DHAKA: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda said that the Election Commission will make sure of a free and fair national election without government or any other influence.  CEC made the remarks while addressing the election roadmap launching ceremony held at EC Secretariat

DHAKA: There is no bar to continue duties of mayor of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) MA Mannan as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld the High Court’s order in this regard. A three-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, passed the

DHAKA: BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the Election Commission (EC) has failed to set an example in the last election.  At a press conference in BNP office in city’s Nayapaltan area on Sunday (July 16), Rizvi said the EC failed to manage an exemplary free

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has left Dhaka for London on Saturday (July 15). She left the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in a flight of Emirates at about 7.30 pm. The BNP chief’s press wing member Shyrul Kabir Khan said that Khaleda Zia flied to London for treatment

PABNA: Awami League presidium member Mohammad Nasim has said that his party will come to power again through the mandate of the people. Nasim, also the health minister, said this while speaking at the meeting of law and order committee and development coordination committee of Pabna

DHAKA: BNP vice chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed Bir Bikram has said that the party chairperson Khaleda Zia will give an outline for the next Parliamentary elections after returning from London. Hafiz Uddin Ahmed said this while speaking at an activists’ conference at Bhashani

SUST, SYLHET: The authorities of the Shajalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet have expelled four activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student of the ruling Awami League. The 205th Syndicate meeting of the university held on Saturday (July 15) took the

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Saturday (July 15) alleged that at least 118 people were killed in extra-judicial killings in the last ten months during the current government. Besides, at least 137 people were killed in crossfire, while 84 people were

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to fly to London on Saturday. The BNP chief will leave the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for London in a flight of Emirates at 7.30 pm, said her press wing member Shyrul Kabir Khan. She is going to London for treatment of her eye

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia called on the government to take necessary steps in combating the spread of Chikungunya fever across the country. The BNP chief also wished for early recovery of the Chikungunya patients, in a tweet from her Twitter account at 08:51pm Thursday

DHAKA: The High Court has granted ad-interim bail to six BNP-backed ward councilors of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) in a sabotage case. The HC bench of Justice Md Miftah Uddin Choudhury and Justice ANM Bashir Ullah on Thursday (July 13) granted the bail following an appeal filed by

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday has fixed July 20 for hearing BNP Chief Khaleda Zia’s self-defence statement in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case and also for quizzing the probe officer Harun-ar-Rashid in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. Judge of Special Judge’s Court-5 Md

DHAKA: Internal conflict between two groups of pro-government Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has resulted in vandalism of several rooms of the hostel of MC College in Sylhet. The supporters of BCL leader Titoo Chowdhury who are the followers of Sylhet Awami League leader Ranjit group

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has scrapped the trial proceedings of a graft case filed against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman's mother-in-law Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu. A three-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha,

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will hold a meeting of standing committee, the highest policy-making body of the party, at her Gulshan office Thursday (July 13). The meeting will be held at 8:30pm at the BNP chief's Gulshan office, Shamsuddin Didar and Shairul Kabir, two

DHAKA: Law Minister Anisul Huq has said that the Parliament can discuss any matter of the state as sovereign organ. So the law is not ignored for discussing the verdict of the Supreme Court that scrapped the 16th constitutional amendment, he added. He said these while talking to

DHAKA: BNP chairperson’s adviser and missing leader of the party M Ilias Ali’s wife Tahsina Rushdir Luna finally left the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for London on Wednesday morning (July 12).   She was barred from going abroad at the airport for two times. Luna was

JESSORE: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said that the BNP makes warning of movement, but the party has no ability of forging street movement.   Obaidul Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said this while speaking at the council of Jessore district

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has cleared the way for continuation of graft cases filed against BNP senior leaders Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Barrister Moudud Ahmed on charges of illegal earnings and hiding income. The three-member bench of the Appellate

DHAKA: The High Court has ordered the government not to stop missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali’s wife and adviser to the party chairperson Tahsina Rushdir Luna from traveling abroad. The HC bench of Justice Tariq ul Hakim and Justice M Faruk passed the order on Monday (July 10)