The eleventh hour decision of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to contest city corporation polls has paid off and the huge success in the civic polls made the party leaders and activists confident of winning the next general elections. The party believes that the resounding victory in the five city polls would have a double impact – firstly it would speed […]

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Monday reiterated that the next general elections in Bangladesh would follow the other parliamentary democracies across the world. ‘The next general elections in Bangladesh will be held the way elections arebeing held in other parliamentary system of democracies,’ she said during a meeting with peers and British MPs at her hotel on the last […]

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia has phoned the Election Commission and asked it to publish as early as possible the gazette notification declaring the official results of Gazipur city polls. ‘The opposition leader phoned me on Sunday to know when we are going to publish the gazette notification of Gazipur city polls,’ election commissioner Shah Nawaz told a group […]

The Awami League-led alliance government is under pressure from within to sit with the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party for dialogue after the defeats of the ruling party-backed candidates in major city polls. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, also the AL president, is expected to hold a crucial meeting with the party’s senior leaders on her return this week from a […]

War crimes accused Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s testimony in self defence was corroborated by his friend Nizam Ahmed, who testified on Monday. Nizam testified at the trial in the International Crimes Tribunal-2 as Salauddin’s second defence witness. Nizam recalled that being friends, he himself, Salauddin, Salman F Rahman and Quyum Reza Chowdhury, used to move together. He said they were together […]

A Dhaka court on Monday indicted 60 people for killing six students at Aminbazar on the outskirts of the city on a `Shab-e-Barat’ night two years ago. Dhaka second additional sessions judge Mohammad Helaluddin framed the charges against the 60 accused and decided to record statements of the witnesses on August 25. Defence counsels filed petitions for 22 accused seeking […]

Fifty-one loyalists of Egypt’s ousted president were killed on Monday while demonstrating against last week’s military coup, triggering an Islamist uprising call and dashing the army’s hopes for an interim civilian administration. The Muslim Brotherhood, which has led demonstrations against Wednesday’s overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, said its supporters were ‘massacred’ by troops and police during dawn prayers in […]

Bangladesh on Monday told European Union trade officials in Geneva that it would enact a new labour law by this year and increase the number of factory inspectorate to 800 from existing 200. The visiting Bangladesh delegation led by foreign minister Dipu Moni made the commitment at the crucial meeting with the EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht to preserve […]

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday sent letters to the mobile phone operators seeking the lists of mobile phone calls made and received by former Detective Branch deputy commissioner Mollah Nazrul Islam in the last six months. The commission probe officer sent the letters to the operators through the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, an ACC official told New Age. Mollah reportedly […]

A two-storey hotel collapsed in the southern Indian city of Secunderabad on Monday, killing at least 13 people and injuring 17 others, the police said. Rescue workers were searching through tonnes of rubble hours after the collapse in the city in Andhra Pradesh state in case people were still trapped, local police official K Satyanarayana said. ‘The number of people […]