Dhaka, Dec. 24 -- The Jamaat-e-Islami has urged the Election Commission (EC) to ensure a level playing field by ensuring that all candidates comply with the electoral code of conduct. The party conve... Read More
Dhaka, Dec. 24 -- The Election Commission (EC) has asked Bangladesh Bank to keep banks open across the country on the weekly holiday of Saturday. In a letter sent on Wednesday, the EC said banks need... Read More
Dhaka, Dec. 24 -- Police have yet to arrest anyone over the deaths of five people killed in a violent shootout over control of a sandbar in Hatiya, Noakhali. No case has been filed even 24 hours afte... Read More
Dhaka, Dec. 24 -- Acting BNP chief Tarique Rahman's flight for Bangladesh will depart from London's Heathrow Airport shortly after midnight Bangladesh time, senior leader Salahuddin Ahmed has said. S... Read More
Dhaka, Dec. 24 -- BNP has extended its electoral concessions to allied parties ahead of the parliamentary polls, ceding eight more constituencies as part of a broader consensus with seven parties that... Read More
Dhaka, Dec. 24 -- Redwan Ahmed has resigned as secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and officially joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). On Wednesday afternoon, he joined ... Read More
Dhaka, Dec. 23 -- The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), an organisation of traders in the sector, has suggested declaring a holiday for ready-made garment factories i... Read More
Dhaka, Dec. 23 -- A Dhaka court has sent nine people to jail in connection with attacks, vandalism and arson at the office of The Daily Star. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Jamshed Alam passed the ... Read More
Dhaka, Dec. 23 -- The National Citizen Party (NCP) has accused the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami of engaging in a desperate race to absorb the voter base of the inactive Awami League by promising legal repr... Read More
Dhaka, Dec. 23 -- A Dhaka court has granted police five more days to interrogate Kabir, who is identified with a single name, a close associate of Faisal Karim Masud -- the key suspect in the murder o... Read More