DHAKA: Having made allegations of vote rigging in elections to Dhaka North and South City Corporations, BNP has called for hartal (shutdown) in Dhaka city from dawn-to-dusk on Sunday (February 2). BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the program at a press

DHAKA: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader was shifted to a cabin from Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Saturday morning as his condition improved. Physicians advised the minister to rest for two days, said Abu Naser,

DHAKA: The Awami League (AL) and BNP mayoral candidates have cast their votes at their respective polling centres on Saturday (Feb 01). AL-backed mayoral candidate in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh cast his vote at the polling centre of Dr Malika

DHAKA: Awami League's mayoral candidate in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Atiqul Islam has cast his vote in Uttara of the capital. He along with his family members exercised his franchise at Nawab Habibullah Model School and College in Uttara Model Town area around 8:14 am on

SYLHET: Nine suspected members of banned militant group ‘Allahr Dal’ were arrested from a house at Arambagh in Sylhet on Wednesday night. The arrestees are- Manik Akanda alias Mehedi Hasan, 32, of Bogura, Jahir Uddin Babor, 20, of Noakhali, Abul Kalam Azad, 20, of Cumilla, Tomi

DHAKA: BNP’s Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayoral candidate Ishraque Hossain on Tuesday morning announced his 144 pledges through a 13-point election manifesto. He started to unveil his election manifesto at around 11:30 am at the National Press Club promising to provide

DHAKA: Awami League and BNP leaders and activists locked into a clash at Gopibagh area in the capital on Sunday during campaign of BNP nominated mayoral candidate Ishraque Hossain. Ishraque and his supporters were attacked in front of Central Women’s College around 1pm on Sunday,

DHAKA: Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader asked BNP to provide solid evidence of corruption through Electric Voting Machines (EVM) system. Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said: “I will tell the BNP leaders---give evidence of vote rigging through

UNIVERSITY CORRESPONDENT: Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders reportedly tortured four students of Jahurul Haque Hall unit of Dhaka University on Tuesday (January 21). Afterwards, BCL men handed them, suspecting as members of Chhatra Shibir, over to law enforcers but police

DHAKA: The High Court on Wednesday (Jan 22) banned printing and using laminated posters in the Dhaka city corporation area. The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman issued the suo moto order with a rule when two lawyers had drawn the court’s attention in

DHAKA: The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Tuesday (Jan 21) urged the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to hold re-election with ballot papers canceling the result of the January 13 Chattogram-8 by-polls. BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury made the remark

DHAKA: BNP-backed Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral aspirant Tabith Awal has come under attack during his election campaign in Gabtoli area of the capital on Tuesday (Jan 21). Witnesses said when Tabith and his supporters reached Bajarpara in Gabtoli for election campaign a

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday (Jan 21) took into cognisance the charges against 25 students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), accused in the Abrar Fahad murder case. Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of Metropolitan Session Judge’s Court of Dhaka also fixed January

DHAKA: Former State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadek, also a lawmaker from Jessore-6 constituency, has passed away.  She was 78. Ismat Ara breathed her last around 11:30 am at a private hospital in the capital while undergoing treatment. She was elected as a

DHAKA: A Dhaka Court on Monday (Jan 20) sentenced 10 persons to death and acquitted two others for carrying out the 2001 bomb attack on a political rally of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) at Paltan Maidan in Dhaka that killed five persons. Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Court

DHAKA: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said his party or the government had no objection to changing the date of polls to two city corporations. Obaidul Quader, also Road Transport and Bridges Minister, believed outrage has been brewed among Hindu community as Dhaka city

BOGURA: Abdul Mannan, a lawmaker from Bogura-1 constituency, died at a hospital in Dhaka.  He was 70. Mannan breathed his last at Lab Aid Hospital in the city at around 8:15 am on Saturday (Jan 18), Motiur Rahman Moti, private secretary of Mannan said. Earlier, the former

DHAKA: BNP-nominated mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) election Ishraque Hossain claimed that fake information was being presented in various media about a case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). While campaigning on Thursday (January 16), he said: “My

DHAKA: Road, transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader called upon city dwellers including the protesting students of Dhaka University to accept the court’s order regarding the date of polls to the two Dhaka city corporations. “I think all should abide by the order issued by

DHAKA: An appeal was filed with the Appellate Division challenging the High Court order that had rejected the writ petition for deferment of the Dhaka City Corporations elections, staled to be held for January 30. Advocate Ashoke Kumar Ghosh, a Supreme Court lawyer, filed the appeal as