Describing the recent activities of the BNP-Jamaat alliance as militancy, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday categorically said her government will in no way give in to this menace. “We’ll never surrender to militancy,” she said addressing the inaugural ceremony…
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of BNP, on Saturday called an indefinite strike at Dhaka University from Sunday co-existence of the activists of all political parties on the campus and demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor AAMS Arifin…
An outlawed party activist was killed and another injured in an explosion allegedly while they were making bombs in Ataikula upazila of Pabna district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Mongal Pramanik, 38, son of Malik Pramanik of Dharmagram…
A writ petition was filed to the High Court on Thursday challenging the validity of the lower court order that had placed BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on a five-day remand for the third time in a…
SSC examinees of some city schools, their guardians and teachers yesterday formed a human chain programme in front of BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office demanding the withdrawal of ongoing blockade and hartal programme to help them sit for examinations without any…
Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Tuesday said BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman has been pulling the strings from abroad over the current violence as Khaleda Zia has lost control on her party leadership. “Khaleda has no longer any control…
BNP-led 20-party alliance on Tuesday further extended the ongoing 72-hour countrywide hartal for another 36-hour ending 6:00pm on Thursday in protest against carrying out homicide by joint forces without accepting its demand, resorting to killing, enforced disappearance, attacks and filling…
A Dhaka court has ordered five days in police custody for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Mosaddek Ali Falu. The former MP was produced before the court of Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque on Monday. Police pleaded with the court…
BNP on Monday warned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that she will be put on trial very soon for the ‘vicious mass killings’ being carried by joint forces across the country. The party also threatened that Sheikh Hasina will be made…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday directed all Awami League lawmakers to create a public opinion against the destructive politics of the BNP-Jamaat alliance. She gave the directives while presiding over a meeting of the Awami League Parliamentary Party (ALPP)…
Bangabir Kader Siddiqui who along with leaders of his Krishak Sramik Janata League are staging sit-in near his party office in Motijheel in the capital on Sunday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to sit in the negtiating table to resolve…
The first day of the 72-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its ongoing nonstop transport blockade demanding restoration democracy and people’s voting right, passed off amid stray incidents of violence on Sunday. The shutdown programme that…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday day reiterated her call to BNP-Jammat to refrain from blasting bombs and burning people or else be burnt in the fire of the people’s wrath. “We are trying our best to restore peace in…
Bnp joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi who was arrested from a Baridhara house on Friday night has been placed on three-day remand in a case of arson and setting fire. The remand was granted by the Additional Chief Metropolitan…
Mosaddaq Ali Falu, adviser to Bnp chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and chairman of Ntv television channel was picked up from in front of Khaleda’s Gulshan office at about 8 pm on Sunday. Different news agencies creeded the news quoting the…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday threatened to continue non-stop hartal and blockade programme, if all communication systems including internet, telephone and cable networks are not restored in BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office immediately. “The not-stop hartal and blockade programmes…
An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was seriously injured as a leader of the organisation beat him up with hammer at Dhaka University (DU) on Saturday night. The injured was identified as Sohag Miah, a 3rd year student of…
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi who was arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion has been handed over the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. The joint secretary general of the Bnp Rizvi had been issuing press release and making statements on the…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia termed the disconnecting of power supply to her Gulshan office as ‘despicable cruelty’ and violation of human and citizen’s rights. The BNP chief made the remarks on Saturday afternoon while speaking to her party functionaries, who…
BNP’s executive committee member Khaleda Yasmin and six women lawyers of the Jatoyatabadi Ainjibi Forum were arrested by police from in front of the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday evening as they came out after supplying candles as power…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday that the Bnp-led 20-party combine has turned into a ‘poisonous abscess’ for the nation, she said and urged the people to forge unity being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation…
Electricity, cable television and internet connections to Bnp chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s party office in the Gulshan Model Town of Dhaka city were snapped Saturday, in an apparent move to disrupt her communication links and also to make her continued…
At least four people, including a former constable, suffered burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack on a bus in the city’s Khilgaon area on Friday night, the 25th day of the non-stop countrywide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party…
Eminent jurist and president of Gano Forum Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said they were trying to resolve the current political impasse unitedly. “We are trying to resolve the crisis together. We have Manna bhai (convenor of Nagorik Oikya) and many…
BNP-led 20-party alliance yesterday called a 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday protesting the threats by leaders of ruling Awami League to blow up BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s office, call to arrest her and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s directives to police…
Convener of Nagorik Oilya Mahmudur Rahman said on Thursday that the government should take the initiative for dialogue to end the present political stalemate because its actions are to blame for the deterioration of the situation of the situation to…
Eight hawkers, including two siblings, suffered splinter injuries as pickets blasted two crude bombs near the city’s New Market on Thursday, the 24th day of the countrywide indefinite transport blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance. The injured people were…
President Abdul Hamid on Thursday urged the law enforcement agencies to take stern legal actions against those killing people by hurling petrol bombs and torching vehicles as they are the enemies of democracy. “You know the people of Bangladesh are…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party has said the statement of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to take all responsibility of law enforcing agencies to do whatever needed to ‘curb movement’ would complicate the present political situation further. “The statement of the Prime Minister…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked police to take stern action to stop violence during the ongoing BNP-sponsored transport blockade across Bangladesh. She told top police officials at a meeting in her office on Tuesday to control the ongoing violence…