【引用：President Zillur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam and other political leaders expressed deep shock over the death of the veteran politician. The ailing BNP leader was a
【引用：The BNP-led opposition may join parliament today ending its boycott for over two months. Opposition chief whip Zainul Abdin Farroque yesterday said the BNP Parliamentary Party (BNPPP) will meet at 4:00pm today to decide on joining the House session. 】
【引用：Lord Avebury, vice-chair of the UK Parliamentary Human Rights Group, has said the removal of Grameen founder Prof Muhammad Yunus by the government from his post raises serious concerns about the creeping politicisation of development work and civil society in Bangladesh. 】
【引用：The government has asked the Power Development Board to supply uninterrupted electricity to the rural areas through rationing in urban areas for irrigation pumps during Boro season.According to the power division sources, all irrigation pumps will get electricity supply from 11:00pm to 7
【引用：Coming from behind, a biker hit a seven-year-old boy on a pavement on Dhanmondi Road 7 and sped away. The boy, with his mother, fell on the walkway rolling."I went over to help the lady as she broke out crying," said a witness of the accident occurred last November. He had cuts and bumps
【引用：Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the main opposition BNP is trying to do politics again centring the BDR carnage as it did not want to see peaceful solution of the crisis."BNP wanted to do politics with the incident that took place on February 25-26 in 2009 in its headquarters
【引用：A Chinese company yesterday started moving 804 Bangladeshi nationals from troubled Libya to Greece by a ship while 300 have already taken refuge in Tunisia. “The 804 are scheduled to reach Greece by tomorrow [Sunday],” said Foreign Secretary Mijarul Quayes at a press briefing. 】
【引用：The signatories to the statement are Dr Zafarullah Chowdhury, Advocate Sultana Kamal, Khushi Kabir, Dr Iftekharuzzaman, Shirin Haque, Dr Binayak Sen, Rubi Gaznobi, Dr Simim Mahmud, Muhammad Kamal Uddin, Prof Parveen Hasan, Prof Ferdous Azim, Advocate UM Habibunnesa and Architect Zahedul
【引用：For the first time in the history of country's judiciary, a woman judge has been appointed to the Supreme Court (SC), along with three new judges. The president elevated four senior High Court judges--Justice MA Wahhab Miah, Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Jus
【引用：The midnight silence was broken by the footsteps of people marching to Shaheed Minars all over the country to mourn the Language Movement martyrs. Yesterday was Amar Ekushey. They walked barefoot singing in chorus the Ekushey anthem amar bhaier rokte rangano… and wearing black ribbons
【引用：Declaring all forms of violence, torture and repression on domestic helps illegal, the High Court yesterday ordered the government to ensure that no child aged below 12 is employed as domestic worker.In its judgement on a writ petition, the HC also directed the government to incorporate
【引用：Inspired by recent success in municipality elections and parliamentary by-polls, the main opposition BNP is gearing up for the upcoming union parishad (UP) elections scheduled for the next two months. The party is now conducting a countrywide survey to collect information on prospective
【引用：The finance minister yesterday said the government had asked Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to stay away from Grameen Bank as long as a review of the microlender continues. "I suggested Mr Yunus should step aside as Grameen Bank's managing director, transferring his powers to the deputy m
【引用：Nipah encephalitis claimed two more lives at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) yesterday raising the death toll to 33.Anis, 8, son of Alam Miah of Atowari, Dinajpur died at about 2:30am while Rabiul, 4, son of Nazrul Islam of Banshbari village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, around 1
【引用：A Rapid Action Battalion mobile court yesterday busted a printing press producing fake tickets of World Cup cricket and arrested four persons in this connection at Nanda Kumar Datta road in the capital's Chawkbazar area.The court sentenced the press owner Goyanath Mazumder, 52, to two-ye
【引用：In protest against the killing, locals staged a demonstration and vandalised vehicles after blocking the streets, which caused severe traffic jam in the area for over two hours.In Gandaria, Abdul Huq was robbed of Tk 19.13 lakh when he was on way to a bank around 1:00pm. 】
【引用：The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) has gone down to 194 per one lakh live births in the country in the last decade, a government survey shows.The 40 percent drop in MMR has taken Bangladesh another step forward in achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal (MDG)-5.To achie
【引用：YKK Bangladesh Pte Ltd distributed books and sports items among the poor students of Anowara Hashem Memorial High School at Kalihati of Tangail Yesterday, said a press release. CEO of the company Hiroaki Nakamura distributed the books. YKK officials and the school teachers were present a
【引用：Global automobile giant Mitsubishi Motors has made a bid to increase its market share in Bangladesh, which it believes has big potential to grow as an emerging market for cars.This is part of the Japanese carmaker's new business plan. According to media reports, Mitsubishi said it would
【引用：Abdur Razzaque, Tofail Ahmed, Suranjit Sengupta, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Obaidul Quader, Prof AK Azad Chowdhury, Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Maj Gen (retd) Abdus Salam, Maj (retd) Rafiqul Islam, Asaduzzaman Noor and one of the lawmakers from Jessore and Khulna could be placed in the new
Delwar passes away
BNP may join JS today
Yunus is a political victim
Provide more power for irrigation
Danger on street
BNP up again with politics
Chinese co taking 804 Bangladeshis to Greece
13 eminent citizens stand for Yunus
SC gets 1st woman judge
Homage to language martyrs
No to domestic help under-12
BNP gearing up for UP elections
Govt asked Yunus to step aside
Nipah claims 2 more
Fake ticket makers held
Muggers shoot one dead
Maternal mortality rate down
Books, sports items donated to students
Mitsubishi plans big for Bangladesh
Govt looks to AL left-outs