Have faith in me: Mamata
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee who had been opposing the crucial Teesta water sharing deal for the last four years, on Thursday said Bangladesh need not be worried over the Teesta, assuring countrymen that the problem will be resolved soon.
Nation salutes language heroes
Streams of mourners began filing past the shaheed minars after placing flowers at the altars across the country as clock struck the zero hour past Friday with the nation paying homage to the martyrs of the Language Movement of 1952 in a beefed up security amid a protracted blockade enforced by the opposition alliance.
Mahmood meets Kerry; both condemn violence, extremism
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Friday met US Secretary of State John F Kerry and they agreed that violence has no space in a democracy, and condemned the mindless violence and extremism in the name of ideology or political expression, said a Foreign Ministry media release here.
BNP-Jamaat out to fully destroy country: PM
Wondering that hartal and blockade programmes are these days called from undisclosed locations, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday said the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-Jamaat-e-Islami clique...
EP delegation for immediate end to violence Expresses concern at enforced disappearances.
The visiting European Parliament delegation on human rights that met both government and opposition representatives on Thursday called for an immediate end to the increasing violence.
Arson victim dies, 8 more burnt Train made target again.
Another firebomb victim lost his battle for life at Dhaka Medical College Hospital and eight more suffered burns while a train came under arson attack on Thursday, the last day of a week-long hartal coupled with an indefinite blockade that enters its 46th day today.
Kamaruzzaman’s death warrant issued.
An International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday sent warrant for death of condemned war criminal Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to the Inspector General of Prison and Dhaka district magistrate.
Khaleda to face trial: PM
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday told parliament that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, must face trial for ‘killing people and damaging property.’
Kader Siddique continues sit-in.
Krishok Sramik Janata League president Abdul Kader Siddique urged prime minister Sheikh Hasina to hold a dialogue to resolve the ongoing political crisis. He made the urge while addressing a press briefing on the 22nd day of his sit-in in front of the party’s central office
Diplomats call for end to violence.
A group of foreign diplomats stationed in Dhaka on Wednesday called for putting an end to the ongoing political violence in the country and creating space for peaceful political programmes
