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Elephant tramples JaSoD leader to death

Elephant tramples JaSoD leader to death

-- 2019-01-26 15:24:23

A central leader of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JaSoD) was trampled to death by a wild elephant in India’s Darjeeling on Friday. The victim was Syed Saimun Kanak, media affairs secretary of JaSoD...

Quader urges all parties to join upcoming polls

Quader urges all parties to join upcoming polls

-- 2019-01-25 14:49:47

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has urged the registered political parties to join all the upcoming elections including the upazila-level one. The Minister came up with the call wh...

BNP to boycott DNCC, upazila polls

BNP to boycott DNCC, upazila polls

-- 2019-01-24 21:48:53

BNP has decided to stay away from the mayoral by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and elections to upazila councils. Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the decision a...

Internal feud will split BNP, says Quader

Internal feud will split BNP, says Quader

-- 2019-01-24 16:38:51

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said the government has no intention to spilt BNP as the party will face it due to its internal feud. "BNP is now in a fragile condition. Wh...

BNP’s decision on joining DNCC by-polls tonight

BNP’s decision on joining DNCC by-polls tonight

-- 2019-01-24 15:19:45

BNP policymakers are going to hold a meeting tonight (Thursday night) to decide whether the party will join the upcoming by-elections to the vacant mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC)....

Fakhrul seeks greater unity to push for fresh polls

Fakhrul seeks greater unity to push for fresh polls

-- 2019-01-23 18:27:00

Accusing Awami League of destroying the country's election system, BNP on Wednesday urged opposition parties to forge a greater unity to force the government to hold a fresh election under a non-party...

AL to finalise candidates for DNCC, Kishoreganj-1 by-polls Saturday

AL to finalise candidates for DNCC, Kishoreganj-1 by-polls Saturday

-- 2019-01-23 18:23:40

The nomination board of Awami League is going to hold a meeting on Saturday to finalise the party's candidates for the by-elections to the vacant mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) an...

HC asks Cumilla court to dispose of Khaleda's bail plea by Feb 4

HC asks Cumilla court to dispose of Khaleda's bail plea by Feb 4

-- 2019-01-23 12:59:18

The High Court has asked the lower court concerned to dispose of the petition filed seeking bail to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia by February 4 in a case filed over the 2015 Cumilla arson attack that ki...

Fakhrul talking deliriously after ‘shameful’ election loss:  Obaidul

Fakhrul talking deliriously after ‘shameful’ election loss: Obaidul

-- 2019-01-22 20:47:32

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said his BNP counterpart Mirza Fakhrul has been talking deliriously since his party's shameful defeat in the December-30 national election. "B...

Barrister Nazmul Huda secures bail

Barrister Nazmul Huda secures bail

-- 2019-01-21 12:09:19

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has granted bail to former minister Barrister Nazmul Huda in a graft case. A four member bench led by chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order on...

‘No election is perfect’

‘No election is perfect’

-- 2019-01-20 19:20:26

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has responded to the UN secretary general’s remarks on the 11th parliamentary election in Bangladesh, saying that there is no perfect election. At...

BNP accuses AL of being reckless after election win

BNP accuses AL of being reckless after election win

-- 2019-01-20 16:06:12

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi says the ruling Awami League’s activists have become ‘reckless and diabolically exhilarated’ after the election. He referred to...

Kamal Hossain off to Singapore for treatment

Kamal Hossain off to Singapore for treatment

-- 2019-01-20 10:17:24

Jatiya Oikya Front Convener Dr Kamal Hossain, also president of Gono Forum, flew to Singapore on Saturday night for medical purposes. Along with his wife Hameeda Hossain, he left the Hazrat Shahjalal...

AL celebrates victory to hide moral defeat: Fakhrul

AL celebrates victory to hide moral defeat: Fakhrul

-- 2019-01-19 16:35:08

BNP on Saturday alleged that the ruling party is celebrating its victory to divert people's attention from 'vote rigging' in the December-30 election. "They (AL) are celebrating the victory to hide t...

Awami League’s victory rally today

Awami League’s victory rally today

-- 2019-01-19 12:56:53

Awami League is going to hold a grand rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital today (Saturday) to celebrate the massive victory of the party in the 11th parliamentary elections. AL President Sheikh...

