Category: Politics

The BNP has termed as ‘politically motivated’ the life sentence meted out to its leader Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu in the Peelkhana carnage case.

Awami League has alleged that Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia is plotting to foil the election in a bid to bring a “third force” to power.

Two people, including an assistant general prosecutor (AGP), were injured when two crude bombs exploded at the Bogra Judge Court premises on Monday, the first day of the Opposition 18-Party alliance’s nationwide 60-hour shutdown.

At least five media people, mostly of TV channels, were injured in an attack allegedly by activists of Sramik League in the city’s Bangshal area during the hartal hours on Monday.

At least 40 people, including children and women, were injured in a clash between two rival groups of the ruling party Awami League (AL) at Charchingguria village in Chitalmari upazila on Sunday.

Police arrested 15 activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami from different places of Pirojpur and Sunamganj districts on Sunday night,apprehending that they might create violence during the opposition’s 60-hour hartal.

At least eight vehicles have been torched in Dhaka ahead of the Opposition’s second spell of a nationwide strike starting from Monday.

Rajshahi – Plainclothes police in their separate drives arrested 36 leaders and activists of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir from different parts of the city on Saturday. Police said separate DB teams conducted the drives in Shahmakhdum, Rajpara and…

BNP will welcome any dialogue or discussion for ensuring peace, and establishing people’s right to vote, one of the party’s Joint Secretaries General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said.

Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad left here on Friday for Singapore on a five-day visit for ‘medical checkup’.

A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activist has been shot dead at Sonaimuri Upazila in Noakhali.

The BNP-led 18-party will arrange gayebana janaza across the country seeking salvation of the departed souls of those alliance leaders and activists killed by law enforcers and ‘ruling party men’ from October 25 to October 29.

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Thursday said the next national election will be held timely following Constitutional obligation even if opposition BNP does not take part in it.

Singer Nazmun Munira Nancy has alleged the government “unleashed” police on her after her Facebook posting in support of the BNP.

An advisor to Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia has threatened a movement to make the government concede the opposition demand.

A Dhaka court has sent Harun Bin Izahar to police remand for fifteen days.

The process of forming an all-party poll-time government to supervise the imminent national election has started, Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed has said.

The Opposition will fail to catch the train to election if it does not join a dialogue, says Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu.