BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday asked the party leaders in districts to inform the people at the grassroots level about the government’s rule of ‘tyranny’. “The country’s garments, knitwear, poultry sectors are being destroyed one by one. Most of the poultry farms are shut off and eggs are being imported [...]

The University Grant Commission (UGC) has urged the government to form a higher education commission for overall development of education in the country. The proposal came when a UGC delegation, led by its Chairman AK Azad Chowdhury, met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her Secretariat office on Thursday. PM’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad briefed [...]

Teachers of the Jahangirnagar University staged a sit-in for two hours in front of the administrative building demanding cancellation of the special senate meeting to nominate three persons for the post of vice-chancellor. The teachers under the banner of “Shammilito Shikkhak Parishad” have been demonstrating for last two days demanding senate election prior to the [...]

The drivers of CNG-run auto-rickshaws went on a nonstop strike in the capital Wednesday to press home their 10-point demand, including distribution of 5,000 such autos among them afresh and stopping ‘harassment and extortion by police”. No auto-rickshaw was plying city streets in different areas, including Dhanmondi, Gulshan, Banani, Moghbazar, Mirpur, Mohakhali, Karwan Bazar, Sayedabad, [...]

Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said on Thursday that the government has taken up steps to update the contempt of court law, which will specify issues to be considered as the contempt of court. A bill for amending the contempt of court act has been placed in the parliamentary standing committee on law, justice and parliamentary [...]

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Thursday allowed a prosecution’s appeal for recording statements of two women witnesses against war crimes suspect Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah in camera with some directions. The tribunal fixed July 17 for recording the statements of the witnesses, who are the members of a victim family of 1971 Liberation War. [...]

Vice Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) Prof Nazrul Islam on Thursday described demands by agitating teachers as unethical. “If any of the points teachers raised against me is proved, I will step down. I cannot resign against unethical demands,” said the VC at a press conference on the campus in the [...]

Iran’s nuclear program with diplomacy, sanctions and sabotage, the Obama administration and its allies are imposing sweeping new sanctions that are meant to cut the country off from the global oil market. Many experts regard it as the best hope for forcing Iran to change its course. A complex in Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran [...]

Hillary Rodham Clinton made a brief stop on her Asia tour on Wednesday in Laos, the first visit by an American secretary of state here in 57 years and one that brought into stark relief the enduring legacy of the Vietnam War. Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines.On Wednesday Mrs. Clinton visited with [...]

A treaty being hammered out this month at the United Nations — with Iran playing a key role — could expose the records of America’s gun owners to foreign governments — and, critics warn, eventually put the Second Amendment on global trial. International talks in New York are going on throughout July on the final [...]