Monday, 20 Jan, 2025

Politics

Trump positively responds to Hasina’s invitation

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited US President Donald Trump to visit Bangladesh. The US President, however, has shown positive attitude in responding to Sheikh Hasina’s invitation. Sheikh Hasina and Donald Trump met at the ‘Arab Islamic American Summit’ held

Khaleda’s office raided based on intelligence info: Quader

DHAKA: Awami League general secretary and also Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that police conducted the raid at BNP Chief Khaleda Zia’s office on the basis of intelligence information. Quader made the claim at a program organized with AL district unit leaders

BNP demands Home Minister’s resignation

DHAKA: In response to a police raid at BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s office, party’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has demanded resignation of the Home Minister. He made the call at a press briefing in city’s Naya Paltan BNP office on Sunday (May 21). Terming the

Jagpa president Shafiul Alam Pradhan dies

DHAKA: Jatiya Ganatantrik Party (Jagpa), an ally of BNP-led 20-party alliance, President Shafiul Alam Pradhan died in Dhaka on Sunday (May 21). He was suffering from various physical illnesses for prolonged period. Shafiul breathed his last at his home in Dhaka’s Asad Gate area,

BCL attacks Chhatra Dal meeting in Lakshmipur, 6 injured

DHAKA: A meeting of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the BNP, has came under attack allegedly by the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, in Lakshmipur. The incident took place at residence of former BNP MP Ashraf Uddin Nizan

Don’t give infiltrators space in AL: Hasina

DHAKA: Terming the infiltrators as garbage, Awami League president and also Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed not to include them in the party. The AL chief also warned of taking stern action against those who will be involved in allowing the infiltrators in the party. Sheikh

Analysts see strategic importance in PM’s Saudi visit

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to leave Dhaka for Saudi Arabia this evening (May 20) to join the ‘Arab Islamic American Summit’. The summit will be held in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Sunday (May 21).    She along with her entourage will board a VIP

Demo held protesting Khaleda’s office raid

CHITTAGONG: Leaders and workers of the BNP brought out a protest procession in Chittagong city on Saturday (May 20) just after the raid at party chief Khaleda Zia’s office at Gulshan in Dhaka. The Chittagong city unit BNP brought out the procession at about 11:00 am from the Press

BNP smells rats at move for EVM system

DHAKA: BNP standing member Barrister Moudud Ahmed has said that the government is hatching conspiracy to introduce the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in the next Parliamentary polls in a bid to implement its ill motive. The BNP senior leader said this while speaking at a roundtable

BNP to stage countrywide agitation Sunday

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is set to stage countrywide demonstrations Sunday (May 21), to protest the police search at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday (May 20). Terming the police search ‘based on false allegation’, BNP Senior joint secretary general

Jubo Dal to stage countrywide demo Sunday

DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the youth front of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), called a rally across the country Sunday (May 21), to stage protest over the police search at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday (May 20). Jubo Dal Secretary General Sultan Salahuddin Tuku

Police search ends at Khaleda’s Gulshan office

DHAKA: A team of Gulshan thana police carried out a search at BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office on early Saturday (May 20). They, however, found no evidence to charge with sedition after searching the office for almost two hours from 7:30 am. Gulshan police

Police conducts search at Khaleda’s Gulshan office

DHAKA: Police on early Saturday (May 20) carried out a search at Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office, to check whether there was any evidence or document of seditious activities.  Gulshan police station officer-in-charge (OC) Abu Bakar

AL set to launch poll preparation

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League will start its preparation for 11th national parliament election through the extended party meeting to be held on Saturday (May 20), said its secretary general Obaidul Quader. Quader said this while speaking at a newsreel exhibition and discussion marking the

Ex BNP MP Momin faces arrest warrant for ‘war crimes’

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) issued an arrest warrant against Abdul Momin Talukder alias Khoka, 65, a former lawmaker from BNP for Bogra constituency 3, for crimes against humanity during the Liberation war in 1971.  After hearing, a 2-member ICT tribunal led by

BNP leader Bulu sent to jail

DHAKA: A Dhaka court sent BNP joint secretary general Barkatullah Bulu to jail after he surrendered before the court on Thursday (May 18).   The BNP leader surrendered before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court in the morning, seeking bail in several cases filed against him for

Charitable case’s trial court also changed

DHAKA: The High Court has also granted BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s plea for transferring the trial court for the Zia Charitable Trust graft case, and asked the fresh court to dispose of the trial proceedings within 60 days. The HC bench of Justice M. Enayetur Rahim and Justice

BNP’s factional clash again in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI: The BNP men locked into factional clash during their party meting at the same venue in Rajshahi on Tuesday (May 16), a day after another clash of two rival groups of the party.    The incident happened at about 11:30 am at Uttara Community Centre in Rajshahi city in the

10 injured in Rajshahi BNP factional clash

RAJSHAHI: Two rival groups of the BNP locked into a factional clash during the party’s Rajshahi city unit activists’ conference at the Uttara Community Centre in the city on Monday (May 15). The incident happened at about 5:00 pm in presence of the party’s senior leaders,

Probe report over Joy kidnapping conspiracy due June 13

DHAKA: A Dhaka court has fixed June 13 for submitting the probe report in the case filed over plotting to kidnap and kill Prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and her ICT advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy. Earlier court fixed May 15 for the report submission; however, no report was submitted in