Politics

Prime Minister irks as combined drive not being conducted

Shawdesh Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her anger over ongoing anti-corruption and anti-terrorist drives as no other agencies came along with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to conduct combined drives,

Government’s anti-graft drive aimed at hushing up its failure: BNP

Shawdesh Desk: BNP on Thursday alleged that the government is putting some ‘small fry’ behind bars in its current drive against casinos and corrupts to remove its smell of corruption

Barbed wire fences to be erected around Rohingya camps: Minister

Shawdesh Desk: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday said the government will install barbed wire fences around the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar soon, aiming to stop the spread of

People want government to quit, Khaleda freed: BNP

Shawdesh Desk: BNP senior leaders on Tuesday called upon their party leaders and activists to get ready for a strong street movement to ‘oust’ the current ‘plunderer’ government and free

Indictment hearing in fake birthday case against Khaleda October 9

Shawdesh Desk: A court in Dhaka on Tuesday set October 9 to hold hearing of a case lodged against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia for observing fake birthday on August

Corrupt ministers, MPs will face action too: Razzaque

Shawdesh Desk: Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque on Sunday said action will be taken against ministers and member of parliaments (MPs) too if they are found involved in corruptions and

PM leaves Abu Dhabi for New York

Shawdesh Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Abu Dhabi on Sunday for New York to attend the 74th UN General Assembly after making a stopover in the UAE. She departed

BNP swipes at ruling party leaders for ‘widespread graft’

ShaWdesh Desk: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said the ‘misdeeds of ruling party leaders are getting exposed as they crossed the limit by indulging in widespread