Politics
Over 2,100 BNP men held during spl crackdown: Rizvi
Over 2,100 leaders and activists of BNP are so far arrested by law enforcers during the ongoing anti-militancy crackdown, the party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed claims.
13 June 2016, 08:18 AM
Illiberal Democracy or Undemocratic Liberalism?
It is hardly surprising, then, that citizens on both sides of the Atlantic feel that they are no longer masters of their political fate. For all intents and purposes, they now live under a regime that is liberal, yet undemocratic: a system in which their rights are mostly respected but their political preferences are routinely ignored.
12 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Crackdown a pretext to suppress opposition: BNP
BNP fears that the government may suppress the opposition on the pretext of carrying out a crackdown on extremists across the country.
10 June 2016, 10:09 AM
Aslam named some masterminds: Cops
BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury has spilled names of the masterminds who sent him up for meeting an Israeli politician and divulged some other crucial information, police say.
9 June 2016, 06:48 AM
Armenians in Dhaka
I am intrigued by the common history of massacre that Armenians and Bangladeshis share, and how this history, in many ways, shapes the national personality of these two peoples. More fascinating yet that Dhaka presents a robust Armenian history.
8 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Govt itself trying to destabilise country: BNP
BNP alleges that the government itself is trying to destabilise the country by using the repeated incidents of secret killings only to stay in power.
8 June 2016, 12:35 PM
Budget not feasible, for the people: BNP
Proposed budget is not for the development of the people, BNP says in its budget reaction.
8 June 2016, 09:05 AM
All-out efforts on to hunt down killers: PM
Pointing the finger at the BNP-Jamaat clique for all the recent secret killings in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the intelligence and law enforcement agencies are out there to track down the culprits.
8 June 2016, 08:44 AM
Debate on Bangladesh: EU for ‘political dialogue’
Expressing concern over the current situation in Bangladesh, the European Union has pressed for political dialogue in a debate over the country’s issue at its parliament.
8 June 2016, 04:48 AM
Jamaat changes logo
Jamaat-e-Islami brings change in its logo with using red and green colour on it.
7 June 2016, 15:39 PM
UP polls: BNP blames govt, EC for violence, irregularities
Both the government and the Election Commission are responsible for the irregularities and violence occurred during all the phases of union parishad elections, BNP alleges.
4 June 2016, 13:27 PM
Hearing on proceedings against Khaleda adjourned till Jun 23
A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned the hearing of trial proceedings till June 23 in Zia Charitable Trust graft case filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and three others.
2 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Graft case: Court accepts Khaleda’s time petition
A Dhaka court adjourns the hearing of trial proceedings till June 23 in Zia Charitable Trust graft case filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and eight others.
2 June 2016, 04:30 AM
If our democracy could talk, what would it say?
When people resist what the government would like to wholesale, impose, or force-feed as “development”, democracy seems quite at ease to quell people's resistances, violate pledges and dismiss the age-old demands of the adivasi communities.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Dinajpur court orders arrest for Tarique
A Dinajpur court issues arrest warrant against BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in a case filed for his derogatory remarks against Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 2014.
1 June 2016, 10:40 AM
Khaleda appeals to SC for staying Zia Charitable Trust graft trial
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia files two separate appeals with the Supreme Court for staying the trial proceedings of Zia Charitable Trust corruption case against her.
31 May 2016, 11:54 AM
BNP leader Aslam on 7-day remand in sedition case
A Dhaka court places BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury on a seven-day remand in a sedition case filed allegedly for hatching a conspiracy with Israel's Likud Party and its intelligence agency Mossad to oust the government.
31 May 2016, 08:07 AM
Physicist Hawking baffled by Trump's rise
Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking may have a good grasp of the workings of the universe, but he says he can not understand Donald Trump's popularity.
31 May 2016, 03:10 AM
30-day remand sought for Aslam in sedition, 2 other cases
Law enforcers seek a 30-day remand for interrogating BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury in three separate cases including a sedition one. The sedition case has been filed allegedly for hatching a conspiracy with Israel's Likud Party and its intelligence agency Mossad to oust the government.
30 May 2016, 06:48 AM
Causality up in 5th phase UP polls: CEC
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad says the causality increased during fifth phase of Union Parishad (UP) election compared to the previous phases.
28 May 2016, 13:51 PM