Prime Minister’s adviser HT Imam on Thursday said that many BNP-supported candidates boycotted the second phase of upazila parishad polls sensing their defeat. “The election boycott by BNP-backed candidates raises curiosity and question. Actually, they boycotted the polls sensing their…
Some 15 chairman candidates, mostly BNP-backed ones, boycotted the upazila elections in Khustia, Cox’s Bazar, Feni, Barisal, Bhola, Chandpur, Noakhali, Munshiganj and Jessore districts on Thursday on various allegations. In Noakhali, the Election Commission suspended polling in Sadar upazila following…
The counting of votes after the second phase elections in 115 upazila parishads of the country’s 52 districts began on Thursday afternoon. The voting that began at 8am closed at 4pm amid stray incidents of violence which left a Shibir…
At least 42 people, including security personnel, were injured when voterts clashed with army and BGB personnel in polling stations during Upazila elections at Thakurgaon’s Baliadangi. Three Border Guard Bangladesh personnel injured in the clashes were admitted to Thakurgaon Sadar…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has alleged that the Upazila polls have been reduced to a ‘festival’ of taking over poll centres’ by supporters of the ruling party. “Our apprehensions over the last few days have come true. It has…
Captain Virat Kolhli hit a solid ton, and put up a huge partnership with Ajinkya Rahane to help India to a six-wicket win in the second match of the Asia Cup at Fatullah, Bangladesh, on Wednesday. The 19th century (136…
The BNP has warned of tough action if there was any rigging in the second phase of elections in 119 Upazilas on Thursday. “The entire country” will be shaken through movement if the Election Commission failed to deliver, said BNP…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued arrest warrant for Salauddin Salehin alias Sunny in the Humayun Azad murder case, a lawyer said. Sunny was one of the three convicts snatched from a prison van on Sunday. Assistant Public Prosecutor ABM…
Referring to its earlier stance, the reconstituted International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday set March 10 for hearing the summing-up arguments afresh in the case of detained Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami being tried on charges of crimes against humanity during…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expanded her cabinet by inducting a minister and a state minister turning it into a 49-member one. AH Mahmood Ali, an MP from Dinajpur-4 constituency, got back his old job – Foreign Minister –…
Tangail – The local returning officer on Wednesday cancelled Krishak Sramik Janata League (KSJL) president Abdul Kader Siddiqui’s nomination for the March 29 by-election to Tangail-8 (Basail-Sakhipur) on charge of loan default. The nomination paper of Jatiya Party (Ershad) backed…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said her government is determined to take forward the country facing all odds, including the political trouble. “Political disturbance has become a common phenomenon in the country; we have to continue our…
Police have released photos of possible disguises two runaway Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants may adopt to evade arrest. The militants are Jahidul Islam alias Bomaru Mizan, 38, Salauddin Salehin alias Sunny, 38. In a daring daylight ambush, miscreants had…
A Dhaka court has awarded death penalty to eight persons, including three siblings, for the murder of Awami League leader and Dhaka’s Lalbagh ward commissioner Hazi Md Alim 18 years back. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions…
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury on Tuesday alleged that some ‘foreign powers’ are fostering militants in Bangladesh. “Some diplomats were holding meetings with the militants in madrasahs. This proves foreign powers are fostering militants. These diplomats don’t have any shame,” she…
The nation recalled on Tuesday the horrific carnage at Peelkhana BDR headquarters in the capital where 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed on this day in 2009. Relatives of the martyrs, government high-ups, and Border Guard Bangladesh and…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the government has completed its all measures to bolster its one-party rule by snatching people’s basic rights. “All the basic rights of people are being snatched one after…
Members of Parliament on Tuesday accused the BNP and Jamaat-Shibir and their leaders of patronising and promoting militancy in the country. Speaking in Parliament session on point of order, they also demanded the government to carryout investigation to find out…
The BNP-backed candidate has been elected chairman in the Pirganj Upazila Parishad elections in Rangpur, a parliamentary constituency from where Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was elected in the Jan 5 elections. The balloting, in the first phase of the local…
The death of the JMB convict in an ‘encounter’ is meant to suppress the truth behind the snatching of three convicts from police, claims the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The government had completely failed to provide adequate security to the…
Awami League leader Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday alleged that BNP-Jamaat alliance along with an international militant group was involved in the snatching of three convicted members of the banned militant outfit Jama’at-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). “BNP, Jamaat, JMB and al-Qaeda…
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday doubted that the government might have staged a ‘mysterious drama’ over the militant issue ahead of the upazila elections. “The incident of militant snatching seems very mysterious just before the upazila…
Security has been beefed up across the country on Monday a day after gunmen ambushed a police van freeing three convicted militants on way to a court in Mymensingh and leaving one policeman killed. One of the militants was killed…
Gonoforum president and eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain on Monday said extrajudicial killing is a crime against humanity. “I would like to state it clearly that extrajudicial killing is a crime against humanity and a punishable offence,” he told a…
Condemned convict militant Rakib Hasan Russel, recaptured hours after he was snatched with two others from a prison van in Mymensingh, was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police at Beltail in Mirzapur upazila here early Monday. Acting Police Super of…
Abdul Kader Siddiqui who boycotted the Jan 5 parliamentary election in a show of unity with the BNP is going to contest the Tangail-8 (Basail-Sakhipur) by-elections. The Krishak Sramik Janata League President on Sunday submitted his nomination papers for the…
Dhaka – In a scathing attack on the Prime Minister, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday said Sheikh Hasina should do ‘Tawba’ (repentance) for running the state as per the will of a particular country ignoring Bangladesh…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday warned that the people of Bangladesh will not tolerate if BNP leader Khaleda Zia again wanted to play with their fate and dare kill them through acts of arson. “Let me tell you one…
Two separate inquiry committees have been formed to look into the snatching of three convicted members of the banned militant outfit Jama’at-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from a prison van in Mymensingh. The Home Ministry formed a four-member probe panel, headed by…
Kurigram – Jatiya Party chairman and special envoy to the Prime Minister, HM Ershad on Sunday said the present government would be there in power for five years, and no situation has created in the country that requires a midterm…