The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has differed with a portion of the report, headlined “Faulty Design: WASA worried over Tk 3,508 crore Padma Water Treatment Plant” published in The Independent on June 12. The rejoinder is as follows:  The headline of the news is…

Former BNP leader Nazmul Huda has extended his support to the Awami League (AL)-led 14-Party Alliance. He will join all programmes of the alliance from now on, under the banner of the 31-party Bangladesh National Alliance (BNA). The former BNP minister made this announcement at a press conference after…

A Press Trust of India (PTI) report on the attacks on religious minorities in Bangladesh has ruffled a few feathers in the ruling Awami League. The PTI report claimed that a few leaders of the minority community in Bangladesh had sought Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s intervention in curbing…