FROM JATIYA SANGSAD: Ministers and members of the parliament blasted the Supreme Court verdict that declared their power to impeach judges as illegal and demanded for a review of the verdict. Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu, Awami League

NARAYANGANJ: The BNP-backed chairman of Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj Azharul Islam Mannan has been suspended for third time. The local government ministry suspended the chairman following the court accepted charge-sheet against the BNP leader in explosive case.    The

KHULNA: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has commented that the BNP is failure in the movement and also in the election. The failure party will never win in the election, he said.     He was speaking at Khulna divisional delegate meeting of the Awami League held at

DHAKA: The High Court on Sunday (July 9) cleared again the way for Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Mayor MA Mannan to resume its duties.  It stayed for three months a government order suspending him for the third time. Simultaneously, the court issued a rule asking why the

DHAKA: Missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali’s wife and adviser to party chairperson Tahsina Rushdi Luna was barred from going abroad on Sunday (July 09).   Immigration police sent her back from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. She was supposed to go to London on a flight of

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir remarked that the ruling party has become frantic for holding on to power.  He made the claim in a statement sent by party co-office secretary Belal Ahmed on Sunday (July 9) where Fakhrul also condemned the arrest of BNP's

DHAKA: A Dhaka court has framed charges against BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a defamation case filed over his derogatory remark on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nuranabi formed charges on Sunday (July 9) and fixed October 23 for

DHAKA: Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Mayor also Vice Chairman of Gazipur city unit BNP MA Mannan is vowing to file a writ petition challenging the legitimacy of the suspension order as GCC Mayor against him. Mannan’s lawyer Abu Hanif, on Sunday (July 9), said that the writ plea will

DHAKA: Awami League president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday (July 08) said that her party had worked for establishing the rights of the people, and is still working for that.   She said that the Awami League always believes in the democracy. “We believe in the

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed hailed the Supreme Court’s verdict that upheld the High Court’s decision of declaring illegal the 16th amendment to the Constitution. Speaking at a discussion at the National Press Club in the city on Saturday (July 08),

DHAKA: Senior Awami League leader and Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said there is no alternative for BNP and its allies but to participate in the next general elections. The minister was addressing at the launching ceremony of a furniture outlet in the city’s Banani Saturday (July

THAKURGAON: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that the national election must be acceptable to the peoples in home and abroad. Therefore, the government should ensure the election fair, flawless and impartial, he said. Fakhrul was addressing at the launching

SYLHET: Refusing to comment on the opposition party BNP, Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said, ‘BNP is so unrealistic that I don’t even care for them’.  He made the comment at a relief distribution program among flood-hit people in Fenchuganj upazila of Sylhet on Friday

DHAKA: BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said BNP will not participate in the next parliamentary election under the PM Sheikh Hasina-led government.  He made the remarks while addressing as chief guest at a human chain organized by Shadhinota Forum at the National

RAJSHAHI: Police in an overnight drive detained four suspected members of banned extremist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Rajshahi’s Durgapur and Puthia upazilas on early Friday (July 7). The detainees are identified as Aslam, 37, Mohammad Ali, 30, Babu Huzur,

DHAKA: Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Mayor MA Mannan has been suspended from his position again as Gazipur special judge's court takes the charge-sheet into cognizance in a case against him filed by ACC. Moreover, government also suspended an accounting officer of GCC, Golam

DHAKA: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has rejected the report of the international rights group-- Human Rights Watch (HRW). Talking to journalists at his office at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Thursday (July 06), the minister said that the HRW’s report about Bangladesh is not

DHAKA: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said that the conspiracy will be hatched before the next general elections.   “Please, don’t hatch any conspiracy against the country,” he said while talking to journalists after a meeting at Bridges Building at Banani in

JHENAIDAH: Police in a special drive detained 43 people, including activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, from several areas in Jhenaidah. The drive was conducted from Wednesday night (July 05) to Thursday morning (July 06) in six upazilas of the district.   Additional

DHAKA: Accusing the government for draining country’s food storage by looting, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said a famine like the great famine of 1974 is imminent as the ongoing food crisis of the country is becoming dreadful everyday. He made the remarks in