A component of BNP-led 20-party alliance, Jamiat Ulama-e Islam, quit the opposition platform today citing various reasons.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen will hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from India, China and Russia in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent, where he is expected to seek cooperation for speedy vaccine supply and solving the Rohingya crisis.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has registered for the Covid-19 vaccine on the Shurokkha app, launched by the government for the vaccination drive that began in February.

The Rohingya issue has the potential to destabilise the entire region not just the two concerned parties, said speakers at an online discussion yesterday.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the prompt action taken by the government after Rupganj factory fire should serve as a warning to all others who do business putting employees’ lives at risk.

The BNP yesterday urged the government to form an advisory committee and take coordinated steps to curb the transmission of the Covid-19 that has spread across the country.

Eric Ershad, son of Jatiya Party founder and late President HM Ershad today said the allegation of money laundering against his mother Bidisha Ershad is baseless.

BNP Vice-chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed said although he is still part of the party, he feels uneasy about his place in it.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia must confess her wrongdoings and offer apologies to the President to go abroad for receiving treatment, said Law Minister Anisul Haq in the Parliament yesterday.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has no alternative other than to confess her wrongdoings and seek clemency from the president to go abroad for treatment, said Law Minister Anisul Huq at the parliament today.

Tofail Ahmed, senior lawmaker from the ruling Awami League, and Kazi Firoz Rashid, an MP from the Jatiya Party, expressed frustration in parliament yesterday, saying that bureaucrats were being given various important responsibilities by ignoring the politicians.

In the event that he is jailed or murdered, Noakhali’s Basurhat municipality Mayor Quader Mirza said he had taken steps to kill Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, his wife Isratunnesa Quader, and Noakhali-4 lawmaker Ekramul Karim Chowdhury.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) yesterday approved six development projects involving Tk 1,219.26 crore, including one to construct some 672 residential flats for government officials and employees at Aliganj in Narayanganj.

A mobile court of the Chittagong district administration yesterday sealed-off an ice cream factory in the city for

The Imran H Sarker-led faction of Gonojagoron Mancha brought out a rally at the capital's Shahbagh intersection

Detectives early yesterday arrested four alleged drug peddlers with 35,000 Yaba tablets from the capital's Jatrabari area.

The High Court yesterday rejected a plea filed by sacked Rab official Lt Col (retd) Tareque Sayeed Mohammad for

The government has undertaken a plan to rehabilitate around 2.8 lakh poor by providing them with homes under

Reckless driving again claimed the lives of three more kids including two of a family in two districts yesterday, a day after two others

Minister for Public Administration and General Secretary of Awami League Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday said there is no possibility of