Category: Politics

Mentioning that an informal dialogue is on between Awami League and BNP, AL presidium member Mohammad Nasim on Monday said the opposition party is staging a drama over the issue.

BNP Chittagong unit has called a day-long shutdown in the district on Tuesday to protest against the attack on the son of local BNP MP Mostafa Kamal Pasha. BNP Chittagong Metropolitan President Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury announced the strike at…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has claimed that there was no more scope for illegally usurping power. “If anyone tries to occupy state power in an unconstitutional manner, he would be tried,” she said on Monday referring to the 15th constitutional…

Secretary general of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) Abdul Mannan on Sunday night warned that any farcical polls will be resisted at any cost and urged the Prime Minister to shun the move to hold a unilateral election.

Hefajat-e-Islami Bangladesh on Sunday announced to hold its postponed grand rally at the capital’s Shapla Chattar on December 24.   Besides, the Islamist group announced month-long programmes to be held before the grand rally.

A court of Dhaka on Sunday placed war crimes convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhuty’s lawyer Barrister AFM Fakhrul Islam on a four-day remand in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology Act.

The first press conference and introductory meeting of the newly registered Bangladesh Nationalist Forum (BNF) was held on Saturday amid arm twisting among its leaders and expulsion.

Jamaat-e-Islami has called for a dawn-to-dusk general strike in Chittagong on Sunday.

A police constable was injured as Jamaat-Shibir activists attacked  a police vehicle in the city’s Badda on Saturday morning.   The injured person was identified as constable Abdul Alim, 38, a driver of a police van of Badda police station.

The BNP-led 18-party alliance will stage countrywide demonstrations on Sunday demanding the arrangement of the next general election under a non-party government.

Bangladesh will be set afire once a move is made to execute the death verdict on Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary Abdul Quader Molla, the party has warned. The ICT-1 has sentenced Bangladesh Jamaat founded Ghulam Azam to 90 years in prison.…

The Pir Shaheb of Charmonai and Ameer of the Bangladesh Islami Andolan Mufti Sayed Moulana Rezaul Karim has said that the government would have to arrange elections only under a non-party neural government.

BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has asked the party’s student wing activists to come out on the streets in a large number instead of ‘damaging a few vehicles’.

A countrywide 24-hour transport strike got underway at 6am on Thursday, leaving thousands of people in distress.

A court of Dhaka on Thursday fixed Nov 24 for hearing on the remand plea of Detective Branch (DB) Police to place, Barrister AFM Fakhrul Islam, a lawyer of War Crimes Tribunal on a 7-day remand.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamagir to initiate talks with his ruling party counterpart to resolve the ongoing political crisis.   The Prime Minister made the call as she met Fakhrul at…

Bangladesh Road Transport Workers’ Federation (BRTWF) is set to enforce a 24-hour transport strike across the country on Thursday demanding the release of opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s special assistant Shimul Biswas.

Police in an overnight drive arrested 12 local activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami from different upazilas of the district on Tuesday.

Swechchhasebak Dal’s General Secretary Mir Sharafat Ali Sapu has been hospitalised after he ‘fell ill’ in police custody.

A Dhaka court on Tuesday granted one-day’s fresh remand against Mufti Harun Izhar in another case filed with Paltan Police Station against Hefajat-e-Islam.

Former military dictator and Jatiya Party president HM Ershad on Monday said he is going to contest the polls under the just-formed election-time cabinet to win the race not to sit in the opposition bench.

Leaders of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh (HIB) in a statement on Monday said the people would identify those who would try to promote the atheist forces to come to power as ‘national traitors’.

The main opposition BNP will bring out a black-flag procession across the country on today in protest against the cabinet meeting held with ministers who have already resigned.

Sitting of the Parliament begins at 4:30pm on today after a weeklong recess. The opposition lawmakers will not return to the House, according to sources.

At least 25 people, 10 with bullet, were injured as local BNP activists clashed with police and BGB members in Sitakunda upazila headquarters in the district on Saturday.   The injured were admitted to different hospitals of the area.   Sitakundu Muradpur…

Dhaka – Jatiya Party Presidium member Kazi Zafar Ahmed was admitted to a city hospital as he suddenly fell sick on Saturday morning.

Police have arrested an Upazila unit chief of Jamaat-e-Islami at Gazipur on charges of vandalism.

Daily Amar Desh’s Dhaka University correspondent was assaulted allegedly by activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on the campus on Saturday.

At least 10 people were injured in a clash between supporters of the ruling Awami League and opposition BNP in the district town on Friday evening.