UK envoy hails BNP's backing city polls candidates

After meeting BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan residence yesterday, British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert Gibson hoped
8 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Moudud claims Salahuddin still alive

Moudud Ahmed, a lawyer for missing BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed's wife, yesterday told the High Court that they believed and had
8 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Shops gutted in Habiganj

At least six shops were gutted when a fire broke out in Bahubol upazila of Habiganj district on Monday night.
8 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Campaign for Abbas starts

Afroza Abbas, wife of BNP-backed mayoral candidate Mirza Abbas in the Dhaka South City Corporation elections, yesterday started
8 April 2015, 18:00 PM

AL candidates for each Dhaka ward

Ruling Awami League has finalised lone councilor hopefuls for most units for the upcoming city corporation elections to the two halves of Dhaka city, to be held on April 28.
8 April 2015, 15:56 PM

AL, BNP leaders pass busy day wooing voters

Though the two leading mayor candidates in the April 28 Chittagong City Corporation election did not join the official campaign
7 April 2015, 18:00 PM

59 Ctg councillor candidates 'literate, self-educated'

Fifty-nine councillor aspirants for Chittagong city have declared themselves "literate and self-educated" in the affidavits submitted to
7 April 2015, 18:00 PM

9 BNP, Jamaat-Shibir activists arrested in Ctg

Police in an overnight drive arrested nine activists of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir from Sitakunda and Lohagara upazilas of Chittagong
7 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Tabith now a valid mayor candidate

With loan default allegation no longer standing in the way, Tabith Awal, son of BNP’s Abdul Awal Mintoo, is now a legal candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation polls.
7 April 2015, 15:12 PM

Two killed in nor'wester

Nor'wester lashed Kushtia and Jhenidah districts yesterday, leaving two people killed and 20 others injured.
6 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Top Quote!

“Is it our dress? This is the attire of the British. And you are still bearing that servile attitude.”
6 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Khaleda Zia prays at Koko’s grave

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia offers prayers at the grave of her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko at Dhaka’s Banani Graveyard this evening.
6 April 2015, 12:13 PM

Kamaruzzaman meets family, yet to seek mercy

Death row convict for war crimes in 1971 and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman has met his family at Dhaka Central Jail.
6 April 2015, 09:20 AM

Mintoo out of mayoral race

The High Court upholds the election commission’s order that rejected the nomination of Abdul Awal Mintoo, the BNP-backed mayoral candidate for the Dhaka North City Corporation polls.
6 April 2015, 09:19 AM

Jamaat calls 48hr hartal from tomorrow

Jamaat calls 48-hr nationwide hartal from 6:00am tomorrow to protest SC rejection of Kamaruzzaman’ plea seeking review of his death penalty.
6 April 2015, 05:59 AM

8 BNP-Jamaat men held in Ctg

Police in overnight drives arrested eight BNP and Jamaat men in two upazilas of Chittagong yesterday for carrying out subversive
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Rizvi denied bail again in arson cases

A Dhaka court yesterday again rejected bail of BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed in three arson cases.
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Drug peddler held

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a drug peddler and seized four kilograms of hemp from his possession at Jaherpara
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM

From office to court, then finally home

Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office was buzzing with activity on Saturday evening. Party leaders and staffs, who had been staying at the office for the last three months, started packing their bags around 11:00pm.
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Relief, after three months' tension

Archrivals Awami League and BNP both breathed sighs of relief as Khaleda Zia finally returned to her residence yesterday, after staying at her Gulshan office for three months.
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM