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BNP stages demo for Khaleda’s release

BNP stages demo for Khaleda’s release

-- 2018-04-25 12:24:52

As part of its seven-day political programme, BNP on Wednesday formed a human chain in Dhaka demanding its chairperson Khaleda Zia's release from jail. Leaders and activists of the party formed the h...

No MPs in Gazipur, Khulna campaign

No MPs in Gazipur, Khulna campaign

-- 2018-04-24 14:23:25

MPs cannot join the electoral campaigns of their party candidates in Gazipur and Khulna city corporation polls as the Election Commission has not amended the relevant electoral law. Gazipur Returning...

Police foil BNP rally in city

Police foil BNP rally in city

-- 2018-04-23 21:00:24

Police foiled a rally brought out by Dhaka South City unit BNP in the capital on Monday demanding the release of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail. A group of leaders and activists of the party...

AL delegation visits Mahatma Gandhi Memorial

AL delegation visits Mahatma Gandhi Memorial

-- 2018-04-23 17:27:38

An Awami League delegation has visited Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at Rajghat in New Delhi of India and paid tributes to India's Father of the Nation. Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem...

Tarique sends legal notice to Shahriar

Tarique sends legal notice to Shahriar

-- 2018-04-23 17:18:14

BNP’s acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has sent a legal notice to State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam. The BNP leader sought proof from the state minister about his recent claim th...

Jamaat withdraws candidate from Gazipur polls to back BNP

Jamaat withdraws candidate from Gazipur polls to back BNP

-- 2018-04-22 21:40:14

Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday formally extended its support to BNP's mayoral candidate Hasanuddin Sarker in the Gazipur city polls billed for May 15. Islamist party's mayoral candidate and its Gazipur ci...

Ensure Khaleda’s treatment at United Hospital: BNP

Ensure Khaleda’s treatment at United Hospital: BNP

-- 2018-04-22 18:17:07

BNP has requested the government to ensure proper treatment of Chairperson Khaleda Zia at United Hospital. BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan and vice chairman Hafizuddin Ahmed made the...

Court extends BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail till May 10

Court extends BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail till May 10

-- 2018-04-22 12:55:27

A special court in Dhaka on Sunday again extended until May 10 the bail of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. Judge Md Akhteruzzaman of Special Judge Court-5 passed the o...

Tarique to be brought back by any means: PM

Tarique to be brought back by any means: PM

-- 2018-04-22 11:54:05

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed her firm resolve to take back BNP acting chairperson Tarique Zia from London by any means and bring him under the ambit of law. "We'll bring him bac...

Fakhrul sees BD's diplomatic failure over Rohingya issue

Fakhrul sees BD's diplomatic failure over Rohingya issue

-- 2018-04-21 21:00:30

The government failed to resolve the Rohingya crisis and some issues with India due to its diplomatic failure. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the allegation on Saturday while...

PM mourns death of AL leader Abdul Karim

PM mourns death of AL leader Abdul Karim

-- 2018-04-21 17:01:41

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed deep shock at the death of Awami League Jatiya Parishad member and one of the organisers of the great Liberation War Md Abdul Karim. In a condolence...

Mobile courts to conduct drive

Mobile courts to conduct drive

-- 2018-04-21 00:24:43

KHULNA, Apr 20 (BSS): Ten mobile courts will begin drives on Tuesday ahead of Khulna City Corporation polls. Consisting with 10 executive magistrates, the mobile teams will take steps against the peo...

Relatives fail to meet Khaleda in jail: Fakhrul

Relatives fail to meet Khaleda in jail: Fakhrul

-- 2018-04-20 20:49:14

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that relatives of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia were not allowed to meet her in jail. Fakhrul said some of Khaleda's relatives, including h...

BNP spreads rumours to foil JS polls: Maya

BNP spreads rumours to foil JS polls: Maya

-- 2018-04-20 19:55:45

Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bir Bikram, has said BNP is out to spread rumours centring baseless issues to thwart the next Jatiya Sangsad (JS) election. "...

Allowing electioneering by MPs would be unconstitutional: BNP

Allowing electioneering by MPs would be unconstitutional: BNP

-- 2018-04-20 18:42:37

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said it will be a violation of the constitution if the Election Commission (EC) allows MPs to carry out election campaigns in Khulna and Gazipur city...

Get united to wage demo for election under neutral govt

Get united to wage demo for election under neutral govt

-- 2018-04-20 00:17:39

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urged on Thursday all the political parties to get united in waging movement for holding the next general election under a non-party neutral governmen...

Hearing on charge framing against Khaleda in Niko graft case May 13

Hearing on charge framing against Khaleda in Niko graft case May 13

-- 2018-04-19 18:53:12

A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed May 13 for holding hearing on framing charges against BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia in Niko graft case. Mahmudul Kabir, judge of Dhaka Special Judge Court-9, set the dat...

Pro-AL panel sweeps DU syndicate polls

Pro-AL panel sweeps DU syndicate polls

-- 2018-04-19 18:18:34

Pro-Awami League 'blue panel' teachers on Thursday swept Dhaka University syndicate, academic council, and finance committee elections by securing 12 posts out of 13. The white panel, backed by BNP...

Govt now targets Tarique: BNP

Govt now targets Tarique: BNP

-- 2018-04-18 18:00:38

BNP on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is now devising a new roadmap to take political revenge on its acting chairman Tarique Rahman. “She (Hasina) has now made Tarique Rahm...

Bangladesh wants Tarique back: Hasina

Bangladesh wants Tarique back: Hasina

-- 2018-04-18 12:42:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said they are trying to get the British government extradite BNP leader Tarique Rahman from London to face justice in Bangladesh. Now heading the BNP from exile, Tari...

BNP demands army deployment in Gazipur, Khulna city polls

BNP demands army deployment in Gazipur, Khulna city polls

It seeks immediate withdrawal of Gazipur SP Harun 2018-04-17 13:35:48

BNP on Tuesday demanded deployment of army at least seven days before the mayoral elections to Khulna and Gazipur city corporations billed for May 15. The party also sought immediate withdrawal of Ga...

BNP delegation sits with CEC

BNP delegation sits with CEC

-- 2018-04-17 13:17:58

A six-member BNP delegation sat in a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Tuesday morning ahead of the mayoral elections to Khulna and Gazipur city corporations. The meeting bega...

BCL expels 24 female activists over quota reform protests

BCL expels 24 female activists over quota reform protests

-- 2018-04-17 10:40:41

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has permanently suspended twenty-four of its central and Dhaka University (DU) Kabi Sufia Kamal hall unit leaders and activists for their alleged involvement in the Apr...

BNP demands Khaleda be moved to Hospital

BNP demands Khaleda be moved to Hospital

-- 2018-04-16 21:26:21

BNP has demanded that Khaleda Zia should be transferred to Gulshan’s United Hospital without delay after her health ‘deteriorated even further’. “Yesterday, we said the leader...

DU BCL’s factional clash leaves six injured

DU BCL’s factional clash leaves six injured

-- 2018-04-16 20:56:51

Six leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have been injured in a factional clash on the Dhaka University campus over their upcoming national council. The injured BCL members allege...

Ershad criticises Hasina for not keeping election pledges

Ershad criticises Hasina for not keeping election pledges

-- 2018-04-16 20:18:34

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina failed to keep her election pledges. Ershad said that Sheikh Hasina came to power promising to provide the poor with rice...

No negligence shown towards Khaleda’s treatment: Nasim

No negligence shown towards Khaleda’s treatment: Nasim

-- 2018-04-16 19:41:30

Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Monday said no negligence was shown in the treatment of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in jail, reports UNB. Talking to the reporters at the secretariat the minister sa...

Narail court to hear Khaleda’s bail plea on May 8

Narail court to hear Khaleda’s bail plea on May 8

-- 2018-04-16 16:08:28

A court on Monday fixed May 8 for hearing on appeal petition filed seeking BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail in a case over ‘derogatory remarks’ against freedom fighters. Judge of...

B Chowdhury doubtful about fair election

B Chowdhury doubtful about fair election

-- 2018-04-14 22:05:41

Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Saturday expressed his doubt about a free, fair and neutral election for the government's 'illogical and anti-democratic steps'. &n...

Quota system abolition a wrong decision: Ershad

Quota system abolition a wrong decision: Ershad

-- 2018-04-14 21:16:07

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said it is wrong to fully abolish the quota system in government service.  "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced to abolish the quota system. However,...