AL scraps Baishakh rally realising people’s sufferings: Quader

Awami League will refrain from bringing out its procession on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh tomorrow in Dhaka.
13 April 2017, 13:04 PM

High Court verdict on BDR carnage case any day

The High Court will deliver a verdict any day on the death reference and appeal in BDR carnage case, the biggest ever criminal case in the country's history in terms of number of accused and convicts.
13 April 2017, 07:25 AM

PM returned from India with empty hands: Khaleda

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia terms Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent four-day visit to India as “unsuccessful”.
12 April 2017, 11:12 AM

Illegal wealth: Trial process to go on against BNP’s Altaf Hossain Choudhury

The High Court clears the way for a lower court concerned to resume the trial proceedings in a corruption case against former BNP home minister Altaf Hossain Choudhury.
12 April 2017, 10:22 AM

Verdict on appeals in Ershad’s graft case May 9

The High Court will deliver on May 9 its verdict on three separate appeals filed in a 25-year-old graft case against Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad.
12 April 2017, 08:39 AM

Graft case: Tarique’s wife asked to surrender in 8 weeks

The High Court asks Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, to surrender before a lower court concerned in eight weeks in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
12 April 2017, 05:58 AM

Niko graft case: High Court lifts bar on BNP leader Moudud Ahmed’s trial

The High Court clears the way for a lower court to resume the trial proceedings against former BNP law minister Moudud Ahmed in Niko corruption case.
12 April 2017, 05:49 AM

PM’s India visit: Khaleda to brief media today

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will hold a press conference at her Gulshan office in Dhaka.
11 April 2017, 17:56 PM

PM fails to realise people’s minimum demand: BNP

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleges that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could not realise any demand of people during India visit due to her “subservient policy”.
11 April 2017, 12:59 PM

No one can stop water flow: Hasina over Teesta water issue

Nobody can stop water flow towards Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says while talking about Teesta water sharing between Bangladesh and India.
11 April 2017, 10:32 AM

Washington Post, NY Times win Pulitzer Prizes for work on Trump, Putin

The Pulitzer Prizes honors The Washington Post for hard-hitting reporting on Donald Trump's presidential campaign and The New York Times for revealing Vladimir Putin's covert power grab, praising their probing of powerful people despite a hostile climate for the news media.
11 April 2017, 04:30 AM

PM’s India visit: BNP to brief media tomorrow

BNP will brief the media on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent India visit.
10 April 2017, 18:17 PM

G7 energy ministers fail to agree statement on climate change: Italy

G7 energy ministers fail to reach agreement on a joint statement on climate change after the United States express reservations, an Italian minister says.
10 April 2017, 13:54 PM

‘Kuchh to mila', Hasina says on Mamata

“Didi pani nehi diya, lekin bijli to diya…Kuchh to mila.” That was the note of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Mamata Banerjee at the end of her four-day visit to India, which failed to resolve the issue of sharing Teesta waters.
10 April 2017, 08:34 AM

'Have I sold out the country?'

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina slams critics who opposed the deals signed with India and said those who made such remarks are “novice or motivated”.
10 April 2017, 07:26 AM

Will eat Hilsa to my heart’s fill in Bangladesh, Mamata tells Hasina

“When I come to Bangladesh, I will eat Hilsa and rice to my heart’s fill.” West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said this to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she missed Saturday’s special dinner spread at India’s Rashtrapati Bhaban where the Bangladesh premier cooked steamed Hilsha.
10 April 2017, 06:53 AM

Teesta: Hasina’s trust on Modi’s words

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is banking on the assurance of her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on the prospect of sharing water in the Teesta river.
10 April 2017, 06:34 AM

Court wants HC stay order on 11 criminal cases against Khaleda

A Dhaka court asks lawyers of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to submit before it on April 25 the High Court’s stay order on 11 criminal cases including a sedition suit.
10 April 2017, 06:16 AM

Khaleda convenes policy-making meet

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened a meeting of the party’s highest policymaking body, the standing committee.
10 April 2017, 06:11 AM

Supreme Court clears way for Habiganj mayor to resume duties

The Supreme Court clears the way for Habiganj municipality Mayor GK Gaus to discharge his official functions.
9 April 2017, 10:18 AM