BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia wishing her a happy Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims.
30 August 2017, 12:35 PM

PM urges US to put pressure on Myanmar to stop Rohingya pushing-in

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the United States to put pressure on Myanmar to stop pushing-in Rohingya nationals to Bangladesh as US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells pays a courtesy call on the premier at her office in Dhaka.
30 August 2017, 09:28 AM

EC talks: Jagpa, Biplobi Workers Party for army deployment

Bangladesher Biplobi Workers Party and Jatiya Gonotantrik Party (Jagpa) today urged the Election Commission to deploy army during the next parliamentary election.
30 August 2017, 06:51 AM

Take back Rohingyas intruded into Bangladesh: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has called upon the Myanmar government to take back the Rohingyas intruded into Bangladesh.
29 August 2017, 14:52 PM

UK PM 'outraged' by North Korea missile ahead of Japan trip

British Prime Minister Theresa May, due in Tokyo is "outraged" by North Korea firing a ballistic missile over Japan, her Downing Street office says.
29 August 2017, 12:58 PM

US official in Dhaka to discuss cooperation

Acting assistant secretary of US Department of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells arrives in Dhaka on a two-day.
29 August 2017, 05:12 AM

Govt wants to destroy judiciary: BNP leader Zainul Abedin

BNP leader and Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Advocate Zainul Abedin has alleged that the government wants to destroy the judiciary by threatening the judges.
28 August 2017, 16:18 PM

Take step for smooth hajj flights next year: PM

Citing an oblique reference to the sufferings of hajj pilgrims this year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to initiate a fresh plan so that no hajj pilgrim faces trouble next year.
28 August 2017, 12:13 PM

Give shelter to Rohingyas, Khaleda to govt

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia calls upon the government to provide shelter and security to the Rohingyas who are being forced to flee fresh escalation of violence in Rakhine State of Myanmar.
28 August 2017, 11:50 AM

EC decision to allow PDP to run with Qureishi committee challenged

The High Court questions the legality of the Election Commission’s decision to allow Ferdous Ahmed Qureishi and Principal MA Hossain to run the Progressive Democratic Party as its chairman and secretary general respectively.
28 August 2017, 08:44 AM

‘EC to do whatever needed to hold free polls’

Helal Uddin Ahmed, acting secretary of the Election Commission, says that they will take necessary steps to meet the proposals of different political parties for holding the next general election in a free, fair and inclusive manner.
28 August 2017, 08:29 AM

PM carrying out ‘polls campaign in the name of relief’: Noman

BNP Vice Chairman Abdullah Al-Noman blames “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for carrying out election campaign in the name of distributing relief materials among flood victims”.
27 August 2017, 14:58 PM

Govt to bring all industries under central welfare fund: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said all manufacturing and exporting industries would be brought under the central fund of the Ministry of Labour and Employment created to provide financial support to the families of the workers who die or receive grave injuries in their working places.
27 August 2017, 09:06 AM

Ex-justice Shamsuddin’s remarks on CJ contemptuous: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claims that former Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury’s comment on Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha is “tantamount to contempt of court”.
27 August 2017, 08:08 AM

Govt ‘drawing design to destroy judiciary’: Khandakar Mosharraf

BNP Standing Committee Member Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain says the government is drawing a design to “destroy the country’s judiciary” by raising demand for resignation of the chief justice in the pretext of the verdict on the 16th amendment to the constitution.
26 August 2017, 10:07 AM

No flood victim to suffer from hunger: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said no one will suffer from hunger due to the ongoing flood, renewing the promise that her government's support for the flood victims will continue until the next crops are harvested.
26 August 2017, 06:16 AM

DNCC Mayor Annisul still sedated as medicines not impacted him: Wife Rubana

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq, who is now being treated in a hospital in central London after falling ill, has been kept sedated as the medicines given so far have failed to make any impact.
26 August 2017, 05:50 AM

Cambodian govt closes 15 radio stations

After closing 15 radio stations across the country, the Cambodian Ministry of Information claimed that it is not targeting independent broadcasters.
26 August 2017, 04:29 AM

Show respect, leave power: BNP

BNP calls upon the ruling Awami League to step down from the government, showing respect to the observations of 16th constitutional amendment verdict.
25 August 2017, 11:36 AM

Thailand's former PM Yingluck ‘has fled abroad’

Ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled the country ahead of a verdict against her in a negligence trial brought by the junta that overthrew her, sources close to the Shinawatra family say.
25 August 2017, 04:54 AM