An inter-ministerial meeting yesterday asked officials concerned to accept cases over child repression as soon as the allegations are lodged.

A young man dies from suffocation and three others fall sick as a fire broke out at a scrap material shop beside the vegetable market in Dhaka New Market area.

Senior BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the government had created a suffocating situation in the country by snatching people's all rights including freedom of expression.

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pay their deep homage to the martyrs of the historic Language Movement by placing wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka at one minute past midnight on the occasion of Amar Ekushey and the International Mother Language Day.

BNP leader Moudud Ahmed yesterday criticised former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque as he wrote the final verdict of scrapping the 13th amendment to the

Former information minister Abul Kalam Azad yesterday expressed his grievance over not getting a reply to a

BNP chief Khaleda Zia's remarks on the number of martyrs during the 1971 Liberation War were "contextually correct", party acting

The ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday demanded an end to diplomatic relations with Pakistan for interfering in

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said it is not possible to build national unity through making

BNP yesterday hoped that the party would be able to make a turnaround by holding its forthcoming sixth national

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday said democracy had been “exiled” from the country as there was no freedom of expression now.

District unit presidents and general secretaries will have to send names of probable chairman candidates for the upcoming union parishad elections to BNP's central office in the capital's Naya Paltan at least seven days before the nomination submission deadline.

Jatiya Party (JP) yesterday announced forming a seven-member central committee, with Secretary General Ruhul Amin

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday formed a 171-member preparatory committee for organising the party's upcoming national council scheduled for April 16.

State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid says the government is considering reducing the price of fuel.

BNP leader Rizvi Ahmed yesterday criticised former Appellate Division judge AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik for his recent remarks

BNP is likely to finalise today at least 12 sub-committees including the body for reforming its charter for holding its sixth council at its

Jatiya Party's (JP) Parliamentary Party yesterday decided to refrain from attending any meeting called by its Chairman HM Ershad, including today's views-exchange meeting, until JP Presidium Member Raushan Ershad was appointed “co-chairman 1”.

Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu, former secretary general of Jatiya Party, yesterday urged the government to arrange a national convention with all the registered political parties to formulate a process for handing over of power through an election as well as change the "existing political culture of destruction".

Voicing resentment at the recent controversy over the number of 1971 Liberation War martyrs, Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said it only exposed "unhealthy politics".