Two local leaders of BNP and its youth front Juba Dal were injured in an attack allegedly by activists of Bangladesh Chhatra Dal (BCL) on the Nazrul Avenue in the city on Thursday morning. The injured, Kotwali BNP joint general…
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Bnp demands punishment for Rangpur bus arson
The BNP has demanded punishment for those involved in torching of a bus that left four persons dead in Rangpur during its non-stop transport blockade. The party made the demand in a media statement issued on Wednesday. Joint Secretary General…
Reaz Rahman under close observation after surgery
BNP chairperson’s adviser Reaz Rahman who was injured in a gun attack by unidentified criminals on Tuesday night underwent surgery at the city’s United Hospital on Wednesday. Doctors at the hospital said he was taken to post operative room of…
Stop playing with fire, PM urges BNP
Blasting Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for its destructive acts including burning people to death, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the BNP to stop playing with fire, otherwise they would die in its own blaze. “The hands of those who…
US, EU, UK shocked say, stability not at cost of freedom
The United States, The European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) on Wednesday called for genuine dialogue to strengthen democracy in Bangladesh all sides to refrain from acts of violence violence. The US, the UK and the EU expressed…
2 US Bnp leaders expelled for controversial statement
BNP has expelled two of its US-based leaders based for issuing a fake statement in the name of six US Congressmen expressing their concern over confinement of Khaleda Zia at her office that created controversy home and abroad. The two…
Make Thursday hartal a sucess: Khaleda Urged People
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday asked the people as well as her party leaders and activists to make Thursday’s daylong hartal a success. Mohila Dal vice president Dr Nurjahan Mahbub said this while taking to reporters after a team of…
Teesta falls to a quarter of its normal flow: Dhaka tells Delhi
As the flow of the Teesta River has hit extremely low – less than one fourth of the flow recorded between 1973 and 1985) levels seriously affecting its environment Bangladesh has written to India to ensure adequate flow of the…
4 bus passengers killed in Rangpur petrol bomb attack
Four people, including a child, were burnt to death and 10 others suffered injuries in a petrol bomb attack by pickets in Mithapukur upazila early Wednesday on the 9th day of the countywide non-stop blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party…
Gun attack on Reaz Rahman: 20-Party calls hartal Thursday
The Bnp has called a 24-hour hartal for thursday in protest against the gun attack on Khaleda Zia’s adviser Reaz Rahman injuring him at about 8-45 pm on Tuesday in the Gulshan area. His car was torched and burnt in…
Bnp standing committee for intensifying movement
The National Standing Committee of BNP, the highest policy making body of the party on Tuesday urged the country people to intensify their movement to make it a success. It accused the government of being desperate to foil 20-party’s ongoing…
Alleged fugitve killed in ‘gunfight’
An alleged fugitive accused in the murder of a policeman was killed in a ‘gunfight between his cohorts and law enforcers’ in Maheshkhali upazila on Tuesday evening. The deceased was Abdur Rashid, 35, a resident of Hoainak village in the…
Adviser Reaz Rahman shot: Bnp accuses Govt of sabotage
BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s Adviser Reaz Rahman was shot in the leg in Dhaka and his car set ablaze by some unidentified people when he was on his way back from Khaleda’s Gulshan office. A former foreign minister Reaz Rahman…
3 killed in launch collision: Route permits suspended
Three members of a family were killed and seven others injured in the head-on collision between two launches in the Meghna River in Mohona area of Chandpur Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Sahana Begum, 60, and…
AL-led alliance to resist ‘subversive activities’
The Awami League-led 14-party alliance will constitute committees in every ward and localities across the country ‘against subversive acts’ to handover to the law enforcing agencies those who would be found involved in acts of terrorism in the name of…
Blockade to continue till right to franchise achieved
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday asked party leaders and activists to continue the ongoing blockade until democracy and right to franchise are achieved. The former premier made the directive when a six-member Mohila Dal delegation led by its senior vice…
Movement till the resignation of Government: Rizvi
Bnp joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed said on Monday that the blockade programme of the 20-Party Alliance would continue till the resignation of the Government. Rizvi conveyed the message by issuing a statement. For the last few days…
End of blockade if rally allowed- Bnp. Withdraw it first – AL
A number of senior Bnp leaders hinted on Monday that the 20-Party Alliance might end the blockade of transports if they are allowed to hold rally in Dhaka city. Major (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed on Monday night conveyed this message to…
Raushan calls for avoiding violent action programmes
Voicing deep concern over the current confrontational political situation in the country, Raushon Ershad of Jatiya Party on Monday said there is no alternative to political stability for economic development. In a statement, she urged the political parties to avoid…
Khaleda angry, says ‘movement is for democratic rights’
BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on Monday accused Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Lying in her Suhrawardy Udyan rally speech. Fromer BNP MP Nilufar Chowdhury Minu who saw Khaleda in the evening told jounrliasts, the BNP chief was confined at…
It’s rule thru terrorism, killing, abduction, deception: BNP
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed yesterday lambasted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her statement that Khaleda Zia was not confined to her Gulshan office. “What the Prime Minister said today (Monday) at a rally is nothing but…
Govt to do all needed to protect life, property: Hasina warns
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday called upon the people to put up a resistance against ‘militancy, terrorism and bomb exploders’, and said that her government would do everything to protect their life and property. “I would like to tell…
‘Delhi will not interfere in internal affairs of Dhaka’
The Indian government will not interfere in any internal affair of Bangladesh as it depends totally on the government of Bangladesh and its people. Indian External Affairs Ministry’s spokesman Syed Akbaruddin made this comment while speaking at the regular briefing…
Dudu, 2 Juba Dal, Shibir activists placed on remand
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Monday placed three people, including BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s adviser Shamsuzzaman Dudu, on a five-day remand each in a case filed under the Special Powers Act. Magistrate Mohammad Aminul Islam…
Justice SK Sinha appointed Chief Justice
Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was on Monday appointed Chief Justice of Bangladesh. President Abdul Hamid made the appointment in accordance with the article 95 (1) of the Constitution, an official release said. The Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry issued…
Confusing crude bomb attacks panic people
Panic gripped the apex court on Sunday after the bomb was discovered at a courtroom in the afternoon. Police have confirmed the recovery of a bomb from the High Court. Two more objects, resembling bombs, were found within an hour.…
Continue peaceful movement, Khaleda tells party workers
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon her party leaders and activists to go ahead with peaceful movement until the realisation of demand for an inclusive election under non-partisan government. This was communicated by BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul…
Confinement protest: 20-party, JCD call hartal in 15 districts
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP will enforce hartal in 14 districts in Dhaka Division excluding the capital protesting the confinement of party chairperson Khaleda Zia and demanding the release of top opposition leaders including acting secretary general…
Khaleda office barricaded again. Press for polls: Bnp
As movement to and from Khaleda’s Gulshan party office has virtually been stopped on Sunday putting up fresh truck barricades, Bnp’s joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi asked business leaders to press for inclusive polls to restore peace in the…
Dhaka should raise ‘river, issue of life and death’, at UN
Speakers at a roundtable in Dhaka on Saturday called for concerted efforts to unite the people against threats to the country’s physical and environmental security posed by diversion of rivers that have treated and sustained Bangladesh for ages. This land…