All set for AL-JOF talks
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, also the ruling Awami League president, is set to hold a dialogue with the Jatiya Oikya Front at her residence Ganabhaban on Thursday on the 11th Parliamentary elections due by January 28, 2019.
Rohingya repatriation by mid Nov: officials
Repatriation of the Rohingya community fleeing their homeland in Myanmar would commence by mid November, Bangladesh foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque announced on Tuesday after the third joint working group meeting of Bangladesh-Myanmar in Dhaka.
PM invites Oikya Front to join talks at Ganobhaban Nov 1
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also the president of Awami League, on Tuesday invited Jatiya Oikyafront to join dialogue with her party at 7:00pm on Thursday at Ganobhaban.
HC grants Mainul’s Division I in jail
The High Court Division on Monday granted Division I facilities in the jail to detained senior Supreme Court lawyer Mainul Hosein, also a former MP and caretaker government adviser.
Zia Charitable Trust graft case: Khaleda, Harris, two others get 7-yr jail
A Dhaka court on Monday jailed Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and three other accused for seven years after being found guilty in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.
Zia Charitable Trust case: SC clears way to deliver verdict in Khaleda's absence
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way to deliver verdict in Zia Charitable Trust graft case in absence of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Transport strike makes millions suffer
People across the country, including passengers, admission-seekers and businesspeople, suffered for an acute crisis of transports on Sunday, the first day of the 48-hour countrywide transport strike. Almost no buses, three-wheelers, taxicabs, trucks, covered vans, pick-up vans and trailers ran on highways and roads in the capital as elsewhere in the country.
Jatiya Oikya Front submits 7-point demand to PM
The Jatiya Oikya Front submitted its seven-point demand to prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday.
People suffer on first day of countrywide transport strike
A countrywide 48-hour transport strike, enforced by Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation, left people in distress and caused immense sufferings on Sunday.
48hrs transport strike begins today
Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation on Saturday announced a 48-hour countrywide work abstention from today demanding changes to the newly enacted Road Transport Act, 2018. Associations of drivers of three-wheelers, human haulers and taxicabs also expressed their solidarity with the work abstention which is scheduled to begin at 6:00am today.
