Rapid Action Battalion is seeking to purchase advanced surveillance equipment that monitors social network communications, analyses mobile phone call records, and ‘recognises’ voices on mobile phones.
It is also trying to buy equipment that jams mobile phone use in designated areas…
An online activist was hacked to death in the capital’s Tejgaon Industrial area on Monday morning for what the assailants claimed his ‘anti-religion’ and ‘anti-Islamic’ write-ups on social media…
The Awami League might find it tough to pick single candidates for the councillor posts in the elections to Dhaka North and Dhaka South city corporations as more than one aspirant from the party and alliance have filed nomination papers…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party would decide on candidates to be supported by the party for the two mayors in Dhaka after scrutiny of the nominations…
Dhaka South City mayoral aspirant, BNP leader Mirza Abbas, is currently facing 37 cases while his prime rival Awami League-backed Sayeed Khokon has faced three cases in the past…
The government has failed to start a separate directorate for government controlled aliya madrassahs one and a half years inside the decision in this regard…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance on Monday alleged that ruling Awami League-backed candidates were already campaigning for the three city polls, violating the electoral code of conduct…
The first day of fresh 48-hour general strike, running alongside the 84th day of ongoing road-rail-waterways blockade, passed off almost unnoticed across the country on Monday…
An election with participation of all political parties can be held anytime after the city polls, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries president Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed said on Monday…
Several ministers at a cabinet meeting on Monday expressed worries at a sudden increase in imports of coarse rice from India by private traders, which they feared would hit the local growers hard…
Shortfall in revenue collection target by the National Board of Revenue swelled to Tk 2,968 crore in the first eight months of the current fiscal year 2014-2015 mainly due to political unrest-hit sluggish economic activities in the country, officials of the NBR said…
Independent lawmaker Haji Mohammad Selim on Monday claimed in parliament that he had submitted a resignation letter to speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury but someone tore it up…
The National Investigation Agency of India on Monday submitted a charge sheet to a special court against 21 people, including four Bangladeshi nationals, in the Burdwan blast case, reports Indian media including Times of India and the Hindu…
An air strike killed dozens of people at a camp for displaced people in northwest Yemen on Monday, aid workers said, as Arab warplanes bombard rebels around the country…
The cabinet on Monday approved the Development Surcharge and Levy (Imposition and Collection) Bill 2015 seeking enactment of a law to impose 1 per cent surcharge, initially on cell phone talk-time and other services, to raise funds for development in health and education sectors…
Daylong general strike of Parbatya Nagarik Parishad and Bangali Chhatra Parishad passed off peacefully in Khagrachai on Monday…
The Maldives’ parliament has passed a law that strips people serving prison sentences of their political party memberships, a rule critics say is designed to oust jailed former president Mohamed Nasheed from politics…
Thai authorities said on Monday they had found a group of 76 migrants from neighbouring Myanmar, including six suspected Rohingya, in a sign that one of Asia’s busiest smuggling routes is still thriving despite Bangkok’s vow to stamp out trafficking…
The murder of an online activist who was hacked to death in Dhaka, the second violent killing of a Bangladeshi blogger in a month, must be a ‘wake up call’ to the authorities on the need to create a safe environment for journalists and activists to express their views, said Amnesty International Monday…
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