Over 650 officers mark time as OSDs.
Over 650 civil servants, mostly joint secretaries and additional secretaries, are idling away their time as officers on special duty at the public administration ministry where they hardly have any work to do.
BNP calls hartal on Wednesday.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday called a fresh 24-hour hartal across the country protesting the attack on party chairperson Khaleda Zia at Kawran Bazar in the city.
AL men obstruct Khaleda on campaign trail.
Ruling Awami League activists on Sunday obstructed BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade and showed black flags at three places in the capital’s Uttara area during her electioneering for Dhaka north city mayoral candidate Tabith Awal.
'Genocide' charged as boat capsizes in Mediterranean.
As a boat packed with hundreds of migrants capsized in Mediterranean waters, many were trapped inside behind locked doors.That's the account one survivor of the deadly shipwreck gave to investigators,
Is America ready for marijuana moguls?
At first blush, Brian Rogers and Caitlin McGuire seem like any other small business owners -- polite, hardworking and passionate about what they do.
BNP-backed councillor candidate arrested.
The police on Saturday night arrested Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed councillor candidate in the elections to Dhaka South City Corporation from Paltan area.
Hasina slams media for ‘better Khaleda coverage’
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday said that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khlaeda Zia, had distributed patrol bombs from her office to kill people .......
337 Bangladeshis return from Yemen safely.
A total of 337 Bangladeshis, evacuated from war-ravaged Yemen, returned home safely from Kerala, India by Bangladesh Biman special flights early Sunday.
Khaleda barred from electioneering at Uttara.
Activists of ruling Awami League on Sunday afternoon barred Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia to conduct electioneering for the party-backed mayoral candidate Tabith Awal at sector 1 Uttara in Dhaka.
EC to decide army deployment in a couple of days.
The chief election commissioner, Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad, said on Sunday the Election Commission would decide over army deployment during the upcoming city polls in Dhaka and Chittagong in a day or two.
