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BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Wednesday said the government’s billboard display over its successes actually marks the last bell of the Awami League-led grand alliance regime.   

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members recovered a pair of blood-stained pants from the office of the son of influential MP Nasim Osman in the city on Wednesday.   

Rights activists here on Wednesday demanded the government ensure punishment of those involved in the recent arson attacks by ‘Bangalee settlers’ on the villages of ethnic minority people in Matiranga upazila of Khagrachhari.   

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the government will complete the construction of Rooppur Nuclear Power plant in due time.   

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said the government has no intention to bring changes in the ownership structure or management style of Grameen Bank. 

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday deferred its countrywide 48-hour hartal by one day to August 13-14. Earlier, the Islamist party had announced to enforce the hartal on August 12-13.

A 40-km tailback was created on the busy Dhaka-Chittagong Highway on Tuesday following a road crash in Daudkandi upazila, causing sufferings to thousands of homebound people ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Opposition BNP on Tuesday alleged that the government is trying to confuse people with their billboard campaign with ‘false’ information.   

BNP Chairperson and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Khaleda Zia returned home on Tuesday ending her 10-day visit to Saudi Arabia for performing Umrah.

Police arrested three more people on Tuesday in connection with a case filed for torching 50 houses of indigenous families in Matiranga upazila on Saturday. 

Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury on Tuesday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has not established any Hawa Bhaban, rather she gave the poor their rights.

The Election Commission will announce the schedule for by-elections to Barguna-2 constituency immediately after the Eid-ul-Fitr vacation.   

Dhaka’s billboards are now under the shadow of ruling Awami League’s numerous campaign posters announcing the present government’s many achievements.

BNP standing committee member MK Anwar on Monday urged the government to sit in a dialogue to reach an amiable solution to the ongoing political crisis before the time runs out.

Police on Monday arrested three local leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami from different places in Harinakundu upazila in connection with the murder of a police constable.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Monday said the final report of the Grameen Bank Commission on the future structure and course of the bank is unlikely to be submitted before the Eid-ul-Fitr.   

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Khaleda Zia on Monday greeted each other by swapping cards on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.

The Supreme Court has thrown out a plea to freeze the High Court’s verdict that declared as illegal and void Jamaat-e-Islami’s registration as a political party.

The High Court has summoned Jamaat-e-Islami Acting Secretary General Rafiqul Islam Khan and Central Publicity Department chief Mohammad Ibrahim, asking them to explain why calling strikes against its verdict that cancelled the party’s registration with the Election Commission should not…

Four leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), including its suspended central leader Saiful Alam Limon, were released on bail on Sunday in a double-murder case.  

Border Security Force (BSF) along the Bangladesh border in Tripura has been put on high alert after a group of around 500 villagers had tried to sneak into India.

Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy says he has received a tweet that wishes death for his mother, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina much like her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said the government won’t change their mentality anymore as they have already taken decision.

BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Sunday rejected the Prime Minister’s remark that the opposition’s destructive programmes were responsible for declining the passage per cent of this Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations.

President of Bikalpadhara Bangladesh Prof Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Sunday alleged that the recent statement of the Election Commission proved that it has been politicised.

Former MP KM Hemayet Ullah Auranga who was killed along with four others in a road accident on Saturday was buried at the Intellectuals’ graveyard in Dhaka city on Sunday. Five people, including former MP KM Hemayet Ullah Auranga, were…

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam on Saturday said the ruling party will not be able to resist its debacle with its ‘new commander’ as he has no link with the country and its people.   

Awami League general secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Saturday said the government has no plan to ban the Islamist party.   

BNP standing committee member barrister Moudud Ahmed on Saturday said the High Court verdict declaring Jamaat’s registration illegal will not cast any negative impact on the unity of the 18-party alliance.   

Citizens groups, workers organisations at a programme here on Saturday expressed dissatisfaction over the lack of information on the dead and the survivors of the Rana Plaza collapse.