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They using Bangabandhu’s portraits, name for plundering: Dr Kamal

They using Bangabandhu’s portraits, name for plundering: Dr Kamal

-- 2019-08-24 17:20:45

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday said those making their own fortunes depriving people of their ownership of the country and voting rights using the name and portraits of Bangabandhu a...

NAP chief Prof Muzaffar Ahmad dies

NAP chief Prof Muzaffar Ahmad dies

-- 2019-08-23 21:16:09

National Awami Party (NAP) President Professor Muzaffar Ahmad, a member of the advisory council of the Liberation War-time government, has died at a hospital in Dhaka. The 97-year old politician, als...

BNP forms forum to support victims of rape, repression

BNP forms forum to support victims of rape, repression

-- 2019-08-23 17:58:06

Amid the growing incidents of rape and violence against women and children, BNP has formed a forum to stand by the victims of such repression with legal and other support, and create a social movement...

AL will go to SC to seek capital punishment for Tarique

AL will go to SC to seek capital punishment for Tarique

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

Awami League will go to the top court to seek BNP acting chief Tarique Rahman’s maximum punishment in connection with August 21 grenade attack case. “He is the mastermind of the attack. W...

Govt looking for rawhide price syndicate: Hasan Mahmud

Govt looking for rawhide price syndicate: Hasan Mahmud

-- 2019-08-17 17:08:43

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud has said the government is determined to track down the alleged syndicate that is 'playing games' with the price of rawhides and skins of animals sacrificed on Eid-ul...

PM mourns death of Sylhet AL leader

PM mourns death of Sylhet AL leader

-- 2019-08-14 16:59:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of A.N.M. Shafiqul Haque, former president and general secretary of Sylhet District Awami League (AL), and a J...

Mizanur Rahman Shelley dies at 76

Mizanur Rahman Shelley dies at 76

-- 2019-08-12 21:30:11

Mizanur Rahman Shelley, a former minister of HM Ershad government and political commentator, has died at the age of 76, reports bdnews24.com Shelley was undergoing treatment at the Bangabandhu Sheikh...

Quader for eliminating communal forces from society

Quader for eliminating communal forces from society

-- 2019-08-12 20:23:30

NOAKHALI, Aug 12: Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader  today said the prayer for this Eid-ul-Azha was for elimination of the communal forces from...

Keep houses, surroundings clean to prevent dengue: President

Keep houses, surroundings clean to prevent dengue: President

-- 2019-08-12 14:51:40

President Abdul Hamid on Monday urged the authorities concerned to encourage people all to keep their houses and surroundings clean for preventing dengue. He said this while delivering congratulatory...

'Soft programmes not enough for release of political leader'

'Soft programmes not enough for release of political leader'

-- 2019-08-10 18:01:29

BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy said it is not possible to force the government to free their leader Khaleda Zia from jail with soft and indoor political programmes. “Social organisatio...

BNP trying to politicise Khaleda’s health issue: Hasan Mahmud

BNP trying to politicise Khaleda’s health issue: Hasan Mahmud

-- 2019-08-10 17:51:44

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has alleged that BNP is trying to politicise their leader Khaled Zia’s health issue turning it a matter of “cruel farce”. “I want to urge...

Trial of Khaleda in another case to start

Trial of Khaleda in another case to start

-- 2019-08-04 16:54:28

A Dhaka court on Sunday transferred a case against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia lodged for making derogatory remarks about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the present government, reports BS...

Information minister to take classes at DU

Information minister to take classes at DU

-- 2019-08-03 18:58:02

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud will take classes as a part-time teacher at Dhaka University (DU) from tomorrow (Sunday). Dr Hasan, also an environmentalist, will conduct a course titled ‘...

Release Khaleda on bail: Oli

Release Khaleda on bail: Oli

-- 2019-08-02 18:56:08

Jatiya Mukti Mancha chief Col (rtd) Oli Ahmed on Friday urged the Supreme Court to grant bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia considering her age and contributions to the country. “I request the...

Reading out announcement not proclamation, says Hasan Mahmud

Reading out announcement not proclamation, says Hasan Mahmud

-- 2019-07-30 21:02:05

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said reading out the announcement of independence is not the proclamation of independence. The Minister said the debate about the proclamation of independence...

