Ershad asks party-men to prepare for election.

Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Saturday directed his party leaders and workers to prepare for the next parliament election. He said Jatiya Party does not believe in going to power by killing people

AL DHAKA NORTH, SOUTH New committees likely before city polls .

he ruling Awami League may announce two convening committees for its Dhaka city north and Dhaka city south units before the announcement of the schedule for elections to the two city corporations.

pate of arson attacks on transports Two more violence victims die, fresh 72-hour hartal begins today.

At least seven vehicles were burnt in a spate of arson attacks in Dhaka and Narayanganj as two more arson victims died in hospital on Saturday, the 54th day of the opposition alliance’s nonstop blockade.

Family members meet Kamaruzzaman.

Family members of death row convict Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman visited him inside the Dhaka Central Jail in the capital on Saturday morning. A group of eight went inside the jail at around 10:40am

Boris Nemtsov, outspoken Putin critic, shot dead in Moscow.

Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot and killed Friday night in central Moscow, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said in a statement Saturday, prompting immediate

Experts: More art treasures face destruction by ISIS.

Thousands more art treasures could be destroyed in Iraq and Syria, antiquities experts fear, after ISIS released a video showing militants smashing artifacts at a museum in Mosul, Iraq."It's tragic to see this destruction,

Prices of onion, broiler go up.

The prices of onion and broiler went up in the capital’s kitchen markets over the week due to supply shortage and high transportation cost, traders said. They said that the price of local onion increased in the market

CPB, SPB want dialogue to resolve crisis.

Leaders of Communist Party of Bangladesh and Socialist Party of Bangladesh on Friday called on the government to take initiative for holding a national dialogue to resolve the current political crisis.

Avijit murder bears extremist hallmark Citizens mourn the free-thinking blogger, Ansar Bangla-7 gleefully delights in the killing .

People from different walks of life condemned the killing of writer and blogger Avijit Roy and said that communal forces and extremists had made free-thinking activists their targets time and again but the government

BNP announces more 72-hour hartal.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance once again announced a 72-hour spell of nationwide general strike from 6:00am Sunday to 6:00am Wednesday. BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed....