BNP staged demonstrations across the country on Monday protesting the sending of its three senior leaders to jail by a Dhaka court. The party leaders and activists brought out processions in all the cities, district towns and upazila headquarters throughout…
Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the youth wing of BNP, will stage demonstrations across the country on Tuesday protesting the hike in power tariffs and jailing of top BNP leaders. The programme is also meant for mounting pressure on the government to…
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent BNP Standing Committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain to jail after he was produced to the court on completion of his three-day remand in a money laundering case. Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan of Dhaka’s…
BNP and its associate bodies observed the third death anniversary of former BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain with due respect on Sunday. To mark the day, BNP arranged a milad mahfil on the ground floor of its Nayapaltan central…
Some 63.52 percent of voters cast their votes in the third phase elections in 81 upazilas of the country’s 41 districts held on Saturday. According to the Election Commission, the voter turnout in Saturday’s elections was 63.52 percent.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will stage demonstration across the country today protesting sending of its three senior leaders including acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to jail by rejection their bails. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced…
The Awami League has countered the BNP’s charges of rigging votes claiming that it was the ruling party-backed candidates who had come under ‘political and administrative attack’ during the third phase of the Upazila elections. The administration had played a…
The third phase of the ongoing upazila elections has already been marked out by the level of violence and allegations of election irregularities raised on the day, even before voting hours closed. BNP called a daylong hartal in Bagerhat sadar,…
Nearly six months after his arrest, former Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal president Sultan Salahuddin Tuku was freed from jail on bail on Friday. Tuku was released from the Kashimpur Central Jail around 6:45pm after his release order reached the jail authorities.
The government is planning to ban Jamaat-e-Islami by June this year for its war crimes against humanity during the war of liberation in 1971. Minister for Liberation War Affairs AKM Mozammel Huq disclosed this on Friday while the 13th Muktir…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Home Ministry to update the lists of terrorists. While talking to journalists at the secretariat in the afternoon, the state minister said that the Prime Minister had given the direction when she attended…
The defence counsel on Thursday accused the Prime Minister’s Office of planning the war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami out of political vengeance. “It’s purely a politically-motivated case designed and planned by the Prime Minister’s Office, and…
Law Minister Anisul Haq on Thursday said the government is committed to bringing to justice those who attack minority community members. “The anti-liberation forces are still active. They’re involved in conspiracies against the pro-liberation forces. They’re carrying out attacks on…
BNP on Thursday alleged that the government has arrested its senior leader Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain as part of its conspiracy to divert people’s attention from its misdeeds and misrule to a different direction. “The government is spreading the net…
The Anti- Corruption Commission today is quizzing detained BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on charge of siphoning off money abroad. Khandaker Mosharraf was taken to the ACC headquarters from Ramna Model Police Station around 09:45am, Public Relations…
The government has planned to honour civilians with gallantry award for their heroic role in the War of Liberation, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque told Parliament on Wednesday. Taking part in the general discussions on thanksgiving motion on…
Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League went on the rampage and vandalised the local Education Engineering Department office after failing to win the tender for work worth Tk 1.75 crore in lottery. Executive engineer of Pabna EED ATM Faruk Al Maruf…
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday quizzed BNP leader Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anny over his alleged involvement in acquiring wealth illegally, said an ACC official. The commission deputy director Monzur Morshed interrogated Anee at the ACC head office for one…
Police picked up BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday night. A team of Gulshan Police Station picked up the BNP leader from his Gulshan residence around 10:25pm, his son Barrister Maruf Mosharraf told UNB over phone. He…
BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka has resigned from the post of convener of the party’s Dhaka metropolitan unit. “I don’t want to handle this responsibility anymore. I have asked the leader (Khaleda Zia) to reorganise the Metropolitan city unit. She…
A court here on Tuesday sent to jail 11 Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders and activists, including its district unit president Sharif Hossain, in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act. Judge Sheikh Mohammad Aminul Islam of the Senior…
Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal on Monday staged black-flag processions across the country protesting the police obstruction to their programme in the city marking the International Women’s Day on Saturday. The women wing of BNP brought out the black-flag processions in all…
A BNP-backed candidate for Upazila elections has ‘boycotted’ the re-polling at a centre in Sirajganj’s Tarash. Voters were threatened and stopped from going to polling station, the candidate Khandker Selim Jahangir alleged amid voting at a Binnabari centre on Monday.…
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, has called daylong shutdown in the four districts under the Sylhet division on March 20 and 21. Admission tests to the fist…
Khaleda Zia has called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina “Gopali” (Gopalganj resident), referring to her Gopalganj roots, in a tit-for-tat attack on her arch political rival, who had called her ‘Golapi’ (the pink one). “She (Hasina) says that Gopalis (Gopalganj residents)…
As part of its move to revitalise the party for waging a strong movement to push the government for a fresh national election, BNP will hold its national council after the upazila polls. The decision was taken at a meeting…
A court here on Sunday sent 32 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami to jail in two separate cases over violence turning down their bail petition. Senior judicial magistrate Abdul Quader passed the order of sending them to jail as the…
The post of public primary school headmaster have been upgraded from Class III to class II. The salary for assistant teachers is also going to be raised. The teachers will enjoy the upgrades immediately (from Mar 9), said the Ministry…
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent newly elected chairman of Savar upazila, Alhaj Md Kafiluddin to jail rejecting his bail pleas in two separate cases. Earlier on Sunday, Kafiluddin surrendered to the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court of Dhaka in two…
Pointing at BNP, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Sunday said that the law enforcement agencies will not turn a blind eye to its conspiracies to topple an elected government before the expiry of its tenure. “It won’t happen that…