DHAKA: Ruling Awami League will observe historic Jail Killing Day that falls on November 3. Road transport and bridges minister and also newly elected party general secretary Obaidul Quader made the announcement Wednesday (October 26) at Dhanmondi party office in city. According to

DHAKA: Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina and newly elected general secretary Obaidul Quader paid tribute to father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. They along with the other presidium members and secretaries, elected in the party’s 20th national council, paid

DHAKA: BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed called for constituting an acceptable election commission (EC) by creating a search committee based on opinions from all quarters. He came up with the call to ruling Awami League’s newly elected president Prime

DHAKA: The names of another 22 members of central working committee of ruling Awami League (AL) was declared on Tuesday (October 25). Party’s newly elected general secretary Obaidul Quader announced their names at AL president’s Dhanmondi political office in Dhaka. Earlier,

BAGERHAT: Police detained four members of banned extremist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Kachua upazilla of the district early Tuesday (October 25). Three police members sustained injuries as the JMB members threw crude bombs aiming the cops during the drive

RANGPUR: Police on Monday night (October 24) arrested former president of Mithapukur upazila unit Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, from his residence in the upazilla. The arrestee was identified as Shafayat, son of one Siddiqur Rahman of the upazila.

DHAKA: Government has decided to arrange Zilla Parishad elections in the last quarter of December next. Local government has already sent a letter to the Election Commission (EC) in this regard. Ministry deputy secretary Zobaida Nasreen confirmed the matter to Banglanews on Monday

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday (October 24) commented that ruling Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina’s speech is a threat to democracy. Fakhrul made the comment while addressing the 15th death anniversary of former lawmaker Afsar Ahmed

THAKURGAON: Police detained a district unit president of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, from Thakurgaon sadar town on Monday afternoon (October 24). The detainee was identified as Rajiur Rahman Raju, president of Thakurgaon district unit Chhatra

LAKSHMIPUR: Police detained at least seven Jamaat-e-Islami men including a metropolitan Jamaat-e-Islami secretary from Nutun Bazar area under Raipur Thana of the district on Sunday (October 23). Locals said Jamaat secretary Kamal Uddin, along with hundreds of Jamaat activists, was

DHAKA: Prime Minister and also ruling Awami League president has unanimously been reelected as the party president for eighth time in the party’s 20th national council. Besides, road transport and bridges minister and also AL presidium member Obaidul Quader has been made the

DHAKA: A 14-member presidium committee of ruling Awami League (AL) has been announced on Sunday (October 23), the second and concluding day of the party’s national council. The newly elected presidium members are Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, Matia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim,

DHAKA: BNP on Sunday (October 23) congratulated the newly elected members of ruling Awami League (AL) national committee. The party’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam in an immediate reaction expressed his greeting to the AL committee. Earlier in the evening, the councilors

DHAKA: Prime Minister and also ruling Awami League president has unanimously been reelected as the party president for eighth time in the party’s 20th national council. Besides, road transport and bridges minister and also AL presidium member Obaidul Quader has been made the

DHAKA: BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said that his party did not join ruling Awami League (AL) national council as the ruling party continuing suppression on the opposition. He made the assertion on Sunday (October 23) while talking to the media after his release

DHAKA: The closed-door council session of 20th National Council of ruling Awami League is underway at The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) on the second day on Sunday (October 23). The session began around 9:40 am with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the party president,

DHAKA: The visiting China delegation met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office in city Saturday afternoon (October 22). Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee members Lieutenant General (Retd) Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman and Khandaker Mosharraf

DHAKA: The visiting China delegation will meet BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office in city Saturday afternoon (October 22). Chairperson’s media wing member Shairul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter to Banglanews. The meeting is scheduled to begin around 4:30pm. They

DHAKA: BNP has yet to send any delegation to join the 20th national council of ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) at Suhrawardi Udyan in Dhaka on Saturday (October 22). Earlier in the morning, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also president of ruling AL, inaugurated the

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also president of ruling Awami League, inaugurated the 20th National Council of the party at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital of Bangladesh on Saturday morning (October 22). Hasina inaugurated the two-day event by releasing balloons and pigeons