A Dhaka court has rejected journalist Anis Alamgir’s bail petition in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Judge Md Alamgir of the Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court-1 passed the order on Thursday, lawyer Taslima Jahan Popy confirmed, bdnews24.com reports. The CMM co
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said the February 12 general election would set a benchmark for all future polls in Bangladesh. He made the remarks when newly appointed US Ambassador to Bangladesh Brent Christensen paid his maiden courtesy call on the Chief Adviser at the State Guest Ho
Police have arrested Pabitra Kumar Barua, a teacher allegedly involved in the abuse of a child at a school in Dhaka’s Paltan. He was arrested from Dhaka’s Mirpur area early on Friday morning, said Mohammad Harun Or Rashid, deputy commissioner of the Motijheel Division of the police, bd
More than 48 per cent of the candidates contesting the upcoming national elections in February are businessmen, according to the candidates' affidavits analysed by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). The figure is the lowest since the ninth parliamentary election. It was 57.67 per cent i
BKMEA President Mohammad Hatem has called on policymakers and the central bank to address what he described as worsening bottlenecks in export financing and payment recovery. Deferred payment structures allow buyers to extract excessive advantages and contribute to large sums of export proceeds re
