The Awami League (AL) general secretary, Obaidul Quader, has said that his party does not want removal of election commissioner Mahbub Talukder for his dissenting views on how to make the 11th parliamentary polls free, fair and inclusive. “An election commissioner can express dissenting views…

Dhaka University (DU) law student Akhtar Hossen, who persisted with his solitary hunger strike for the third consecutive day yesterday, was whisked off to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital as his condition deteriorated. Around 1 pm, DU proctor AKM Golam Rabbani came to break Akhtar’s fast along…

A Tangail court yesterday rejected the bail plea of AL legislator Amanur Rahman Khan Rana, who is an accused in the murder of AL leader Farook Ahmed in 2013. The first district and session judge of Tangail, Maksuda Khanom, rejected the MP’s bail plea after hearing the deposition of three defence…

Both the Bangladesh National Awami Party (NAP) and the National Democratic Party (NDP), which snapped ties with the BNP-led 20-Party Alliance, now want to ally with Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh to forge unity of democratic and nationalists forces ahead of the next general election. Leaders of the two parties…

There is no possibility of deterioration in law and order situation in the country ahead of the next parliamentary election, said Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu yesterday, reports UNB. The Industries Minister said this while talking to reporters after a meeting of the cabinet committee on law…

Hindu hardliners blocked intersections, threatened drivers, threw stones at buses and ordered a 12-hour strike yesterday as they stepped up their campaign…

The United States will give ally Saudi Arabia "a few more days" to probe its alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday, again delaying a US response to the mounting scandal, reports AFP from Washington. Pompeo, who reported earlier to President…

Sri Lanka's president has called India's prime minister to deny a report that quoted him as saying the Indian secret service was plotting to kill him, reports BBC . Maithripala Sirisena told Narendra Modi he "categorically rejected" the report, carried in The Hindu newspaper. It said…