Voicing deep concern over the ‘growing incidents of repression and extrajudicial killing’, BNP on Saturday alleged that Awami League’s repressive acts surpassed the barbarism of the medieval age. “BNP leaders and activists are being killed, made disappeared and repressed. Extrajudicial…
Police have recovered the bullet-ridden body of a Juba Dal leader in Lakshmipur Sadar two days after he was picked up from Dhaka’s Uttara by a group of people claiming to be from security forces. Md Shamsul Islam Solaiman, a…
BNP will stage demonstrations across the country on Apr 28, while ‘mass hunger strike’ on May 4 to register its protest against what it said the repressive acts of the government. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced…
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Friday visited his party’s ailing senior leader ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader at a city hospital. The Jatiya Party chief went to United Hospital around 11am and spent some time beside Howlader, a Presidium Council…
A local Awami League office was vandalised by Jubo League men in Magura Binod union of Tarsh upazila on Friday morning. Locals said there had been a longstanding dispute between two groups of Jubo League, the youth wing of the…
A BNP activist was killed allegedly by ruling Awami League supporters at Sadar Upazila, in Magura, on Friday. The BNP supporters retaliated by vandalizing and looting at least 10 houses of the Hindu minorities over the incident at Hatmalanchi village…
BNP standing committee member Rafiqul Islam Miah on Friday said his party supports the call of the US Congress for ensuring rights and safety of RMG workers. “The US Congress members have advocated for ensuring the rights and safety of…
A man was killed and 20 others were injured as two factions of Awami League clashed at Kholsedubi village in Saltha upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Babu Matobbor, 30.
State Minister for Home Assaduzzaman Khan on Thursday said terrorism has become a global threat and it should be tackled internationally. “The world has to unite in order to face this growing threat of terrorism,” he said addressing the concluding…
The BNP has ended its two-day long march towards the Teesta Barrage with a call of tougher movements if the government fails to ensure Bangladesh’s legitimate share of Teesta river waters from neighbouring India. Led by the party’s Acting Secretary…
The half-day hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the arrest of Sadar upazila chairman and Jamaat leader Mokhlesur Rahman, was progressing peacefully in the district on Wednesday. Pickets vandalised a BRTC bus at Bailtala in Shibganj upazila in the morning. A…
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Tajul Islam passed the order when Abdul Hai surrendered before his court seeking bail in three cases. The court granted him bail in a case and rejected the bail petitions in the two other cases.
Two people, including a policeman, were injured in a gunfight between police and Jamaat-Shibir men at Jhumjhumpur Moylakhana area in sadar upazila early Tuesday. The injured were identified as constable Bulbul, 28, and Mushahid, 30, an activist of Fatehpur union…
A Juba League leader has been injured when an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami opened fire on him in Chittagong’s Satkania. The incident took place on Monday afternoon, said Satkania Police Station Officer-in Charge Khaled Hossain. Injured Abul Kalam, 35, was admitted to…
A district court on Sunday sent to jail 36 BNP leaders and activists in a violence case in Sadar upazila in November last year. Judge of the Senior Judicial Magistrate’s Court, Benapole, Maruf Ahmed passed the order when the BNP…
The BNP leaders were shown arrested in a murder case filed with Rampura police station for killing capital’s Dhakkin Khan unit Chhatra Shibir President. A Dhaka court has sent BNP leaders Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and Amanullah Aman to jail in…
BNP will hold six rallies during its long march to the Teesta Barrage in Nilphamari on April 22-23 to press for Bangladesh’s fair share of waters of River Teesta. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programmes at…
Gano Forum chief Dr Kamal Hossain has called those who created rift between Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Tajuddin Ahmed ‘enemy of the country’ and said it was the ‘most unfortunate incident’ in Bangladesh’s history. The member of Bangabandhu’s cabinet…
“Dictators and frauds” have tried to rewrite the history of Bangladesh, but have not succeeded, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has said. Joy made the remark in a Facebook status on the occasion of Mujibnagar Day.…
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) on Thursday declared three ministers persona non grata on the university campus for their derogatory remarks against the Zia family, including former president and BNP founder Ziaur…
Eminent poet and writer Farhad Mazhar on Thursday expressed his suspecion that there could be a hand of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of India in the abduction of Rizwana Hasan’s husband Abu Bakar Siddique. He expressed the doubt while…
Accusing the BNP leaders of resorting to lies along with its senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, Food Minister Quamrul Islam threw a challenge on Wednesday to engage in debate over Tarique’s recent remarks about Bangabandhu. “If you (BNP leaders) have any…
Voicing its apprehension that the government is going to implement its blueprint for punishing their party leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Wednesday demanded his unconditional release. In a statement, party acting ameer Mokbul Ahmad and acting secretary general…
BNP standing committee member Khandker Mosharraf Hossain was shifted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Wednesday morning from Kashimpur Jail as he fell sick. The BNP leader was admitted to the BSMMU’s coronary care unit around 8:30am after…
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday said their party is taking all-out preparations for waging a greater political movement to dislodge the current regime. ‘We’ll take to the streets together with people and force the current autocratic…
A Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist has been killed in a lynch-mob attack while allegedky collecting extortion money in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar district. The deceased has been identified as Ibrahim Ali, 30, an activist of Bhanugachh unit of the…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will hold a meeting with leaders of the 18-party alliance on Thursday, according to alliance sources. The meeting will be held at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office at 8:00pm. Khaleda Zia will preside over the meeting. This…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said BNP took part in the recently-held upazila parishad polls as part of its movement strategy to unseat the government. The BNP leader said this while addressing an election rally…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday observed that the country has turned into a ‘jail’ under the current regime. “They (govt) are arbitrarily filing cases against people… attacking and harassing the common people,” he told a…
The government wants to ‘silence’ the Ganajagaran Manch movement since it no longer serves the interests of the ruling party, Imran H Sarker has alleged. Sarker was removed as the Ganajagaran spokesperson on Saturday afternoon by others in the group.