NOAKHALI: District BNP withdrew Sunday’s hartal considering the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination scheduled to be held on the day.Joint secretary general of central BNP M Shahjanhan, also district BNP president, confirmed the matter to banglanews on Saturday noon.On

RAJBARI: Terming ruling Awami League government autocrat, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday categorically said all out movement would be weighed after upazila polls in ousting incumbent government.“We will stage all out movement for ousting government after Upazila Parishad,”

MONGLA: The voting in Chila Union, in by-election of the Union Parisad of Mongla Upazila of Khulna district, ended.The voting started from 8:00am and ended at 4:00pm Saturday.The numbers of voters in the upazila are 12,138 of whom, male 5,943 and female 6,169.Mongla’s Chila Union

MONGLA: The voting in Chila Union is underway in by-election of the Union Parisad of Mongla Upazila of Khulna from Saturday morning.The voting started from 8:00am in the union.There are 12,138 voters who are exercising their franchise to choose their chairman in the by-poll where male

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to unveil plaque of two warships of Bangladesh Navy- BNS Abu Bakar, BNS Ali Haider-- and commissioning those on Saturday morning in Chittagong city.Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service, and may be regarded as a

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia is now on the way to Rajbari to join a mass rally on Saturday afternoon demanding cancelation of one-sided election and holding fair and participatory elections.The BNP chief’s motorcade left her Gulshan residence around

DHAKA: Candidates of the rulling Awami League would win in all upazilas in the second phase of Upazila Parishad polls if the administration would not have played an impartial role.Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed was addressing a meeting at the press club on Friday marking the International

RAJBARI: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit Rajbari on Saturday. She is expected to address a mass rally at Railway ground of the district.This will be Khaleda’s first visit outside Dhaka since January 5 national polls.BNP and its associate

LONDON: BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman is pressuring British politicians to intervene in the internal affairs of Bangladesh and take steps against the Awami League government.Some of his anti-government campaign has come to light. But the rest is hidden from the public eye.As

RAJBARI: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit Rajbari on March 1. She is expected to deliver a speech at a public rally at Railway Maydan of the district.This will be Khaleda’s first visit outside Dhaka since January 5 national polls.BNP and its

DHAKA: Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu Thursday said the government decided to search out the roots of those conducting terror activities in the name of religion in the country.Besides, strong measures have been taken to grab hijacked militants, he added.Amu came up with the

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-backed candidates won in fifty-one upazilas while ruling Awami League-backed aspirants won forty-four in the second phase of the 4th upazila polls.BNPThe BNP-backed aspirants won in Tetulia of Panchagar district, Ranishoingkal of Thakurgaon

DHAKA: The voting was postponed in 154 voting centres across the country due to violence in the second phase of fourth upazila polls on Thursday.  Of the centres, the highest numbers were 117 in Noakhali Sadar, 11 in Barisal Sadar, eight in Faridganj of Chandpur district, three in

DHAKA: Local BNP called daylong hartal at seven upazilas in different districts alleging vote rigging by administrations in the second phase of the fourth upazila polls on Thursday.Munsiganj: District BNP called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Sadar upazila for Saturday on charge of voting

NOAKHALI: The Election Commission has postponed the voting in all centers of Sadar upazila parisad elections on charges of occupying poling centers and vote manipulation Thursday.In an emergency meeting at the secretariat of EC at the noon, the EC took the decision of postponement of

MEHERPUR: At least 12 people, including law enforcers, were injured in an attack of Awami League activists over ballot box snatching incident at Bhabanipur polling center under Gangni upazila in the district on Thursday.Local sources said that activists of ruling Awami League beat police

MUNSHIGANJ: Some five people were injured in a clash between Awami League and BNP men centering upazila polls at Bhattacharyarbagh Primary School polling center under Sadar upazila in the district on Thursday.Local sources said that the activists of both the party locked into a clash over

SAVAR: Election Commission (EC) withdrew nine presiding officers appointed for second phase of fourth upazila parishad polls, for their alleged connection with Jamaat from Savar on Wednesday afternoon.Assistant Returning Officer of Savar upazila M Nazim Uddin, also upazila elections

SATKHIRA: Election Commission (EC) withdrew 11 Presiding Officers from Shyamnagar upazila of the district on Wednesday.Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Shyamnagar upazila confirmed the matter to banglanews.They were withdrawn after the order from the Election Commission. “We do not know

DHAKA: The 11th day of first session of the current parliament resumed at 4:54pm Wednesday.   The session started with speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.         Prime Minister along with opposition leader attended the session.         Earlier, deputy