Home minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir on Sunday expressed concern over the uncertainty in the implementation of the 1974 Bangladesh-India Land Boundary Agreement. He broached the issue when Indian Border Security Force director general Subhash Joshi, leading a team, called on him at his secretariat office. The BSF director general is in Dhaka to attend a routine meeting with the director […]

Dhaka once again protested at frequent incidents of killing and shooting on the frontier as the border forces of Bangladesh and India began a director-general level conference in Dhaka on Sunday. The Indian Border Security Force assured the Border Guard Bangladesh that they were trying to bring the incidents of killing down to ‘zero level’ claiming that the BSF was […]

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday urged people to re-elect the Awami League in the next general elections so that the incomplete revolution of 1971 could be accomplished and the party’s Vision: 2021 could be achieved. ‘Terror, bomb attacks, killing and corruption will return’ if the BNP comes to power in the next elections, […]

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Sunday made it clear that no dialogue would take place until the Awami League-led government enacted a law in the current session of parliament for restoring the election-time ‘non-party’ government. Addressing a large public meeting at Rangpur Zila School ground in the northern city in the afternoon, Khaleda said there was still time to […]

War crimes prosecutors on Sunday presented nine formal charges of crimes against humanity against detained Jamaat leader Abdus Subhan. Prosecutor Sultan Mahmud and other members of his team submitted the formal charges to the International Crimes Tribunal-1 through the registrar’s office at midday. Later, the tribunal set Monday for passing an order as Sultan informed it that the formal charges […]

The minister for environment and forest, Hasan Mahmud, on Sunday told parliament that the Department of Environment was yet to give final nod to the proposed coal-based thermal power plant at Rampal and it would consider environmental impact of the project. Responding to a supplementary question from independent lawmaker Fazlul Azim, the minister said that every move for industrialisation caused […]

A US-Russian plan to remove Syria’s chemical weapons is a ‘victory’ that averts war, a Syrian minister said on Sunday, as Washington warned that the threat of US force ‘remains real’. ‘On one hand, it helps the Syrians emerge from the crisis and on the other it has allowed for averting war against Syria…,’ The minister of state for National […]

Ruling alliance lawmakers on Sunday asked the westerners not to poke into internal affairs of Bangladesh. The made the observations during a discussion on democracy in the parliament marking the International Day of Democracy. The chief whip, Abdush Shahid, placed the motion for a general discussion on the issue. Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal lawmaker Mainduddin Khan Badal said that pundits did […]

Bangladesh will pay over Tk 6 for each unit or kilowatt-hour of electricity to be imported from India. The cost of electricity has been estimated to open letters of credit for the payment of imported electricity to Indian state-run power authority NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam, a Power Development Board official told New Age. The cost of the Indian public sector […]

The army will raise another infantry division in Sylhet on Tuesday, taking to eight the number of divisions in the force to ensure greater security in the north-east, officials said. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, will officially announce the formation of the 17th Infantry Division, initially to be based at the Jalalabad cantonment in Sylhet as its headquarters, the defence […]

The ruling Awami League’s student and youth fronts on Sunday attacked a rally of the Communist Party of Bangladesh and the Socialist Party of Bangladesh in Sylhet twice leaving 30 including the CPB president wounded. The Communist Party called a half-day general strike in the district for today in protest at the attack Chhatra League and Juba League carried on […]

Fire gutted an apparel factory in the capital’s Madartek area on Sunday afternoon. However, none was severely injured in the incident. The blaze broke out at the fifth level of Sisili Garments Factory Limited at Nandipara under Madartek in the capital on Sunday around 12:35pm, said Rafiqual Islam, assistant inspector of fire service. Three people were injured as they tried […]