The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP has called upon the people from all spheres of life irrespective of political affiliations, religion, age, caste, creed and profession to stay away from polling centres of Sunday’s election taking place in different…
At least 96 polling centres were set afire in different districts, including the capital, from Friday night to Saturday evening as anti-election activists continued their arson attacks on the eve of the 10th general election to be held on Sunday. …
A few polling centres, which have been burnt, might be shifted at the last moment, but they would not be set up very far from their earlier locations, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad has said. Over 100 voting centres…
Awami League leaders and activists will resist all the attempts of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami to foil the 10th national elections on Sunday, says ruling party leader Tofail Ahmed.
BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s elder son Tarique Rahman has called for a boycott of the Jan 5 parliament polls in Bangladesh. He sent his appeal through a video message posted on the website of a social media. Tarique Rahman is…
The BNP-led 18-party alliance has called 48-hour nationwide hartal beginning at 6:00am on Saturday protesting the “confinement” of opposition leader Khaleda Zia at her residence and demanding cancellation of January 5 polls.
Chittagong – Unidentified miscreants torched a polling centre in Sitakundu upazila headquarters on Friday night. Locals said the miscreants set fire to the makeshift polling centre at Alam-Shafi School in the upazila headquarters at about 8:30pm. Meanwhile, the port city…
Dhaka – Violence escalated across the country on the third day of the opposition’s nonstop blockade on Friday, two days ahead of the 10th parliamentary elections, leaving two people dead in Dinajpur. Incidents of arson attack, vandalism and crude bomb…
Dhaka – Opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Friday urged the country’s people to fully boycott the January-5 election terming it a farce in the name of polls. “I call upon the country’s people for completely boycotting the stained and farcical…
The Forests and Environment Minister of the poll-time government has said that actions against those responsible for the recent acts of sabotage will be taken after a new government takes over following Sunday’s elections. “After the elections, stern measures will…
As a delegation of opposition MPs sought his intervention in freeing their leader Khaleda Zia from her apparent confinement, PresidentAbdul Hamid on Friday assured them of taking every possible step in this regard in line with the constitution.
India’s relationship with the Awami League had a “historical context”, but the country has always dealt “with the government of the day”, its envoy in Dhaka has said. Pankaj Saran said the Awami League was in the forefront of Bangladesh’s…
The Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 of Dhaka on Wednesday sentenced eight to death and awarded life-term imprisonment to 13 others in the much-talked-about and sensational Biswajit murder case.
New York —A crowd of Bangladeshi Americans gathered yesterday to demonstration in front of the United Nations building between 47th street and 1st avenue at 4 p.m. as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina delivered her speech at the…
Dhaka – Reaffirming the 18-party alliance’s October 25 deadline for restoration of the caretaker government system in the constitution, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night said they will build up a strong resistance together with people if the government…
The Election Commission is studying the electoral law of five countries where general elections are held without dissolving Parliament, a top official said.
Dhaka-bound inter-city Parabat Express rammed into a bus on Sunday night on the Mohakhali level crossing in Dhaka leaving at least three people injured.
The Grameen Bank is to come under the jurisdiction of Bangladesh Bank for the first time since its formation in 1980s.
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Dawn-to-dusk hartal of Jamaat-e-Islami is underway countrywide for fourth consecutive day on today.
Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Barrister Shafique Ahmed on Wednesday said peoples’ expectation has been fulfilled with holding the trials of accused for crimes against humanity.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) on Wednesday awarded death sentence to Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid for his crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War of 1971.
BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Tuesday alleged that the Election Commission is not willing to deploy army during elections to four city corporations slated for June 15 as it is influenced by the government. “The EC…
DHAKA: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz is reported to be clinically dead as the monarch is not recently seen in the public.
DHAKA: The first day of 2-day dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance, is underway across the country on Wednesday.
Dhaka– Mentioning that there is no rationale behind putting a condition by the opposition to sit in a dialogue, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said she wanted to hold the dialogue for the sake of the country and to…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged opposition BNP leader Khaleda Zia to sit for dialogue in any place –in or outside parliament–to resolve ongoing political crisis.
DHAKA: Loblaw Inc., a Canadian retailer, is sending senior company officials to Bangladesh in the wake a building collapse that killed hundreds of garment factory workers where some Joe Fresh clothes were made.
The death toll in Thursday morning’s eight-storied building collapse in Savar, near Dhaka rose to 212 according to the latest information gathered from the site of the ghastly scene. Rescue workers have been quoted to have said that they are still…
At least seven people, including three policemen, were injured in a clash between the local opposition activists and the law enforcers at Bagherpara Upazila in Jessore district during the BNP-led 18-Party Alliance-sponsored 36-hour nationwide strike starting on Tuesday.