Legal actions will be taken against the candidates facing criminal cases if they contest the Dhaka city corporation elections without securing bail, said a senior police official on Thursday. “The law enforcers will take legal actions against the candidates who…
BNP will take part in the ensuing city corporation polls if a level playing filed is created for all, said party standing committee member Lt Gen (Retd) Mahbubur Rahman. Talking to reporters after placing wreath at the mazar of party…
A grateful nation celebrated the 45th Independence and National Day on Thursday paying deep homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War. The day was heralded with a 31-gun salute in Tejgaon Old Airport area at dawn. The national flag…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged all, including the country’s conscious citizens, to come up to protect the country and its people from militants. “We don’t want destruction, but development, we don’t want militant acts, but peace…we want Bangladesh…
Though BNP leaders collected nomination papers to contest the polls, the party-led 20-party alliance on Wednesday termed a ‘serious conspiracy, blueprint and farce’ the announcement of schedule for Dhaka and Chittagong city polls at a time when its movement is…
The British House of Commons has recorded an early day motion (EDM) supported by 10 MPs noting with alarm the lack of free and open democratic process in Bangladesh. The motion sponsored by liberal democrat Huppert Julian calls upon the…
Leaders of the ruling Awami League and 14-party combine on Tuesday said dialogue with BNP amounts to undermining the spirit of the country’s Liberation War. “Holding dialogue with BNP means giving them political concession despite carrying out subversive activities by…
The AL leadership is yet to announce the name of its nominee for Mayor of Dhaka city south although Syed Khokan has already become lound in his claim of getting the paarty nomination Khokon, son of former Dhaka mayor Mohammad…
The Bnp-led 20-Party Alliance on Tuesday hinted at taking up a new tactic of movement to achieve victory of the movement for free and fair elections under a neutral caretaker government and refrained from calling hartal for the two remaining…
The former president of Bangladesh Prof. Badruddoza Chowdhury has said the failure to give the wheareabouts of Salahuddin Ahmed is a failure of the government. He went to the residence of Salahuddin to sympathise with the members his family on…
Election Working Group (EWG), a 29-member coalition of civil society organisations, on Monday urged the Election Commission to ensure a level-playing field for the candidates contesting the upcoming elections to the three city corporations of Dhaka and Chittagong. “EWG welcomes…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Monday alleged that the government has been engaged in a death race of misusing the state power to cling to power and urged it to resolve the present crisis through dialogue for the sake of…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday called upon the Ulema (people having religious education) to resist the evil forces undermining Islam by unleashing terrorist and militant acts, saying that there is no room for terrorism and militancy in Islam. “Islam…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday warned the government of serious consequences if it fails to return party joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, who remains untraced since March 10. “My concern has also gone beyond limit as like as his family…
A Dhaka court on Sunday summoned BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, late Arafat Rahman Koko’s wife and his two minor daughters to appear to the court in the case filed for the default loan of Dandy Dying Limited on April 12.…
Health and Family Welfare Minister and a presidium member of ruling Awami League Mohammad Nasim today called upon all political parties to take part in the ensuing city corporation polls. “The wind of election has now been blowing in the…
Ten people, including eight workers, suffered burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack on a sand-laden truck at Moghirdhal on Magura-Jessore road in Sadar upazila on Saturday night. Nine of the victims were identified as Imran, 25, Faruk Lashkar, 35,…
The BNP-led 20-party opposition alliance has called another spell of 72-hour nationwide hartal from Sunday morning demanding the release of all political prisoners and the return of BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed stopping killing, enforced disappearance and mass arrests.…
The Bnp-led 20-Party Alliance on Friday complained that indiscriminate killing, abduction, enforced disappearances and use of fire arms were on only to prolong ‘illegal hold on power.’ Stating this in a press release Bnp joint secretary general Barkatullah Bulu said…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is positive about participating in the upcoming elections to Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations provided there were assurance of free and fair polls, former Dhaka University vice chancellor Prof Emajuddin Ahmed said on Friday. “BNP will…
The opposition BNP on Friday called upon the government to seek coperation from US central intelegent agency FBI in traching out party joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed. “The government assistance from the FBI if the law enforcers fail to find…
Gaibandha police searched remote char areas of Phulchhari in Gainabdha district on Thursday evening to find out Bnp joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed on the basis of a phone call, but subsequently confirmed that it was a hoax. The superintendent…
BNP-led 20-party alliance on Thursday demanded an end to implicating opposition leaders and activists in false cases and stop arresting them staging drama in the name of recovery arms and bombs and carrying out enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing. BNP…
Dhaka city unit of BNP will stage demonstration at thana and ward levels on Saturday demanding the whereabouts of missing BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed and his return to his family unharmed. City BNP convenor Mirza Abbas and member-secretary Habib-un-Nabi Khan…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance yesterday urged all democracy-loving individuals, organisations, parties, their leaders and activists to intensify the ongoing movement to force the government to withdraw ‘its repressive black hands’. “The government has buried the democracy by holding last year’s…
New York – The Bangladeshi authorities should immediately order an independent investigation into the enforced disappearance of Salah Uddin Ahmed, spokesperson and joint-secretary of the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP). Ahmed was last seen on the evening of March 10,…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed her firm determination to give tough punishment to arsonists and militants, saying that there is no mercy to them (arsonists and militants). “There is no mercy to those who are burning people to…
The Pir Shaheb of charmonai, Mufti Syed Muhammad Fazlul Karim has said that there is no alternative to a fresh election enlisting the participation of all political parties to overcome the political deadlock prevailing in the country. In a statement…
Bnp chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday asked the government either to return Salahuddin to his family or produce him before the court without wasting any more time. She made the call when Hasina Ahmed, wife of BNP joint secretary Salahuddin Ahmed,…
The BNP-led 20-party opposition alliance has called 48-hur nationwide hartal demanding the return of BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed. The announcement of hartal beginning at 6:00am today (Wednesday) was given yesterday through a press statement signed by BNP joint…