Jatiya Party wants to fill political vacuum: GM Quader

Jatiya Party wants to fill political vacuum: GM Quader

-- 2019-07-29 19:57:30

Jatiya Party chairman GM Quader on Monday said their party will remain active both in parliament and on the streets with the issues relating to people’s rights to fill the prevailing political v...

BNP demands Khaleda's 'better treatment' either at home or abroad

BNP demands Khaleda's 'better treatment' either at home or abroad

-- 2019-07-26 20:14:43

Voicing deep concern over the illness of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the party on Friday demanded that immediate steps be taken for Khaleda's proper treatment either at home or abroad as per her desi...

Raushon refuses to accept GM Quader as party chairman

Raushon refuses to accept GM Quader as party chairman

-- 2019-07-23 21:04:08

Jatiya Party Senior Co-Chairman Raushon Ershad has refused to accept GM Quader as chairman of the party following the death of founder HM Ershad. Ershad named his brother Quader acting chairman and h...

Awami League imported dengue virus in 1997: Rizvi

Awami League imported dengue virus in 1997: Rizvi

-- 2019-07-21 17:48:46

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that ruling Awami League imported the deadly dengue virus in 1997. "Awami League imported the deadly dengue virus in 1997, and later A...

Bangladesh is now hunger-free, Hasan Mahmud says

Bangladesh is now hunger-free, Hasan Mahmud says

-- 2019-07-20 19:38:55

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said Bangladesh is now hunger-free and the poverty rate will be reduced to 10 per cent before the next parliament election. “Bangabandhu’s daughte...

Sheikh Hasina was arrested to halt democracy, Hasan tells discussion

Sheikh Hasina was arrested to halt democracy, Hasan tells discussion

-- 2019-07-20 00:10:18

Information Minister and Awami League Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud said on Friday the then caretaker government had arrested Awami League President Sheikh Hasina to stop the pro...

CU BCL gets new committee   

CU BCL gets new committee   

-- 2019-07-14 15:12:44

The new committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League's Chittagong University (CU) unit was announced on Saturday night. Former vice-president Rezaul Haq Rubel and former publication and publicity secretary...

President can arrange dialogue to end rape, killing: BNP leader

President can arrange dialogue to end rape, killing: BNP leader

-- 2019-07-13 17:37:46

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday urged President Abdul Hamid to take steps for holding a national dialogue to get rid of the growing incidents of rape and killing across the c...

BNP politically bankrupt: Quader

BNP politically bankrupt: Quader

-- 2019-07-11 20:37:03

Thursday said people do not respond to the BNP’s call for movement as the party has become politically bankrupt. “It is BNP’s weakness that they cannot wage a mass movement. Awami L...

Khaleda a big threat to politics: Hasan Mahmud

Khaleda a big threat to politics: Hasan Mahmud

-- 2019-07-10 17:01:02

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda is a big threat to the country's politics as her party does not believe in people's welfare. "The politics is for the we...

Gonoforum to oppose govt’s ‘unfair’ acts: Kibria

Gonoforum to oppose govt’s ‘unfair’ acts: Kibria

-- 2019-07-09 18:24:43

Gonoforum General Secretary Reza Kibria on Tuesday said their party will intensify its anti-government role both in parliament and outside. "Gonoforum is a party of people. We stand here in protest a...

Kader Siddique leaves Oikya Front

Kader Siddique leaves Oikya Front

-- 2019-07-08 14:03:42

Krishak Sramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique has officially left the Jatiya Oikya Front, an election-time opposition alliance. “The alliance has turned into an almost non-existen...

Hartal lost its appeal, says Quader

Hartal lost its appeal, says Quader

-- 2019-07-07 16:24:04

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said hartal has lost its appeal as people hardly respond to such programmes. The minister came up with the remark as left-leaning politica...

Gas price hike: Left parties enforce half-day hartal

Gas price hike: Left parties enforce half-day hartal

FE Online Desk 2019-07-07 09:52:45

A half-day hartal has been enforced by the Left Democratic Alliance (LDA) across the country, including Dhaka city, to protest against the recent hike in gas tariffs. Starting at 6:00am, the eight-ho...

AL unleashed ‘anarchy’: Fakhrul

AL unleashed ‘anarchy’: Fakhrul

-- 2019-07-06 16:40:30

BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claims that the ruling Awami League has been letting loose anarchy across Bangladesh. “The law and order has collapsed. People are being hacked every day,...