If BNP comes to power, the spirit of 1971 will vanish: Obaidul Quader MP

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said that if BNP gets power again, there will be no spirit of Liberation War in the country. "We cannot hand over power to BNP, which is the patron of communal forces and militancy," he said. He made the remarks while joining a discussion meeting organised in the city by Dhaka Metropol...

Police have reportedly found improvised explosives at the BNP office in Naya Paltan

A huge number of bombs and firearms have been recovered from the Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)'s central office at Naya Paltan area in the capital Dhaka, and three persons, including BNP senior joint secretary Rizvi Ahmed, were arrested from the party office. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Joint Commissioner Biplab Kumar Sarkar...

5 canals in capital come back to life

Manda, Jirani, Shyampur, Segunbagicha and Panthapath canals in the capital are getting new life as Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is restoring navigability and connection of the canals with rivers under a crash programme. The DSCC is also conducting cleanliness, boundary demarcation and eviction drives on both banks of the canals under the...

HPM Sheikh Hasina opens two water plants to meet growing demand for drinking water

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the Padma (Jashaldia) Water Treatment Plant (phase-1) and Well Field Construction Project at Tetuljhora-Bhakurta in Savar Upazila (Phase-1) with a capacity to supply 60 crore litres of purified water. She also laid the foundation stone of another project Gandhapur Water Treatment Plant at Rupganj i...