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BCL’s tender clash in Barisal (video)

At least 5 injured during a factional clash of ruling party’s student front Bangladesh Chhatra League over a local tender drop in Barisal city.
3 June 2015, 08:49 AM

Gallant fight to win back husband

A young woman in Mymensingh stages hunger strike to win back her husband who refused to accept her as wife even after one and half years of their marriage.
2 June 2015, 07:59 AM

2 AL men killed in Madaripur clash

Two ruling party men are killed in a clash between two groups of people over establishing supremacy in Shibchar upazila of Madaripur.
2 June 2015, 06:33 AM

Opinion: Has BNP forgotten its anti-Indian past?

BNP's spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon's claim that their party has never done anti- Indian politics in the past is a complete denial of the truth. The party's anti-Indian politics has been evident in numerous ways.
31 May 2015, 10:18 AM

Talk with Khaleda before Modi’s visit: BNP

BNP calls Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to discuss Bangladesh-India bilateral issues with Khaleda Zia and experts before Indian Premier Narendra Modi’s Dhaka visit.
29 May 2015, 11:24 AM

None could tarnish BCL’s image: Tofail

Awami League Presidium Member Tofail Ahmed claims that nobody could tarnish the reputation of Bangladesh Chhatra League in the past.
28 May 2015, 11:13 AM

Salahuddin’s condition ‘stable’

Doctors said BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed's condition is stable but he will have to stay few more days at the hospital for some ‘minor complications’.
22 May 2015, 14:50 PM

Democracy in Bangladesh on solid ground: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that democracy in Bangladesh now stands on a solid foundation having been practiced for the last two decades.
19 May 2015, 14:21 PM

Salahuddin’s wife flies to India

Hasina Ahmed leaves Dhaka for the Indian state of Meghalaya to visit her husband BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed at a Shillong hospital.
17 May 2015, 13:45 PM

Feeling down? Watch this clown (video)

Video of an Awami League activist protesting against Dr Zafar Iqbal goes viral as he admits before camera that he doesn’t know what he is complaining about.
17 May 2015, 09:04 AM

Restore political coexistence: Khaleda

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia calls upon the government to restore political coexistence in the country and demanded quick release of her party’s sick and senior leaders from jail.
13 May 2015, 14:41 PM

Killing of blogger Ananta blow to free speech: HRW

The killing of secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das is part of an alarming trend of violent intolerance toward freedom of religion and speech in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch says.
13 May 2015, 03:47 AM

Indian cops arrest Salahuddin for intrusion

Indian police arrests BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, who was missing for the last two months, in Shillong district of Meghalaya on charge of entering the country without travel documents.
12 May 2015, 08:10 AM

Analysis: A Mother’s Day gift from police!

When cops swooped on the protesters, it only reflected the government’s and the administration’s indifferent attitude towards the Pahela Baishakh sexual assault. We were shocked because we as civilized human beings expected rational reaction from the authorities. We should not have.
11 May 2015, 07:21 AM

Opinion: Salauddin becomes another forgotten case?

It seems we do not care that a man just disappeared into the blues amidst allegation that the law enforcing agency was behind the Houdini act. He seems to have gone down the annals of disappearance of the likes of Ilias Ali, Chowdhury Alam and labour leader Aminul Islam.
10 May 2015, 08:08 AM

BCL new council on July 25-26

The 28th council of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student body of ruling Awami League, will be held on July 25-26.
8 May 2015, 07:06 AM

Khaleda blames govt for Pintu’s death

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia alleges that the government shifted former BNP lawmaker Nasir Uddin Pintu to Rajshahi jail from Dhaka “in a bid to kill him”.
3 May 2015, 16:14 PM

Hasina 'dispels' Ban's worry

Irregularities in last week's city corporation polls and BNP's decision to boycott the election halfway into the voting featured
2 May 2015, 18:00 PM

PM wants UN chief to advise BNP to return to democratic politics

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses her hope that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will suggest BNP to return to the democratic politics shunning the path of terrorist and militant activities.
1 May 2015, 18:04 PM

Opinion: City election and things we have lost

"It could have been an election in which people could merrily walk to the polling centres and pick their mayors. It could have been a return to true democracy. We could have run pictures of winners and losers embracing each other,the winners saying they want support of the losers and the losers promising their best for a better city."
29 April 2015, 06:31 AM