Harsh blow to vendors
Street vendors at the entrance and exit points of the capital face a harsh blow during blockades as the number of their customers, mainly inter-district passengers, drops significantly. On a regular...
View ArticleDev partners concerned
The development partners have sent letters to the President and the Speaker expressing their concern over the new provision requiring the Anti-Corruption Commission to obtain government permission...
View ArticlePostpone polls schedule
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday in a statement called upon the Election Commission to postpone the polls schedule immediately and urged it to take steps for holding a...
View ArticleBlockade may stretch till Thursday
The BNP-led 18-Party alliance is likely to extend its ongoing 72-hour countrywide blockade to Thursday. The roads, rail and waterways blockade that started Saturday morning is scheduled to end at...
View ArticleNo extension
The Election Commission (EC) would not extend the time for submission of nomination papers for the upcoming national election, said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday....
View ArticlePut an end to violence
Top business leaders yesterday pleaded with the major political parties to immediately sort out their differences and put an end to the ongoing deadly violence for the sake of the economy and the...
View ArticleTroubled BNP faces leadership crunch
The BNP is in a leadership crisis as many of its senior leaders are behind bars, while those out are either on the run to avoid arrests or too old for active politics. In addition, party sources say,...
View ArticleMan injured critically by crude bomb
Mokhlesur Rahman was at a wrong place at a wrong time, unfortunately. After his midday prayers, he was going to his office at Mohakhali in the capital. As soon as he came near Titumir College, a...
View ArticleBlockaders continue targeting trains
Over 100 passengers were injured as the Dhaka-bound Mohanagar Godhuli derailed after blockade supporters removed fishplates from the rail track in Burichang upazila of Comilla yesterday. Seven out of...
View ArticleUN warns against further violence
Deeply worried by the escalation of political violence in Bangladesh, a senior UN official yesterday cautioned the country’s leaders, reminding them that the perpetrators of political or election...
View ArticleThai protesters call for general strike
The leader of Thailand’s protests, Suthep Thaungsuban, has called for the country’s civil servants to go on strike on Monday. Bangkok has been hit by anti-government demonstrations for the past nine...
View Article10 die as Lebanese city hit by clashes
At least 10 people have died in north Lebanon in two days of gun battles between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Clashes in the port city of Tripoli also left 49 people...
View ArticleCanadian accused in China spy case
Canadian police have arrested and charged a man on suspicion of intending to pass classified information to China. The Canadian national, named as Qing Quentin Huang, is accused of seeking to sell...
View ArticleBlockaders clash with cops in Rajshahi
A fierce clash took place between the activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami and police at Court Station Bazar in Rajshahi city this morning. The blockaders also torched a human hauler requisitioned by...
View ArticleSchoolgirl hurt in Ctg blast
A five-year-old schoolgirl suffered injuries in her head as miscreants blasted a crude bomb in Chittagong city on the last day of the opposition’s countrywide blockade today. Meanwhile, a trucker...
View ArticleOpposition extends blockade to Thursday
The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance has extended its ongoing 72-hour countrywide blockade of roads, rail and waterways to 131 hours. The blockade will now continue till 5:00pm Thursday, declared...
View ArticleNetanyahu talks tough on Iran before Vatican talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has restated his firm opposition to a nuclear deal with Iran during a visit to Rome in which he was set to meet Pope Francis and Prime Minister Enrico Letta...
View ArticleTouchscreen-reliant kids can’t hold pencil!
Toddlers these days are barely out of nappies before they are playing with touchscreen toys and fiddling with iPads. And now, it seems, they are paying the price — because when they arrive at nursery...
View ArticleUN team meets EC
A three-member delegation of the United Nations (UN) called on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed at the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat yesterday, but declined to brief the...
View ArticleWoman, 7-year old daughter killed in crash
A speeding bus claimed the lives of a mother and her seven-year-old daughter in the capital’s Merul Badda yesterday. Mahinur Begum, 30, and Jamila Akter, the youngest of her three children, were...
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