Chittagong: A surprise choice of mayoral candidate from outside the party fold generated simmering discontent within the opposition BNP as local leaders lamented that the man had ruled the roost in the port city while they were in peril after the 1/11 political episode.        

Dhaka: In a rebuff to critics, Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun Tuesday categorically said political identities are not taken into consideration in accepting any sensational murder case. She made the comment after the 67th meeting of the  ‘monitoring cell for sensational murder

Dhaka: Muggers fatally stabbed a man walking on the sidewalk of the road in Kalapani area under Mirpur Thana in the city on Monday night and he succumbed to his injuries Tuesday.    The deceased was identified as Abdur Rahim, 26, son of Mohammad Israil.Witnesses said Rahim was walking

DHAKA: South Korea will support joint ventures between Petrobangla and Korean Consortium in Bangladesh’s vital energy sector, especially, coal mining and coal-fired power production. Dhaka and Seoul reached a consensus in this regard and signed a nine-point joint communiqué Tuesday

DHAKA: Defying a recommendation of the technical committee of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) for grounding an aircraft of the GMG Airlines, the private airliner is operating flights with its faulty MD-80 carrier.  The technical committee of the CAAB in April

Chittagong: Mayor Mohiuddin’s call for managing internal conflicts in the ruling Awami League’s local chapter ahead of the upcoming Chittagong City Corporation polls pears to have fallen on deaf eras of his party colleagues, as many of them should be reluctant to give him a fourth

DHAKA: Troops deployed to support two government projects on machine-readable passport and visa preparation will return Wednesday to their barracks, an ISPR announcement said.  The army men were supporting the civil administration in running the projects titled ‘Machine Readable

Dhaka: A Dhaka court Tuesday fixed October 22 for hearing on the defamation suit filed by prime minister’s energy adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi against acting editor of Daily Amar Desh and former energy adviser Mahmudur Rahman.Judge Ali Hossain of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

Dhaka: Cigarette and tobacco products silently kill 57 thousand people while cripple some 3-4 lakh others annually in the country, anti-tobacco campaigners said Tuesday, fixing a latest social malaise, stalking, emerging as the most heinous hazard. They observed drug users create stalking

Dhaka: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) strongly condemned the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) authorities for the disappearance of Salim Miah, a resident of Kapasia, allegedly after his arrest by a team of the awe-inspiring elite force. Selim reportedly went missing after Rab men

Dhaka: Muggers stabbed to death a young man on Sunday night in city’s Nabinagar area under Khilgaon thana.Police recovered the body of the victim, wearing jeans and green T-shirt.Eyewitnesses said a gang of 3/4 bandits waylaid the youth on his way to Nabinagar from Sipaibag. “They

Dhaka: Once people used to go to Dhaka’s Dholaikhal downmarket to reclaim their much-loved things stolen away. The Dholaikhal model bas now been replicated by burglars and pilferers in many parts of the capital.      At least three such swag markets were explored in the city in

Dhaka: Courts Monday granted bail to 22 workers, including nine arrested during the river-transport strike, as fruitful negotiations between the government and their trade union broke a debilitating deadlock in countrywide waterway communications.Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Court

Dhaka: Foreign Minister Dipu Moni left Dhaka Sunday for Tajikistan to attend the 37th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting, at the first stop on her way to Moscow. The meeting will take place in the Tajik capital city of Dushanbe on May 18-19.  Foreign Ministry

Dhaka: As the red-earth Barind region burns under perennial droughts, residents of Rajshahi district Monday rallied in the capital to demand that the government immediately go for implementing the long-forsaken North Rajshahi Irrigation Project (NRIP) for saving the ecology and crops in

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday made a strong plea at a UN agency meet for creating an open global trade regime that ensures effective access of products of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) to developed countries’ markets. She also called for adequate representation of

Dhaka: A fire broke out on Monday morning in a power sub-transmission room adjacent to the Finance Ministry building at Bangladesh Secretariat, in a close repeat of blaze in the precincts of government’s administrative headquarters.The fire occurred around 10:15am in the room on the 3rd

Dhaka: A fire gutted five storehouses of garment leftovers called jhut in the capital city’s Pallabi area early Monday. On information, eight units of fire service rushed in and brought the flames under control within two hours, sources said. It took up to 7 in the morning to completely

Dhaka:  Two factions of Chhatra League Monday clashed over distribution of food at a programme of Dhaka University Debating Society (DUDS), leaving three students injured, including a DUDS member. Campus sources said a group of BCL activists, led by Enamul Haque Prince, went to the TSC

Dinajpur: Boropukuria coalmine workers will go on strike from May 22 if their demand for regular appointment is not fulfilled by Tuesday, their union announced Monday, at the height of a series of demonstrations. Boropukuria Coalmine Labour-Workers Union issued the ultimatum, after