PM offers any ministry Khaleda wants
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today again called upon BNP to join the next national election saying she is willing to offer any ministry opposition leader Khaleda Zia wants in the polls-time cabinet....
View ArticlePM for raising stock investors’ awareness
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the authorities to take more programmes to make small and new investors aware about relevant laws and rules of the stock market to minimise their risks. “I...
View ArticleIran agrees to curb nuke activity
Iran has agreed to curb some of its nuclear activities in return for about $7bn (£4.3bn) in sanctions relief, after days of intense talks in Geneva. US President Barack Obama welcomed the deal, saying...
View ArticleHefajat’s rally at Shapla Chattar on Dec 24
Hefajat-e Islam will hold a rally at Shapla Chattar in the capital on December 24 to press home its controversial 13-point demand. Junaid Babunagari, secretary general of Hefajat, made the announcement...
View ArticleTensions mount in Libya after deadly unrest
Local officials called for civil disobedience including strikes for three days from in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi yesterday after deadly clashes between radical Islamist fighters and the army....
View ArticleZimbabwe court frees top rights lawyer
A Zimbabwean court yesterday freed prominent rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, who had faced charges of obstructing the course of justice during a police raid. “There is no evidence that the accused...
View ArticleDefence absent again from war crimes tribunal
The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday closed the cross-examination of a prosecution witness in the case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf as his senior counsel did not show up even after...
View ArticleHannan Shah remanded
A Dhaka court yesterday placed BNP leader Brig (retd) ASM Hannan Shah on a two-day remand, allowing police to quiz him in a case filed over torching a car in the capital. Metropolitan Magistrate Tareq...
View ArticleFive quit, two stay
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has retained two of her seven advisers appointed when she took office about five years ago while five of them resigned yesterday. The PM now has six advisers with four of...
View ArticleZafar Iqbal, Yasmeen Haque resign
Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST) Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and his wife Professor Yasmeen Haque resigned yesterday soon after the university authority postponed the combined...
View ArticleLevel playing field absent
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday alleged that the upcoming national election is yet to have a level playing field, as the entire administration is biased towards the two major political...
View ArticleGovernance goes on in confusion
Confusion runs high among the ministries and departments as they are not sure about the scope of their routine work after the announcement of polls schedule under an elected government. A meeting of...
View ArticleEnsure security for EC staff, offices
Amid growing violence centring the 10th parliamentary election and the recent attack on its offices, the Election Commission (EC) has sought adequate security measures for its secretariat and other...
View ArticleA dream bullet-hit
He dreams to be a star cricketer one day and bring more glory for the country. Besides his college studies the young man practises hard twice a day to materialise his goal. But yesterday’s blockade...
View ArticleSpare students
“We have requested them [politicians] time and again to keep children’s education out of politics, but our voices are never heard. Aren’t we the citizens whom the politicians claim to be working for?”...
View ArticleCPB’s no to polls without all parties
Without the participation of all political parties, the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) will not join the forthcoming 10th parliamentary election scheduled for January 5. CPB President Mujahidul...
View ArticleChange in polls schedule, if AL, BNP reach consensus
The scope for changing the polls schedule is there, if all parties could agree on the type of the interim government, said the Election Commission yesterday while it mulls keeping the army on the...
View ArticleBusiness grinds to a halt
The economy has started to bleed as the ongoing countrywide blockade enforced by the opposition has begun to hit the country’s businesses from all fronts. Imported goods have piled up at Chittagong...
View ArticlePeople the victims again
When Aleya entered the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital to see her husband burnt by arsonists yesterday, her first glance of the burnt, peeling face sent her crashing to the floor with a...
View ArticleRestrict PM’s power
A delegation of eminent citizens yesterday met President Abdul Hamid, and proposed limiting the prime minister’s power to overrule ministers’ decisions in a bid to have the BNP join the polls-time...
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