BNP wants an effective dialogue side by side continuing its countrywide blockade to break the present political impasse over holding an inclusive election under anon-partisan government. “We again call upon the government to take initiative for an effective dialogue to…
Police in a drive arrested 75 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami from different parts of the district early Friday. Mofazzal Hossain, superintendent of police, Gaibandha, said police during the overnight drive arrested the 75 leaders and activists of…
At least 30 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) over a trifling matter on the Dhaka University campus early Friday. Sources said a brawl ensued between activists of the two groups…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the Armed Forces to make constant efforts in winning confidence of the people by extending services to them. “An army without public support and confidence cannot win a war. People are the main strength…
The National Standing Committee of the Bnp in a statement to the press on Thursday termed the directive given by the Director General of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) to open fire on political workers as totally beyond jurisdiction and in…
Stray incidents of violence causing death of a bus helper in Gazipur marked the day-long hartal of the Bnp-led 20-Party Alliance on Thursday. A burn victim died at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Meanwhile, a group of…
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed yesterday alleged that the government has put the law enforcers face to face with the people to cling to power. He made the allegation in a statement issued yesterday. The BNP leader…
Two local leaders of BNP and its youth front Juba Dal were injured in an attack allegedly by activists of Bangladesh Chhatra Dal (BCL) on the Nazrul Avenue in the city on Thursday morning. The injured, Kotwali BNP joint general…
Blasting Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for its destructive acts including burning people to death, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the BNP to stop playing with fire, otherwise they would die in its own blaze. “The hands of those who…
BNP has expelled two of its US-based leaders based for issuing a fake statement in the name of six US Congressmen expressing their concern over confinement of Khaleda Zia at her office that created controversy home and abroad. The two…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday asked the people as well as her party leaders and activists to make Thursday’s daylong hartal a success. Mohila Dal vice president Dr Nurjahan Mahbub said this while taking to reporters after a team of…
Four people, including a child, were burnt to death and 10 others suffered injuries in a petrol bomb attack by pickets in Mithapukur upazila early Wednesday on the 9th day of the countywide non-stop blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party…
The Bnp has called a 24-hour hartal for thursday in protest against the gun attack on Khaleda Zia’s adviser Reaz Rahman injuring him at about 8-45 pm on Tuesday in the Gulshan area. His car was torched and burnt in…
The National Standing Committee of BNP, the highest policy making body of the party on Tuesday urged the country people to intensify their movement to make it a success. It accused the government of being desperate to foil 20-party’s ongoing…
The Awami League-led 14-party alliance will constitute committees in every ward and localities across the country ‘against subversive acts’ to handover to the law enforcing agencies those who would be found involved in acts of terrorism in the name of…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday asked party leaders and activists to continue the ongoing blockade until democracy and right to franchise are achieved. The former premier made the directive when a six-member Mohila Dal delegation led by its senior vice…
Bnp joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed said on Monday that the blockade programme of the 20-Party Alliance would continue till the resignation of the Government. Rizvi conveyed the message by issuing a statement. For the last few days…
A number of senior Bnp leaders hinted on Monday that the 20-Party Alliance might end the blockade of transports if they are allowed to hold rally in Dhaka city. Major (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed on Monday night conveyed this message to…
Voicing deep concern over the current confrontational political situation in the country, Raushon Ershad of Jatiya Party on Monday said there is no alternative to political stability for economic development. In a statement, she urged the political parties to avoid…
BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on Monday accused Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Lying in her Suhrawardy Udyan rally speech. Fromer BNP MP Nilufar Chowdhury Minu who saw Khaleda in the evening told jounrliasts, the BNP chief was confined at…
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed yesterday lambasted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her statement that Khaleda Zia was not confined to her Gulshan office. “What the Prime Minister said today (Monday) at a rally is nothing but…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday called upon the people to put up a resistance against ‘militancy, terrorism and bomb exploders’, and said that her government would do everything to protect their life and property. “I would like to tell…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Monday placed three people, including BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s adviser Shamsuzzaman Dudu, on a five-day remand each in a case filed under the Special Powers Act. Magistrate Mohammad Aminul Islam…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday urged the people as well as party leaders and activists to take to the streets simultaneously to make the ongoing movement a success. General secretary of Dhaka city unit of Mohila Dal Farida Yasmin disclosed…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon her party leaders and activists to go ahead with peaceful movement until the realisation of demand for an inclusive election under non-partisan government. This was communicated by BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul…
The ruling Awami League is scheduled to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday to observe the Homecoming Day of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from captivity in Pakistan. The ruling party is going to hold the rally desperate police…
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP will enforce hartal in 14 districts in Dhaka Division excluding the capital protesting the confinement of party chairperson Khaleda Zia and demanding the release of top opposition leaders including acting secretary general…
As movement to and from Khaleda’s Gulshan party office has virtually been stopped on Sunday putting up fresh truck barricades, Bnp’s joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi asked business leaders to press for inclusive polls to restore peace in the…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday reiterated that the information about the telephonic conversations between BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah was cent percent correct. BNP chairperson’s press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan in statement issued…
Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Saturday said a movement cannot be carried out by carrying out sniper attacks and strongly criticised the BNP for its ongoing countrywide transport blockade. “Sniper attacks only create panic in public minds……