BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia termed the disconnecting of power supply to her Gulshan office as ‘despicable cruelty’ and violation of human and citizen’s rights. The BNP chief made the remarks on Saturday afternoon while speaking to her party functionaries, who…
BNP’s executive committee member Khaleda Yasmin and six women lawyers of the Jatoyatabadi Ainjibi Forum were arrested by police from in front of the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday evening as they came out after supplying candles as power…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday that the Bnp-led 20-party combine has turned into a ‘poisonous abscess’ for the nation, she said and urged the people to forge unity being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation…
Electricity, cable television and internet connections to Bnp chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s party office in the Gulshan Model Town of Dhaka city were snapped Saturday, in an apparent move to disrupt her communication links and also to make her continued…
At least four people, including a former constable, suffered burn injuries in a petrol bomb attack on a bus in the city’s Khilgaon area on Friday night, the 25th day of the non-stop countrywide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party…
Eminent jurist and president of Gano Forum Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said they were trying to resolve the current political impasse unitedly. “We are trying to resolve the crisis together. We have Manna bhai (convenor of Nagorik Oikya) and many…
BNP-led 20-party alliance yesterday called a 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday protesting the threats by leaders of ruling Awami League to blow up BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s office, call to arrest her and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s directives to police…
Convener of Nagorik Oilya Mahmudur Rahman said on Thursday that the government should take the initiative for dialogue to end the present political stalemate because its actions are to blame for the deterioration of the situation of the situation to…
Eight hawkers, including two siblings, suffered splinter injuries as pickets blasted two crude bombs near the city’s New Market on Thursday, the 24th day of the countrywide indefinite transport blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance. The injured people were…
President Abdul Hamid on Thursday urged the law enforcement agencies to take stern legal actions against those killing people by hurling petrol bombs and torching vehicles as they are the enemies of democracy. “You know the people of Bangladesh are…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party has said the statement of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to take all responsibility of law enforcing agencies to do whatever needed to ‘curb movement’ would complicate the present political situation further. “The statement of the Prime Minister…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked police to take stern action to stop violence during the ongoing BNP-sponsored transport blockade across Bangladesh. She told top police officials at a meeting in her office on Tuesday to control the ongoing violence…
Bnp’s joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Wednesday alleged that opposition young leaders and workers now in movement were being snatched from mothrs’ laps killed by law enforcing agencies spreading manufactured stories of gunfight in the country. He said…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the people irrespective of their political belief and opinion to extend their support to the law enforcing agencies to nab criminals and restore peace and stability in the society in the interest of country’s development.…
The application seeking for the burial of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of late President Ziaur Rahman, also a former army chief, and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, at Banani Army Graveyard in the capital was turned down by the authorities…
The Nababganj City College unit Islami Chhatra Shibir president, Asadullah Tuhin, was killed as a truck ran over him at Lalapara in Sadar upazila early Tuesday while members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) along with him were reportedly carrying out…
BNP on Monday accused the heads of law enforcement agencies of giving free hand to their forces to use arms and ammunition “as if those have been procured with the ruling party’s money”. “The remarks of the chiefs of law…
BNP called a 24-hour hartal in eight districts of Rajshahi division for Wednesday protesting filing of case against its Chairperson Khaleda Zia and demanding release of their detained party leaders and activists.
Diplomats and ambassadors from different countries, politicians, businessmen and former national players on Monday visited BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office following her younger son’s death in Malaysia. Envoys from Sweden, Turkey, Spain, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, Kuwait, Oman, Nepal and…
Awami League leader Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday called upon the BNP chairperson, who heads the 20-party alliance, to withdraw their nationwide indefinite transport blockade programme, as a devastated mother who realises the pain and agony of the parents who…
Chairman of Jatiya Party (JP) and prime minister’s special envoy, Hussain Mohammad Ershad, has appealed to all political parties, registered with the Election Commission (EC), barring the Jamaat-e-Islami, to resolve the prevailing problems facing the country through a national convention.
“The power usurper government has set another brutal and inhuman example by filing a false case against Khaleda Zia when she is in deep shock following the death of her son. We strongly condemn and protest it,” BNP joint secretary…
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Sunday threatened to go on hunger strike together with people if the chiefs the two major parties do not sit in talks within a week. “The country’s economy is on…
Controversy over Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s inability to see Bnp chief Khaleda Zia to sympathise with her at the death of her son Arafat Rahman continued in table talks and telephone calls across the country on Sunday. People who participated…
Jatrabarhi Police Sub-Inspector KM Nuruzzman filed the case on Saturday afternoon, a case in which 18 BNP leaders including Khaleda Zia stand accused of ‘conspiring and instigating’ the bomb attack. This cames two days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had…
Bnp chairperson’s special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas on Saturday night urged all not to do politics over Sheikh Hasina’s return from Khaleda Zia’s Gushan office without meeting her as the Prime Minister had been there “without informing the party”.…
The government on Saturday termed ‘inhuman, discourteous and devoid of political etiquette’ the refusal of BNP to allow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to meet its chief Khaleda Zia. Addressing a crowed press briefing, PM’s Media Adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury said…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last evening went up to Bnp chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office gate but could not see and comfort her at the passing away of her youngest son Arafat Rahman. Khaleda’s special assistant Shimul Biswas told…
Taking a swipe at Amnesty International (AI) for its statement on Bangladesh’s ongoing political situation, Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Friday termed it a ‘BNP-paid organisation’ as it what he said speaks in BNP’s tone. “They’re criticising the government accusing…
Bnp joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Friday that the current illegal government will have its political funeral if it arrests Khaleda Zia as the agitators are active in the hartal and blockade programmes despite the so-called gunfight…