Category: Lead News

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday warned that her party will never allow martial law to be enforced in the country to curb people’s rights again.

Dhaka– UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has encouraged Bangladesh’s two major political parties – Awami League and BNP – to reach a mutually agreed consensus through ‘constructive dialogue’ to hold a ‘non-violent’ election in Bangladesh with the participation of all parties.

Dhaka – A public interest litigation writ petition challenging the legality of the 10th parliamentary election schedule announced by the Election Commission (EC) was filed with the High Court on Saturday.

An Election Commissioner on Saturday said the commission can rearrange its 10th general election schedule if it finds any specific proposal following a political compromise between the two major parties.

The BNP and its allies have called yet another 72-hour blockade of roads, railways and waterways across Bangladesh starting at 6am Saturday as police filed cases across the country, hauled up senior leaders and hundreds of activists while Awai League…

Dhaka – Asking the Election Commission to postpone the schedule for what she said a unilateral election, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday night urged the government to pave the path for holding the polls under a non-party administration trough…

Kazi Zafar Ahmed has declared himself as the new Chairman of Jatiya Party which expelled him a day before. He also announced that he was joining the Opposition’s movement for a non-party caretaker government following a meeting with the BNP…

The Opposition has denied any link with the arson attack on a bus at Shahbagh in capital Dhaka on the third day of its nationwide transport blockade.

Two left political parties will stage countrywide demonstration on Saturday demanding cancellation of Ticfa, ensuring free and fair polls with the participation of all political parties and stopping violence during shutdowns and blockades.

Gearing up its election drive, the ruling Awami League on Friday published the list of its candidates for 295 constituencies for the next general election slated for January 5.

Miscreants set fire to a garment factory complex of Standard Group at Gazipur’s Konabari in the early hours of Friday.

Dhaka – Opposition BNP on Thursday threatened to intensify the 18-party’s ongoing movement to force the government to hold the next polls under a non-party government.

Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury on Thursday said the people want an unconditional dialogue between the two major political parties—Awami League and the BNP—to resolve the prevailing political impasse on the forthcoming general elections.

Dhaka – The third day of the 71-hour rail-road-waterway blockade programme, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, was marked by stray incidents of bomb explosions, arson attacks and vandalism of vehicles across the country on Thursday.

A Dhaka court on Thursday rejected the bail petitions of five top leaders of BNP including MK Anwar MP and Barrister Moudud Ahmed MP.

The duration of the army deployment on poll duty will become clear after Dec 13, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad has hinted.

At least 19 people have been injured, as suspected Opposition activists torched a commuter bus at Shahbagh on the third day of the 71-hour nationwide blockade, police say.

At least seven people were killed and over 300 others injured as the BNP-led 18-party alliance supporters clashed with law enforcers and ruling alliance activists across the country on the second day of the 48-hour blockade programme on Tuesday.

The Election Commission will deploy some 900 executive and judicial magistrates across the country to curb violence and violation of the election code of conduct during the country’s 10th general election slated for January 5 next.

Eminent jurist and Gonoforum president Dr Kamal Hossain on Wednesday said the people demands an election under a ‘neutral government’ like the one in 2008 and there is no other alternative to it for resolving the current political stalemate.

Amid the escalation of violence and absence of political compromise over the polls-time government, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco is going to visit Bangladesh in the first week of December to see for himself the election preparations…

Australian High Commissioner in Dhaka Greg Wilcock on Wednesday met new Foreign Minister Abul Hasan Mahmud Ali and discussed a ‘range of issues’, including the current political development in Bangladesh.

Opposition BNP on Wednesday accused the government of misguiding people through its dialogue ‘game’ to frustrate the ongoing movement for arranging the national election under a non-party regime.

The BNP led-18-party on Wednesday extended its blockade by 12 hours till 6 pm Thursday.