BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says the farmers are being deprived of fair price of their paddy due to the government’s “wrong policy and corruption.”

President of Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) Prof Abul Barkat says the price of per maund paddy should be fixed at Tk 1,200 so that farmers do not have to count losses.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says she offered to quit but her party Trinamool Congress refused to accept the resignation.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi offers to resign from the party post taking responsibility for its abject defeat in the just ended parliamentary elections while the party's top decision-making forum unanimously rejected it.

Country’s noted citizens call for forming a judicial probe commission over the incidents of enforced disappearance, abduction and extra-judicial killings to bring the real culprits to justice.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stresses the need for imparting training to the people on traffic rules and regulations from childhood or school-life to make them aware of using roads and their safety.

Three people have been killed and three injured as a truck hits a CNG-run three-wheeler on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria.

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United Nations (UN) has posthumously awarded ‘Dag Hammarskjöld Medal’ to 12 Bangladeshi peacekeepers as it observed ‘International Day of the UN Peacekeepers’.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says her government could introduce a high-speed tourist train on Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar route.

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra are advised to hoist local cautionary signal no three as squally weather is likely to affect the maritime ports, North Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh.

Police in France area hunting a suspect following a blast in a pedestrian street in the heart of the city of Lyon that wounded more than a dozen people just two days ahead of the country's hotly contested European Parliament elections.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the aim of her government is to improve the living standard of people and free the country from poverty.

Forty-eight hours after the election results that brought Trinamool Congress's tally in the Lok Sabha down from 34 to 22, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is to meet party leaders and all candidates who fought the polls at her home.

The number of Muslim lawmakers in India’s new parliament has gone up by four compared to the previous House, with 27 candidates from the community emerging victorious in the recent national elections.

Two Rohingya women are detained while attempting to board a UAE-bound flight from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the much-awaited 930-metre Second Meghna Bridge and the 1,410-metre Second Gumti Bridge on Dhaka-Chattogram highway, aiming to reduce the plight of travellers on this vital national highway.

The 13th span of Bangladesh’s biggest infrastructure project Padma Bridge is installed at Maowa, making 1,950 metres of the bridge visible.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Gujarat to seek the blessings of his mother Heeraben after his BJP-led National Democratic Alliance returned to power with a massive majority in the parliamentary elections.

Coating an expensive car with cow-dung for escaping the summer heat might not be a feasible proposition for most people, but a homemaker in India's Ahmedabad has done it claiming that it keeps her car cool even without air-conditioning, NDTV reports.