JP co-chairman GM Quader relieved of post

Jatiya Party co-chairman Ghulam Mohammad Quader was relieved of the position on Friday.

BNP leaders for expanding JOF

Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders think that a greater effective political alliance should be formed expanding the Jatiya Oikya Front as the opposition alliance apparently failed to yield any tangible political mileage centring the 11th parliamentary polls.

Students’ protests for road safety spread

Students’ protests for road safety flared up across the capital and many districts on the second consecutive day on Wednesday following the death of a Bangladesh University of Professionals student as a speeding bus ran him over on Tuesday.

Govt seeks stay on HC’s stay on probes against Shahidul Alam

The government on Wednesday sought the Appellate Division’s permission to appeal against the High Court Division’s stay on the Detective Branch’s probes against social activist and acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam in a case under the repealed draconian Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act.

RESCHEDULING DEFAULTED LOANS WITH TK 1CR DOWN PAYMENT Misuse of scope feared

Economists and banking experts oppose the government move to allow restructuring large defaulted loans by making down payment up to Tk 1 crore.

Protests over BUP student’s death continue

Students of different private universities continued their blockade on Wednesday on Pragati Sarani in front of Jamuna Future Park at Bashundhara in the capital protesting at the death of a student of Bangladesh University of Professionals and demanding safe road.

Student’s death in road accident sparks protests

Students of different private universities on Tuesday blocked Pragati Sarani in front of Jamuna Future Park at Bashundhara in the capital for about 12 hours protesting the death of a student of Bangladesh University of Professionals and demanding safe road.

Obaidul Quader to undergo bypass surgery today

Ailing Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, who is undergoing treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, will undergo a bypass surgery today.

TONU RAPE, MURDER No headway in 3 years

‘Can you tell me when our wait for justice would end,’ Anwara Begum is tired of asking with none to take the question.

7 shot dead at Baghaichari

Seven people, including five on election duty, were killed and 20 others were injured in a gun attack on a motorcade carrying election officials and materials on Sajek-Khagrachhari road at Noimile under Baghaichari upazila in Rangamati Monday evening.