Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan) on Monday expressed concern over what it said intervention of political parties in the upcoming upazila elections. It said the political parties should respect the law that requires the local government elections to be non-partisan.
The session of the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) will resume at on Tuesday after a five-day recess with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury in the chair. The business advisory committee and the parliamentary affairs committee are likely to be formed on…
Dhaka – Denied permission for its Monday’s scheduled rally at Suhrawardy Udyan, the BNP-led 19-party alliance has decided to stage demonstrations at every thana of the city on Tuesday.
Dhaka – Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists brought out a procession on the Dhaka University (DU) campus on Monday protesting the attack on Rajshahi University (RU) students by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men.
A Jamaat-e-Islami activist died when police chased a procession of Jamaat and Shibir activists on the Kalsi Road at Dhaka’s Mirpur on Sunday morning. A policeman was injured in a bomb explosion during the clash around 8:30am at on Kalshi…
Chittagong – A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Swechhasebak Dal was hacked to death in South Khulshi area of the city early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Selim, 33, a member of Pahartali ward-13 unit of Swechhasebak Dal and son…
The government is playing ‘games’ with the Jatiya Party in the new Parliament formed through a ‘one-sided’ election, BNP spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said.
Jamaat-e-Islami, an ally of BNP-led 19-party alliance, has deferred its daylong countrywide hartal programme to Thursday protesting the verdict on the 10-truck arms haul case sentencing 14 persons, including the party’s Ameer Mualana Motiur Rahaman Nezami, to death.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, a major ally of BNP-led 19-party alliance, has called a dawn-to-dusk nationwide hartal on Monday protesting the 10-truck arms haul verdict that awarded death sentence to 14 persons including party’s Ameer Mualana Motiur Rahaman Nizami. Acting secretary general…
Police have detained 84 more people over their suspected involvement in the Islami Chhatra Shibir attack on the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). Jalalabad Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge Gausul Hossain said they had nabbed the suspects from areas near…
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has reopened press briefing from BNP’s central office at Nayapaltan. On Friday the very first day of his release after being interned in jails for two months he said their movement was for…
Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami’s conviction in the 10-truck arms haul cases is ‘politically motivated’, his party stated on Thurday. Nizami along with former minister Lutfozzaman Babar was awarded death sentence along with 12 others for smuggling arms into Chittagong…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s special aide Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas has been released from jail after getting bail in five cases. Dhaka Central Jail’s Superintendent Farman Ali said they had released him on Wednesday evening after receiving the bail documents.
A local leader of Jubo Dal was killed in a gunfight with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Laskar Taluk in Sadar upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Golam Sarwar, 32, vice-president of Fazilpur union unit…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to meet the press very soon to brief about the ‘growing incidents of extrajudicial killing and human rights violation’. “We’ll hold a press conference within a day or two to give you the detailed…
Newly elected Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and Deputy Speaker Advocate Fazle Rabbi Mia were sworn in this (Wednesday) evening. President Abdul Hamid administered the oath separately at his Parliament building chamber at 6:38 pm.
Police recovered 12 crude bombs in the city’s Lalmatia area on Wednesday. Sub-Inspector Komol Krishna Saha of Mohammadpur police station said local people noticed a shopping bag containing the crude bombs on the road in the area at noon and…
Satkhira – A local Jubo Dal leader was shot and wounded in a clash between members of joint forces and BNP-Jamaat activists at Ramchandrapur in Sadar upazila on Wednesday.
A Dhaka court on Tuesday rejected the bail petition of Bar Council Vice-Chairman Khandaker Mahbub and the remand plea against him in a case filed with Ramna Police Station in his presence.
Opposition chief whip Tajul Islam Chowdhury on Tuesday said the Jatiya Party will truly play the role of opposition in the 10th parliament, scheduled to begin its journey on Wednesday, by strongly opposing any decision that will go against people’s…
Dhaka – The Election Commission (EC) has finalised the list of polling stations and polling booths for the first phase upazila polls slated for February 19. As per the lists, there are 6992 polling stations and 44225 polling booths in…
The High Court on Monday directed the government not to harass or show arrested three BNP leaders, including its vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka and joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, in new cases without following the due process of law. …
The Awami League Parliamentary Party (ALPP) sits on Tuesday evening to select the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the 10th Parliament. Addressing a press briefing at the media center of Parliament, ruling party chief whip ASM Feroz said the…
The government has asked the authorities concerned to refrain from using the students of primary schools in queuing up on streets under hot sun for welcoming political leaders. The Primary and Mass Education Ministry issued a circulation in this regard…
Extrajudicial killings are on an alarming rise after the Awami League assumed power through the ‘one-sided’ election, the BNP has alleged. The party urged the human-rights organisations at home and abroad to speak out against such killings. “Law enforcers, along…
Dhaka – Police in separate drives arrested three people along with two pistols, some bullets and one knife from different places of Bogra and Rajbari districts on Sunday.
Court Correspondent Dhaka’s Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on Thursday rejected the bail petitions of BNP Vice-Chairman and Convener of Dhaka City BNP Sadeque Hossain Khoka in cases filed in connection with hartal (shutdown) and blockade violence. Judge Md Jahurul Haque…
BNP Chairperson’s adviser Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, while speaking at a bdnews24.com-organised roundtable on Saturday, said that the Jan 5 election was not ‘politically’ valid.
Senior BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday alleged that the government is screaming louder as it has got devoid of essence and afraid of public wraths.
Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the youth wing of BNP, on Saturday announced a two-day programme to press home their seven-point demand, including the release of its leaders and activists and withdrawal of ‘false’ cases against them.