Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday challenged BNP to prove its ability to wage movements.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said their party is taking preparations for holding its seventh national council.

Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) yesterday returned to classes after a week of demonstrations, following written assurance from authorities that their 16-point demand including removal of newly-appointed Director of Students’ Welfare (DSW) will be met.

The judicial process and the policing system of the country need a “massive reform” to reduce the scale of repression against women, Dr Akbar Ali Khan, former adviser to a caretaker government said yesterday.

A chase and counter-chase took place between activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League and Shibir on Chattogram College premises yesterday afternoon when the latter came to the campus to attend a namaz-e-janaza of a central Jamaat leader.

BNP yesterday announced programmes at divisional level in the next four weeks, to realise its demand for immediate release of the party’s imprisoned Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Lawmakers from treasury and opposition benches lambaste Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal for keeping insufficient allocation for education, health and culture sectors in the proposed budget for 2019-20 fiscal year.

Prime Minster and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina greets the countrymen on the occasion of AL’s 70th founding anniversary saying the party along with the people would build a hunger-poverty free, happy and prosperous Sonar Bangla as dreamt by Bangabandhu.

State-run commercial and specialised banks waived interest amounting to Tk 1,198.24 crore last year, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal tells the parliament.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal reveals the names of the top 300 loan defaulters in the parliament.

The paper importers of the country urge the government to fix five percent import duty in the budget from the existing 25 percent to help the local industry flourish.

Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) returns to classes after a week following an assurance that their 16-point demand would be met.

Eminent economist and scholar Dr Akbar Ali Khan says repression against women is taking place unabatedly due to the existing the culture of impunity.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified woman from a pond in Sreepur of Gazipur yesterday.

Rangpur city residents formed a human chain on Thursday demanding that the government protect the century-old Monthana pond by stopping fire service officials from filling it.

Seven people were killed and 16 injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

In an effort to ensure security of residents, Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) is installing 110 advanced security cameras in major areas of Sylhet city.

Organiser: Amnesty International

Working parents in Dhaka typically start their day in a rush of activity, enough to send anyone’s blood pressure soaring. Probably, the most time-consuming of all is also the most essential -- dropping their children at school, after which it is a battle to get to their own offices on time amid severe gridlock.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government is not interfering in the functions of the judiciary as well as other independent institutions.