Category: Lead News

BNP-led 18-Party alliance has extended its 72-hour blockade until Friday morning.

Dhaka – Apparently giving a nod to deferring the national election if there is no legal obstacle, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Sunday told visiting UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernández Taranco that many things can…

Dhaka – Opposition BNP on Sunday renewed its call to the Prime Minister to quit accepting its caretaker government demand and thus pave the path for holding the next election under a non-partisan administration.

All Jatiya Party ministers and state ministers in the ‘all-party’ interim poll-time government have handed over their resignations to party chief HM Ershad.

Dhaka – A delegation of civil society members, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, at a meeting with visiting UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernández Taranco on Sunday said the running train of a one-sided election needs to be…

Dhaka – Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday called a countrywide daylong hartal for Monday protesting what it said the government’s plan to kill its leader Abdul Quader Mollah for political purpose.

Dhaka – The second day of the nationwide 72-hour road-rail-waterway blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, was marked by stray incidents of violence at different parts of the country on Sunday.

India’s political infant, Aam Admi Party (AAP), led by anti-corruption crusaders Arvind Kejriwal and Yogendra Yadav, have emerged the show stopper in the Delhi state elections, leading in 24 of the 70 seats in the Indian capital.

The visiting UN emissary Oscar Fernandez-Taranco has sought to know from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina whether the polls date could be deferred.

Dhaka – Visiting UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernández Taranco on Saturday had a marathon meeting with opposition leader Khaleda Zia and her party leaders apparently discussing the country’s latest political situation arising out of the January-5 national…

The US has once again urged the major political parties of Bangladesh to start a dialogue to be able to hold the polls and end violence.

Opposition BNP on Saturday called upon the government officials and employees to perform their duties neutrally and disobey the orders of any party or individual to involve in the unilateral election.

Hussein Muhammad Ershad has brushed off all the rumours of him stepping down as the Jatiya Party Chairman.

Businesspersons organised a ‘human-chain’ in Dhaka calling for an end to the current political standoff.

Provoked by its major ally Jamaat-e-Islami, the BNP has fallen into the trap of ruling Awami League, CPB President Mujahidul Islam Selim has claimed.

Top leaders of three opposition political parties on Friday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign from her post to restore peace and stability in the country.

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernández Taranco arrived here on Friday evening amid the country’s murky political situation that has cast a shadow on its January-5 general election.

Dhaka city BNP on Friday called a 24-hour shutdown beginning at 6am on Sunday in the city protesting the arrest of its convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka.

The BNP-led 18-party alliance on Friday arranged gayebana janazas across the country seeking salvation of the departed souls of the alliance leaders and activists killed by law enforcers and ‘ruling party men’ during its recent blockade programme.

Coinciding the three-day national mourning for Nelson Mandela, the BNP-led 18-party alliance enforces its fresh spell of 72-hour road-rail-waterway blockade across the country at 6am on Saturday demanding that the next national election be arranged under a non-party government.

Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad has said Jatiya Party will go to general elections if the schedule is extended by 10 days and participation of all political parties ensured.

Some 25 Awami League candidates are going to be elected unopposed as there are no other candidates in their constituencies to contest the 10th parliamentary polls billed for January 5.

Police have arrested BNP Vice-Chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka at Uttara, his aide has said.