Bangladesh High Court asks government to take steps to stop violence in the name of hartal and blockade

Three crude bombs go off at Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in Dhaka as BNP-led 20-party alliance is observing first day of the 72-hour nationwide hartal (shutdown)

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia should be charged with sedition for her ‘anti-state movement’, says Finance Minister AMA Muhith

The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations scheduled for tomorrow will be held on February 20

Food supplies to officials of Gulshan office of BNP chief Khaleda Zia continued to be curbed for the fourth day at a stretch

BNP-led 20-party alliance calls a fresh spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning protesting “conspiracy to starve its chief Khaleda Zia to death”

Three people, including a college student, injured as miscreants hurl several crude bombs at a bus near Mohammadpur Beribandh in Dhaka

LET me start this piece today with a joke that fits in here so perfectly. God created this subcontinent as a wealthy, fertile and prosperous land. The other nations protested about this favouritism. So, God in His infinite wisdom willed the type of governments we have had in this region to balance matters. We have been cursed since then.

BNP-led 20-party alliance threatens to go for “law flouting programme and non-cooperation movement” against the government’s “repressive acts”

EVERY day we see in the media graphic images and horror stories of innocent civilians -- victims of the ongoing political unrest. Who is to blame?

AMIDST the continuing deadly violence in the country unleashed by BNP-Jamaat to unseat the present government, a significant news seems to have lost its importance.

Reiterating that there will be no dialogue with criminals and militants like BNP-Jamaat alliance, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issues warning that they would be put on trial for their militant acts.

Passenger suffers splinter injuries as miscreants hurled crude bomb at a bus in Mohammadpur area of Dhaka

Two youths who were accused for murder of a politician are killed in separate “gunfights” with Rab and police in Jessore and Comilla districts today. They are Shamim Ashraf and MH Sunny.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is likely to, introduce a bill in Parliament for dismissing the incumbent chairmen of the Upazila Paiishads. A ruling party MP told UNB on condition of anonymity