Quader says plot to kill PM in play

Awami League’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader says there is a plot in play to kill Bangladesh Prime Minister SHeikh Hasina.
24 September 2017, 11:36 AM

Reports on plot to murder Hasina baseless, motivated: PMO

Prime Minister’s Office dismisses Indian media reports claiming there was a plot to assassinate Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 24.
24 September 2017, 10:07 AM

Amu dismisses report claiming ‘plot to kill PM Hasina’

Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu rules out a report broadcast on Indian television claiming “attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 24 by some of her bodyguards foiled”.
24 September 2017, 09:24 AM

Rohingya crisis: BNP blasts PM for unwillingness to forge unity

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir sharply criticises Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her unwillingness to forge a national unity with political parties to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
23 September 2017, 15:56 PM

Russian foreign minister urges Trump-Kim 'kindergarten fight' end

Russia and China both appeal for an end to the escalating rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang, and Moscow’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov complains that that scrap resembled a “kindergarten fight between children.”
23 September 2017, 04:34 AM

Madman NKorea leader to be tested like never before: Trump

US President Donald Trump warns "madman" North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un that he would be "tested," the latest in an exchange of insults between the two.
22 September 2017, 15:28 PM

Fakhrul calls for sanction on Myanmar

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urges the government to push for a sanction on Myanmar to stop violence against the Rohingya community.
22 September 2017, 13:10 PM

B Chy, Dr Kamal to send envoys to India, China, Russia to end Rohingya crisis

Former president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury and eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain announce that they are going to form a national committee and will send envoys to India, China and Russia to ensure a peaceful end to the Rohingya crisis.
21 September 2017, 14:35 PM

SC upholds HC stay order against Fakhrul in defamation case

The Supreme Court have upheld a High Court order that stayed the trial proceedings of a defamation case filed against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in 2014.
21 September 2017, 11:06 AM

Trump urges 'strong and swift' UN action to end Rohingya crisis: Mike Pence

US President Donald Trump is urging the United Nations Security Council to take "strong and swift action" to bring Myanmar's Rohingya crisis to an end, US Vice President Mike Pence says.
20 September 2017, 16:56 PM

Food security at stake for rice price hike: BNP

Voicing deep concern over the soaring rice prices, BNP alleges that the government is mocking with people's hunger by putting the country's food security at stake with its 'wrong policy and incompetence'.
19 September 2017, 13:59 PM

Help cutting rice price: Govt to traders

The government calls upon the traders and rice mill owners to extend their cooperation to the government by bringing down price of rice within purchasing capacity of people.
19 September 2017, 12:16 PM

Trump hits back at Clinton, with a golf ball, on Twitter

US President Donald Trump retweets a doctored video of himself taking a golf swing and hitting former Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton, who then stumbles as she boards a plane.
18 September 2017, 04:37 AM

Myanmar govt’s role towards ethnic minorities not acceptable: Rushnara

Visiting UK Prime Minister's trade envoy Rushnara Ali MP says the role of the Myanmar Government towards its ethnic minorities is not acceptable.
17 September 2017, 09:36 AM

'Undermining flag': Khaleda to face arrest if fails to appear Oct 5

An arrest warrant will be issued on October 5 if BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia fails to appear before it on that day in a case filed over undermining Bangladesh's map and the national flag.
17 September 2017, 08:29 AM

AL team to hold talks with China over Rohingya issue: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says a delegation of the party will hold discussion with Chinese leader over Rohingya issue during its upcoming visit to China.
16 September 2017, 14:39 PM

National unity needed to deal with Rohingya crisis: BNP

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir underscores the need for forging a nation unity to cope up with the Rohingya crisis on humanitarian ground.
16 September 2017, 12:19 PM

‘Remove gender-gap in electoral roll’

Speakers at a roundtable urge the Election Commission to remove the differences between men and women voters as the numbers of female voters are 26 percent less than the male voters.
16 September 2017, 07:59 AM

Barring BNP relief team in Ukhia ‘abuse of state power’: Khaleda

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia condemns the government for “obstructing” its central relief team from going to Ukhia upazila in Cox’s Bazar to provide humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees.
15 September 2017, 07:04 AM

‘A vested quarter trying to create artificial food crisis’

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed rules out recent report published in a section of newspaper that India has stopped rice export to Bangladesh till November, which will cause food crisis in the country.
14 September 2017, 15:41 PM