A joint force of different agencies arrested 34 people, including three activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, from different places of the district from Friday night to Saturdaymorning.Enamul Haque, sub-inspector of Special Branch, Satkira said a team of the joint force, comprising members…
Police in a drive arrested a local leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from Naderabad village under Alinagar union of Gomastapur upazila on Thursday.The arrestee was identified as Tajer Hossain, 60, upazila unit Jamaat ameer and vice chairman of Gomastapur upazila parisad.
Dhaka –The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Thursday night decided braving all adversities to join the December-30 municipality elections with ensuring a lone candidate in each of the 236 municipalities from the coalition. However, the alliance did not formally announce its…
The BNP will ‘very soon’ decide whether it will field candidates in the next month’s municipal elections.
President of Chittagong city unit of Awami league and former Mayor ABM Mohiuddin chowdhury has said some war criminals exist also in our party and more are in hiden in the society in disguise. He said this while addressing an…
Dhaka – Elections to 234 municipalities across the country will be held on December 30 on party basis as per a new law passed by the government. The Chief Election Commissioner announced the election schedule for the 234 municipalities out…
Dhaka – BNP on Tuesday expressed doubts about the fairness of upcoming municipal polls as those are going to be held on party lines. “The government has hurriedly announced the schedule for municipality polls. We’re in doubt whether the elections…
The finance ministry has told the central bank to take action against all financial institutions with links to the Jamaat-e-Islami, pro-government online news agency bdnews24.com reported on Tuesday. The report says, the ministry’s Bank and Financial Institutions Division issued a…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday said the opposition is deprived of all constitutional political rights as there is no sign of democracy in the country. Khaleda came up with this in a statement made in the evening.
Dhaka -Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina said Monday Bangladesh is gradually getting rid of a long time stigma and advancing economically with execution of the verdicts against war criminals. “I think execution of the verdicts of…
The countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the execution of death sentence against its former secretary general Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed for his war crimes is underway peacefully on Monday. In the capital, there was no report of any…
A Khulna court on Monday sent president of Khulna metropolitan unit of BNP Nazrul Islam Manju to jail, turning down his bail petition in a sabotage case. Judge of Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court Amirul Islam passed the order rejecting the…
Mostafa Jamal Haider Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. — William Shakespeare One of the most controversial and misunderstood, yet seriously discussed and evaluated name in contemporary Bangladesh politics is Kazi Zafar…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her government is taking all necessary steps for the modernisation and expansion of the armed forces which will continue in the future. The Prime Minister said this at a reception organised at Senakunja,…
Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, hanged for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971, was buried at his Gahira ancestral home in Raozan upazila on Sunday morning. He was buried beside his father Fazlul Quader Chaudhury at the family…
Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed, hanged for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971, was buried at his Paschim Khabashpur ancestral home in Faridpur on Sunday morning. He was buried in front of Ideal Cadet…
Government and Opposition parties have made different statements regarding the ‘Mercy Petition’.The president has rejected “mercy petitions” of death row convicts BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.The government said the death row convicts–BNP standing…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has returned to Dhaka from London. The flight carrying her landed at Shahjalal International Airport around 5:15pm on Saturday, BNP leaders have said. Her Advisory Council member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, and Abdul Awal Mintu’s son…
Over 500 leaders and workers of BNP and Jatiya Party (JP) today joined formally the ruling Awami League (AL) being imbued with the ideologies of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.The joining ceremony held at the Shaheed Minar…
Dhaka – Former minister Nazmul Huda on Friday launched a political party titled ‘Trinamul BNP’, saying the Khaleda Zia-led BNP has failed to perform as a party. Huda, a former central leader of BNP, announced the name of his new…
STAFF REPORTER BNP chairperons Khaleda Zia is returning home today after over two months stay in British capital London for treatment.
DU Correspondent Ganajagaran Mancha announced to continue its sit-in at the Shahbag in the city until Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury verdict execution.
The full verdicts of the Supreme Court rejecting the review petitions of Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury were read out to the two war crimes convicts at Dhaka central jail on Thursday night.Jail super of Dhaka Central…
Police in separate drives arrested 21 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, a few among them females, from different areas of the district early Thursday on sabotage charges.Kushtia Police Super Proloy Chisim said law enforcers conducted drives in different areas from Wednesday night…
STAFF REPORTER BNP considers that party’s standing committee member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury was deprived of justice.
The family members of death-row war criminals BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed met them at Dhaka Central Jail on Thursday afternoon. Nine members of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s family, out of 15, entered the…
Jamaat-e-Islami called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday protesting the Supreme Court (SC) verdict that upheld the death penalty of war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed.
STAFF REPORTER BNP, one of whose standing committee member death sentence was confirmed by the Appellate Division of Supreme Court yesterday, has remained silent on it.
BNP vice chairman Hafizuddin Ahmed on Monday warned that Bangladesh will turn into a militant country if the government does not restore democracy immediately. Speaking at a discussion, he also hinted that their chairperson Khaleda Zia will wage a fresh…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday said the national security is now at stake as a ‘neo autocrat’ has been in power ‘without people’s mandate’.