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EC’s decision on Jamaat candidates today

EC’s decision on Jamaat candidates today

-- 2018-12-23 11:58:35

The Election Commission will sit in a meeting today (Sunday) to decide whether the 25 Jamaat-e-Islami candidates will be able to contest in the 11th parliamentary election or not. Among the Jamaat ca...

Villagers beat leopard dead in Panchagarh

Villagers beat leopard dead in Panchagarh

-- 2018-12-23 11:58:20

A wild leopard was beaten to death by villagers in Panchagarh amid presence of police and Forest Department officials on Saturday. Ismail Hossain, a resident of Bashuniapara village, said his daughte...

Crude bomb attack leaves five AL men injured

Crude bomb attack leaves five AL men injured

-- 2018-12-23 11:41:54

At least five local leaders and activists of Awami League were injured after miscreants hurled crude bombs over an election campaign office in Cumilla on Saturday evening. The injured are Md Abdul Ka...

Lawmen arrest ‘drug trader’ with 2,300 Yaba pills in Thakurgaon

Lawmen arrest ‘drug trader’ with 2,300 Yaba pills in Thakurgaon

-- 2018-12-23 10:54:13

Detectives in a drive arrested a suspected drug trader along with 2,300 Yaba tablets from Choto Khochabari area in the Thakurgaon district town in the early hours of Sunday. The arrestee was identifi...

Biman looks to open five routes next summer

Biman looks to open five routes next summer

Kamrun Nahar 2018-12-23 10:24:42

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines authority is expecting to add in its network five more international stations in the summer schedule of 2019 which starts from March 28 and continues till October, said a...

Hasina vows to bring back Tarique

Hasina vows to bring back Tarique

-- 2018-12-22 20:42:48

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday vowed to bring back BNP acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, who has been convicted in a number of cases, from London to execute the cour...

Hasina’s electioneering in Rangpur on Sunday

Hasina’s electioneering in Rangpur on Sunday

-- 2018-12-22 20:39:30

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will go to Rangpur tomorrow (Sunday) as part of her election campaign. The Awami League (AL) chief will address two election rallies of her par...

ACC bars officials from using its logo on vehicles

ACC bars officials from using its logo on vehicles

-- 2018-12-22 20:11:35

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) once again warned its officials and employees not to use the commission's logo on their vehicles. The Commission, for the first time in 2016, ordered its official...

Army deployment will bring positive change to election situation: BNP

Army deployment will bring positive change to election situation: BNP

-- 2018-12-22 19:53:20

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has expressed his hope that the deployment of the army will bring a change to the present election situation. Rizvi made the remark at a press bri...

Over 3000 army to facilitate EVM use

Over 3000 army to facilitate EVM use

-- 2018-12-22 18:56:24

Around 3,300 members of Bangladesh Army have been engaged for providing various types of technical support, including training, for using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in polling stations of six c...

UK stresses safe return of Rohingyas

UK stresses safe return of Rohingyas

-- 2018-12-22 18:50:59

The United Kingdom said they will continue to work with international partners to press for the creation of conditions in       Rakhine allowing a voluntary, safe and dig...

PM promises four-lane Sylhet-Dhaka highway

PM promises four-lane Sylhet-Dhaka highway

-- 2018-12-22 17:19:34

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the Sylhet-Dhaka highway will be elevated into a four-lane one if Awami League comes to power. She made the promise while addressing an election campaign...

Scheme to foil election raises polls violence: Minister

Scheme to foil election raises polls violence: Minister

-- 2018-12-22 17:07:08

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said the intensity of election violence is slightly higher this time compared to previous years as a vested group is planning to foil the polls. "A vested...

UK for credible election  

UK for credible election  

-- 2018-12-22 17:00:55

The United Kingdom has condemned recent political violence in Bangladesh and laid emphasis on a democratic election slated for December 30. "We urge all in Bangladesh to refrain from further violence...

Rohingya camps to remain sealed off during polls

Rohingya camps to remain sealed off during polls

-- 2018-12-22 16:49:55

The Election Commission has ordered the authorities not to allow Rohingyas outside the refugee camps for three days during the parliamentary election to prevent the abuse of the Myanmar nationals for...

Police detain 77 in Satkhira

Police detain 77 in Satkhira

-- 2018-12-22 16:27:19

Police in a special drive arrested 77 people from different upazilas of Satkhira district from Friday night to Saturday morning for being accused in different cases and on charges of sabotage. Azam K...

