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City polls campaign goes at full throttle

FE REPORT 2020-01-18 10:24:38

Campaign in both Dhaka north and south city corporation elections is going on in full swing as potential local-body representatives have continued to seek vote. The aspirants, mainly those from the r...

EC working independently: Quader

-- 2020-01-16 14:21:13

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the government is not interfering with elections to the Dhaka south (DSCC) and north (DNCC) city corporations. “The Election Commissi...

Khokon made member of AL central committee

bdnews24.com 2020-01-12 20:49:10

The Awami League (AL) has inducted outgoing Dhaka South Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon into its central working committee as a member. Sheikh Hasina made the move with the powers vested upon her in the...

Allow MPs to join city polls electioneering: 14-party

UNB 2020-01-11 20:26:24

The Awami League-led 14-party alliance on Saturday demanded that the City Corporation (Election Code of Conduct) Rules 2016 be amended to pave the way for MPs to join electioneering for candidates in...

'Lawmakers can do all but campaigning in city polls'

-- 2020-01-11 17:02:38

Senior Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed has said lawmakers can extend all kinds of support to their party-backed candidates other than asking for votes during their campaigns for the Dhaka city corpor...

Oikyafront extends support to BNP mayoral candidates

UNB 2020-01-08 16:26:22

Jatiya Oikyafront on Wednesday extended its support to BNP’s two mayoral candidates in the upcoming elections to Dhaka north and south city corporations billed for January 30. The senior leader...

‘Election win not possible without waging movement’

-- 2020-01-05 20:35:36

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said those who failed to wage a movement will never be able to win any election, reports UNB. Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minis...

Hasan Mahmud describes BNP as main patron of dynastic politics

UNB 2020-01-05 17:25:53

Sharply reacting to BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s remarks over ‘dynastic politics’ in Awami League, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said BNP is the main...

PM urges BCL leaders to dignify their organisation

BSS 2020-01-04 20:43:42

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged leaders and activists of Chhatra League to dignify their organisation through gaining confidence and trust of the countrymen. Sheikh Hasina made the remarks whi...

PM removes “acting” tag from Nahean, Lekhak’s BCL posts

-- 2020-01-04 18:38:15

Awami League chief and Prime Mnister Sheikh Hasina has named Al-Nahean Khan Joy and Lekhak Bhattacharjee as the president and the general secretary of its student affiliate Bangladesh Chhatra League (...

Rules candidates must obey

-- 2020-01-04 18:25:41

The Election Commission (EC) has chalked out a series of plans to ensure that the city corporation polls are conducted in an orderly manner and has urged the candidates to abide by its electoral code...

BCL’s 72nd founding anniv being celebrated

-- 2020-01-04 11:23:27

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) is celebrating its 72nd founding anniversary today (Saturday). The ruling Awami League-affiliated student wing was founded by Bangladesh’s independence hero Bang...

Awami League pays tribute to Syed Ashraf

BSS 2020-01-03 18:25:58

The first death anniversary of Awami League's former general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam observed on Friday. Marking the day, Awami League paid homage to Syed Ashraf by placing wreaths on his grave...

People don’t want BNP in power, says Quader

-- 2020-01-02 14:03:50

Ruling Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said 90 per cent people of Bangladesh do not want BNP to run the country again. “The percentage will increase,” he to...

New platform ‘Ganotantra Uddhar Andolon’ introduced

-- 2019-12-30 22:26:22

‘Ganotantra Uddhar Andolon’, a new platform of other parties, was launched on Monday in the city with an objective to ‘restore democracy’ in the country. Nagorik Oikya Convene...

Police foil leftists’ black flag march

-- 2019-12-30 16:50:41

Police have foiled the Left Democratic Alliance’s 'black flag' march towards the Prime Minister’s Office demanding the government’s resignation and a re-election under a caretaker go...

BNP fails to find any 'miracle' in 2019

UNB 2019-12-29 17:30:26

BNP started 2019 with a bad note - a drubbing in the national election. Now Khaleda Zia’s party is going to step into the new year without showing any sign that it can make a turnaround anytime...

Govt won’t interfere in Dhaka city polls

-- 2019-12-28 20:00:51

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the upcoming elections to the two city corporations of Dhaka will be free, fair and acceptable. “The elections will be accept...

Khaleda’s release possible through judicial process only: Hasan

BSS 2019-12-28 19:26:19

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the release of detained BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is possible only through the judicial process. “Actually, they (BNP) are showing disrespect tow...

AL wants to fulfill election pledges: Obaidul Quader

BSS 2019-12-28 16:20:36

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the main challenge of the party is to institutionalise democracy and fulfill the pledges made during the polls. “Now the main challenge of...

Raushon made JaPa's chief patron, chairman GM Quader

-- 2019-12-28 15:15:22

Raushon Ershad and GM Quader have been elected respectively chief patron and chairman of the Jatiya Party (JaPa), the main opposition in parliament, at the party's ninth council for the next three yea...

Raushon Ershad to become 'chief patron' of Jatiya Party

-- 2019-12-27 19:02:17

The Jatiya Party is set to appoint Raushon Ershad to a newly-created post, chief patron, in the party's first council after the death of its founder HM Ershad. Raushon, currently the senior co-chairm...

HC questions Quader's leadership of Jatiya Party

-- 2019-12-24 18:07:53

The High Court (HC) has questioned the validity of GM Quader's position as chairman of Jatiya Party. The vacation bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Md Khairul Alam on Tuesday issued a rule aski...

BNP to hold protest rally across country on December 30

UNB 2019-12-23 16:17:21

BNP has decided to hold protest rally across the country, including in the capital, on December 30 to observe what it says ‘democracy-killing day’, marking the first anniversary of the 11t...

AL's new committee to fulfill expectations of countrymen

-- 2019-12-21 17:15:08

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, who was re-elected general secretary of ruling Awami League on Saturday, has said new committee of the ruling party will work to fulfill the expecta...

AL council frustrates nation, Fakhrul alleges

UNB 2019-12-21 17:14:05

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged that the nation has got frustrated over the 21st council of ruling Awami League as no direction came from it for the ‘restor...

AL set to elect new committee as council rolls into second day

-- 2019-12-21 10:19:58

Councillors of the ruling Awami League will gather at The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) on Saturday morning to elect the next committee of the party for three years. The second day of th...

PM describes Awami League as largest, strongest party

-- 2019-12-20 19:51:07

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has described Awami League as the largest and strongest political party of the country Sheikh Hasina, the president of Awami League, made the remarks while addressing the...

PM inaugurates Awami League’s national council

BSS 2019-12-20 17:34:13

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the 21st National Council of ruling Awami League at the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Sheikh Hasina, also the AL president, opened the two-da...

32 BCL central leaders lose posts

-- 2019-12-18 10:50:01

As many as 32 leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have lost their posts in the central committee over allegations such as marriage, infiltration and drugs abuse. Al-Nahean Khan Joy and Lekhak...