Amid different media outlets running stories on 'conflicts' among Oikyfront leaders, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said that there is no rift in their alliance. "Oikyafront and the 20-party are united. We believe the government now in power must be defeated…

After providing salary and other allowances without work for the last eight years, the public administration ministry has decided to retire OSD (officer on special duty) secretary Md Ebadot Ali. The ministry has granted a post-retirement leave (PRL) of one year (effective from January 22) to the OSD…

Bangladesh Embassy in Kuwait remains "sympathetic" towards the Bangladeshi workers picked up by Kuwaiti police on charge of vandalizing Embassy property and assaulting its three staff physically, said an official yesterday. The Embassy is also putting in its "best efforts" to get…

Jatiya Party Chairman and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament HM Ershad is again going to Singapore today for medical checkup. Ershad along with his younger brother Hossain Morshed, his wife Roksana Khan Moreshed and party presidium member Major (retd) Khaled Akhter will leave the capital at 12:40…

Less than a month into the gang rape of a woman in Nokhali’s Subarnachar upazila, another woman, now a mother of three, was allegedly gang-raped by a group of miscreants at Kabirhat upazila of the same district early yesterday. The Subarnachar incident took place on December 31, a day after the…

US President Donald Trump has announced to make a "major announcement" today about the long-running US government shutdown and the situation on the country's southern border. The partial shutdown -- which began when Trump refused to sign off on budget legislation that did not include funding…

Leading a mega rally of opposition parties in West Bengal, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee yesterday said that the Narendra Modi government at the Centre…