Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) on Sunday staged demonstrations protesting the government’s move to increase the power tariff and award tender of the offshore gas blocks to the US and Indian companies. The party brought out a procession and held a…
Manikganj – Two local leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have been sued on charge of abducting a college girl in the district town on Saturday. The accused are Sabbirul Islam alias Sony, organising secretary of BCL district unit, and…
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Sunday called upon the people to work together against communal evil forces to build the country imbued with the spirit of war of liberation. Addressing the Atish Dipankar and Bishudhananda Peace Award giving ceremony…
Former state minister for water resources Mahbubur Rahman on Sunday termed his interrogation at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) as a positive step. He made the comment while talking to some reporters after emerging from the ACC headquarters at Segunbagicha in…
The victory of the 19-Party alliance-backed candidates in the first phase of Upazila Parishad elections has shown that people are losing faith in the government, a senior BNP leader has claimed. At a discussion held at the press club on…
The BNP has alleged officials in the Prime Minister’s Office are trying to influence Upazila polls in Rangpur’s Pirganj. Pirganj is the home of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s in-laws. “Polls will be held in Pirgang Upazila on Monday. A relative…
Jessore – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) rescued local Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Foysal Khan from Boro Baliadangi on the Jessore-Magura Highway early Friday after 23 days of his alleged abduction from the capital. Son of Sarwar Khan…
Expelled Jatiya Party leader Kazi Zafar Ahmed has urged Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad, also Special Envoy of the Prime Minister, to retire from politics conceding his ‘failure’. “He is now near about 90. I would tell him ‘Mr Ershad, it’s…
Jatiya Party secretary general ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader on Friday emphasised the need for holding a fresh parliamentary election based on consensus. “Another national election is needed based on consensus so that all political parties can take part in it,”…
Police have arrested an Islami Chhatra Shibir activist, accused in four cases including one of arson at a polling centre in Jessore, Monirampur. Bhulu Hossain, 28, was caught with a firearm and few rounds of bullets at Joypur village of…
Miscreants vandalised and looted some 13 houses belonging to BNP men at Mamunshia village in Sadar upazila on Thursday, apparently in post-poll violence. Witnesses said the miscreants attacked the houses of BNP activists Abu Taleb Member, Araj Ali, Shawkat Hossain,…
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Thursday said that BNP is taking part in the ongoing upazila elections accepting its political defeat. “BNP joining the ongoing upazila polls accepting its political defeat. This has proved that it’s possible to hold…
Benapole – The ruling Awami League has expelled its three local leaders for contesting the upazila polls in Sharsha, Jhikargachha and Bagharpara of Jessore district going against the party decision and also seven other leaders for supporting them. Party sources…
Accusing the government of trying to manipulate the upazila polls, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said no fair election is possible under the current regime. “Today’s upazila elections have once again proved that elections won’t…
Police fired two rounds of blank gunshots to prevent proxy voting at a polling centre at Abhoynagar Upazila of Jessore district during the Upazila Parishad elections on Wednesday. The incident took place at Rajghat Jafarpur Girls’ Secondary School polling centre…
BNP vice chairmen Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Major (Retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed have been released from prisons on Wednesday. Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who is also former Dhaka city mayor, was released from Dhaka Central Jail in the afternoon as he…
Khaleda Zia has welcomed new members into the BNP before calling on them to stand up together against ‘abduction, murder and torture’ by the government. Lakshmipur Jatiya Party Secretary General Mahmudur Rahman along with some 50 members joined the BNP…
Dhaka – BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia visited ailing Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday night. BDB secretary general Major (retd) Abdul Mannan and joint secretary general Mahi B Chowdhury received Khaleda as she reached B…
Law Minister Anisul Haq on Tuesday said the government favours dialogue with the political parties to boost the democratic process . The possibility of a dialogue will increase after the on-going upazila polls, the minister told the Canadian High Commissioner…
Khagrachhari – A mobile court here on Monday sentenced two BNP men to 17 days’ imprisonment each for distributing some leaflets with offensive remarks against a vice- chairman candidate in Manikchhari upazila election. The convicts were identified as Shahidul Islam…
A court here on Monday sent six Jubo League men to jail in a case filed in connection with the killing of their fellowman Humayun Kabir Murad. Metropolitan Magistrate Ahmed Sayeed passed the order when they surrendered before his court…
Dhaka – Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Monday described as a great achievement Bangladesh’s coming out of the gray list of Terrorism Financing of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). “This has been a great achievement for Bangladesh to come…
Dhaka – BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said that the consequences of Baksal have been erased from the memory of the Awami League. “It might be that it has been erased from the memory of…
A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred hearing on framing charge in two graft cases filed against BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia and others in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases. Judge-in-Charge Md Rezaul Islam of the…
BNP Vice-Chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka has got bail in three cases including one for instigating violence before the national election by ordering party activists to resist with machetes and axes any effort to stall their movement. The bench of Justices…
Prime Minister’s International Affairs adviser Gowher Rizvi has reminded foreign diplomats of a contradiction — the call to hold fresh elections soonest possible creates the “very instability” that the Jan 5 elections put an end to. Rizvi said the government…
Ruling party lawmakers have termed the audio message of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri as a new conspiracy against the independence and sovereignty of the country. Addressing the House on point of order on Sunday, they said the message of…
Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir have no relation with al-Qaeda, the Islamist party said Sunday. Its assertion comes after al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri reportedly called for jihad in Bangladesh to resist ‘anti-Islam forces’ in an audio message…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday sought cooperation and support from the people of country, including the sports-loving ones, in successfully hosting the ensuing ICC World Twenty20 to be held in Bangladesh from March 16 to April 6…
Rangpur – The bodies of two local leaders of Jamaat–e-Islami and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir in Pirgachha upazila were exhumed from their respective family graveyards for postmortems on Saturday, 40 days after their burial.