Dengue claims 17 more lives in 24 hrs
Staff Reporter :Dengue claimed more 17 lives in 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 1,449 this...
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US Labor Dept condemns crackdown against trade unionists in Bangladesh
Staff Reporter :The US Department of Labor’s Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs Thea Lee denounced the violent crackdown against trade unionists in Bangladesh. “The US...
UN rights chief urges Bangladesh PM to let Khaleda Zia to go abroad
AFP : The UN rights chief Volker Turk has urged Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina to release main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief Khaleda Zia...
BNP leaders confess to attack CJ’s residence: DB Chief
Staff Reporter :Chief of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch Additional Commissioner Harun-Or-Rashid has claimed that BNP central leaders have confessed to carrying out the attack...
HC issues rule to complain against ex-Pakistani cricketer Waqar Younis
Staff Reporter :The High Court on Wednesday issued a rule asking the Bangladesh Cricket Board to explain as to why it should not be directed...
BNP leader Sayedul, 5 others detained in Gazipur
Staff Reporter :Gazipur police detained six BNP leaders and activists, including its Executive Committee Member Kazi Sayedul Alam alias Babul, when they were trying to...
Deaths from dengue now 1,432
Staff Reporter :Seven more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Wednesday morning as the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease rising in Bangladesh...
Vehicles torched in Dhanmondi, Banani, Tantibazar, Gazipur
Staff Reporter :Vehicles have been set on fire in the capital on Wednesday as BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and other parties once again enforced a 48-hour countrywide...
BNP leader Hafiz dismisses rumour of floating new party
Staff Reporter :The main opposition party-BNP Vice-Chairman, Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, on Wednesday dismissed the possibility of forming a new political party by leaving...
1,696 held in 117 cases of violence since October 28
News Desk :In the 11 days since the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami rallies in Dhaka on Oct 28, the police have arrested 1,696 people for their...
Vice-Chairman Yousuf Abdullah leaves Islami Bank
Staff Reporter :Islami Bank’s Vice Chairman Yousuf Abdullah Al-Rajhi left the bank in October, following the withdrawal of his nominator Al-Rajhi Co for Industry and...
Govt not satisfied with diplomats’ movement: Shahriar
News Desk :State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Wednesday said that the government is dissatisfied with the activities of foreign diplomats ahead...