Send resignation letters to PM
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad last evening via text directed his party leaders in the polls-time cabinet to submit their resignation letters to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today. He changed his...
View ArticleFirst time in four years
After four consecutive years of successful and timely distribution of textbooks, the next academic year might witness a delay due to the ongoing blockades that have seriously disrupted the final round...
View ArticleDifferent polls pulse within AL
Though the government seems firm on holding the polls on January 5, Awami League leaders at all levels and some even candidates are concerned about possible attacks on them during campaign and low...
View ArticleEconomy at multiple risks
The economy of Bangladesh will face two sets of challenges over the next few years of which most immediate are the disruption and uncertainty associated with the forthcoming elections, says an IMF...
View ArticleTwo more die
Another arson victim, who suffered 64 percent burns, died of his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, bringing the death toll from arson up to 15 since last month. Trucker Mehedi...
View ArticleDay’s freedom for people ends
Traffic in the capital and elsewhere went haywire yesterday as people, who had been restricted from their usual lifestyle due to the six-day blockade last week, poured out from their homes to attend to...
View ArticleBangladesh in mourning for 3 days
The government yesterday announced a three-day national mourning beginning today to pay homage to South Africa’s anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. The national flag will be kept at half-mast at all...
View ArticleLast statesman of our times
He was the last statesman of the world we inhabit in these parlous times. There was about Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela the charisma and the wisdom the world was in sore need of, given that values were...
View ArticleWise words from Mandela
It is always a privilege to be in the presence of great men. But this writer had never been made more aware of that privilege than on Wednesday night (March 26, 1997) listening to the South African...
View ArticleA great light has gone out
The world yesterday mourned the death of Nelson Mandela, the most universally loved and revered leader in history, hailed as an “incredible gift” to humanity. South African President Jacob Zuma...
View ArticleUS reiterates call for talks
The United States again stressed the need for a constructive dialogue between the Awami League and BNP to find an agreed-upon way forward to hold a free, fair and credible polls that reflects the will...
View ArticleMunshiganj bus helper burnt in sleep
Another bus helper suffered severe burn injuries after blockaders set fire to his vehicle where he was asleep in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj early today. Victim Alamgir, 23, was whisked off to the...
View ArticleObama, Bush, Clinton to travel to S Africa
At least three American presidents will travel to South Africa to attend memorial services for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday at age 95. The White House said Friday that...
View Article3 killed in Narayanganj road crash
Three people were killed and two injured when a covered van hit a private car on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj this morning. The identities of the victims could not be...
View ArticleDhaka sees stray violence
Stray violence like arson, crude bomb blasts and procession are the key features that Dhaka city dwellers experienced today on the first day of the opposition combine-enforced blockade. No injury was...
View ArticleUN for urgent talks
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an urgent dialogue to reach an acceptable formula to hold an “inclusive, non-violent and credible election”. Visiting UN Assistant Secretary General for...
View Article‘Shahbagh arson at JCD high-ups’ order’
Two local leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal today divulged that the arson on a passenger bus at Shahbagh, which left three killed and 16 burnt, was carried out at the order of JCD central command,...
View ArticleWithdraw blockade, Hasina urges Khaleda
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged opposition leader Khaleda Zia to withdraw the ongoing blockade programme due to the three-day national mourning to pay respect to South Africa’s anti-apartheid...
View ArticleWTO agrees global trade deal worth $1tn
The World Trade Organization has agreed its first-ever global deal aimed at boosting commerce. The agreement reached in Bali, Indonesia, simplifies trade procedures and also makes it easier for the...
View ArticleHartal in Sylhet for Sunday, Monday, Wednesday
The opposition have called dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) in Sylhet division for Sunday and Monday and Sylhet district for Wednesday. Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal has announced a daylong hartal in...
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