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Case filed against Fakhrul, Rizvi and Khasru

-- 2018-08-06 14:50:52

A case has been filed against BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and its standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Mond...

Miscreants attack at AL office: Obaidul Quader

-- 2018-08-04 20:30:35

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said some miscreants in guise of students attacked the Awami League president’s Dhanmondi political office. The road transport and bridges mini...

DU BCL expresses solidarity with agitating students

-- 2018-08-04 17:57:48

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders of Dhaka University unit have expressed solidarity with the students demanding safe road. They also distributed chocolates and sweets among the students at Sha...

Quader cautions agitating students about 'provocation trap'

-- 2018-08-03 21:35:40

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged the agitating students not to fall into any 'provocation trap'. "Having failed to cash in on the quota reform movement, BNP and fundamental for...

BNP supports students movement, demands govt's resignation

-- 2018-08-02 15:15:12

BNP has extended its support to the ongoing student movement and demanded government’s resignation for failure on all fronts, including restoration of discipline in the transport sector. The pa...

RCC polls: Three mayoral candidates lose security money

-- 2018-08-02 13:59:59

Three out of total five mayoral candidates in last Monday’s election to Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) have lost their security deposit. Syed Amirul Islam, Regional Election Officer and Return...

BCL gets new central committee

-- 2018-08-01 12:23:42

Bangladesh Chhatra league (BCL), students' wing of ruling Awami League, has got its new president and secretary. Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury Shovon and Golam Rabbani were respectively made president a...

BNP rejects Barishal, Rajshahi polls results

-- 2018-07-31 13:14:17

BNP on Tuesday turned down the election results of Barishal and Rajshahi city corporations and demanded re-election to the two cities. The party will stage demonstrations in all the towns and metropo...

BCC polls: BNP mayoral candidate quits

-- 2018-07-30 14:04:38

BNP mayoral candidate Mujibur Rahman Sarwar has boycotted the Barishal City Corporation (BCC) polls, bringing the allegation of widespread vote rigging and other irregularities. The candidate announc...

'BNP polling agents kicked out in Sylhet'

-- 2018-07-30 11:36:30

Sylhet BNP mayoral candidate Ariful Haque Chowdhury alleged that his agents have been kicked out from two polling centres. He came up with the allegation after visiting Chandu Shah Centre at around 9...

Quader rules out dialogue with political parties

-- 2018-07-29 18:42:03

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday ruled out any possibilities of holding dialogues with the political parties over the next general electi...

AL candidates to win 3 city polls: Joy

-- 2018-07-29 16:36:07

Prime Minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy hopes three Awami League mayoral candidates will get win in Barishal, Rajshahi and Sylhet city corporation elections. Joy made the expectation citing a s...

Khaleda seeks HC bail in Cumilla arson case

-- 2018-07-29 13:44:32

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has filed a bail petition with the High Court in the case filed under Special Power Act over the 2015 Cumilla arson attack. The petition was filed with the bench of justic...

Jatiya Party backs AL’s Kamran in Sylhet

-- 2018-07-28 15:42:20

Just two days before the balloting, Jatiya Party on Saturday extended its support for Awami League mayoral candidate Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran in Sylhet city election. The party came up with the annou...

BGB deployed in three cities ahead of city elections

-- 2018-07-28 12:24:54

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members have been deployed in Rajshahi, Barishal and Sylhet cities ahead of the city corporation elections. A total 19 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members...

Firearms, vehicular movement to be restricted during RCC election

-- 2018-07-27 15:53:43

Restriction has been imposed on carrying firearms including the licensed ones and traffic movement in Rajshahi for the forthcoming election of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) scheduled to be held on J...

Kader, Quader meet in person as election nears

-- 2018-07-27 11:50:43

Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique has met Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader with the general election months away. They held the meeting at the Secretariat for a...

New GCC mayor takes oath

-- 2018-07-26 12:51:17

Newly elected mayor of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Jahangir Alam took oath of office on Thursday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina administered the oath at a ceremony held at Shapla Hall of her office...

Voting in Kurigram-3 by-election begins

-- 2018-07-25 11:53:11

Voting in the by-polls to Kurigram-3 constituency began on Wednesday morning in a peaceful manner. The polling that started around 8 am will continue till 4 pm without any break, said returning offic...

Moudud demands Law, Home ministers to resign over Kushtia attack

-- 2018-07-24 18:09:12

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Law Minister Anisul Huq and Home Minister Asaduzzan Khan over the attack on Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman on Kushtia cou...

AL central committee to meet Monday

-- 2018-07-22 18:56:29

Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) sits in a meeting on Monday with AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The meeting will be held at 6pm at the Prime Minister's off...

Dreadful situation prevails in Rajshahi, Sylhet, Barishal: BNP

-- 2018-07-22 18:06:43

BNP on Sunday alleged that a dreadful situation has been created in Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barishal cities ahead of July 30 polls due to the 'wholesale' arrest of the polling agents of its mayoral candi...

Quader dismisses BNP’s election conditions

-- 2018-07-22 16:32:51

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has dismissed the conditions the BNP announced for its participation in the upcoming general election. Bangladesh will not agree to any provisions before...

Police arrest BNP leader over bombing on Bulbul rally

-- 2018-07-22 13:28:57

Police have arrested Rajshahi BNP General Secretary Motiur Rahman Montu in a case filed over the crude bomb attack on a rally of the party's mayoral candidate Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul. A joint team of...

BNP demands BB Governor’s resignation amid gold scam

-- 2018-07-21 15:59:34

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed demanded the resignation of Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Fazle Kabir for the sake of a fair investigation into the reported gold scam in the central bank's vault. "The...

EC plans to procure huge EVMs to ‘manipulate’ next polls: Rizvi

-- 2018-07-19 17:13:38

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday alleged that the Election Commission (EC) is planning to procure Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) spending Tk 26 billion (Tk 2,600 cro...

BNP gets verbal permission to hold Friday’s rally

-- 2018-07-19 16:20:20

BNP Thursday said it got permission from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police DMP) to hold a rally in the capital on Friday demanding the release its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. "We've got verbal per...

Trinamool BNP, eight other parties ‘joining’ AL bloc

-- 2018-07-19 14:11:01

Nazmul Huda’s Trinamool BNP and eight other parties want to join the ruling coalition led by the Awami League to establish a secular Bangladesh. The leaders of the nine parties and the 14-Party...

Eight left parties launch alliance

-- 2018-07-18 20:18:25

Eight left parties have launched a new platform styled 'Left Democratic Alliance' to strengthen the alternative political force against bad politics. The parties formally announced the journey of the...

EC plans to use EVMs in upazila election

-- 2018-07-17 15:55:24

The Election Commission plans to use a limited number of newly introduced electronic voting machines or EVMs in the upazila election to be held in February. The plan for the use of EVMs in the electi...