Dhaka yesterday summoned the Pakistan high commissioner and strongly protested Islamabad’s reaction to the execution of war criminal Quader Mollah, terming it interference in the domestic affairs of Bangladesh. In a two-page aide-memoire to the envoy, the government deplored the…
Holding a general election is undoubtedly a herculean task and it involves a complicated legal process. Individuals with high integrity and leadership skills require supervising, controlling and directing each and every step of this process to ensure that the job…
An excited Sajjad Ali, a rice trader from the Sapahar upazila of Naogaon, arrived at the local branch of Mercantile Bank on Sunday noon to cash in the Tk 2.30 lakh cheque that the wholesaler had given him earlier in…
A local Awami League leader was stabbed to death allegedly by Jamaat-Shibir men in Kaliganj upazila of Satkhira while law enforcers were conducting a joint drive in the same upazila yesterday, the first day of the BNP-led opposition’s 72-hour nationwide…
Moves are on to send Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad out of the country anytime soon. “Initially, Ershad was informed that he would be sent to Singapore. But he refused to go to Singapore. Now he may be sent to…
The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday lodged a case against BNP lawmaker Moudud Ahmed and his brother Manjur Ahmed on charge of grabbing an abandoned public land worth over Tk 300 crore in capital’s Gulshan. Harunur Rashid, deputy director (DD) of the…
