Indian state Tripura will start supplying power to Bangladesh from December 16, reports PTI from Agartala. “Both the Government of India and the…

Chairman of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) M Badiuzzaman yesterday said the registration of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) should not be cancelled, reports UNB. “I don’t want to make any comment about what Parliament has said,” he told reporters at a programme on…

BNP spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon yesterday alleged that ‘false’ cases are being filed against their party leaders and activists across the country in a bid to harass them, reports UNB. In a statement, he said, “We condemn the government’s move to harass BNP leaders and activists…

A reporter with a private TV channel was injured when miscreants fired on a vehicle at Gahira near Raozan in Chittagong yesterday morning. Police said the reporter, Rajib Sen Prince, from Mohona TV was returning from Raozan after covering the news of the burial of Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury. “On…

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami enforced a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for today protesting the Supreme Court (SC) verdict that upheld the death penalty of its secretary general Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed by hanging him for war crimes. In a statement, Jamaat acting ameer Makbul Ahmad announced the strike.…

Awami League-backed candidate Saira Mohsin, wife of late Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali, has been elected uncontested in the by-election to Moulvibazar-3 constituency, reports UNB. Regional election officer SM Eajharul Haque, also the returning officer of the election, announced the unofficial…