DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will stage countrywide demonstration on Monday (June 19) protesting attack on the motorcade of the party’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. The BNP on Sunday called the demonstration following direction of the party chief Begum

CHITTAGONG: The motorcade of BNP’s delegation, which was en route to Rangamati led by the party’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to visit the landslides affected people, was attacked at Rangunia in Chittagong on Sunday (June 18). The incident took place at Gochhra

KUSHTIA: President of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) and information minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Saturday (June 17) said that the next general elections won’t foiled if the BNP boycotts the polls. “The BNP boycotted the Parliamentary elections in the past. But the elections had

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said that the BNP will come to the power if the next Parliamentary elections are held in free and fair atmosphere.   The BNP senior leader made the comment while speaking at a discussion meeting at the National

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that although the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) had been founded for functioning independently, the incumbent government is using the watchdog to gain political motive.     He raised the allegation while speaking

COMILLA: Awami League General Secretary and also Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that BNP Chief Khaleda Zia’s comment on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Sweden visit during the time of landslides in hilly areas is absolutely obscene. He made the assertion to

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said that the countrymen are now passing through a crisis moment. Speaking at an Iftar party on Thursday (June 15), she said that the country faces famine when Awami League comes to the power. “The people did not forget the Bangladesh famine of

DHAKA: Awami League presidium member and health minister Mohammad Nasim has ruled out the BNP’s demand for election-time supportive government. He said this while he was speaking at an Iftar party in the city on Thursday (June 15). Democratic Alliance arranged the Iftar party.  

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday (June 15) appeared before a Dhaka court for hearing in Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases. The Special Judge Court-5, the makeshift court set up at Bakshibazar in the city, adjourned the hearing in the two graft cases

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has urged people to vote for ‘Sheaf of Paddy’, the party symbol, in the next parliamentary election. She made the call while addressing as chief guest at an Iftar and Prayer Mahfil arranged by Dhaka Metropolitan BNP north unit in city’s

DHAKA: The Parliament has expressed deep shock at the death of many people, including Army personnel, at the landslides in the hilly districts-- Chittagong, Rangamati and Bandarban. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury placed the shock proposal in the Parliament in the beginning of day

BANDARBAN: Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader has said that the government is prepared to face any natural disaster. The minister made the comment while speaking at relief distribution function in a primary school premises in Bandarban

DHAKA: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the government did not take away BNP leader Moudud Ahmed’s gulshan house; rather he had to leave the house as per the order of country’s apex court.  He made the remarks while addressing a conference organized by Tat

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has expressed deep shock over the killing of many people, including the members of Bangladesh Army, in the landslides in Chittagong, Rangamati and Bandarban. The BNP chief expressed her shock in a press statement issued on Tuesday (June 13).

TANGAIL: At least 29 leaders and workers of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, were arrested in Tangail on Sunday night (June 11). Police arrested the Shibir men after conducting a raid at a mass at Santosh area in Tangail district town. Police

MYMENSINGH: Police arrested a local leader of Jubo Dal, the youth front of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), from Akua Hajibari area in Mymensingh town on Saturday night (June 10). The arrestee was identified as Khandker Masud, general secretary of Mymensingh district (South) unit of

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday (June 10) alleged that members of the police are being harassed by the ruling party men. “If we take to the field with peaceful program, members of different forces will stand by us alongside the common people,” she said while

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted an Iftar party in honor of professionals at her official residence Ganobhaban in the capital city on Saturday (June 10). Artists, writers, columnists, journalists, lawyers, physicians, engineers, university teachers, educationists,

FENI: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has reacted to BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s statement that the ruling Awami League won’t get more than 30 seats in the next general elections. Addressing a rally in Feni on Saturday (June 10), Obaidul Quader

RANGAMATI: A dawn-to-dusk hartal has been called in three districts of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) for Monday (June 12) protesting murder of Juba League leader Nurul Islam Nayan. Parbatya Bangalee Chhatra Parishad made the announcement of the hartal in a press release on Saturday