The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court observation that directed the government not to force any citizen to accept the imported Brazilian wheat and to take back the wheat that was distributed across the country but returned for being sub-standard. The four-member…

BNP yesterday alleged that the government is trying to control the law and order situation in the country through ‘gunfights’. “The extrajudicial killings cannot be accepted,” said BNP spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon while addressing a press conference at the party’s Naya…

The government has taken a decision to replace Bangladesh’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York Dr AK Abdul Momen, who has been in charge there for nearly six years. According to sources at the Foreign Ministry, a career diplomat, who is now serving as Ambassador…

A three-member probe committee has been formed to investigate the allegation of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain’s involvement in buying a piece of land from a minority family in Faridpur, reports UNB. Acting deputy commissioner of Faridpur…