Khaleda kept in jail to be killed: Fakhrul

BNP secretary-general Mirza Fakhru Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the government was keeping their party chairperson Khaleda Zia in jail to kill her in a planned way as part of political vengeance.

6 lakh Rohingyas in Myanmar at ‘serious risk of genocide’: UN

Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a ‘serious risk of genocide’, UN investigators said Monday, warning the repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army

BIWTA, DSCC, 4 realtors among 959 grabbers

The Dhaka district administration found no encroachers on the five of the eight rivers flowing through or around the district.

Ready to work as OC, says new DMP chief

New commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Mohammad Shafiqul Islam on Sunday said if people do not get desired services from any police station he is ready to work there as its officer-in-

Government established ‘electoral autocracy’: BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday alleged that the government has destroyed all the democratic institutions intentionally to establish ‘electoral autocracy’ in the country.

PM asks police to be friends with people

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday called upon the probationary police officers to be ‘friend of the people’ during their bad time as she addressed the passing-out parade of the 36th BCS batch

Dengue patients three times outside Dhaka

At least 619 new dengue patients were admitted to different hospitals across the country in 24 hours till Sunday morning and among them 456 were hospitalised outside the capital.

279,096 acres of forest land grabbed

Different organisations and individuals have occupied 279,096 acres of forest land while the Bangladesh Forest Industries Development Corporation has no record on total ares grabbed in

India denies Shahidul Alam visa

The Indian government did not issue visa to the acclaimed photographer and activist Shahidul Alam who was to sit on a panel at the Serendipity Arts Festival in New Delhi on last Friday.

No major political party has any programme

No major political party of the country will organise any programme to mark the International Day of Democracy to be observed worldwide today while the opposition parties said that the country now