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Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) picked up Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad from his Baridhara residence on Thursday night.

Condemned Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah was learnt to have urged the activists of, what he called, Islamic movement to show restraint and not to involve in destructive activities out of vengeance.

Dhaka – A delegation of Jatiya Party (Ershad) led by Begum Raushan Ershad arrived at Ganobhaban this (Thursday) evening to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Accusing BNP-Jamaat of conspiring to foil the January-5 polls, Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Thursday said it is not possible to resist the election through terrorist activities.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad’s application for withdrawing his candidature has been rejected in one constituency. The Returning Officer cancelled the withdrawal notice from the Dhaka-17 constituency because of an error in the entered date.

Activists of BNP and Islami Chhatra Shibir allegedly severed a hand tendon of a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist in Chhatari area of Bagha upazila on Wednesday evening.

A BNP activist in Khulna has died of heart attack while marching in a procession taken out in support of the Opposition-backed transport blockade. Helal, 47, died around 10.30am on Tuesday, police said.

Dhaka – Condemning the government’s decision to execute condemned prisoner and its leader Abdul Quader Mollah, Bangladesh Jamaat-e Islami on Tuesday said Awami League will ensure its political death if it kills their party leader.

BNP has sought police permission to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan to commemorate the Victory Day.

After her meeting with visiting UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernández Taranco, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday evening sat in an emergency meeting with her party’s senior leaders.

War crimes convict Abdul Quader Molla’s family has claimed witness Momena Begum whose testimony got the Jamaat-e-Islami leader the gallows is ‘fake’. Molla’s wife Sanowar Jahan made the claim on Monday at a media conference, a day after a tribunal…

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday called another countrywide daylong hartal for Tuesday protesting what it said the government’s conspiracy to kill its leader Abdul Quader Mollah for political purpose.

Dhaka – BNP standing committee member RA Gani on Sunday warned that the government will be held responsible for any unwarranted situation in the country due to its rejection of the opposition’s demand for arranging the polls under a non-party…

A Dhaka court on Sunday sent BNP Vice-Chairman and Dhaka City BNP convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka to jail after a two-day remand in a case filed with Shahbagh Police Station of the city in connection with an arson attack on…

Dhaka – Awami League MPs Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Mirza Azam and 15 other people have been acquitted of charges of the arson attack on a bus in the capital in 2004 that killed 11 people.

State Minister for Law Quamrul Islam on Saturday said it will not be possible to foil the ongoing trial of the 1971 war criminals by giving the evil eye.   Addressing an international conference titled ‘Global Impact of War Crimes Justice…

Police have arrested two functionaries of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal for their alleged involvement in the recent Shahbagh arson attack. President of Chhatra Dal’s ward number 70 unit in Dhaka, Uzzal Hossain, 26, and another activist Sohel Chan, 28, were…

Two launches were set on fire at the Mawa ferry landing station on Saturday, the first day of the third Opposition backed 72-hr transport blockade. Meanwhile, a transport worker sleeping in a bus, was severely burnt when blockade campaigners torched…

An agreement with Opposition BNP will not be possible unless it dumps its ally Jamaat-e-Islami, State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam has said. He said this during a discussion at the National Press Club on Friday.

Police have arrested eight activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami in connection with the sabotage of rail tracks in Khulna. Police said they were planning to bomb a power office in Khulna.

Dhaka – Opposition BNP on Friday strongly protested and condemned the arrest of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) president Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Jewel and its another senior leader, saying it has exposed the government’s politics of vengeance.

Opposition activists have clashed with police in Chittagong and vandalised a local Awami League office. Witnesses said blockade campaigners took out a procession from Chittagong’s City Gate area and marched towards the AK Khan area on Thursday. They hurled a…

A Dhaka court on Thursday placed BNP Vice-President Sadeque Hossain Khoka on a two-day remand in a case filed with Shahbagh Police Station of the city in connection with an arson attack on a bus at Shahbah on November 28.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said the government will be responsible for the rise of any ‘undemocratic force or Jamaatees’ in the event of elections not being held.

A senior BNP leader has claimed that people are endorsing the Opposition-backed agitation ignoring their hardships and troubles.

The full text of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court judgment pronouncing capital punishment to Abdul Quader Mollah of Jamaat-e-Islami for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War is likely to be officially released on Thursday.

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has called an emergency meeting of the party’s top brass in the backdrop of the Opposition’s blockade across Bangladesh.

The government is ‘plotting’ to clamp a state of emergency, BNP leader Abdullah Al Noman has claimed. He also held the government responsible for the violence during the Opposition’s blockade across Bangladesh.The BNP Vice-Chairman’s remarks came at a rally in…

Awami League’s General Secretary Syed Asharful Islam’s motorcade has been attacked at Tongi in Gazipur, police said.

The BNP-led 18-party alliance enforced a non-stop hartal in Comilla-9 constituency (Laksam and Monaharganj upazilas) on Monday demanding that two opposition leaders allegedly picked up law enforcers be traced and released.