Nor’wester kills 9, injures 6 Hundreds of houses damaged, power supply snapped, ferry movement suspended.
At least nine people were killed and six injured in Dhaka, Bogra and Rajshahi as many areas of the country witnessed nor’wester on Saturday.
BNP gets access to own office.
Leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party got access to their central office on Saturday evening more than three months after law enforcement agencies had locked it.
88th day blockade passes loosely.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance sponsored 88th day of current non-stop blockade on Friday passed off loosely without any reported incident of violence.
Shajahan, Selim take part in electioneering in breach of electoral code.
Independent lawmaker Haji Mohammad Selim on Friday sought blessings and vote for Awami League-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka south city corporation, Sayeed Khokon,
Hasina tells MPs to resist BNP, allies from local constituencies.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday night asked her party lawmakers to go and stay in their respective constituencies and form committees to resist ‘unruly’ activities of the BNP-led 20 party alliance,
PM for more sympathetic towards disabled persons.
Terming the persons with disabilities as a part of the society, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday called upon all to be more sympathetic towards them for flourishing their latent talents.
Nominations of Mintoo, Pintu cancelled.
The Election Commission on Wednesday cancelled the mayoral nominations of BNP leaders Abdul Awal Mintoo and Nasiruddin Pintu and four independent aspirants. Returning Officer Shah Alam said that the nomination of Mintoo,
Trainee pilot killed as aircraft crashes.
A female trainee pilot of a private flying academy was killed and her trainer sustained critical injuries after their small aircraft crashed and caught fire a while after it took off at Shah Makhdum Airport in Rajshahi on Wednesday,
Kamal quits as ICC president.
Bangladesh’s AHM Mustafa Kamal resigned as president of the International Cricket Council on Wednesday having fallen ‘victim to unconstitutional strong-arming by the ICC high-ups’ during the just concluded World Cup.
Hartal on Thursday Dhaka-Ctg out of purview of hartal
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance held off calling a hartal today, the day Higher Secondary Certificate examinations starts across the country, but called 24-hour countrywide shutdown – outside Dhaka and Chittagong city – on Thursday.
