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

Prices of onion, broiler go up.

The prices of onion and broiler went up in the capital’s kitchen markets over the week due to supply shortage and high transportation cost, traders said. They said that the price of local onion increased in the market

CPB, SPB want dialogue to resolve crisis.

Leaders of Communist Party of Bangladesh and Socialist Party of Bangladesh on Friday called on the government to take initiative for holding a national dialogue to resolve the current political crisis.

Avijit murder bears extremist hallmark Citizens mourn the free-thinking blogger, Ansar Bangla-7 gleefully delights in the killing .

People from different walks of life condemned the killing of writer and blogger Avijit Roy and said that communal forces and extremists had made free-thinking activists their targets time and again but the government

BNP announces more 72-hour hartal.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance once again announced a 72-hour spell of nationwide general strike from 6:00am Sunday to 6:00am Wednesday. BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed....

Blogger Avijit hacked to death.

Avijit Roy, a free-thinking blogger, was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants on the Dhaka University campus on Thursday night. His wife Rafida Ahmed was grievously injured in the attack that bore the hallmark

Tigers eye a ‘Miracle of Melbourne’

Angelo Mathews did something on his Melbourne Cricket Ground debut five years ago that hardly anyone can expect from a youngster. From 107-8, Mathews, then only 22, lifted Sri Lanka to 240 with an unbeaten 77

2 sustain burn injuries, 4 vehicles torched in lacklustre blockade, hartal.

The opposition sponsored nonstop countrywide transport blockade reinforced by the weeklong general strike passed its 51st day largely peacefully on Wednesday, barring some sporadic incidents of vandalism,