Miscreants hurl petrol bomb on AL rally

Miscreants hurl petrol bomb on AL rally

-- 2018-12-22 15:32:46

Unidentified miscreants’ hurled a petrol bomb on an election rally of the ruling Awami League in the Muktagaccha municipality of Mymensingh district on Friday night. One person, Anwar Hossain,...

National emblem designer Mohammad Idris dies

National emblem designer Mohammad Idris dies

-- 2018-12-22 15:21:52

Mohammad Idris, the designer of the national emblem of Bangladesh, passed away on Saturday. He suffered a heart attack at his Basabo residence in Dhaka in the morning and died at a city hospital at a...

Two die in Thakurgaon road mishap

Two die in Thakurgaon road mishap

-- 2018-12-22 13:02:43

Two young men have been killed after a tractor collided with a motorcycle in Thakurgaon’s Ranishongkoil. The accident took place near Gazirhat Degree College at around 9:00pm on Friday, said Ra...

Two drivers die as trucks crash in Gazipur

Two drivers die as trucks crash in Gazipur

-- 2018-12-22 12:48:26

Two truck drivers have been killed and two others injured after a road accident in Gazipur. The accident occurred on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway near the Square Pharmaceuticals factory in Kaliakoir upa...

PM goes to Sylhet on campaign trail

PM goes to Sylhet on campaign trail

-- 2018-12-22 12:38:43

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina arrived in Sylhet this morning in the second leg of her election tour. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying Sheikh Hasina landed at Sylh...

Worker dies falling off from crane at RNPP

Worker dies falling off from crane at RNPP

-- 2018-12-22 11:55:27

A worker was killed while another severely injured after falling off from a crane while working at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project in Pabna’s Iswardi upazila on Friday. The victim wa...

Two hurt in crude bomb attack on AL election office

Two hurt in crude bomb attack on AL election office

-- 2018-12-22 11:36:01

Two local Awami League leaders were injured as miscreants blew off a crude bomb in front of AL's election campaign office at Rohanpur in Chapainawabganj on Friday night. The injured are - Rohonpur Mu...

Delay in bringing home migrant bodies adds to family agonies

Delay in bringing home migrant bodies adds to family agonies

Arafat Ara 2018-12-22 10:28:54

The lengthy process of sending home the dead bodies of migrant workers from abroad just adds to the agony of their family members. In most cases, families wait for up to six months while in some case...

RAB detains three with 1038 yaba pills in C’nawabganj

RAB detains three with 1038 yaba pills in C’nawabganj

-- 2018-12-22 10:19:52

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested three suspected drug traders along with 1038 pieces of yaba pills from Pirojpur in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj on Friday night. The...

Jet fuel price hike jacks local airlines' operating costs up

Jet fuel price hike jacks local airlines' operating costs up

Kamrun Nahar 2018-12-22 10:05:50

Operating costs of local airlines have increased this year due to a rise in jet fuel price and devaluation of taka, aviation industry insiders said. To help sustain the local airliners, the governmen...

Filmmaker Amjad Hossain's body arrives in Dhaka

Filmmaker Amjad Hossain's body arrives in Dhaka

-- 2018-12-21 21:03:15

The body of renowned filmmaker and actor Amjad Hossain was brought back to Dhaka on Friday evening, seven days after his death. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, carrying the body, from Thailand la...

BCIC signs deal with Saudi firm to set up cement factory

BCIC signs deal with Saudi firm to set up cement factory

-- 2018-12-21 20:45:14

Saudi business firm ‘Engineering Dimensions’ is going to set up a modern cement factory in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district. The Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) sig...

Dhaka now free from load shedding, water crisis: PM

Dhaka now free from load shedding, water crisis: PM

-- 2018-12-21 19:16:40

Describing the steps to resolve the acute crisis of water and electricity in the capital, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the city dwellers are now free from these problems. The Awami League ch...

Oikyafront demands election rescheduling where candidates declared ineligible  

Oikyafront demands election rescheduling where candidates declared ineligible  

-- 2018-12-21 18:29:38

Jatiya Oikyafront on Friday demanded the Election Commission (EC) to reschedule elections in the seats where its candidates have been declared ineligible by court. The BNP-led alliance made the deman...