The BNP might someday decide on parting ways with the Jamaat-e-Islami, its Chairperson Khaleda Zia tells The New York Times. The influential American newspaper’s online version in a report published on Monday quoted her as making the suggestion. It said…
The European Union has urged all parties in Bangladesh to refrain from violence and engage in a “genuine dialogue” putting Bangladesh’s interest above everything else. Through dialogue it urged them to agree on “a mutually acceptable way forward to strengthen…
Speaker of the outgoing parliament Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Thursday declined to comment on ‘two parliaments’ now virtually exist in the country after the oath taking of new MPs, saying ‘it’s a legal matter’. The Speaker made the comment…
Dhaka – President Abdul Hamid on Thursday invited Awami League President Sheikh Hasina to form the next government as her party won absolute majority in the 10th parliamentary elections.
A Dhaka court on Thursday rejected the bail petitions of six top BNP leaders in three cases and also refused remand pleas of police and asked police to interrogate the opposition leaders at the jail gate within seven days. The…
The newly elected Members of Parliament (MPs) will take their oath at Parliament Bhaban on Thursday. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury will conduct the oath to the new MPs at oath taking room of Parliament at 10:00am, says a press…
The countrywide road, rail, waterways blockade will continue, says the BNP. In a statement on Wednesday, the party’s Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called upon people, ‘on behalf of Khaleda Zia’, to continue the ‘peaceful’ strike. The 18-Party…
Dhaka – Failure and frustration have marked the conversation between India and the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), particularly its chief Khaleda Zia, who is possibly one opposition politician of a neighbouring country every important Indian leader met in the past…
A court of Dhaka on Wednesday granted a two-day remand to quiz Bangladesh Bar Council Vice-Chairman Khandker Mahbub Hossain and BNP Organising Secretary Fazlul Haq Milon in a case against them on charges of crude bomb explosions in front of…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday framed charges against human rights activists, Odhikar Director ASM Nasiruddin Elan and its Secretary Adilur Rahman Khan in a case filed under Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. The two functionaries of the right’s group…
Dhaka – Voicing grave concern over the post-polls violence, chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Prof Mizanur Rahman on Wednesday urged the government to use its force, if required, to resist the evil forces to put an end…
Nearly two weeks after the virtual siege, the barricades in front of opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan residence have been removed and the additional law enforcers deployed there pulled out. No restriction on traffic in front of Khaleda’s house was…
Dhaka – The much-talked-about election was held on Sunday amid massive violence that left over 20 people dead. The BNP-led 18-party alliance on Tuesday extended its ongoing 48-hour nationwide hartal by 12 hours until 6pm Wednesday demanding the cancellation of…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday apprised President Abdul Hamid in a meeting that her government is firm to protect the lives and property of the country’s people and is taking necessary steps in this regard. Hasina asserted…
Dhaka – Amid the allegation of keeping her under house arrest, Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Heather Cruden met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night. The meeting was held at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan residence around 7:30pm.
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh Prof Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday urged the Prime Minister to cancel the 10th Parliament elections and sit across the table for holding the next general polls. “All countries of the globe except only…
Denouncing the post-polls violence against minorities by BNP-Jamaat, Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Tuesday urged the country’s progressive forces to remain alert and resist any communal violence by this identified evil force.
Dhaka – Opposition BNP on Tuesday held the ruling party ‘cadres’ responsible for the recent attacks and repression on minority communities and asked the 18-party men to prevent post-election violence against Hindus and other minority groups. “The ruling party men…
BNP Organising Secretary Fazlul Haque Milon and another leader, Nazimuddin Ahmed, have been arrested. The two were picked up from a house in Dhaka’s Baridhara around 3.30pm on Tuesday. An hour earlier, the police had arrested BNP Chairperson’s Advisor and…
Dhaka – Demanding immediate cancellation of Sunday’s ‘farcical‘ elections, opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Monday urged the government to quit and reach a compromise for holding a free, fair, peaceful and inclusive national election under a non-party neutral administration. In…
Dhaka – As expected, the international press has unanimously denounced Sunday’s election to the 10th Jatiya Sangshad in Bangladesh, with most propagating the fear that the polls marked by an opposition boycott and violence portends an uncertain period for the…
Sunday’s general elections held in 139 constituencies had a 40 percent turnout, according to the Election Commission. Polling in the halted those centres under eight constituencies will take place on Jan 16.
The first day of the fresh 48-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, demanding cancellation of the 10th parliamentary elections held on Sunday, passed off peacefully on Monday.
India on Monday said that elections in Bangladesh on Jan 5 were a constitutional requirement and democratic processes must be allowed to take their own course. “They (elections) are a part of the internal and constitutional process of Bangladesh. It…
Dhaka – BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, now in London, ruled out the possibility of further dialogue with Awami League branding the incoming government an ‘illegal’ one. “There’s been a farcical election already. The government that comes to power through…
Dhaka – Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Monday renewed her offer to BNP to have a dialogue for the next election in the country, but not for any early polls. “I’ll urge all, including the opposition leader, to come…
Dhaka – The ruling Awami League is heading towards absolute majority bagging 40 seats out of 147 in Sunday’s parliamentary elections that was marked by violent clashes in different parts of the country amid boycott by the opposition alliance.
The first day of the 48-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the 18-party alliance alongside its ongoing nonstop blockade programme demanding cancellation of the Jan-5 election, was marked by the killing of a BNP man and widespread arson attacks on polling…
The living cost in the capital witnessed a 11 percent rise in 2013 hitting hard the poorer section of the city’s over 1 crore population, according to an annual report released by the Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB).
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia to stop killing people during agitation. “You can wage anti-government agitation. But make sure people are not killed and children’s education are not hampered by your movement,” she said…