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LGRD Minister and Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Tuesday said it is not possible to ban Jamaat-e-Islami just through an announcement from any public meeting or any television channel.

Accusing the government of creating a volatile situation in the country by letting loose anti-Islam bloggers, the BNP led-18-party alliance on Tuesday extended its full moral support to Alem and Ulema’s all justified demands to stop the profane campaign against…

Top leaders of the BNP-led 18-party alliance sat tonight (Sunday night) to work out the next course of action programmes to force the government to release its leaders and activists and pile pressure on it either to restore the caretaker…

Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir on Sunday said BNP chief Khaleda Zia will be brought to justice for pushing the country towards an anarchic situation through hatching various conspiracies.

The main opposition BNP on Sunday alleged that the government is pushing the country towards a civil war-like situation by unleashing violence.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the people not to get edgy with the progress of the 1971 war crimes trial.

BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah on Friday accused Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of violating constitution by asking BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to go to Pakistan.

Five people were kiled and at least one hundred others injured by bullets in Chapainawabganj and Sirajganj districts on Friday as police met in clashes with villagers after they went to arrest opposition activists accused of hartal violence.

Ruling Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Thursday said his party would not hold talks with conspirators who are conspiring to oust the government.

A group of Shahbagh protesters sitting for a fast-unto-death seeking a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami has revealed the split over the latest Ganajagaran Mancha programmes.

The BNP and its allies including the Jamaat-e-Islami were enforcing a 36-hour general strike across the country on Wednesday to demand release of their detained leaders.

The protesters at the Prajanma Chattar on Tuesday rolled out fresh demonstration plans on the Independence Day after the government sat on their deadline to start the process of banning Jamaat-e-Islami.

BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged on Tuesday that Awami League General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam is making ‘misleading statements’ on the BNP’s stand on the war crimes trial.

Ruling Awami League spokesman Syed Ashraful Islam on Tuesday accused opposition leader Khaleda Zia of playing a ‘dangerous role’ to derail the ongoing war crimes trial.

Police on Sunday submitted a charge-sheet against 148 leaders of the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance in connection with a case filed with Paltan Police Station under the Speedy Trial Act.

Meikhtila (Myanmar) — Sectarian clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar spread to at least two other towns in the country’s heartland over the weekend, undermining government efforts to quash an eruption of violence that has killed dozens of people…

BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia on Sunday expected the military, keeping peace around the world, to play an important role in maintaining ‘peace and order’ back at home.

DHAKA: The toll from a blaze that swept through a camp in northern Thailand has risen to 42, a Thai official said Saturday, after hundreds of temporary homes for refugees from Myanmar were reduced to ashes.

At least 20 people, including a child, were killed and more than 300 others injured when a tornado ripped through scores of villages in Brahmanbaria district on Friday afternoon.

A state of emergency has been imposed in the Burmese town of Meiktila following three days of communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims.

Md Zillur Rahman, the 19th President of Bangladesh, has been laid to rest with full state honours at the Banani Graveyard in the capital at 3:55pm Friday.

A Chinese consortium, backed by a government-owned bank, has officially proposed to channel $1.95 billion to bridge the Padma without interest and a payback period of 20 years, pro-government private news agency bdnews24.com has reported today.

JERUSALEM — President Obama urged Israelis to see the world through the eyes of Palestinians and to “create the change” they want, in order to bring about peace in the region.

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Zainul Abdin Farooque and Aman Ullah Aman to jail and placed some 151 others on 8-day remand in two cases filed with Paltan Thana.

President Md Zillur Rahman has died at a Singapore hospital after fighting for life for 11 days.

Britain’s Minister of State for Foreign Office Hugo Swire has called for dialogue between the political parties in Bangladesh to end the current impasse in the country and stressed that violence and vandalism can never be the language of protest.

The High Court (HC) in its full judgment on the construction of BGMEA Bhaban Tuesday ordered the government and other authorities concerned to demolish the high-rise building within 90 days.