Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday called upon the people to put up a resistance against ‘militancy, terrorism and bomb exploders’, and said that her government would do everything to protect their life and property. “I would like to tell…
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Khaleda urge people, party workers come to street
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday urged the people as well as party leaders and activists to take to the streets simultaneously to make the ongoing movement a success. General secretary of Dhaka city unit of Mohila Dal Farida Yasmin disclosed…
Continue peaceful movement, Khaleda tells party workers
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon her party leaders and activists to go ahead with peaceful movement until the realisation of demand for an inclusive election under non-partisan government. This was communicated by BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul…
AL prepares for rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday
The ruling Awami League is scheduled to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday to observe the Homecoming Day of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from captivity in Pakistan. The ruling party is going to hold the rally desperate police…
Confinement protest: 20-party, JCD call hartal in 15 districts
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP will enforce hartal in 14 districts in Dhaka Division excluding the capital protesting the confinement of party chairperson Khaleda Zia and demanding the release of top opposition leaders including acting secretary general…
Khaleda office barricaded again. Press for polls: Bnp
As movement to and from Khaleda’s Gulshan party office has virtually been stopped on Sunday putting up fresh truck barricades, Bnp’s joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi asked business leaders to press for inclusive polls to restore peace in the…
People will stop them if terrorist activities don’t end: Hanif
Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Saturday said a movement cannot be carried out by carrying out sniper attacks and strongly criticised the BNP for its ongoing countrywide transport blockade. “Sniper attacks only create panic in public minds……
Khaleda spends a week at her besieged party office
It has been a week since BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been confined to her office in Gulshan, Dhaka. Khaleda found herself stuck in the office after announcing an agitation plan to mark the first anniversary of the last general…
Hasina, Khaleda urged to resolve standoff thru talks
Shushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan), a rights body, on Saturday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to engage in dialogue to beak the present political standoff over a fresh national election. “The initiative has to come first…
Stay alert against ‘govt’s subversive acts’: BNP
Voicing apprehension that the government might carry out ‘subversive’ acts over the 20-party’s ongoing non-stop blockade programme, BNP on Saturday asked its leaders and activists to remain alert about it. “This regime is carrying out acts of sabotage at different…
Blockade to restore right to vote, freedom of expression: Rizvi
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed yesterday called upon the people and leaders and activists of the 20-party alliance to make the blockade of road, rail and waterways a success applying their all forces and with courage. “The…
Killing people not movement but terrorist, militant acts: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Thursday it was BNP’s own decision not to participate in the last general election and they did it out of sympathy for Jamaat as it could not contest the polls for losing its registration…
Khaleda’s office gate locked up again. Shamsher Mubin held
Hours after opening the lock, law enforcers on Thursday night again locked up the main gate of BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office where Khaleda Zia has remained confined for six days with huge law enforcers deployed around it. Witnesses said police…
Blockade to continue till victory: Khaleda
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on late Wednesday night urged all to continue the countrywide nonstop blockade till victory. She said this when a 5-member team of professionals including former Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University and Journalist Union president Shaukat Mahmud…
B Chy again barred from seeing Khaleda, calls for dialogue
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh Prof Dr Badruddoza Chowdhury yesterday called upon the government to hold dialogue with the all opposition parties to resolve the current political impasse. He made the call at a press statement issued on Thursday while…
Indian BJP chief Amit Shah enquires about Khaleda’s health
President of Bharatiya Janata Party Amit Shah has enquired the health condition of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia over telephone. Briefing reporters BNP chairperson’s press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan Sohel yesterday said Amit Shah made a telephone call to Khaleda Zia…
Continue blockade – Khaleda: Police unlocks main gate
Accusing the government of trying to confuse people by carrying out a false campaign that the 20-party’s blockade programme is going to be postponed, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has called upon all to continue it without any pause. “Besieged Khaleda…
3 killed in Noakhali, Siirajganj, 7 vihicles torched in capital
Three people were killed and 27 vehicles were either torched or damaged across the country on Wednesday, the second day of the countrywide indefinite transport blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance. The killings were reported from in Noakhali and…
Pepper spray was design to kill Khaleda, alleges Rizvi
BNP joint secretary general Rizvi Ahmed yesterday said the 20-party’s countrywide non-stop blockade would continue until they take a fresh decision in this regard. “The blockade programme will continue until further announcement,” Rizvi said while talking to some journalists at…
Transport blockade to continue untill further decision: Rizvi
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Wednesday said the countrywide transport blockade will continue until their 20-party alliance takes a fresh decision in this regard. The BNP leader came up with the announcement at a press briefing at…
Rizvi secretly leaves Hospital, briefs press from Gulshan
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, who was picked up by plainclothes police and then admitted to Apollo Hospital in the city on Saturday, is learnt to have left the hospital without informing the hospital authorities early Wednesday. By…
Awami League claims, people reject BNP’s blockade program
Joint General Secretary of the ruling Awami League Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Tuesday claimed that people of the country have rejected BNP’s ‘destructive indefinite siege programme’. “People have rejected Begum Khaleda Zia’s siege programme of terrorising them and politics of vengeance.…
Khaleda indisposed for pepper spray urges all to be vocal
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has still remain confined at her political office at Gulshan since Saturday with he entrance of the House locked by police from outside. Her physician told journalists Khaleda is repeatedly having breathing problems and skin rash…
Before arrest Mirza Fakhrul urged all to join movement
Police arrested Bnp Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as he came out of the National Press Club ending his little over 24-hour stay to avoid arrest. The managing committee of the club was under pressure from the pro-AL…
24-hour drama at National Press Club ends with Fakhrul’s arrest
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhru Islam Alamgir, who took shelter there to evade arrest, talked to the media before leaving Tuesday Amid mounting pressure from AL and pro-AL journalist union leaders on its management committee. He was arrested at…
N’ganj Bnp president Taimur, 10 others hurt in police action
At least 10 BNP leaders and activists, including its district unit president Taimur Alam Khandaker, were injured in a clash with police on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said local leaders and activists of BNP, led by Advocate Taimur Alam Khandaker, brought…
PM’s media adviser against using JPC in pol programs
Prime Minister’s Media Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury today called for not using the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) as the centre of any political party’s programmes. He made the call at a press conference at JPC this evening.
AL to resist blockade, businesses want talks, program withdrawn
Awami League activists will remain on streets all over the country to face the blockade programme called by the BNP and its allies, communication minister Obaidul Quader said on Monday night. He said that the workers and leaders of the…
PM addresses nation, urges BNP chief to look for party’s future
Terming BNP’s boycott of the general election of 2014 as a wrong political decision, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the BNP leader herself responsible for it, none should be blamed. “BNP is out of Jatiya Sangsad because of the…
Countrywide clashes: 4 opposition men killed, 200 injured
Two pro-BNP sctovists were killed – two in Natore and one each in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj in clashes with Awami League activists and police on Monday Throughout the day, clashes, and detention of opposition activists continued across the country including…