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Dhaka – Denied permission for its Monday’s scheduled rally at Suhrawardy Udyan, the BNP-led 19-party alliance has decided to stage demonstrations at every thana of the city on Tuesday.

Dhaka – Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists brought out a procession on the Dhaka University (DU) campus on Monday protesting the attack on Rajshahi University (RU) students by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men.

Chittagong – A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Swechhasebak Dal was hacked to death in South Khulshi area of the city early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Selim, 33, a member of Pahartali ward-13 unit of Swechhasebak Dal and son…

The government is playing ‘games’ with the Jatiya Party in the new Parliament formed through a ‘one-sided’ election, BNP spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said.

Jamaat-e-Islami, an ally of BNP-led 19-party alliance, has deferred its daylong countrywide hartal programme to Thursday protesting the verdict on the 10-truck arms haul case sentencing 14 persons, including the party’s Ameer Mualana Motiur Rahaman Nezami, to death.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, a major ally of BNP-led 19-party alliance, has called a dawn-to-dusk nationwide hartal on Monday protesting the 10-truck arms haul verdict that awarded death sentence to 14 persons including party’s Ameer Mualana Motiur Rahaman Nizami. Acting secretary general…

Police have detained 84 more people over their suspected involvement in the Islami Chhatra Shibir attack on the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). Jalalabad Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge Gausul Hossain said they had nabbed the suspects from areas near…

BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has reopened press briefing from BNP’s central office at Nayapaltan. On Friday the very first day of his release after being interned in jails for two months he said their movement was for…

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami’s conviction in the 10-truck arms haul cases is ‘politically motivated’, his party stated on Thurday. Nizami along with former minister Lutfozzaman Babar was awarded death sentence along with 12 others for smuggling arms into Chittagong…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s special aide Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas has been released from jail after getting bail in five cases. Dhaka Central Jail’s Superintendent Farman Ali said they had released him on Wednesday evening after receiving the bail documents.

A local leader of Jubo Dal was killed in a gunfight with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)  at Laskar Taluk in Sadar upazila on Thursday.   The deceased was identified as Golam Sarwar, 32, vice-president of Fazilpur union unit…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to meet the press very soon to brief about the ‘growing incidents of extrajudicial killing and human rights violation’.   “We’ll hold a press conference within a day or two to give you the detailed…

Newly elected Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and Deputy Speaker Advocate Fazle Rabbi Mia were sworn in this (Wednesday) evening.   President Abdul Hamid administered the oath separately at his Parliament building chamber at 6:38 pm.

Police recovered 12 crude bombs in the city’s Lalmatia area on Wednesday.   Sub-Inspector Komol Krishna Saha of Mohammadpur police station said local people noticed a shopping bag containing the crude bombs on the road in the area at noon and…

Satkhira – A local Jubo Dal leader was shot and wounded  in a clash between members of joint forces and BNP-Jamaat activists at Ramchandrapur in Sadar upazila on Wednesday.

A Dhaka court on Tuesday rejected the bail petition of Bar Council Vice-Chairman Khandaker Mahbub and the remand plea against him in a case filed with Ramna Police Station in his presence.

Opposition chief whip Tajul Islam Chowdhury on Tuesday said the Jatiya Party will truly play the role of opposition in the 10th parliament, scheduled to begin its journey on Wednesday, by strongly opposing any decision that will go against people’s…

Dhaka – The Election Commission (EC) has finalised the list of polling stations and polling booths for the first phase upazila polls slated for February 19. As per the lists, there are 6992 polling stations and 44225 polling booths in…

The Awami League Parliamentary Party (ALPP) sits on Tuesday evening to select the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the 10th Parliament.   Addressing a press briefing at the media center of Parliament, ruling party chief whip ASM Feroz said the…

The government has asked the authorities concerned to refrain from using the students of primary schools in queuing up on streets under hot sun for welcoming political leaders.   The Primary and Mass Education Ministry issued a circulation in this regard…

Extrajudicial killings are on an alarming rise after the Awami League assumed power through the ‘one-sided’ election, the BNP has alleged. The party urged the human-rights organisations at home and abroad to speak out against such killings. “Law enforcers, along…

Dhaka – Police in separate drives arrested three people along with two pistols, some bullets and one knife from  different places of Bogra and Rajbari districts on Sunday.

Chandpur – Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya on Friday said no dialogue can be held with BNP on polls for now as there will be no general election in the country before 2019.

ASM Feroz has been appointed as the Chief Whip in the 10th Parliament.The Patuakhali MP was a Whip in the 9th Parliament. Along with him, Sherpur MP Md Atiur Rahman Atik, Dinajpur MP Iqbalur Rahim, Maulvibazar MP Md Shahab Uddin,…

A court of Dhaka refused bail to BNP Standing Committee member ASM Hannan Shah in three cases filed on the charges of violence during the Hifazat-e-Islam rally at Motijheel hub on May 5, last year.

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Tuesday said BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s remark about the operation of joint forces in Satkhira has offended the country’s people as well as the law-enforcing agencies.

Dhaka – The High Court on Tuesday asked the government not to harass and arrest BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed without following the due process of law.

The BNP-led 18-party alliance and its component Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday called separate daylong hartals in Pabna and Bogra districts for Tuesday and Thursday respectively on separate grounds. In Pabna, district Jamaat will enforce the dawn-to-dusk hartal on Tuesday protesting…

HM Ershad is attending Jatiya Party’s programmes after a month-long absence. Secretary General ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader hopes that the “dark clouds hovering over the party will quickly go away”. Ershad had refused to take part in programmes and see journalists…

Narayanganj – Police in separate drives arrested 59 activists of BNP and its associated bodies from different areas of the district. Police said 14 BNP activists were arrested from different places in the district in an overnight drive from Sunday…