Eleven fraudsters -- five of them employees of Grameenphone – have been arrested from different parts of the country in connection with the siphoning…

A total of 33 Awami League-nominated candidates have been elected unopposed in the fourth phase of polls in 725 union parishads (UPs) scheduled for May 7. Like the first three phases of the local body elections, there are no BNP chairman candidates in 106 Ups. In all, 3,245 chairman candidates of 16…

The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has claimed that it has seized some confidential documents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the US on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy from the residence of Shafik Rehman. "We found that Shafik…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy yesterday defended senior journalist Shafik Rehman’s arrest saying Rehman had several meetings with those convicted in the US for ‘plotting to kidnap’ him. Joy, also the ICT affairs advisor to the prime minister, said Rehman…

The BNP has decided to face the issue of senior journalist Shafik Rehman’s arrest both legally and politically. Rehman was arrested on Saturday in a case filed over a “conspiracy to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy”. The decision was taken at a meeting…