KHULNA: BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed Sunday said democracy returned in the country through the fifth and seventh constitutional amendments, which were enacted in the process of transition from two martial-law regimes. “Democracy was revived in the country through

DHAKA: A Dhaka court granted bail to detained BNP Standing Committee member and ex-minister Mirza Abbas in the latest two cases filed with Mirpur and New Market thanas on charges of torching and vandalizing cars.  With these two bail orders, the BNP leader got interim release in all six

DHAKA: Opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia leaves for Saudi Arabia Monday for performing Umrah at the special invitation of Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.She will be accompanied by her family members, officials of her office and a group of journalists on the

DHAKA: Estranged former state minister for Home Affairs Sohel Taj will return home on September 3 from the United States of America. Sohel, son of Bangladesh’s founder-prime minister Tajuddin Ahmed, tendered his resignation from the cabinet of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reportedly in

DHAKA:  The government opts for giving a second thought to the much-debated Detailed Area Plan (DAP) amid ongoing protests by people who are to bear the brunt of expansion of the capital through massive acquisitions. Several hundred people have been staging demonstrations in different

DHAKA: State Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Advocate Quamrul Islam Saturday said the fugitive killers of Bangabandhu would be brought back to execute the court verdict against them."A committee has already been formed to bring back the fugitives and the government is

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Secretary-General Khandaker Delwar Hossain Saturday bitterly criticized the government for what he said its iron rule based on `repressive policy`.   "The accused of Malibagh murder case have been released on political considerations, but Mirza Abbas has not been

DHAKA: Pushed into tight corners, Jamaat-e-Islami lashed out at government policies as its leaders said the ruling Awami League outshone an ‘autocratic’ regime by “repressing” opposition leaders and denying political right to protest.“We could stage demonstration on streets even

DHAKA: Awami League presidium member Obaidul Kader said after the abrogation of the 5th and the 7th amendments to the constitution, the government would now decide action against behind-the-scene actors in bringing such repugnant constitutional changes.He made the comment Saturday as the

DHAKA: Family members, followers and his party activists gathered in front of Dhaka Central Jail from Saturday morning to greet Mirza Abbas on his release on bail, but all got frustrated once again.       The detained BNP Standing Committee member and ex-minister was shown arrested

HABIGANJ: Police on Friday night arrested two local Jubo Dal leaders from Lakhai upazila on charge of looting and vandalizing an iftar party.Arrested Abdul Mannan, Sadar upazila Jubo Dal convener, and Kumed Ali, joint-convener, were taken into Sadar thana. Police said a gang of

DHAKA: Opposition BNP’s standing committee member Khondakar Mosharaff Hossain Friday alleged that countrymen have started crying out in agony for the government’s misrule.“Because of government, the price hike of essential commodities is yet to be controlled and people’s

DHAKA : BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed Friday said implementing the High Court verdict on the seventh constitutional amendment would be a big challenge for the government. Giving his reaction over the High Court verdict at his Gulshan residence, the BNP leader said,

RAJSHAHI: Some 29 people were died and over 2000 injured in fatal 62 clashes in Rajshahi University for last 39 years since independence.   Among the deceased, 27 were the students of different departments of the university. The university remained closed for around 600 days following

SAVAR: Jahangirnagar University Thursday expelled six of the infighting Bangladesh Chhatra League activists, including organizing secretary Shahadat Hossain Reza, from the varsity permanently.The varsity authority also punished 17 other activists of the ruling party by suspending them for

DHAKA: Home Minister Advocate Sahara Kahtun urged the Chhatra League to build up public opinion in support of the trial of the war criminals, as she said opponents are active to foil it."BNP and Jamaat are cooking up conspiracy against the trial of war criminals, but Chhatra League has to

DHAKA: A Dhaka court placed BNP chairperson and ex-PM Khaleda Zia`s nephew Saiful Islam Duke on four days’ remand in the August 21 grenade-attack case, taking the probe close into the corridors of power of the past government.Duke was also private secretary to the then prime minister,

DHAKA: The opposition BNP said law cannot make one proclaimer of independence as it is a historical fact and people know who that person was. A number of senior leaders of BNP made the identical comment in their reaction after the High Court verdict on the 7th amendment to the

DHAKA: The High Court stayed for 40 days the government decision canceling the parole of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of BNP chairperson and ex-PM Khaleda Zia.An HC bench of Justice MA Wahhab Miah and Justice Kazi Rezaul Haque passed the order in response to a writ petition filed on

DHAKA: Staging a restrained demonstration in the restriction-bound capital Thursday against the cancellation of Coco’s parole, the main opposition BNP asked the government to shun politics of ‘vengeance and conspiracy’.Standing committee member of the party Khandaker Mosharraf