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Senior Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed on Thursday said women will be kept confined to their houses if Hefajat-e-Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami assume state power.

Dhaka-based ambassadors of Arab and Muslim countries on Wednesday night met BNP chief Khaleda Zia and discussed possible ways out of the current political crisis in Bangladesh.

As pressure on the two major political parties mounts to sit for dialogue to resolve the deepening political crisis, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday said now there is no atmosphere to hold talks with the government. 

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Friday put forward a formula of an ‘11-member polls-time government’ to conduct the next general election in a free, fair and neutral manner to avert the ongoing political crisis.

Slamming the government for the arrest of Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of the Daily Amar Desh, BNP standing committee member MK Anwar on Friday demanded his release immediately.

Police on Friday detained 34 people including Bhujpur Jamaat leader Shafiul Alam for their alleged involvement in the Thursday’s clash which killed at least three persons.

Senior BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Friday alleged that the government is conspiring to return to the one-party ‘Baksal rule’ keeping top BNP leaders in jail and gagging the media. He came up with the allegation while addressing a…

Terming Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman a strong voice against the government’s anti-people policy and repressive acts, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday expressed deep concern over his arrest.

BGMEA urge political leaders to sit & discuss a way out from political unrest Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Thursday urged the political leaders to sit for discussing a way out from the recent political unrest

A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman on a 13-day remand in three cases filed with Tejgaon Police Station.

Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Thursday alleged that the main opposition BNP had a plan to overthrow the government through Hefajat-e-Islam’s recent rally in the city.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has firmly rejected demands by Islamists for a new anti-blasphemy law to punish those who speak or write against Islam.

Three Dhaka courts have ordered ten top BNP leaders including its acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir into jail after they turned themselves in.

Dissatisfied over sending top opposition leaders to jail turning down their bail petitions, BNP joint secretary general Salauddin Ahmed on Sunday said the country is now facing judicial terrorism.

The country goes into the grip of a three-day hartal as Hefajat-e-Islam is set to enforce a daylong hartal on Monday while the BNP-led 18-party alliance on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Hifazat-e Islam leaders and supporters started gathering at Motijheel’s Shapla Chattar from Friday evening. At sunrise on Saturday for their presence started increasing as they walked to the venue from different directions to attend their planned rally.

A senior BNP leader has alleged that the government is plotting to push the country towards a state of emergency by announcing ‘back-to-back programmes’.

Hefazat-e-Islam, a radical Islamic group, threatened the government to enforce non-stop hartal from April 7 if 27 pro-liberation organisations do not call off their April 6 hartal immediately.

Demanding the ban of Jamat-Shibir, a group of cultural, political and professional organizations called countrywide hartal from April 5 evening to April 6 evening.

A delegation of Ulema-Mashaikh (Islamic scholars) met the Prime Minister on Thursday night and placed a six-point demand, including the facebook blocking and the arrest of the bloggers who are reportedly hurting the religious sentiment of people.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday alleged that the government has been on a killing spree as it has gone mad to cover up its misdeeds and corruption.

Sahara Khatun, the then Home Minister, submitted her deposition on Wednesday morning in the case over the Pilkhana carnage amid mass mutiny at the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) headquarters in February 2009.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to Jessore on Wednesday and will meet and financially help the families of those killed in the recent violence in Satkhira on Thursday.

Dan W Mozena, US ambassador to Bangladesh, said confidence has to be restored among the investors in order to attract investments in the capital market of the country from home and abroad.

The economy counts Tk 16,000 million in losses for each daylong countrywide hartal while the country faces 40 hartals a year on average raising the figure of the losses to Tk 64,000 crore.

People, especially bloggers, media and human rights activists, have condemned detention of the three bloggers arrested over allegations of ‘inflammatory postings’ on the internet.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) Tuesday approved eight development projects including the Taka 5,242 crore Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project.