The 10th Parliament has been formed through distorted interpretation of the Constitution, the BNP says, calling its members ‘clowns’. “A Parliament has been installed when another is in effect and a cabinet when another is in force,” said party’s acting…
Chittagong – The verdict in the sensational 10-truck arms haul case will be delivered on Thursday. Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal Judge SM Mojibur Rahman will pronounce the verdict after 10 years of the incident.
Dhaka – The BNP-led 19-party alliance will stage rallies across the country on Saturday protesting the law enforcers’ obstruction to their black-flag processions, killing of a BNP leader and attacks on their activists. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam…
Dr Shirin Sharmin Choudhury and Mohammad Fazle Rabbi Miah have been elected Speaker and Deputy Speaker unanimously of the 10th Parliament on Wednesday at its first sitting on Wednesday with the outgoing deputy speaker Shawkat Ali in the chair. The…
BNP and Awami League supporters have clashed in Durgapur Upazila, Rajshahi, even as police foiled BNP efforts to bring out black-flag processions in the city. The BNP demonstration was part of its show of countrywide protest against the first session…
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will begin inquiry against former BNP lawmaker Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie and Jamaat lawmaker Mia Golam Parwar over their alleged illegal wealth.
Dhaka – The BNP-led 19-party alliance will display black flags at all wards of the city on Wednesday if police finally deny it permission to stage its scheduled black-flag procession on the city roads. Speaking at a press briefing at…
The Awami League has nominated Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury as Speaker and Fazle Rabbi Miah as Deputy Speaker for Parliament. The Parliamentary Party of the Awami League nominated them at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday.
Satkhira – A leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of BNP, was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of the joint forces in Magura Kheyaghat area of Tala upazila early Monday.
Garment exporters are now breathing easy as foreign buyers are beginning to return, with Bangladesh getting down to business after a spell of political upheaval. Upset over deadly factory fires, collapsing buildings, raging workers’ unrest over wages, and relentless political…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Friday termed the party’s tie with Jamaat-e-Islami, country’s largest Islamist party, as nothing but an electoral alliance.“There is huge ideological gap between the BNP and the Jamaat. They (Jamaat) have their own ways of working.…
Dhaka – Recalling the great contribution of late National Professor Dr Nurul Islam to the country’s medical science, physicians and educationists here at a commemorative meeting on Friday demanded installation of his statue at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).…
A controversy is lurking over the role of civil society. Eminent citizens of the country attribute the worsening political stuation to both the lack of tolerance among political leaders and loyalty of civil society members to two major political parties…
Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia on Friday called upon the people to get ready for waging a tougher movement to defeat the anti-democratic usurper of power in the voter less elections to safe journey of multi-party democracy…
Dhaka – Bikalpadhara President Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday alleged that Awami League has formed a hotchpotch cabinet along with the so-called opposition with a mandate of five percent voters. “Those who are now in power, they’re the players…
BNP on Tuesday alleged that both the government and the opposition have been formed illegally and unethically following the January 5 ‘voter-less farcical’ elections. “The government has been formed illegally and unethically through a questionable, farcical election. The formation of…
Echoing his other cabinet colleagues, Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday said the new government has been elected to work for five years. “The new government is there for five years. The Prime Minister has already said that since BNP…
Dhaka – Police recovered the beheaded body of a young man from the rooftop of traffic police barrack in the capital’s Paltan area on Tuesday. The body of the man, aged around 30-35, could not be immediately identified.
Dhaka – LGRD Minister and Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Tuesday urged Khaleda Zia to apologise to the nation in 24 hours for her remarks over the operation by joint forces in Satkhira.
Dhaka – The High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to top five BNP leaders, including its standing committee members Barrister Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah, in two cases filed with Motijheel Police Station. The two…
Terming the new government illegal and isolated, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday demanded fresh parliamentary polls as soon as possible under a neutral administration. “I call upon this shameless government to prove its popularity by holding a fresh election…
Issuing a strong note of caution to the militants and terrorists responsible in the recent attacks on minority community and pro-Awami League men, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said no one of them will be spared and everyone will…
Several top BNP leaders, including its spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, have got bail from the High Court in various cases. The bench of Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader granted their pleas on Monday. Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Md…
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Monday said the growth projection of the current fiscal year (2013-14) would be revised downwards from the targeted 7.2 percent as he thinks it would be 6.3 percent this time. “The GDP growth projection for…
Police have recovered the body of a local BNP student wing leader, siX days after being picked up. He was an accused in alleged attack on the motorcade of Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor. Nilphamari Chhatra Dal leader Atikul Islam…
A Dhaka court on Monday granted a two-day remand for Ahmed Atique, diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Inqilab to allow police to quiz him and rejected the bail prayers of the arrested journalists of the newspaper. Magistrate SM Ashiqur Rahman…
The Cabinet has approved a proposal to amend the law to grant 50 percent allowance on basic pay to Supreme Court Judges.
Dhaka – The High Court on Sunday asked BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman to surrender before the trial court in connection with the money-laundering charges he was acquitted of. After hearing the admissibility of an appeal filed by the Anti…
The BNP on Saturday alleged that leaders and activists of the 18-Party alliance were being abducted or ‘extra-judicially’ killed. In a statement, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, “The government is abducting, killing and torturing our leaders…
Dhaka – The much-talked-about 10th national election is going to be held on Sunday amid the opposition’s boycott and widespread arson attacks across the country that left about 100 polling stations damaged and one person dead on Saturday. The election…