Teachers and employees of secondary schools continued their strike and ‘fast-unto-death’ on Monday demanding enlistment of their institutions for the monthly pay order and job nationalisation. Leaders of the teachers said that no classes were...Full story
Left-leaning partners of the Awami League-led alliance on Monday called on the government to cancel the latest fuel price hike and to refrain from increasing the power price any further. Seven partners of the ruling alliance submitted a memorandum...Full story
Jatiya Party chairman and former president Hussain Muhammad Ershad has said his party would participate in the next general elections alone to come to power for serving the country and its people.Full story
Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Monday hit out at the Awami League-led government for what he termed its failure to protect the national interests because of its subservient policy towards India. Insecurity is prevailing in...Full story
Rajdhani Unnyan Katripakkha chairman Nurul Huda has backtracked from his decision to resign and is now set complete his tenure which ends in March. Huda backtracked on his decision following a request from...Full story
An accused in a case died in the courtroom of the chief judicial magistrate in Bagerhat on Monday. The deceased was Gopal Mondal, 65, a resident of Meherpur village in Mollarhat upazila in the district.Full story
The police arrested two people after a teenage girl was gang-raped in Barisal city on Sunday night. The locals handed over the two alleged rapists to the police after three men abducted the 15-year old girl, took...Full story
A Dhaka court has sentenced two persons to death for raping two garments workers and killing one of them in Dhaka’s Mirpur area.
Acting Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention...Full story
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday could not hear the further arguments of the prosecution against the detained Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee as the defence came up with a number of petitions.Full story
A parliamentary sub-committee on Monday finalised a report on the government’s policy of giving promotion to public servants and recommended a review of the cases of some deserving candidates for promotion. Full story
At least eight people were killed and three others injured as a truck turned turtle on Dhaka bypass near Ulukhola Bridge at Kaliganj in Gazipur while eight people were killed and more than 30 people injured in separate traffic accidents in Dhaka...Full story
Bangladesh Nationalist Party spokesperson Tariqul Islam on Monday said the people would again show ‘no confidence’ in the government by participating ‘in their thousands’ in the ‘human walls’ the opposition would...Full story
The High Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to 600 leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its front and associated bodies in 10 separate cases filed in connection with the opposition’s...Full story
The health and family welfare minister on Sunday asked the bureaucrats to find out ways to bring government public health specialists in the administrative services to improve health outcomes.Full story
Deputy secretary to the home ministry Shefina Begum died on Monday during a training session at the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre in Savar. Shefina, also wife of deputy secretary to the liberation...Full story
The European Union is providing Euro 200,000 or more than Tk 20 million to fund the purchase and distribution of blankets among the people in the country’s northern region suffering from the ongoing severe cold weather. Full story
THE Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday called a half-day general strike in Rajshahi division for today protesting against the arrest of its central leader hailed from Rajshahi. Rajshahi city Jamaat amir Ataur Rahman...Full story
The ninth anniversary of death of New Age senior staff correspondent Manik Chandra Saha will be observed in Dhaka and Khulna today.
Manik Saha, who was also a BBC Bangla stringer, was bombed to death on January 15, 2004 in broad daylight...Full story
The second death anniversary of veteran journalist Sayed Eqbal Rezvi will be observed today. Journalist Rezvi died of cancer at the age of 71 in 2011. Relatives, colleagues and well-wishers have been requested to pray...Full story
A housewife was hacked to death allegedly by her drug addict husband and another woman also met the same fate while trying to save her at Baira village in Singair upazila of the district on Sunday.Full story
The High Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to 600 leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its front and associated bodies in 10 separate cases filed in connection with the opposition’s...Full story
Bangladesh has extended the machine readable passport and machine readable visa project by signing a renewal contract with Malaysian firm IRIS Corporation Berhad JV. According to the Malaysian firm...Full story
The state minister for Chittagong hill tracts affairs, Dipankar Talukdar, has called upon all hill organisations to extend their support to implement the CHT peace accord for expediting the development of the hill districts.Full story
A Dhaka court on Sunday permitted the police to send to the United States for test the DNA samples of three more suspects in sensational murder of the journalist couple. The result will be matched to identify the killers...Full story