The nation celebrated its most colourful and traditional festival Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year 1423, on Thursday with much fanfare, festivity and enthusiasm together with a vow to build a secular, happy and prosperous Bangladesh…
A Dhaka university female student was allegedly pushed by a male cop while she, along with others, was standing on the road near Dhaka University Teacher-Student Centre while the car of the inspector general of police was passing the area on Thursday evening…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Thursday hoped that democracy would be restored in the Bangla new year, 1423, and called on all to move forward hand in hand for democracy…
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Extending her heartfelt greetings to all, including expatriate Bangladeshis on Pahela Baishakh, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said everybody needs to…
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Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla calendar, is being celebrated amid traditional festivities and enthusiasm despite various restrictions prompted by last year’s women assault on Dhaka University campus…
The United States has said the government of Bangladesh took ‘limited measures’ to investigate and prosecute cases of abuse and killing by security forces. The US, in its 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, claimed authorities failed at times to maintain effective control over security forces. The report listed extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, the killing of secular bloggers and […]
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Countrymen are set to usher in the Bangla New Year 1423 on Pahela Baishakh today as a government restriction on any outdoor programme after 5pm and protests against it overshadow the celebrations of the first day on the Bengali calendar…
A strong earthquake struck neighbouring Myanmar and was felt in Bangladesh and across the region prompting thousands of panic-stricken people to rush to the streets on Wednesday night…
The police failed to arrest the perpetrators of sexual assaults on women during Pahela Baishakh celebrations on April 14, 2015 although photographs of eight suspects had been published announcing bounties for information about them…
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