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BNP team to meet home minister Tuesday

-- 2019-03-04 20:06:28

A BNP delegation is going to meet Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday afternoon to discuss party chairperson Khaleda Zia's health condition and her treatment. BNP standing committee members, le...

Hasan Mahmud thanks BNP leaders for showing courtesy

-- 2019-03-04 20:03:41

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday thanked BNP leaders for the courtesy and sympathy as they visited ailing Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medica...

BNP to form human chain Wednesday demanding Khaleda’s release

-- 2019-03-04 15:23:34

BNP will form a human chain in the city on Wednesday demanding the unconditional release of its ailing chairperson Khaleda Zia and her proper treatment. The programme will be held from 11am to 12pm i...

BNP expels 82 more leaders for contesting UZ polls

-- 2019-03-03 21:02:32

BNP has expelled 82 more of its grassroots leaders for contesting the upcoming upazila elections violating the party's decision. A BNP press release signed by its assistant office secretary Belal Ahm...

Ershad on four-day visit to Rangpur

-- 2019-03-03 15:09:48

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Sunday went to Rangpur on a four-day visit. He left Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Rangpur cantonment on a helicopter at around 11:00am. Ershad...

Opposition alliance isolated from people: Obaidul Quader

-- 2019-03-02 21:09:51

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the opposition alliance has become isolated from the people as they have begun to boycott the elections. “This is an indication of their i...

UZ polls: AL reveals names of chairman candidates for fourth phase

-- 2019-03-02 13:51:00

The ruling Awami League has announced the names of chairman candidates for the 4th phase of upazila parishad elections in 122 upazilas scheduled to be held on March 31. The name of candidates were fi...

JANIPOP observes DNCC Mayoral by-election

FE Online Desk 2019-03-01 21:52:10

JANIPOP-Jatiya Nirbachon Parjobekkhon Parishad observed the voting of by-election to the mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and polls to councillor posts in its 18 new wards on Thursd...

Some form of election better than no election: Obaidul Quader

-- 2019-03-01 18:56:04

A dull turnout is better than not having an election, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said after the mayoral polls for North Dhaka. The road transport and bridges minister made the...

BNP slams move to hike gas tariff 

-- 2019-02-28 18:20:02

BNP on Thursday alleged that the government is going to take an "anti-people" move by raising gas tariffs and "creating a further scope for the ruling party men to plunder public money". Speaking at...

Shafin alleges irregularities in voting

-- 2019-02-28 16:41:42

Singer Shafin Ahmed, the mayoral candidate of Jatiya Party for Dhaka North City Corporation by-election, on Thursday brought the allegation of some irregularities in the voting. He, however, did not...

BNP expels four more leaders for contesting upazila polls

-- 2019-02-28 14:46:23

BNP has expelled another four of its grassroots leaders for contesting the upcoming upazila elections violating the party's decisions. They are Bogura Sadar upazila BNP President Maftun Ahmed Khan Ru...

‘Govt conspiring to push Khaleda to death’

-- 2019-02-26 16:35:30

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the government is conspiring to push its seriously sick chairperson Khaleda Zia to death by depriving her of medical treatment...

Those behind Pilkhana carnage not identified yet: BNP 

-- 2019-02-25 16:39:37

BNP on Monday alleged that those who were behind Pilkhana carnage have not yet been identified as people were kept in the dark on the investigation report of the mutiny. "No complete report of any o...

BNP worries about Khaleda’s security

-- 2019-02-24 17:15:28

Voicing deep concern over of the security of its chairperson Khaleda Zia in Old Dhaka central jail near Chawkbazar where a devastating fire has taken place, BNP on Sunday demanded her immediate releas...

AL selects three candidates for UZ polls in Narail

-- 2019-02-24 15:07:10

Awami League (AL) has nominated its three candidates for contesting chairmen posts in three upazilas of Narail district as part of participating in third phase of upazila polls scheduled to be held on...

Allocate place for chemical trade: BNP leader

-- 2019-02-23 18:02:16

In the wake of devastating fire in the capital's Chawkbazar area, BNP has urged the government to allocate a specific place for chemical warehouses and its business. "Old Dhaka is a residential area....

JOF’s public hearing begins in city

-- 2019-02-22 13:07:22

Jatiya Oikyafront's public hearing on the 'irregularities' in the 11th parliamentary election began in the city on Friday morning. The programme, which began at the Supreme Court Bar Association audi...

BNP blames govt over Chawkbazar fire

-- 2019-02-21 15:54:28

BNP on Thursday blamed the government's mismanagement and irresponsibility for the loss of huge lives in fire at a chemical warehouse in Chawkbazar area of Old Dhaka. "The government has failed to de...

Now BNP wants Jamaat to apologise for 1971 role

-- 2019-02-20 17:10:22

BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Wednesday said Jamaat-e-Islami should apologise to the nation for its anti-liberation war role in 1971. Talking to reporters after placing a wreath...

Thirty-three unopposed in upazila polls

-- 2019-02-20 10:46:49

As many as 33 candidates for chairman, vice-chairman and female vice-chairperson posts are set to win uncontested in the first two phases of the upazila elections. The staggered Upazila Parishad poll...

Rizvi terms road committee formation headed by Shajahan mockery

-- 2019-02-19 16:51:31

Stating that former minister Shajahan Khan is mainly responsible for the growing road accidents in the country, BNP on Tuesday termed absurd and mockery the formation of a 15-member committee headed b...

BNP to take action if any leader joins UZ polls: Rizvi

-- 2019-02-17 18:57:54

BNP on Sunday warned of taking organisational action if any of its leaders and activists will take part in the upcoming Upazila Elections. Senior joint secretary general of BNP Ruhul Kabir Rizvi issu...

Bogura AL President Momtaz Uddin dies

-- 2019-02-17 16:04:35

Awami league (AL) Central Working Committee Member and Bogura District AL President Alhaj Md Momtaz Uddin died of heart attack at the age of 78 at a hospital in Bogura in the early hours of Sunday. M...

Waiting to see Jamaat’s plan: Quader

-- 2019-02-16 17:16:24

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says he is waiting to see if Abdur Razzaq’s resignation from Jamaat-e-Islami is part of some party strategy before taking any further steps on the m...

Govt imposed autocracy in name of democracy: BNP

-- 2019-02-15 18:04:08

BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Friday alleged that the government has imposed an autocratic role in the country undercover of democracy. "The government has established an unwritten one-pa...

BNP trying hard to make Dec-30 election questionable: PM   

-- 2019-02-15 14:37:19

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said BNP had an evil intention to make the 2018 general election questionable and they are still trying to do so. "Their [BNP’s] intention was to make the Dec-3...

Chhatra Dal enters Madhur Canteen after nine years

-- 2019-02-13 14:18:03

The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) student body Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) has entered the Madhur Canteen of Dhaka University after nine years. The central leaders and activist of...

Carrot output delights Rangpur peasants

Our Correspondent 2019-02-12 21:41:39

RANGPUR, Feb 12: An excellent production of carrots has made the cultivators ecstatic in the district during the current season. Presently, peasants of the district and its adjacent areas are passing...

Quader says BNP’s participation in upazila polls matters little

-- 2019-02-12 18:54:35

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said BNP's participation in upazila election would matter little. "It doesn't matter who takes part or boycotts the local election," he told r...