Panchagarh: Riverbank-protection works in the frontier district have been stalled at Indian Border Security Force (BSF) intervention, creating concern among the people ahead of rainy season as onrush of hill waters during monsoon flood vast areas in Bangladesh.   Residents of the

Chittagong: Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina Wednesday called 15 leaders of the party, including seven local MPs, to a meeting in Dhaka to resolve the inner-conflict in the AL Chittagong unit ahead of Chittagong City Corporation polls. The meeting will be held Friday at

DHAKA: Rights organizations Wednesday urged the government to take development activities down to grassroots level abolishing the centralization, as people’s tendency is to move out to cities being whipped by agonies of employment in rural areas.    As a result of the rural-to-urban

Dhaka: Detective police took Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) chief Maulana Saidur Rahman and two of his associates on a six-day remand for grilling about their redesigned militant network.The two others are Abdullah–hel-Kafi and Saidur’s wife Ayesha Khatun.Metropolitan

DHAKA: A two-day regional meeting of the top election commission officials of the SAARC states begins on May 29 in the capital, in a maiden effort of peering among the kingmakers. Bangladesh Election Commission is hosting the meet where Chief Election Commissioners from eight

Dhaka: The High Court Wednesday summoned two RAB officials for conducting an operation at the residence of a local businessman on a ‘false' charge of illegally possessing arms in Satkhira.Terming the arm-seizure case ‘fabricated’, the HC ordered Rab-6 official Major Kamruzzaman and

Dinajpur: The provisional miners of Maddhyapara Granite Mining Company Ltd (MGMCL) called off their indefinite strike Wednesday, four days after they struck demanding job regularization and payment of arrears, following a fruitful negotiation.The hardrock workers withdrew the strike after

Sirajganj: A newly wed couple fell victims to reckless driving of a vehicle at Nalka on the connecting road to the Bangabandhu Bridge on Wednesday morning.The victims were senior officer of Jamalpur Krishi Bank Mohammad Farhad Hossain, 30, and his wife Munni, 22.Sub-inspector of

Rajshahi: Country’s entire northwestern zone, especially the brand place Rajshahi, is now abuzz with a mango festival, with the delicious sweet fruit starting to arrive in the local markets. However, the orchard owners’ happiness over a bumper production appeared a bit tinged with

Sirajganj: A defamation case was filed here Wednesday against State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam for calling BNP founder President Ziaur Rahman ‘Pakistani spy’.District Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum general secretary Advocate Meer Ruhul Amin filed the Tk 5,000 crore case with Sirajganj

DHAKA: A coalition of campaigners for women’s rights urged mass media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to work with a synergy in tackling the incidents of sexual harassment of women at workplace. At a workshop Wednesday they also underscored the need for creating awareness

Rajbari: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday night stormed a hideout of suspected outlaws and seized firearms and ammunition at Radhakantapur in the district town.Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-8 raided the house of one Nihar Ranjan at about 9pm and seized six firearms, five

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute reopened Wednesday after nearly five months’ forced closure following the killing of a student leader amid campus violence on January 7.The polytechnic authorities have now made it mandatory for the students to wear specific uniform and bear

DHAKA: The High Court Tuesday dismissed a case facing 12 pro-Awami League and leftist lawyers for vandalizing the Supreme Court, a charge that stood in the way of one of them being sworn in the bench. A division bench of Justice Shamsul Huda and Justice Abu Bakar Siddique passed the

DHAKA: Militants are getting prepared to attack top leaders of the ruling party and on important establishments of the country, police Tuesday quoted the just-captured chief of a dreaded militant outfit as saying.The new chief of the banned Islamist outfit jama’atul Mujahideen

Dhaka: Rights campaigners Tuesday made a strong plea for allocating necessary money in the coming budget, support and appropriate guidelines from the next fiscal year protecting the rights of farmers, workers, the tribal and the disabled.  The call came from a press conference on

Dhaka: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad got 35 more days to make submission in writing in a Tk 60-crore defamation suit filed against him for torturing his estranged wife Bidisha Siddique.A Dhaka court Tuesday fixed June 30 as the latest date for submitting the statement. Judge Imrul Kayes

Dinajpur: On the third day of their strike, the striking casual workers of Madhyapara Granite Mining Company Ltd went berserk and kept confined at least 35 officials and employees, including the managing director, inside the MGMCL residential complex since Monday night.The executives and

CHITTAGONG: Two terrors were beaten to death in a poetic justice after they along with their cohorts killed a young man at Halishahar in the port city early Tuesday.Police said the “terrorists” stabbed Nurunnabai to death over previous enmity at Badir Colony in Badsha Hazi Brickfield

DHAKA: The War Crime Facts Finding Committee handed over a list of 19 top war criminals to the International War Crimes Tribunal formed to try those who were involved in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.Among those on the list are BNP leaders Salahuddin Qader