Dhaka-Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday demanded the resignation of Food Minister Qamrul Islam and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq immediately as what he said they have been convicted for breaching their oaths through contempt of court.
Dhaka – Police arrested 36 people, including six activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, in a special drive from different parts of Jhenidah on various charges on Monday,UNB news agency reported.
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Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday stressed creating more scopes of sports for children and youths to divert them from various social menaces like militancy, terrorism and drug addiction, UNB news agency reported. “I think we have to…
Dhaka: Ruling Awami League on Sunday said it was proved again through Pakistan’s reaction over the execution of war criminal Mir Quasem Ali that the Jamaat-e-Islami leaders took side with Pakistan during the Liberation War in 1971. UNB News Agency…
Dhaka: BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Sunday alleged that the killings of suspected militants in ‘mysterious gunfight’ and the government’s failure to begin trial any secret killings have raised a doubt in public minds about its sincerity to eliminate…
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Dhaka – Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called an eight-hour countrywide hartal for Monday protesting what it called the ‘planned killing’ of its leader Mir Quasem Ali for war crimes, UNB news agency reported.
Terming the Awami League-led government ‘fascist and autocratic’ one, BNP senior leaders on Saturday underscored the need for reorganising their party to make its movement for the ‘restoration’ of democracy a success.
Gazipur – Mir Quasem Ali was hanged on Saturday night for crimes he had committed against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. The was convicted for the crimes by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) and the conviction confirmed by…
Dhaka: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday morning went to Singapore for medical treatment. Fakhrul along with his wife Rahat Ara Begum left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Singapore in a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines around…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pulled into an effective tie with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, erasing a substantial deficit as he consolidated support among his party’s likely voters in recent weeks, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll…
Dhaka- Police arrested 36 people, including five activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, in a special drive from different parts of Jhenaidah on various charges on Saturday.
Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton repeatedly told the FBI she couldn’t recall key details and events related to classified information procedures, according to notes the bureau released Friday of its July interview with the Democratic presidential nominee, along with a report on…
BNP on Friday alleged that Awami League is conspiring to turn Bangladesh into a failed and militant state like Afghanistan, Syria and Libya.”We can’t allow anyone to make Bangladesh a failed and militant state. We want to brand it as…
A discussion programme on father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib was held on Tuesday at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensing on the occasion of National Mourning day and the 41st martyrdom anniversary of…
Dhaka – The BNP chairperson has inaugurated an official twitter account with party’s founding anniversary call “Let us unite to defeat authoritarianism, win democracy and freedom.”
Dhaka – The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday paid rich tributes to party founder late President Ziaur Rahman by placing wreaths at his mazar at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar to mark the party 38th founding anniversary.
Dhaka – BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon the party leaders and activists to work together and get united by shunning all differences among them. “The party got a batch of new and youthful leaders. The party leaders and…
Dhaka: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Thursday celebrated its 38th founding anniversary across the country with a vow to ‘restore’ democracy in the country. BNP and its front and associate bodies marked the day with various programmes, including discussions and…
Dhaka: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday formally joined the social media networks by opening a Twitter account. She inaugurated her Twitter account at her party’s discussion at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, marking BNP’s 38th founding anniversary. UNB News…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the government is going to launch ‘village rationing’ very soon for the country’s extreme poor and people with disabilities.”We’re going to introduce village rationing very soon …those who have ration cards will be…
Dhaka – Two female BNP leaders — Shirin Sultana and Syeda Asifa Ashrafi Papiya — have resigned from their respective posts in the newly formed BNP executive committee, UNB news agwency reported.
US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chairperson Khaleda Zia to discuss the political and security environments in Bangladesh, according to a media release by US State Department.
Rio — After an emotionally charged, late-night debate, the Brazilian Senate voted Wednesday to remove suspended President Dilma Rousseff from office for fiscal irregularities, a move she said amounted to an illegal coup. The 61-20 vote capped a year-long power…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged all to remain always ready for any type of sacrifice for the country’s sake, UNB news agency reported. “We all have to keep in mind that if we want to build…
Dhaka-Death row top brass war criminal Mir Quasem Ali yesterday refused to take any decision on presidential clemency until and unless the return of his son Barrister Ahmed Bin Quasem, who was allegedly picked up by some unidentified persons on…
Dhaka – The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail for three months to senior journalist Shafik Rehman in a case filed over an alleged plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the USA,…
Dhaka -The dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by the Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the Supreme Court order upholding its leader Mir Quasem Ali’s death penalty is going on across the country having almost no impact on the people’s routine life. In the capital, traffic…
Dhaka – Inspector General (IG) of Prisons Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin on Wednesday said death-row war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali will get reasonable time for seeking presidential clemency. “We’ve asked Mir Quasem whether he’ll seek presidential mercy and…