'Isolated incident': Election on track despite Hadi shooting, says CEC Nasir

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin has allayed concerns over security ahead of the upcoming national election, describing the recent shooting of Inqilab Moncho Conveno... Read More

Development spending slumps to 11.75% in five months

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- The pace of implementing the country's Annual Development Programme (ADP) has not recovered, with only 11.75 percent of the allocation spent in the first five months of the current f... Read More

'Hadi attack will not derail election', commission explains CEC remarks

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- The Election Commission (EC) has issued a clarification of remarks made by the chief election commissioner (CEC) on the attack on Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman bin Hadi, a... Read More

Tarique will return 'carrying the flag of Bangladesh', Fakhrul says

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- Senior BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the party's Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman will land in Dhaka on Dec 25 "carrying the flag of Bangladesh". The BNP secretary g... Read More

Jamaat chief Shafiqur demands explanation of CEC's comments on Hadi shooting

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman has demanded an explanation for the comments made by Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on the attack on Inqilab Moncho Convenor Sharif... Read More

Defeated forces attempting to 'rewrite history of victory', says Tarique Rahman

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- Tarique Rahman has warned the forces defeated in the Liberation War are on a "vicious move to write a new history of the victory". Speaking virtually on Monday, the BNP acting chief... Read More

Hadi shooting: Suspect Faisal's wife, brother-in-law, friend face interrogation

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- A Dhaka court has granted police five days to question Saheda Parvin Samia, wife of suspect Faisal Karim Masud, his brother-in-law Wahid Ahmed Shipu, and close friend Maria Akter Lim... Read More

Household aide Ayesha's husband confesses to Mohammadpur mother, daughter murders

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- Household aide Ayesha Akhter's husband Rabbi has given a "confessional" statement to the court in connection with the murder of a mother and her teenage daughter in Dhaka's Mohammadp... Read More

Government to import 50,000 tonnes of rice from India to ease inflation

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- The interim government has decided to import another 50,000 tonnes of rice from India in a bid to manage inflation, Finance Advisor Salehuddin Ahmed has said. He made the announceme... Read More

NBR says 'tax exemption' on handset import, production to lower prices

Dhaka, Dec. 15 -- The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is prepared to offer "tax exemptions" on both the import and local production of mobile phones in a bid to reduce prices and bring high-end device... Read More

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