Dhaka – Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday staged demonstration in the city and elsewhere in the country protesting what it called “conspiracy to hold one-party farcical election” and demanding the release of 18-party leaders including top Jamaat leaders.
Dhaka – State minister for Law Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Advocate Qamrul Islam alleged that the main opposition BNP was hatching various conspiracies to destroy the country and its democracy.
Dhaka – Tahmina Rushdi Luna, wife of disappeared BNP leader Ilias Ali, on Saturday expressed her hope that her husband would return to them if there is a change of power.
Dhaka – The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Saturday protested and condemned the police restriction to hold a mass ritual to pay respect to the souls of those Hindus who died during the war of liberation in 1971.
The Islami Andolan Bangladesh yesterday rejected the results of the by-election in Barguna – 2 constituency of Parliament alleging that candidate of the ruling party has been declared elected in a stage-managed polling.
Direct fight would be held between the candidates nominated by ruling Awami League and Islami Andolon Bangladesh of Charmonair Pir in Barguna-2 by-election on today Thursday.
Opposition BNP’s Chittagong unit was not active but the party’s Bandarban and Rangamati units activists were seen picketing and bringing out procession during a daylong strike on Wednesday to protest the death penalty of war crimes convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Wednesday proposed a new election system saying that holding fair, neutral and controversy-free election is not possible under the current poll system.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday demanded the government quit by October 24 to avert a mass upsurge.
Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu on Tuesday urged BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to immediately expel those accused of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War from the opposition party and alliance.
Youths gathered yesterday at the Shahbagh’s Ganajagaran Manch and demanded capital punishment for senior BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for his alleged involvement in war crimes during the 1971 Independence War.
Two people, including a local Awami League leader, sustained bullet wounds in a gun attack by some terrorists in the district town on Sunday night.
Dhaka – Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Sunday said that the main opposition BNP is threatening to wage movement with a view to getting additional advantages in the parliamentary polls.
Dhaka – Labour and Employment Minister Raziuddin Ahmed Razu on Sunday said there is a provocation from Hefazat-e-Islami’s chief Moulana Ahmed Shafi behind the ongoing labour unrest and anarchy in the country’s garment sector.
At least 17 people were injured, seven of them bullet-hit, as the local Awami League (AL) activists attacked a procession of BNP in Balipara Bazar area of Zianagar upazila on Friday evening.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia left for Jessore on Saturday afternoon and will address a public rally in Khulna on Sunday, aiming to mobilise public support in favour of the opposition’s demand for arranging the next polls under a non-party administration.
The election for choosing 25 registered graduates’ representatives to the Dhaka University senate ended at 5.30pm Saturday.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia leaves for Jessore on Saturday and will address a public rally in Khulna on Sunday, aiming to mobilise public support in favour of the opposition’s demand for arranging the next polls under a non-party administration.
Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir on Friday alleged that Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and some other reactionary parties are behind the recent unrest in the country’s readymade garment (RMG) sector.
Former BNP leader Nazmul Huda on Thursday formally asked the Election Commission not to register the controversial new political party Bangladesh Nationalist Front (BNF) he founded. He, however, admitted that his name was not mentioned in the party’s application letter…
Slamming Jamaat-Shibir men for carrying out frequent attacks on trains across the country in the name of hartal, Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said hartal is not a political language but a terrorist act.
BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday urged the Speaker to suggest the ruling Awami League instead of BNP for sitting in talks with the agenda of non-party government to resolve the ongoing political crisis.
Student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir has called a half-day general strike for Thursday in greater Chittagong to press for the release of its leaders and activists.
Police in a drive arrested 30 suspected activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from the port city’s DC Hill area on Wednesday.
Police on Tuesday arrested three activists of Jahangirnagar University unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) on charge of torching a bus near the campus.
Additional security measurements have been taken at Rajshahi University (RU) campus to turn aside further untoward situation following gunfight among Shibir, Chhatra League and Police.
A local activist of Juba Dal, youth front of the main opposition BNP, was murdered by miscreants at Raghunathpur village in Chowgacha upazila of the district on Monday night.
Dhaka: A clash between police and Jamaat-Shibir activists took place in new market area of the city on Monday afternoon.
Jessore district BNP has called half-day hartal for today protesting killing of a witness of Jubo Dal leader Asa killing case at Chowgachha upazila.
BNP MP Syeda Ashifa Ashrafi Papia has filed a general diary against a Bangladeshi expatriate in the United States.