"Ultimately, in the long run, whether we win or lose, we are not going to be on their side. So we might as well do what we have to do as well as we can."

Condition of Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader is improving gradually, said a Bangladeshi physician, citing a medical board examining him at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

Questions are being raised about the security at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport after a handbag containing a firearm passed through the scanners undetected on Tuesday.

The burden of a dead mobile operator, widespread loan fraudulence, mismanagement and influence of a sponsor director were what dragged the once sound AB Bank into the reds.

"My brothers, I come before you today with a heavy heart." You know and understand everything. We tried with our lives. But the painful matter is that today, in Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur, the streets are dyed red with the blood of our brethrens.

When Arundhati Roy finally entered the halls at Midas Centre yesterday evening, cheers erupted amidst the waiting audience, accompanied by sighs of relief -- “so, it's finally happening!” one said to the other.

Due to cash crunch, Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) has been failing to buy raw jute from growers at the peak harvest season and it has resulted in jute mills cutting production by around 66 percent.

“Investigation is going on.” This is what officials say every year when journalists contact them for comments on the anniversary of Taqi murder. And six years have passed this way.

Bangladesh has the most polluted air in the world and Dhaka is the second most polluted capital city, according to a new study.

The type of light guns put on display during the recent surrender of 102 narcos in Teknaf is easily available in Moheshkhali island, where illegal makeshift factories manufacture such firearms.

Even in the recent past, Dhaka University students cowered away at the thought of politics on the campus as it only involved muscle power.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has suspended five of its employees on charges of negligence in duty during the hijack attempt of a Biman aircraft on February 24.

The Pakistan authorities and Yahya Khan's central government had virtually lost all control over East Pakistan, except in the cantonments, even without the declaration of independence.

Banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad Bangladesh (Huji) had been engaged in fund collection through robbery to reorganise itself and free a death row inmate either by ambushing a prison van or attacking a jail, police said.

Arif Hossain* has been worried about his future since his name and photo was put on a list of “suspended” workers outside his garment factory in Ashulia in the middle of January.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader was flown to a Singapore hospital for better treatment as his condition became stable yesterday.

Four teams of a government taskforce yesterday snapped the utility connections to 28 buildings, including one belonging to Roxy Paints, for housing illegal warehouses in Old Dhaka.

There was some of the fight, and a high-quality one at that, that supporters would have wanted to see from Bangladesh but it came too late to have any impact on the outcome in the first Test against New Zealand in Hamilton yesterday.

As the non-cooperation movement launched by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was on full-swing, the state-run Radio Pakistan in Dhaka started broadcasting as Dhaka Betar Kendra on March 4, 1971.

Biman high-ups, including some of its board members, have been misappropriating huge money through irregularities in tender process. On the other hand, some officials of CAAB, the aviation regulator, accept bribes from contractors, who are “looting money” by building poor-quality towers and boarding bridges, the Anti-Corruption Commission has found.