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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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