Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says the government will decide after September 10 about increasing the transport fare following a hike in the prices of gas.

The British government yesterday donated specialist forgery detection equipment to Bangladesh Special Branch to tackle immigration crime.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called for removing all the weeds from Awami League and Chhatra League to build the organisations based on Bangabandhu's ideology.

A Dhaka court yesterday fixed November 2 to decide whether the charges brought against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 37 others for Jatrabari arson attack on a bus on January 23 will be accepted.

The Supreme Court yesterday extended for six weeks its order that had granted bail to BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three arson and vandalism cases.

BNP yesterday once again lambasted Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu accusing him of making false statements against the BNP chairperson as well her family members.

It failed twice to force the Awami League government to hold a general election under a non-party administration. The failure made it pay heavily.

The Supreme Court yesterday asked senior BNP leader Moudud Ahmed to file a leave-to-appeal petition with this court by September 3 challenging a High

United Nations Special Rapporteur Heiner Bielefeldt arrived in the capital yesterday for a nine-day mission to assess the state of freedom of religion or belief

The reports highlighting the progress of various government projects by furnishing numbers are often misleading as they are usually cooked up to serve unethical purposes, said Dr Saadat Husain, former cabinet secretary and also former chairman of Public Service Commission, yesterday.

Police yesterday "foiled" a human chain of Chittagong city unit BNP that was protesting the government's decision to increase power and

Maximum disclosure of information of public interest would help create an accountable, transparent and effective governing system,

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says if the power and gas price hike seems “intolerable” for the people, the prime minister might consider the issue.

Jamalpur Municipal Mayor Shah Md Wares Ali Mamun has been suspended from his mayoral post.

Two United Nations expert groups on enforced disappearances yesterday called on states to establish and activate protocols for the

A Dhaka court places two members of banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team on a five-day remand each in connection with the blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy murder case.

The ruling Awami League-backed lawyers' panel won a landslide victory in the Bangladesh Bar Council elections, defeating the pro-

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday skipped the trial proceedings of Zia Charitable and Zia Orphanage Trust corruption cases due to

BNP yesterday called upon the media not to publish any allegation against Tarique Rahman made by the ruling Awami League men until

Police detain a youth who is allegedly linked to the Myanmar rebel group Arakan Army from Rangamati after yesterday’s attack on Border Guards Bangladesh.