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As three key positions of Parliament have gone to women, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged opposition leader Khaleda Zia to come to Parliament just once to join a photo session with the new Speaker, the Leader of the House and Leader…

Bangladesh Ulema-Mashayekh Oikya Jote on Thursday urged the government to impose a ban on Hefajat’s all programmes, including its May 5 Dhaka siege, as it what they said wants to create anarchy in the country through the programmes.

In the wake of controversy over the alleged involvement of Sohel Rana, now in custody, in the associate body of the ruling party, Jubo League on Monday dissolved its Savar thana and municipality units.

Three people were killed and 20 others injured in a clash between activists of Awami League and Jamaat-e-Islam in Khonchpara under Shibganj Upazila of the district on Sunday afternoon.

Vilifying Home Minister MK Alamgir as a ghost of Pakistan generals Yahia Khan, Tikka Khan, BNP vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka on Saturday said he needs to be crushed on the streets for his misdeeds and mindless remarks.

The killing of a teenage boy in Chapainawabganj and stray incidents of violence marked the second day of the BNP-led 18-party alliance’s countrywide hartal, which was withdrawn two and a half hours before it was supposed to end.

The 18-party opposition alliance has called off its general strike in Dhaka to facilitate rescue work in Savar where a multi-storied building collapsed on Wednesday morning.

Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Tuesday said a dialogue might be held to overcome the ongoing political crisis after the release of detained top leaders of BNP by following the due legal process. 

Eight vehicles were torched in separate incidents in the city on Monday, ahead of the BNP-led 18-party alliance’s 36-hour shutdown. 

BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia alleged the government is using police and court to destroy opposition BNP. 

Hitting out at the opposition for its threat to unleash violence across the country like Fatikchhari incident, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon the country’s people to stand against the terrorist activities by ‘BNP-Jamaat’.

Pro-liberation civil society platforms on Saturday said they will call upon the people for casting ‘no vote’ in the oncoming national election instead of supporting the ruling Awami League, if the pro-liberation party goes against the secular spirit of 1971…

State Minister for Home Affairs Shamsul Hoque Tuku on Friday alleged that BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, led by leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia, are unleashing destructive activities across the country in the name of Islam.

Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on Tuesday said the achievements of the government in human rights areas have been overshadowed by the mindless violence and atrocities carried out by Jamaat-Shibir men and their alliances in the last few months.

Adviser to BNP Chairperson Shusuzzaman Dudu on Sunday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina failed to provide security to common people and she should quit.

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni alleged that Jamaat-Shibir conducted “barbaric violence” in the country as opposition BNP incited them in the last four years.

Hefajat-e-Islam on Saturday held its divisional grand rally in the City Point here to drum up support in favour of its 13-point demand including punishment to ‘atheist bloggers’.

English Medium School Students-Guardians Forum on Thursday urged the political parties not to enforce any agitation programme like hartal, blockade and long march during the upcoming O-level and A-level examinations beginning on May 7 under the Cambridge and Edexcel syllabuses.

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Wednesday said the next general election will be a critical threshold for Bangladesh’s journey onwards.

After three consecutive days’ nationwide hartal from Monday, the country goes into the grip of another shutdown as Islami Chhatra Shibir, the associate body of Jamaat-e-Islami, is set to enforce a countrywide daylong general strike on Thursday.

Dissatisfied over sending top opposition leaders to jail turning down their bail petitions, BNP joint secretary general Salauddin Ahmed on Sunday said the country is now facing judicial terrorism.

Chhatra Shibir, the student organisation backed by Jamaat-e-Islami, called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday protesting torture of its president and demanding release of him.

DHAKA: Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh (HIB) on Sunday apologised for the attacks on media people particularly on Nadia Sharmin, crime reporter of Ekushey Television (ETV) and cameraman of Diganta Television during its Saturday’s long march.

The party announced the shutdown in protest after the courts sent to jail ten top BNP leaders, including its Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Moudud Ahmed.

DHAKA: The main opposition BNP and ruling ally Jatiya Party on Saturday expressed their solidarity with the long march of Hefazat-e-Islam.

Chhatra Shibir called dawn-to-dusk hartal for Sunday in Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj and Natore districts demanding release of their detained leaders and activists.

Tensions escalated as a clash broke out between the activists of Hefajat-e-Islam and Shahbagh youths near Matsya Bhaban here on Saturday afternoon, leaving a pedestrian injured.