The BNP-led 20-party alliance yesterday extended the ongoing 72-hour countrywide hartal by another 48-hour protesting the killing of opposition activists in the name of “cross fire”, mass arrest, interference in the judiciary, repression on journalists, controlling media and demanding restoration…
Leaders and activists of Sramik League on Monday warned that they will take position inside the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office if she does not call off the ongoing transport blockade and hartal. They issued the warning after staging…
Calling upon the Prime Minister to quit forthwith, BNP on Monday warned that the government’s dream of perpetuating its power by force will get shattered soon in the face of the ongoing mass movement. In a statement, BNP joint secretary…
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court today rejected both the bail and the remand petitions on BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in two cases and asked the investigation officers (IOs) for quizzing him at the jail gate. Dhaka Metropolitan…
Terming those who are burning people to death as enemies of the country, people and humanity, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged all to put up strong resistance against such terrorists. “I feel extreme pain when I see that the…
Nagorik Samaj, a platform of the civil society, on Monday urged President Abdul Hamid, the guardian of the republic, to take an initiative for a dialogue to overcome the current political impasse and violent situation. Letters signed by former Chief…
The ongoing political impasse can be resolved in a day if the government agrees to sit in a dialogue with the opposition alliance, said BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka on Sunday, according to sources available. Speaking at a view exchange…
The BNP has drawn attention of different embassies and international human rights agencies in Dhaka to extrajudicial killings by law enforcers urging them to investigate the incidents on the spots, according to BNP sources. A member of the BNP chairperson’s…
The government is waiting for court orders to arrest Khaleda Zia even though the BNP chief has been charged with instigating violence and acts of sabotages amid a violent transport blockade. State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told…
Miscreants hurled three petrol bombs at the Dhaka-bound ‘Maitree Express’ train at Ishwardi Railway Station in Pabna on Sunday, the first day of the fresh 72-hour hartal enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside a non-stop blockade programme.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bnp) on Sunday urged the business community leaders to suggest that government should resign immediately to create a stable political situation in the country. “The ongoing political stalemate and tension were created due to wrong political…
Police Sunday held five government officials on charges of distributing anti-government leaflets at the Bangladesh secretariat, Dhaka.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday called upon BNP to return to democratic process saying the party can go to power only under a democratic process, not over the bodies of innocent people, violence or making the students hostages. She said…
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of BNP, on Saturday called an indefinite strike at Dhaka University from Sunday co-existence of the activists of all political parties on the campus and demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor AAMS Arifin…
An outlawed party activist was killed and another injured in an explosion allegedly while they were making bombs in Ataikula upazila of Pabna district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Mongal Pramanik, 38, son of Malik Pramanik of Dharmagram…
A writ petition was filed to the High Court on Thursday challenging the validity of the lower court order that had placed BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on a five-day remand for the third time in a…
SSC examinees of some city schools, their guardians and teachers yesterday formed a human chain programme in front of BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office demanding the withdrawal of ongoing blockade and hartal programme to help them sit for examinations without any…
Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Tuesday said BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman has been pulling the strings from abroad over the current violence as Khaleda Zia has lost control on her party leadership. “Khaleda has no longer any control…
BNP-led 20-party alliance on Tuesday further extended the ongoing 72-hour countrywide hartal for another 36-hour ending 6:00pm on Thursday in protest against carrying out homicide by joint forces without accepting its demand, resorting to killing, enforced disappearance, attacks and filling…
A Dhaka court has ordered five days in police custody for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Mosaddek Ali Falu. The former MP was produced before the court of Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque on Monday. Police pleaded with the court…
BNP on Monday warned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that she will be put on trial very soon for the ‘vicious mass killings’ being carried by joint forces across the country. The party also threatened that Sheikh Hasina will be made…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday directed all Awami League lawmakers to create a public opinion against the destructive politics of the BNP-Jamaat alliance. She gave the directives while presiding over a meeting of the Awami League Parliamentary Party (ALPP)…
Bangabir Kader Siddiqui who along with leaders of his Krishak Sramik Janata League are staging sit-in near his party office in Motijheel in the capital on Sunday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to sit in the negtiating table to resolve…
The first day of the 72-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its ongoing nonstop transport blockade demanding restoration democracy and people’s voting right, passed off amid stray incidents of violence on Sunday. The shutdown programme that…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday day reiterated her call to BNP-Jammat to refrain from blasting bombs and burning people or else be burnt in the fire of the people’s wrath. “We are trying our best to restore peace in…
Bnp joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi who was arrested from a Baridhara house on Friday night has been placed on three-day remand in a case of arson and setting fire. The remand was granted by the Additional Chief Metropolitan…
Mosaddaq Ali Falu, adviser to Bnp chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and chairman of Ntv television channel was picked up from in front of Khaleda’s Gulshan office at about 8 pm on Sunday. Different news agencies creeded the news quoting the…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday threatened to continue non-stop hartal and blockade programme, if all communication systems including internet, telephone and cable networks are not restored in BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office immediately. “The not-stop hartal and blockade programmes…
An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was seriously injured as a leader of the organisation beat him up with hammer at Dhaka University (DU) on Saturday night. The injured was identified as Sohag Miah, a 3rd year student of…
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi who was arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion has been handed over the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. The joint secretary general of the Bnp Rizvi had been issuing press release and making statements on the…