AL not plotting to destroy BNP: Syed Ashraf
Awami League general secretary and public administration minister Syed Ashraf on Tuesday dismissed all speculations that ruling Awami League is planning to split the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Eviction in Chittagong continues
Chittagong City Corporation, the police and Chittagong district administration on Tuesday jointly evicted a vegetable market built illegally encroaching local canal in Amin Jute Mill area under Bayezid police station.
BB yet to draft guidelines on commercial papers
Bangladesh Bank is yet to prepare guidelines on the issuance of commercial papers — an unsecured debt instrument — by companies to banks for taking loans although the use of the instrument has increased since its inception in the country in 2013.
Dowry robs Sukhi’s sight
Life suddenly became gloomy for Sukhi Akhter on Friday noon when her husband gouged out her right eye and stabbed the other one with a screw driver leaving her blind.
23 killed in four days
At least 23 people were either killed or found dead in separate incidents across the country during Eid holiday.
City in holiday hangover as rain continues
The city suffers a festival hangover, on the first day of opening, as the weather remained rainy in most part of the country.
BNP enforces Hartal in Habiganj as former mayor attacked in jail
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party enforced a half-day general strike in Habiganj on Sunday protesting as suspended Habiganj municipal mayor GK Gaus was injured in an attack in Habiganj jail on Saturday.
JCD president, 5 others arrested in Patuakhali
Police arrested the central president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed student organisation, Rajib Ahsan and his five associates in Dumki of Patuakhali on Sunday night.
Tarana vows to wipe out corruption
Vowing to eradicate corruption from her ministry, state minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim on Thursday said there is no way for her ministry to favour corrupt people, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Fakhrul goes home from hospital
The acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, went to his house at Uttara in the city leaving a city hospital on Thursday.