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India to help import hydropower from Bhutan

Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday said India will help Bangladesh to import hydropower from Bhutan the way India helped in importing hydropower from Nepal.
25 March 2024, 18:00 PM

‘We have friends, no masters’

PM says nation won’t bow down to any pressure, urges all to take the role of vanguards to protect democracy, defy conspiracies
25 March 2024, 14:23 PM

Dreams of 1971 now elusive: Mirza Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said people joined the war against the Pakistani army with the aim of building a democratic Bangladesh but the dreams of 1971 are now elusive...Bengali students, youth, farmers, labourers and soldiers joined the Liberation War
25 March 2024, 13:22 PM

Nothing but hypocrisy

Foreign Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Hasan Mahmud yesterday said the main objective of BNP’s call to boycott Indian products is to destabilise the country’s market and increase prices of essentials.
23 March 2024, 18:00 PM

BNP starts opposing India without getting any issue: Quader

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said BNP has started opposing India without getting any political issue
23 March 2024, 14:44 PM

BNP's Indian goods boycott call a ploy to destabilise market: FM Hasan

Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud today said that the BNP's call to boycott Indian products is its ploy to destabilise the country's essential commodity market
23 March 2024, 13:23 PM

Essential items unaffordable

Prices of daily essentials are skyrocketing in the markets and people can’t buy their daily necessities as they have no money, BNP Standing Committee Member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan said yesterday.
22 March 2024, 18:00 PM

BNP wants to destabilise market

BNP is hatching a conspiracy to destabilise the country’s overall market management system in the name of boycotting Indian products, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader claimed yesterday.
22 March 2024, 18:00 PM

First phase of upazila polls: Officials from EC, not admin, to be ROs, AROs

The Election Commission has made its own officials the returning officers and assistant returning officers for the elections to 152 upazila parishads scheduled for May 8.
21 March 2024, 18:00 PM

BNP with ‘Boycott India’

BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday expressed solidarity with the movement of boycotting Indian products by throwing away his Indian shawl publicly.
20 March 2024, 18:00 PM

Aman secures bail in corruption case, can walk out of jail

The Supreme Court today granted bail to BNP leader Aman Ullah Aman in a corruption case in which he was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment in 2007, clearing the way for him to walk out of jail
20 March 2024, 09:26 AM

Law ministry opines against Khaleda's treatment abroad

Recommends extending suspension of her jail sentence by 6 months
20 March 2024, 07:38 AM

‘I told Shakib, it’s up to you’

Former minister and BNP Vice Chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed has refuted allegations that he was a key person in forming Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM).
19 March 2024, 18:00 PM

It’s ‘criticise party’, not iftar party

BNP leaders are tired and their activists frustrated, said Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday.
19 March 2024, 18:00 PM

Have no idea about Shakib joining 'king's party': Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said he has no idea about Shakib Al Hasan joining "king's party"
19 March 2024, 16:17 PM

BNP leader Major Hafiz denies involvement in forming ‘king's party’ BNM

Former minister and BNP Vice-Chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed today trashed rumours that he was one of the key founders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM), also known as "kings party"
19 March 2024, 15:56 PM

Bangabandhu is a source of inspiration: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said that even though Bangabandhu is not alive, he is always a source of inspiration for the people of the country. “Bangabandhu’s birth means the birth of Bangladesh’s independence,” he said.
17 March 2024, 18:00 PM

Deep fake videos of BNP leaders being circulated: Rizvi

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday claimed a speech of  the party’s acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has been distorted with deep fake technology using artificial intelligence (AI).
17 March 2024, 18:00 PM

NDI-IRI report admits less violence in Jan 7 polls: foreign minister

Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud today said the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI) in their report acknowledged that the January 7 National Election witnessed less violence
17 March 2024, 16:00 PM