Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said she had wanted to make Ziaur Rahman accused in the Bangabandhu killing case as he was no doubt involved in the massacre. The premier told Parliament: “There’s no doubt that he was involved in the 1975 carnage. I wanted to make

BNP's senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, mastermind of the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally and a fugitive convict, has been living in London for the last 13 years. He is leading a lavish life abroad without having any valid sources of income. A question has been

Member of Parliament for reserved seats for women and Jatiya Party’s presidium member Masuda M Rashid Chowdhury, died at a hospital in the capital early Monday. She was 70. Masuda, a former professor of Sociology department of University of Dhaka, breathed her last at Birdem

Dr Pran Gopal Datta, former vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), has been given nomination from the Awami League (AL) for contesting the Comilla-7 by-polls. The party's parliamentary and local government election nomination board on Saturday took

Paschim Patiya in Patiya upazila of Chattogram is becoming an industrial zone fast as a good number of small and big industrial factories are being established there.  Crores of taka are being invested for developing the industries, including power plants, steel mills and garment

Name of Ziaur Rahman, founder of BNP, was removed from a road at Baltimore city in USA after the authority had decided not to honour him by naming the road after a military ruler. A road at Baltimore in Maryland was named after Ziaur Rahman at the behest of BNP wing of the city three

Cumilla: Nusrat Jahan, elder sister of Mosarat Jahan Munia, has appeared to be a mysterious woman in Cumilla as she has become desperate for leading a luxury life by any means.  To fulfill her desire, she has engaged in immoral activities like trapping well-off people to

Chattogram’s Patiya has got five upazila health and family planning officers transferred in just three years as they did not obey the directives of Whip Shamsul Haque Chowdhury. Such frequent transfers in a shortest time are rare in the country, many say. The health sector,

Nazmul Karim Chowdhury Sharun, son of Whip and Chattogram-12 MP Shamsul Haque Chowdhury alias Bichchhu Shamsu, has long been involved in Yaba business using his political clout. Besides, he has been engaged in blackmailing people after supplying women to them. So-called model Faria

Eyes of Chattogram Awami League youth and sports secretary and Abahoni founder Didarul Alam Chowdhury are filled with tears, hearing names of whip Shamsul Hoque Chowdhury and his son Nazmul Karim Chowdhury Sharun. Didarul Alam Chowdhury, also vice-president of Chattogram district Krira

CHATTOGRAM: No vaccination programme for second dose took place at Shovandandi union under Patiya upazila for the consequence of unlawful vaccination programme for first dose there at the behest of Whip and lawmaker Shamsul Haque Chowdhury. Despite passing 38 days of the first dose,

Nine senior leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, including secretary general Mia Golam Porwar, have been arrested in the capital. The arrestees include Jamaat executive committee member Abdur Rab, Ijjat Ullah, Mobarak Hossain, and former Chhatra Shibir president Yasin Arafat.

Awami League MP from Sirajganj-6 constituency and freedom fighter Hasibur Rahman Swapan died of coronavirus early Thursday.  He was 66. He breathed his last at a hospital in Turkey at around 3:15am, Swapan’s Personal Assistant and Shahjadpur upazila Juba League’s

Six Ansar Al Islam men have been awarded death sentence by a Dhaka court for murdering LGBT activist Xulhaz Mannan and his associate Mahbub Rabby Tonoy. Judge Mojibur Rahman of the Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal passed the order on Tuesday. The death-row convicts are Major

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the party founder Ziaur Rahman's remains were not in Chandrima Udyan.  She said: "Khaleda Zia also know it very well that there is no grave or remains of Ziaur Rhman in the city's Chandrima Udyan."  Why they

Today is the 17th death anniversary of Ivy Rahman, former president of Bangladesh Mahila Awami League and wife of late President M Zillur Rahman. To mark the day, different political and socio-cultural organisations, including Bangladesh Awami League (AL), its associate bodies and

Sheikh Shahidur Rahman, former Member of Parliament from Khulna-4 constituency, died at a hospital in Khulna on Sunday morning. He was 70. Shahidur Rahman, former president of Bangladesh Workers Party’s Khulna unit, breathed his last around 6:30am while undergoing treatment.

Patiya Jubo League-led by organisation’s central joint-general secretary Muhammad Badiul Alam has observed gruesome August 21 grenade attack anniversary. Leaders and activists of Awami League, Patiya Jubo League, Chhatra League and other front organisations of the party

The Awami League has paid tribute to the victims of August 21 grenade attack by placing wreaths at a makeshift memorial built in front of Awami League’s central office on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka. On behalf of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, party

The 17th anniversary of the deadly terror attack on an Awami League public rally on August 21 in 2004 was observed across the country. The attack, targeting to kill the then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other party leaders, was carried out during the role