Dhaka – The much-talked-about election was held on Sunday amid massive violence that left over 20 people dead. The BNP-led 18-party alliance on Tuesday extended its ongoing 48-hour nationwide hartal by 12 hours until 6pm Wednesday demanding the cancellation of…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday apprised President Abdul Hamid in a meeting that her government is firm to protect the lives and property of the country’s people and is taking necessary steps in this regard. Hasina asserted…
Dhaka – Amid the allegation of keeping her under house arrest, Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Heather Cruden met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night. The meeting was held at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan residence around 7:30pm.
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh Prof Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday urged the Prime Minister to cancel the 10th Parliament elections and sit across the table for holding the next general polls. “All countries of the globe except only…
Denouncing the post-polls violence against minorities by BNP-Jamaat, Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Tuesday urged the country’s progressive forces to remain alert and resist any communal violence by this identified evil force.
Dhaka – Opposition BNP on Tuesday held the ruling party ‘cadres’ responsible for the recent attacks and repression on minority communities and asked the 18-party men to prevent post-election violence against Hindus and other minority groups. “The ruling party men…
BNP Organising Secretary Fazlul Haque Milon and another leader, Nazimuddin Ahmed, have been arrested. The two were picked up from a house in Dhaka’s Baridhara around 3.30pm on Tuesday. An hour earlier, the police had arrested BNP Chairperson’s Advisor and…
Dhaka – Demanding immediate cancellation of Sunday’s ‘farcical‘ elections, opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Monday urged the government to quit and reach a compromise for holding a free, fair, peaceful and inclusive national election under a non-party neutral administration. In…
Dhaka – As expected, the international press has unanimously denounced Sunday’s election to the 10th Jatiya Sangshad in Bangladesh, with most propagating the fear that the polls marked by an opposition boycott and violence portends an uncertain period for the…
Sunday’s general elections held in 139 constituencies had a 40 percent turnout, according to the Election Commission. Polling in the halted those centres under eight constituencies will take place on Jan 16.
The first day of the fresh 48-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, demanding cancellation of the 10th parliamentary elections held on Sunday, passed off peacefully on Monday.
India on Monday said that elections in Bangladesh on Jan 5 were a constitutional requirement and democratic processes must be allowed to take their own course. “They (elections) are a part of the internal and constitutional process of Bangladesh. It…
Dhaka – BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, now in London, ruled out the possibility of further dialogue with Awami League branding the incoming government an ‘illegal’ one. “There’s been a farcical election already. The government that comes to power through…
Dhaka – Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Monday renewed her offer to BNP to have a dialogue for the next election in the country, but not for any early polls. “I’ll urge all, including the opposition leader, to come…
At least 21 people have been killed in violence and police action on Sunday in what might be Bangladesh’s bloodiest election in recent memory.
Dhaka – Claiming that the country’s people have rejected Sunday’s ‘lopsided’ national election with hatred by staying indoor, BNP demanded cancellation of the polls and announcement of a fresh schedule for the 10th parliamentary elections.
The BNP-led 18-party alliance on Sunday called a fresh 48-hour hartal beginning at 6am on Monday demanding the cancellation of the 10th parliamentary polls held today.
Leaders of pro-BNP Sammilita Peshajibi Parishad (SPP) on Sunday demanded immediate cancellation of the general election and to summon Parliament into session to pass caretaker government provision for holding a fresh inclusive election within 90 days.
Observing that the voting was taking place in a fair manner, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Sunday apparently acknowledged the low voter turnout in the 10th national election.
Dhaka – Fourteen candidates in constituencies under nine districts boycotted the national election on Sunday on various allegations.
Dhaka – The ruling Awami League is heading towards absolute majority bagging 40 seats out of 147 in Sunday’s parliamentary elections that was marked by violent clashes in different parts of the country amid boycott by the opposition alliance.
Dhaka – The much-talked-about 10th national election is going to be held on Sunday amid the opposition’s boycott and widespread arson attacks across the country that left about 100 polling stations damaged and one person dead on Saturday. The election…
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP has called upon the people from all spheres of life irrespective of political affiliations, religion, age, caste, creed and profession to stay away from polling centres of Sunday’s election taking place in different…
At least 96 polling centres were set afire in different districts, including the capital, from Friday night to Saturday evening as anti-election activists continued their arson attacks on the eve of the 10th general election to be held on Sunday. …
A few polling centres, which have been burnt, might be shifted at the last moment, but they would not be set up very far from their earlier locations, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad has said. Over 100 voting centres…
Awami League leaders and activists will resist all the attempts of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami to foil the 10th national elections on Sunday, says ruling party leader Tofail Ahmed.
BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s elder son Tarique Rahman has called for a boycott of the Jan 5 parliament polls in Bangladesh. He sent his appeal through a video message posted on the website of a social media. Tarique Rahman is…
The first day of the 48-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the 18-party alliance alongside its ongoing nonstop blockade programme demanding cancellation of the Jan-5 election, was marked by the killing of a BNP man and widespread arson attacks on polling…
The BNP-led 18-party alliance has called 48-hour nationwide hartal beginning at 6:00am on Saturday protesting the “confinement” of opposition leader Khaleda Zia at her residence and demanding cancellation of January 5 polls.
Chittagong – Unidentified miscreants torched a polling centre in Sitakundu upazila headquarters on Friday night. Locals said the miscreants set fire to the makeshift polling centre at Alam-Shafi School in the upazila headquarters at about 8:30pm. Meanwhile, the port city…