• No let-up in BSF atrocities
  • Simply unacceptable
  • North Korean threat and spectre of a conflict
  • Worldwide marketing of poet Nazrul’s product
  • Excellent utilisation of excellence in tertiary learning
  • Beyond aid but with climate fund
  • Dhaka Theatre to stage The Tempest in traditional style
  • Curtain falls on traditional theatre fest
  • Syrian ‘transitional govt’ set up in Paris
  • Norwegians defy mass killer in song
  • Rajshahi take upper hand
  • Cricket might return to BNS again
  • Businesses not getting benefits due to non-tariff barriers: FBCCI
  • Budget should have no scope for govt bank borrowing, say businesses
  • Country heading for uncertainty: Matin
  • Japan positive about metro rail funding: JICA
  • Bodies of Sagar, Runi exhumed
  • IGP under JS panel fire over Sagar-Runi, Elias issues
  • US eyes business in Bangladesh
  • Petrobangla signs deal with Gazprom to drill 10 gas wells
  • ADB extends GG fund closing date up to Dec 31
  • HC moved to ban hartal during exams
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Bodies of Sagar, Runi exhumed

Rapid Action Battalion personnel carry the exhumed body of the slain journalist Meherun Runi on Thursday morning in the Azimpur graveyard in Dhaka.  — Ali Hossain Mintu
The Rapid Action Battalion exhumed the bodies of the slain journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi on Thursday morning for second forensic tests. Around two months and a half after the murder, the battalion’s forensic wing additional superintendent Jafar Ullah... Full story

IGP under JS panel fire over Sagar-Runi, Elias issues

The parliamentary standing committee on home ministry on Thursday strongly criticised the inspector general of police, Hasan Mahmud Khandaker, for his unwillingness to discuss the issue of the disappearance of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Elias Ali. Full story

US eyes business in Bangladesh

The United States believes there are chances for ‘cooperation’ in Bangladesh’s ‘military modernisation plan’, according to a senior US official. The US has also given broad hints that the secretary... Full story

Petrobangla signs deal with Gazprom to drill 10 gas wells

Three Petrobangla subsidiaries on Thursday inked agreements involving $193.55 million with the Russian state-run gas corporation Gazprom International for drilling 10 wells in five gas fields. Full story

Govt playing hide-and-seek over Elias: BNP

The main opposition, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and its allies on Thursday staged demonstrations across the country asking the government to ‘return’ its leader Elias Ali. For the first time after the... Full story

Tracing Elias Ali alive top priority: Ashraf

Awami League general secretary and local government minister Syed Ashraful Islam reiterated the government’s ongoing drives to trace missing BNP leader Elias Ali. ‘It’s government’s responsibility to... Full story

Tk 5cr paid to BTRC with borrowed money

The son of former railways minister Suranjit Sengupta, now a minister without portfolio, on Thursday said that the Sengupta Telecommunication had paid Tk five crore to the telecommunications... Full story

Hillary to visit Bangladesh May 5

Hillary Clinton
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton will next month visit India and Bangladesh after major meetings in China as the United States seeks to bolster ties in South Asia, the State Department said on... Full story

Gilani under fire after contempt conviction

Yousuf Raza Gilani
Pakistan’s prime minister was on Thursday convicted for refusing to reopen a corruption investigation against the president, in a case that could see him thrown out of office. The Supreme Court found Yousuf Raza... Full story

Sangram editor, correspondent jailed on contempt charge

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday sentenced Bangla daily Sangram editor and publisher Abul Asad and its Feni correspondent AKM Abdur Rahim to ‘simple imprisonment till the rising of the... Full story

MPs blast govt for deteriorating power supply

Members of Parliament in the ruling alliance on Thursday blasted the government for the rapidly deteriorating power supply situation ousting reporters midway from a pre-budget discussion at the finance ministry... Full story

BSF hurls grenades into Bangladesh

India’s Border Security Force hurled a number of grenades into the Bangladesh territory on Wednesday night when they started a battle with a group of people, said to be smugglers, at the Benapole land port. Full story


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