News Desk :Just concluded Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election was a “model of irregularities,” said Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder on...
UNB, Dhaka :College students blocked the Mostafa Majir intersection of Rampura-Demra Road after a first-year student was killed in a...
Staff Reporter :Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called upon the Bangladesh government to immediately investigate these premeditated killings, and identify and prosecute those who conspired or ordered these murders. “Sheikh Hasina’s government can’t afford to send mixed messages about these attacks on bloggers just for expressing their opinions about religion,” Brad Adams, director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division in a statement said, yesterday.The HRW also urged the Bangladesh government to declare an unequivocal commitment to free speech instead of...
Our Correspondent :Police and BNP activists locked in a clash in Naogaon district town on Tuesday, leaving at least 50 people including cops injured.Police and witnesses said as part of party programmer, district BNP tried to bring out a processing around 12 noon in protest against the death of a Hefazat activist. A fisticuff began when police tried to intercept them. At one stage, police charged batons on the protesters to disperse them.The BNP men regrouped near the party office...
Ehsanul Haque Jasim :The Bangladeshi Hajis are reportedly undergoing untold sufferings both at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah and...
Staff Reporter :Demolition of BGMEA (Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association) building is only a matter of time.The Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday dismissed a petition seeking review of its judgment that upheld a High Court (HC) verdict for demolishing the BGMEA complex.A three-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC headed by the Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order after two days’ hearing.The apex court, however, asked the BGMEA authorities to submit an application in the...
Staff Reporter :While observing the 44th founding anniversary across the country and in the capital amid a sea of party...
Staff Reporter :At least twenty-one people were killed during Eid holidays in nine districts of the country and scores injured in road accidents. In Feni, at least six people were killed in Feni and three others injured. Of them three died when a bus hit on auto rickshaw on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Lemua upazila on Friday afternoon.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Highway Police Sergeant Enamul Haque said that the accident took place in the afternoon...
Our Correspondent :Police arrested a young man in a case filed over killing of a newly-elected councillor in Sirajganj municipal election.Accused Zahidul Islam was arrested from Jatrabari in the capital on Thursday night.A knife used to kill councillor Tariqul Islam Khan was also recovered from his possession.Hasibul Alam, Superintendent of Sirajganj Police, informed this in a press conference held at his ofice on Friday.On January 16, BNP-backed candidate Tariqul Islam Khan, who was elected unofficially councillor of ward 6 in...