Mahbub complains to EC against Regent Airways over VIP seat

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder has complained to the chief election commissioner that he and his wife were not given business class seats during their travel to Chattogram on a Regent Airways flight on June 27.

Onion price shoots up

The price of onion shot up to Tk 50 a kilogram in the city’s kitchen markets in two days due to a sharp increase in wholesale prices of the item.

Rains paralyse Ctg life, 2 killed in Rangamati landslide

A landslide killed at least two people, one woman and a child, on Monday in Kaptai of Rangamati as torrential rains paralysed the life in the whole Chattogram division.

Enam Ahmed inducted into AL advisory council

Enam Ahmed Chowdhury, who joined Awami League in December last parting his ways with BNP, has been made an advisory council member of the ruling party.

Only crimes that go viral are investigated: Rumeen

Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Rumeen Farhana on Sunday said in parliament that the police were investigating only the crimes that went viral as the prime minister ordered them to investigate those cases.

Iran intends to breach nuclear treaty uranium enrichment cap

Iran says it intends to breach the uranium enrichment cap set by a landmark nuclear deal Sunday in a bid to press signatories to the endangered pact into keeping their side of the bargain.

LDA to lay siege to energy ministry on July 14

The Left Democratic Alliance would lay siege to the ministry of power, energy and mineral resources on July 14 demanding withdrawal of the decision to increase prices of gas, leaders of the alliance announced after their eight-hour hartal ended on Sunday.

Suspected rapist, killer of Wari child held in Cumilla

Detectives in a drive in Cumilla on Sunday arrested the prime suspect in the killing of six-year-old girl after rape at Wari in Dhaka.

Rains wreak havoc in Rohingya camps

Flash flood and monsoon rains intensified the sufferings of the hundreds of thousands of displaced Rohingyas at various camps in Ukhia and Teknaf and their adjacent areas in Cox’s Bazar in past few days.

8hr hartal against gas price hike today

Left Democratic Alliance would enforce nationwide eight-hour hartal from 6:00am to 2:00pm today in protest against gas price hike that came into effect from July 1.