Bangladesh Politics News

Paresh Barua and Arvind Rajakhova who are holed up in Bangladesh. Sources, while refusing to describe Maoists as ''dacoits or terrorists,'' said the government had executed some plans and would implement some more. The government, however, hoped that the problem...

Dhaka, November 22 (bdnews24.com)�The government has urged the garment factory owners to clear all arrear pays and allowances of their workers up to October and salaries including festival bonuses before Eid by November 15. Any industry owner failing to comply...

Bangladesh police said they had raided a secret training centre and arrested 14 suspected Islamist militants on Saturday. Training materials, communication equipments and jihadi books were also seized during the raid near Jenaidah 250 km (156 miles) west of the...

UNB, Sherpur Police arrested 27 leaders of Jhenigati upazila BNP from the residence of former Whip Zahed Ali Chowdhury in Nakla upazila headquarters early on Saturday. The arrested include members of upazila BNP convening committee Alamgir, Sajedul Haque, Shafiqul Islam,...

Two million children countrywide began taking primary level exams under a new system Saturday. The Class 5 students were sitting the newly introduced Primary Education Terminal Examinations, in the biggest round of public exams in the country. The three-day examinations...

Amnesty International has urged Bangladesh not to execute five convicted killers, former army officers, sentenced to death for the assassination of Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The international human rights watchdog said that the murder of Sheikh Mujib and his...

He made the statement to the CID interrogators during a five-day remand in connection with the bomb attack on Narayanganj AL office in 2001, they said...Pintu admitted that he knew beforehand all details of the bomb attacks including the attacks...

But members of his family waiting for him outside were so shocked by his condition they called the police. The court heard he was taken to hospital, when a titanium plate was inserted in his skull to repair his badly...