Khaleda won’t appear in trial court on Mar 4, lawyer says.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyer on Sunday said that she would not appear in the lower court on March 4 until the High Court disposes of the petition seeking transfer of two cases..

PM asks military to remain alert to protect democracy.

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday asked the armed forces to always remain alert like other forces of the country to protect the sacred constitution and maintain the continuation of democracy

AVIJIT KILLING Dhaka agrees to engage FBI.

The government has responded positively to the US offer to engage Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to find out the killers of the writer and blogger Avijit Roy. The foreign minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali

Fugitive American minister caught in Brazil.

Victor Arden Barnard, an American pastor wanted for 59 counts of sexual assaults in Minnesota, was arrested by Brazilian authorities on Friday, the office of the governor for the State of Rio Grande

Boris Nemtsov: Opposition figure who took on Vladimir Putin.

The slaying of prominent Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in the heart of Moscow has shocked Russia and the wider world.His murder, two days before a planned opposition march,

Ershad asks party-men to prepare for election.

Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Saturday directed his party leaders and workers to prepare for the next parliament election. He said Jatiya Party does not believe in going to power by killing people

AL DHAKA NORTH, SOUTH New committees likely before city polls .

he ruling Awami League may announce two convening committees for its Dhaka city north and Dhaka city south units before the announcement of the schedule for elections to the two city corporations.

pate of arson attacks on transports Two more violence victims die, fresh 72-hour hartal begins today.

At least seven vehicles were burnt in a spate of arson attacks in Dhaka and Narayanganj as two more arson victims died in hospital on Saturday, the 54th day of the opposition alliance’s nonstop blockade.

Family members meet Kamaruzzaman.

Family members of death row convict Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman visited him inside the Dhaka Central Jail in the capital on Saturday morning. A group of eight went inside the jail at around 10:40am