Rashidul Hasan

The Jatiya Party has helped end the culture of parliament boycott for the first time since 1991 but failed to play an effective role in holding the government accountable to the House due to its curious presence in both the treasury and the opposition benches.

The government has formed a strong monitoring team with a view to improving safety and security at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, said a top official of the civil aviation and tourism ministry.

Niazul Islam, a close aide of Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman, was not the only person who brandished a gun during the attack on Narayanganj Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy and her supporters on Tuesday.

Tuesday's mayhem in Narayanganj was all about money.

Seemingly undaunted by a warning from his predecessor about the challenges ahead, new Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal yesterday said turning Biman into a profitable venture would be a piece of cake for him.

It was around 1:30pm. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon was briefing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the activities of the national flag carrier Biman after the weekly cabinet meeting at the PMO yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expanded her cabinet, inducting three new faces into it and promoting a state minister to a full minister.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to induct at least three new faces into her council of ministers this evening.

Both the Awami League and the BNP will give their best to win the upcoming Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral by-polls after their election debacle in Rangpur.

Amid widespread criticism over the leak of question papers of even primary level students, a parliamentary standing committee yesterday blamed it all on the upazila level teachers' associations.

Relatives of a number of army officers killed during the Pilkhana BDR carnage yesterday expressed satisfaction over the High Court judgment.

A parliamentary body yesterday formed a three-member sub-committee to comment on a Bangladesh Bank report on widespread

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday categorically told her party lawmakers that nominations for the next national polls would be given based on popularity of the prospective candidates.

The parliamentary standing committee on the finance ministry yesterday recommended passing the Banking Companies (Amendment)

The Paradise Papers leak has revealed that businessman and BNP Vice Chairman Abdul Awal Mintoo had registered his energy company NFM Energy Ltd in tax haven Bermuda on August 9, 1999—just around the time when the American company Unocal had given him a small share to help “troubleshoot” its local business.

Lawmakers from Commonwealth countries have committed their full support for Bangladesh in resolving the Rohingya crisis. The commitment came yesterday after Dhaka briefed them on the issue during the annual conference of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) in the capital.

Singapore Airlines has rolled out business class seats with a twist: they transform into double beds in its flagship Airbus A380s, which would be flying daily on the Singapore-Sydney route from December 18.

Bangladesh will seek support from foreign delegates, including speakers and deputy speakers of Commonwealth nations' parliaments,

One year has passed since the attack on houses and temples of Hindu people at Nasirnagar upazila in Brahmanbaria but police could not complete investigations and submit the charge sheet into the incident yet.

The training Biman's Captain Atiqur Rahman received every six months kicked in when he heard from the air traffic control (ATC) of