CHITTAGONG: Secretary general of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh Allama Hafez Zunaid Babunagari has said that Hefazat is not any political platform. So, the Hefazat-e-Islam won’t take part in polls, he said. He was speaking at a function of the platform in Chittagong on Friday (November

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has commented that the government is involved in killing and abduction. He made the comment at a press conference at the party Nayapaltan central office in the city on Friday (November 24). Mirza Fakhrul said that Prime

BHOLA: Awami League senior leader and Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said that the BNP has no strength to thwart the next Parliamentary elections.   Speaking at a function in Bhola on Friday (November 24), he said that the BNP has to come in the polls under the incumbent

NOAKHALI: BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed has said that the constitution is formulated for the people. The people are not for the constitution. So, the constitution is not above the people, he said.   The senior leader of the BNP and former law minister said these

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed demanded immediate release of the party’s central leader Selim Bhuiyan, who is also former principal of AK High School & College. The BNP leader made the demand at a human chain formed in front of the National Press Club in

GAZIPUR: Road Transport & Bridges Minister also Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said that the people of the country will decide the fate of the contestants in the next national parliamentary polls. “Awami League will be elected in the upcoming election, as a reward for

DHAKA: Ahmed Kamal, the youngest brother of late president and founder of the BNP Ziaur Rahman, passed away on Thursday (November 23). He was 68. He breathed his last at about 3:45 pm at his residence at Sabujbag in the city. His namaz-e-janaza will be held at Baitul Mukarram

DHAKA: Different left-leaning parties have called a half-day hartal for November 30 protesting the price hike of power. Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), Socialist Party of Bangladesh (BSD) and Gonotantrik Bam Morcha on Thursday (November 23) jointly called the hartal. In press

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia claimed herself completely innocent in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. She said, “I am totally innocent. I didn’t commit any corruption using power as the Prime Minister.” The Ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia made the statement in a

BRAHMANBARIA: Miscreants stabbed a female leader of the ruling party to death in Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria Wednesday (November 22). The deceased, Swapna Akter, 38, hailed from Charpara area of the upazila, was the secretary for women affairs at Nabinagar upazila unit of Awami

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sentences ex-MP Abdul Aziz Mia alias Ghoramara Aziz, among six war criminals of Gaibandha, to death for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. Other five war criminals are—Md Ruhul Amin Manju, 61, Md Abdul

DHAKA: A Dhaka court has discharged Mayor of Comilla City Corporation Monirul Hoque Shakoo, also a BNP leader, from a corruption case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in 2008. Judge Shamim Ahemed of the Special Judge’s Court-8 of Dhaka passed the order on Tuesday (November

DHAKA: Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has said that broadcast policy will be passed in the upcoming winter session of Jatiya Sangsad.   He said this while speaking at a rally in front of the National Press Club in the city on Tuesday (November 21). Broadcast Producers

FENI: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said that his party has no intention to play alone in an open field, it rather wants competitive elections.  Obaidul Quader, also, the Road Transport and Bridges Minister made the remark while visiting the construction work of a

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday (November 20) issued arrest warrants against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and two others over broadcasting a speech of Tarique Rahman. The court issued the arrest warrant after framing the charge-sheet against four accused in the case.  

SATKHIRA: A local Awami League leader was slaughtered at Kaliganj upazila in Satkhira. Police recovered his body in the morning on Monday (November 20). The incident of murder took place at about 10:00 pm on Sunday (November 19) at Koikhali dyke at Ashashuni under Kaliganj upazila.

RANGPUR: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has alleged that a vested quarter is hatching conspiracy about the next general elections. He said this while visiting the victims of attack at Thakurpara area in Rangpur on Sunday (November 19). Obaidul Quader, also the road

DHAKA: Former Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Md Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui died at a private hospital in the city on Sunday (November 19). He was 71. Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui, also an adviser of BNP chairperson, breathed his last at the United Hospital in city’s Gulshan area at noon. He

LALMONIRHAT: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that any election without BNNP won’t not be accepted in the country and globally. He said this at the inauguration ceremony of a bicycle rally at Burir Bazar at Mahendranagar area in Lalmonirhat on Sunday

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) on Sunday (November 19) rejected the bail appeal of Tangail-3 constituency Awami League lawmaker Amanur Rahman Khan Rana, in a case filed over freedom fighter Faruk murder case. An HC bench of Justices Borhan Uddin Khan and Md Ashraful Kamal discarded the