Category: Lead News

BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, who was picked up by plainclothes police and then admitted to Apollo Hospital in the city on Saturday, is learnt to have left the hospital without informing the hospital authorities early Wednesday. By…

Joint General Secretary of the ruling Awami League Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Tuesday claimed that people of the country have rejected BNP’s ‘destructive indefinite siege programme’. “People have rejected Begum Khaleda Zia’s siege programme of terrorising them and politics of vengeance.…

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has still remain confined at her political office at Gulshan since Saturday with he entrance of the House locked by police from outside. Her physician told journalists Khaleda is repeatedly having breathing problems and skin rash…

Police arrested Bnp Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as he came out of the National Press Club ending his little over 24-hour stay to avoid arrest. The managing committee of the club was under pressure from the pro-AL…

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhru Islam Alamgir, who took shelter there to evade arrest, talked to the media before leaving Tuesday Amid mounting pressure from AL and pro-AL journalist union leaders on its management committee. He was arrested at…

At least 10 BNP leaders and activists, including its district unit president Taimur Alam Khandaker, were injured in a clash with police on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said local leaders and activists of BNP, led by Advocate Taimur Alam Khandaker, brought…

Terming BNP’s boycott of the general election of 2014 as a wrong political decision, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the BNP leader herself responsible for it, none should be blamed. “BNP is out of Jatiya Sangsad because of the…

Two pro-BNP sctovists were killed – two in Natore and one each in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj in clashes with Awami League activists and police on Monday Throughout the day, clashes, and detention of opposition activists continued across the country including…

Bnp chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday called countrywide blockade protesting obstructions created to holding her party and alliance’s ‘democracy killing day’ rally and non-conceding of the demand for fresh elections under a non-partisan caretaker government to restore what she termed…

News Desk Commuters underwent immense hassles due to crisis of mass transport in the capital as well the rest of the country on Monday amid tension as the police restrictions and exchange of verbal threats between the leaders of the…

Two activists of pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) were shot dead and 15 others injured when a procesion brought out by them came under attack by Awami League workers at Tebaria in the district town, in the north-western region of…

Gono Forum chief Dr. Kamal Hossain on Sunday underscored the need for a national dialogue to resolve the prevailing political crisis. He said 16 crore people of the country want peace, security of life and property. All people fear if…

At least 11 vehicles were torched in different places of the capital, Gazipur and Mymensingh on Sunday ahead of the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s planned January-5 rally, leaving 18 people injured. Of the vehicles, seven were set ablaze in the capital…

Accusing Khaleda Zia of staging a confinement drama, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the BNP chief is not confined and she can go back home anytime if she wants to do so. “She (Khaleda) is not confined, she…

Besieged at her Gulshan political office, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday expressed her firm stance about taking to the street on Monday to mark the day as ‘Democracy Killing Day’. Leaders of different pro-BNP professional bodies, including teachers, journalists,…

President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) AQM Badrudozza Chowdhury was barred from meeting besieged BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday. The BDB chief came to Khaleda’s Gulshan office around 12 noon to meet the former Prime Minister. As his motorcade…

Police on Saturday arrested two activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in connection with a crude bomb attack on the vehicle of former Sylhet City Corporation mayor and city Awami League president Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran at Pathantula here on…

The Awami League-led 14-party alliance has told the BNP to drop plans of hitting the streets on Jan 5. After a meeting on Saturday at the Awami League’s central office, Food Minister Qamrul Islam asked the BNP not to be…

The BNP-led 20-party allaince is likely to announce 48-hour to 72-hour non-stop hartal if they are obstructed from hold its planned rally for which it did not get permission till last night, according to a highly placed source. The hartal…

The ruling Awami League will organise public rallies at 16 venues including the Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital city January 5. This decision was taken at a joint meeting of Awami League (AL) held at the political office of party…

Senior Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed on Saturday ruled out the possibility of any midterm election and dialogue with BNP saying Bangladesh is marching ahead with development on all fronts. “I don’t see any possibility of dialogue…there’ll be dialogue only…

The BNP has vowed to hold its rally in Dhaka on January 5 even it is not given permission by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. “We will hold our planned grand rally in the city on January 5 to mark the…