BNP leaders propose leadership changes

BNP leaders propose leadership changes

-- 2019-01-18 21:41:42

Two senior leaders of BNP have called for a national council of the party to bring changes to its leadership after the general election debacle. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Moudud Ahmed, members...

Quader foresees split in Oikyafront

Quader foresees split in Oikyafront

-- 2019-01-18 18:12:27

The Jatiya Oikyafront, the opposition alliance formed with the BNP, will not stay united, according to Awami League leader Obaidul Quader.  “Seeing them, we spotted break-up factors in th...

TIB report causes heartburn to govt, EC: BNP

TIB report causes heartburn to govt, EC: BNP

-- 2019-01-17 16:22:57

BNP on Thursday alleged that the TIB report on "vote robbery" in the December-30 election has caused heartburn both to the government and the Election Commission. "The government and the EC cannot hi...

AL to contest UZ polls without alliance: Quader

AL to contest UZ polls without alliance: Quader

-- 2019-01-15 17:05:09

Awami League will contest the upcoming Upazila Parishad elections without any alliance, party General Secretary Obaidul Quader said on Tuesday. "We won't go into the polls as part of any alliance," h...

AL starts selling nomination forms for reserved seats

AL starts selling nomination forms for reserved seats

-- 2019-01-15 12:19:40

The ruling Awami League has started selling its nomination forms for the parliamentary seats reserved for women. The sales of nomination forms began around 10:00am on Tuesday at the Awami League Pres...

Mirza Abbas, wife get HC bail in graft case

Mirza Abbas, wife get HC bail in graft case

-- 2019-01-14 17:12:08

The High Court on Monday granted an eight-week anticipatory bail to BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas and his wife Afroza Abbas in a corruption case. The couple has been accused of amassing i...

Hasan Mahmud thanks Dr Kamal for realising mistake

Hasan Mahmud thanks Dr Kamal for realising mistake

-- 2019-01-13 16:24:17

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday thanked Dr Kamal Hossain for realising the mistake that Jatiya Oikyafront had made by incorporating Jamaat-e-Islami in the recent 11th parliamentary elec...

Vote margin disproves claims of rigging: Joy

Vote margin disproves claims of rigging: Joy

-- 2019-01-12 20:55:38

Prime Minister’s ICT affairs adviser Sajeeb Wajed Joy has said the opposition claims of vote rigging during 11th parliamentary election are mathematically impossible in view of the margin of vot...

AL to sit with leaders of Dhaka, nearby districts Sunday

AL to sit with leaders of Dhaka, nearby districts Sunday

-- 2019-01-12 20:12:37

Awami League will sit with its leaders and public representatives, nominated by the party, from Dhaka and its five nearby districts on Sunday. The joint meeting will begin at 11am at AL's central off...

Dr Kamal terms joining election ‘a mistake’ 

Dr Kamal terms joining election ‘a mistake’ 

-- 2019-01-12 18:03:34

Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday said it was a mistake to join the 11th parliamentary election with Jamaat-e-Islami under the banner of Jatiya Oikafront (JOF). "I've already publi...

Govt fears talks on ‘fake polls’: Rizvi

Govt fears talks on ‘fake polls’: Rizvi

-- 2019-01-12 16:21:44

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said that the ruling party is unwilling to hold talks with the opposition as it cannot answer for the ‘fake’ votes cast in the gene...

Dr Kamal wants BNP to cut ties with Jamaat

Dr Kamal wants BNP to cut ties with Jamaat

-- 2019-01-11 18:07:05

Dr Kamal Hossain's Gano Forum is now planning to pressurise BNP to cut ties with Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami to keep the Jatiya Oikyafront intact and launch a movement together, according to a UNB repo...

Speaker approves Ershad as opposition chief

Speaker approves Ershad as opposition chief

-- 2019-01-10 14:31:10

Jatiya Paty Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad has been approved as leader of the opposition in parliament. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury also ratified Jatiya Party co-chairman GM Quader as deputy l...

Jatiya Party nominates four for JS women seats

Jatiya Party nominates four for JS women seats

-- 2019-01-09 20:30:30

Jatiya Party has finalised four nominees for electing them to reserved women seats in the 11th parliament. Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad approved the nominations on Wednesday, said a party press re...

Those defeated have nothing to do: Quader

Those defeated have nothing to do: Quader

-- 2019-01-09 16:58:33

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said nobody believes that those who faced defeat both in their movement and in election have anything new to do. The minister came up...