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The BNP backed candidates lead in the first phase of upazila elections held on Wednesday with a slight margin. Candidates loyal to the 19-Party alliance that it leads have won the race for chairman in 43 of the 95 Upazila…

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Wednesday said the first phase elections in 97 upazila parishads of the country were held in a free and peaceful manner except a few minor incidents. “We’ve completed (the first phase) elections taking…

The ruling Awami League said elections in 97 upazila parishads in the first phase were held peacefully amid high turnout of enthusiastic voters on Wednesday. PM’s adviser HT Imam presented the party’s preliminary assessment at a press briefing at Awami…

BNP on Wednesday called daylong hartals for Thursday in eight upazilas under six districts to protest what the party said upazila polls fraud. The upazilas are Sadar in Meherpur, Sadar and Shailakupa in Jhenidah, Sonatola in Bogra, Bakerganj and Gouranadi…

Stray incidents like clashes, attacks and breach of electoral code of conduct and arrests were reported from various Upazilas of seven districts in Bangladesh during Wednesday’s first phase of polling. Magura: At least 13 people were injured in two separate…

The United States has expressed its interest to know about 13-point demands of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh and the qaumi madrasha education. US embassy political officer Kathleen Gibilisco and assistant political expert Lubain Chowdhury Masum expressed the interest during a meeting with…

Chittagong – A court here on Wednesday indicted suspended general manager of Bangladesh Railway (East) Yusuf Ali Mridha and four others in a graft case filed over corruption in the railway recruitment. The four other accused are Railway additional chief…

A Tangail Court has sent Md Rasel bin Sattar, arrested for circulating al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri’s audio message in Bangladesh, to 10-day police custody for interrogation. Judicial Magistrate Court judge Shahadat Hossain on Wednesday granted police the remand in one…

A delegation of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has visited the Election Commission to lodge the complaint that it is not playing its appropriate role in the Upazila elections. Although the election is being held on a non-party basis, BNP-backed…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has withdrawn a stay on a defamation case against former army chief Gen Moeen U Ahmed.A full bench headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain issued the order on Tuesday after hearing an…

Dhaka – Awami League publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday alleged that BNP-Jamaat alliance is trying to create anarchy in the country by joining hands with al-Qaeda. “The BNP-Jamaat alliance has long been enforcing militant programmes. We…

“Opposition activists are being abducted and killed in Lakshmipur and elsewhere. They are being arrested in false cases,” acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a rally on Tuesday. The meet was held at the National Press Club…

Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Dr Mizanur Rahman on Tuesday said the law enforcers crossed their limit by making attacks on a recent peaceful rally of Rajshahi University students.   “Members of the law enforcement agencies crossed their…

Dhaka – Stressing the upazila polls’ local essence, party’s Publicity and Publications Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud said on Tuesday evening that important as they are, “there is no scope for drawing conclusions regarding a party’s popularity at the national level…

A total of 97 upazilas in 40 districts are going to polls on Wednesday in the first of the staggered local body elections.   The voting will open at 8am and continue till 4pm without any break.   The Election Commission has…

Dhaka – Members of elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained a youth from Tangail on charge of spreading so-called audiovisual message of al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri on the internet. Director (media and legal wing) at the Rab headquarters Wing…

In the wake of al-Qaeda’s reported threat to Bangladesh, the government plans to strengthen the security of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “We’re specially considering about further beefing up the security of the Prime Minister,” said her security adviser Maj Gen…

Dhaka – BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman on Monday alleged that the current government buried democracy through the January 5 elections. “A crisis of democracy has been created in the country. The incumbent government buried democracy…

Secretary of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) M Faizur Rahman Chowdhury on Monday claimed that the ongoing probe into the wealth of sitting and former ministers and lawmakers is not an eyewash. “You (journalists) will see the results of our inquiry. We…

Jessore – Accusing the government of harassing its probable candidates, BNP on Monday threatened to boycott the upazila polls in Khulna division. “The BNP-backed aspirants and key leaders are being harassed, repressed and arrested. Some senior party leaders are being…

BNP has said the government’s statements linking it with terrorist organisation al-Qaeda’s recent audio message is politically motivated and a ploy to win over US and world to its side. BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday…

The government has decided to extend the term of the Speedy Trial Act by five more years. The weekly cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday approved the final draft of the Law and Order Disrupting Crime…

Dhaka – The Bangladesh Bar Council on Sunday demanded formation a high-level inquiry committee to probe the alleged incidents of extrajudicial killings across the country. Addressing a press conference, Khandker Mahbub Hossain, vice-chairman of the lawyers’ statutory regulating body, came…

Now the country is governed at the dictate of just one person, not by the rule of law, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi alleged on Sunday. “The country is governed by the order of a single person, not…

The High Court on Sunday stayed for three months the proceedings of two cases filed against four bloggers under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. The HC bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mohammad Ullah also issued…

A audio-message said to be from Al-Qaeda’s current chief Dr Ayman Al-Zawahiri has called on Muslims in Bangladesh to resist the evil plans of the ‘leading criminals in the subcontinent and the West against Islam.’ The entire message with video…

Dhaka – BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday demanded an exemplary punishment of the law enforcers who allegedly killed its activist Jahangir Hossain of Mohanpur village in Sirajganj after his enforced disappearance.  In a statement, Alamgir…

Amid criticisms by the BNP-led alliance that the government is hanging onto power through using arms, Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Saturday said that the present government is in power with people’s support, not using arms. “The Awami League government…

Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury returned home on Saturday afternoon after a four-day visit to India. The Speaker made the visit at the invitation of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. She leavesDhaka for Tehran on Monday to attend the conference…

Jessore – Seven primary school students were killed and 40 others injured as a bus carrying picnickers plunged into a pond at Jhautala in Chaugachha upazila on Jessore-Meherpur Highway on Saturday night. Officer-in-charge of Chaugachha Police Station Motiur Rahman said…