DHAKA:  Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has suspended one of its leaders after he posted a status on Facebook that goes against the party. Mojibur Rahman Monju, a Sura member of the party’s central Majlish, disclosed his expulsion in another post on his Facebook account Saturday (Feb

DHAKA: Barrister Abdur Razzaq, assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, has resigned from the party. The Jamaat leader sent the resignation letter to Maqbul Ahmed, Ameer of the party, on Friday (Feb 15) from UK though e-mail, citing its failure to seek apology from

DHAKA: The third phase of voting to upazila council elections will be held in 127 upazilas on March 24.   Election Commission (EC) Joint Secretary (Public Relations) SM Asaduzzaman disclosed the schedule to reporters Thursday (Feb 14) afternoon. For the third phase polls, the last

DHAKA: Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar said democracy is never a one-party system. If there is no multi-party process, democracy does not get institutional shape. He was briefing the Returning Officers (RO) and Assistant Returning Officers over the upazila elections in city’s

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC) has rescheduled to Mar 14 the voting in five upazila parishads of Gopalganj district. EC Deputy Secretary Md Atiar Rahman sent necessary directives to the Returning Officers (ROs), in this regard, on Tuesday (Feb 12). The upazilas are—Gopalganj

NATORE: A district court on Tuesday (Feb 12) sent BNP Central Organizing Secretary Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu to jail after showing him arrested in a double murder case.  Dulu was produced before the court of Natore Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Mamunur Rashid, at noon. The

NARSINGDI: BNP Joint Secretary General Khairul Kabir Khokon was freed on bail on Monday (Feb 11) after spending nearly one and a half months locked up on charge of sabotage. His wife Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal’s former secretary general Shirin Sultana confirmed the matter. Khairul

DHAKA: The Dhaka University (DU) authorities on Monday (Feb 11) announced the schedule of DU Central Students Union (Ducsu) and hall unions’ elections.  According to poll schedule, the voting to DUCSU and its hall sangsad elections will be held on March 11 (Sunday), the date for

KHULNA: Five leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jubo League were killed in a road accident on Rupsa Bridge Bypass road on Sunday (Feb 10) night. The deceased were identified as Mahmud Hasan Babu, general secretary of BCL unit of Gopalganj district, ASM Sadikul Alam, Jubo

DHAKA: Awami League candidate Dr Syeda Zakia Noor Lipi, sister of late Syed Ashraful Islam, has been elected uncontested in the re-election of Kishoreganj-1 constituency. After expiry of nomination withdrawal deadline, Returning Officer Md Sarwar Morshed Chowdhury, also Kishoreganj

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League has announced 122 names of its chosen candidates to vie for the chairman race of upazila parishad (second phase). Party General Secretary Obaidul Quader disclosed the names at Awami League president’s political office in Dhanmondi Sunday (Feb 10). The

JASHORE: Unidentified miscreants hacked a 30-year-old activist of Jubo League to death in Sheikhhati Jamrultola area of Jashore suburb Saturday (Feb 9) evening.   Mamun Hossain, 30, the deceased, ran a mobile phone shop. Besides, a leader of the municipality unit Chhatra League

NARAYANGANJ: Police on Saturday (Feb 9) foiled a demonstration program of BNP leaders and activists of Narayanganj metropolitan unit demanding release of the Chairperson Khaleda Zia and other fellow partymen.   They gathered in front of Narayanganj Press Club at noon, to stage the

BARISHAL: A female leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal’s central unit was arrested after a demonstration program had taken place in front of BNP office in the district sadar Saturday (Feb 9). Metropolitan unit BNP staged the program around 11am demanding immediate release of its

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League has announced names of its chosen candidates to vie for the chairman race of upazila parishad (first phase). As per the schedule of Election Commission (EC), the first phase of polls will be held on March 10. Party General Secretary Obaidul Quader

DHAKA:  The first anniversary of the jailing of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in graft cases is being marked by her party with different programmes in the city and elsewhere of the country on Friday (Feb 8). The party held a rally at Institution of Engineers Bangladesh in Dhaka this

DHAKA: Voting to 129 upazilas in upcoming fifth Upazila Council Elections will be held on March 18 in second phase.  According to the election schedule, the deadline for the submission of nominations is February 18. While the date for nomination scrutiny is February 20, the last date

DHAKA: Two persons, including former Textiles and Jute Minister Latif Siddiqui, were charge-sheeted for incurring a loss of Tk 40.69 lakh of the government through selling land of Bangladesh Jute Mill Corporation (BJMC).  Jahanara Rashid, wife of late Harunur Rashid, hails from

DHAKA: Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Wednesday (Feb 6) said upazilla elections will be halted if necessary as no compromise will be made with any irregularities. He was addressing an inaugural ceremony of training of returning and assistant returning officers of fifth

CUMILLA: A court here denied the bail petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a murder case filed in Cumilla in 2015. The court on Monday (Feb 4) also set February 25 for framing charge in the case. Cumilla district and session judge Md Ali Akber rejected the petition after