Rashidul Hasan

Both the Awami League and the BNP will give their best to win the upcoming Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral by-polls after their election debacle in Rangpur.

Amid widespread criticism over the leak of question papers of even primary level students, a parliamentary standing committee yesterday blamed it all on the upazila level teachers' associations.

Relatives of a number of army officers killed during the Pilkhana BDR carnage yesterday expressed satisfaction over the High Court judgment.

A parliamentary body yesterday formed a three-member sub-committee to comment on a Bangladesh Bank report on widespread

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday categorically told her party lawmakers that nominations for the next national polls would be given based on popularity of the prospective candidates.

The parliamentary standing committee on the finance ministry yesterday recommended passing the Banking Companies (Amendment)

The Paradise Papers leak has revealed that businessman and BNP Vice Chairman Abdul Awal Mintoo had registered his energy company NFM Energy Ltd in tax haven Bermuda on August 9, 1999—just around the time when the American company Unocal had given him a small share to help “troubleshoot” its local business.

Lawmakers from Commonwealth countries have committed their full support for Bangladesh in resolving the Rohingya crisis. The commitment came yesterday after Dhaka briefed them on the issue during the annual conference of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) in the capital.

Singapore Airlines has rolled out business class seats with a twist: they transform into double beds in its flagship Airbus A380s, which would be flying daily on the Singapore-Sydney route from December 18.

Bangladesh will seek support from foreign delegates, including speakers and deputy speakers of Commonwealth nations' parliaments,

One year has passed since the attack on houses and temples of Hindu people at Nasirnagar upazila in Brahmanbaria but police could not complete investigations and submit the charge sheet into the incident yet.

The training Biman's Captain Atiqur Rahman received every six months kicked in when he heard from the air traffic control (ATC) of

The ruling Awami League is going to propose introduction of electronic voting for the next general elections and request the Election

Private tour operators involved in various irregularities in hajj operations this year will have to face the music as a parliamentary body

A parliamentary body yesterday made several recommendations to the government including taking long-term measures to deal with

Almost all the pilgrims have reached Saudi Arabia to perform hajj by last night, officials at the Hajj Camp, Biman Bangladesh and Saudi Airlines say.

Although over 100 pilgrims yesterday staged demonstrations at the city's Hajj Camp for uncertainty over performing hajj, officials at the camp and Biman said all pilgrims will now be able to fly to Saudi Arabia as the national flight carrier got approval to operate eight additional hajj flights.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday got permission to operate 12 additional hajj flights paving the way for trips of all intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, a top official of religious affairs ministry said.

Hajj agents have sent visa applications and documents of almost all pilgrims to the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka within the deadline that expired yesterday.

The pilgrimage of over 2,000 Bangladeshis still remains uncertain as their hajj agencies are yet to apply for visas, Hajj camp sources said yesterday.