Politics

Jubo Dal leader held in Dhaka

Police detain a leader and an activist of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, youth front of BNP, from Wari in Dhaka.
25 February 2015, 15:02 PM

Bus torched in Gendaria

Miscreants set fire to a passenger bus in Shamibag area of Gendaria in Dhaka
25 February 2015, 14:36 PM

Hartals, blockade eat up Tk 1.20 lakh crore: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the country has incurred a loss of over Tk 1.20 lakh crore in the hartals and nonstop blockade since January 6.
25 February 2015, 14:29 PM

Sajjadul made PM's PS-1

Sajjadul Hassan, divisional commissioner of Sylhet, has been appointed as personal secreatry-1 to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
25 February 2015, 14:23 PM

Why obstructions on ETV programme telecast: HC

High Court questions legality of suspending airing television programme of Ekushey Television
25 February 2015, 11:38 AM

Arrest warrant for Khaleda

A Dhaka court issues arrest warrant against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two graft cases
25 February 2015, 05:04 AM

Rab hands Manna over to DB

Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna, whose two leaked phone calls created quite a stir across the country, is handed over to detectives by members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)
24 February 2015, 20:15 PM

How does Bangladesh figure in India's Look East Policy?

INDIA is looking for new economic frontiers in the East. In the face of continuing stalemate of WTO negotiations, countries are looking for alternative or parallel arrangements. The past decade has seen the flourishing of many such initiatives. As an emerging global economic powerhouse, India would obviously not like to be left behind.
24 February 2015, 18:00 PM

Hype over Mamata Banerjee visit

Mamata Banerjee came, saw, but did not quite conquer the Bangladeshi heart. But then, the last may not have been her plan.
24 February 2015, 18:00 PM

This column is not about…

MAHMUDUR Rahman Manna. It is not about he who invested over four decades in politics, and jumped off the cliff because of two conversations that turned him into a villain.
24 February 2015, 18:00 PM

Police denial about Manna’s detention shocks BNP

BNP expresses its astonishment after police denies picking up Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna.
24 February 2015, 14:49 PM

Arrest order for Mirza Abbas, Alamgir Kabir

A Dhaka court issued arrest warrants against five people, including former housing and public works minister Mirza Abbas and state minister Alamgir Kabir, in a case filed for causing the state a loss of Tk 16 crore.
24 February 2015, 13:52 PM

Manna’s family files general diary

Mahmudur Rahman Manna’s family files a general diary with Banani Police Station after detectives denied his detention.
24 February 2015, 13:23 PM

Armed forces must move keeping in view govt stance against terrorism: PM

PM Sheikh Hasina says the country's armed forces must move forward imbued with the same ideology
24 February 2015, 12:08 PM

Hartal extended till 6am Friday

BNP-led 20-party alliance extend its countrywide ongoing hartal till 6:00am Friday protesting what it said the killings of opposition leaders and activists in the name of crossfire and for the filing of false cases against the alliance leaders
24 February 2015, 10:31 AM

Detectives deny detaining Manna

Plainclothes men introducing themselves as detectives allegedly pick up Nagorik Oikya convener Manna from a house in Dhaka
24 February 2015, 00:35 AM

Long awaited visit

FINALLY, Mamata Banerjee, who is popularly known as Didi in India, paid us a visit. We only wonder why she didn't come much earlier! She won a landslide victory in the West Bengal legislative assembly election in 2011.
23 February 2015, 18:00 PM

The“Arab Spring”that is no more

FOUR years after the abdication of long-time Egyptian autocrat, President Husni Mubarak, in what seemed a watershed moment in recent history, the“Arab Spring -- a succession of popular uprisings in Arab countries -- seems depleted, defeated, and reset to zero.
23 February 2015, 18:00 PM

The fatalism we are living with

WEEK after week has passed by since we have been living in a state of terror. Blockades and strikes appear to reign supreme in the lives of millions of helpless people in the country.
23 February 2015, 18:00 PM

2 crude bombs hurled at AL MP Suranjit’s Zigatola house

Unidentified miscreants hurl two crude bombs at the houses of ruling Awami League lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta at Zigatola in Dhaka
23 February 2015, 17:06 PM