DHAKA: Speaker Advocate Abdul Hamid Saturday said that it would be a wrong decision if the main opposition BNP stayed away from the House during the upcoming budget session of parliament. ”Nothing happened. I hope they will join the session, attend budget dicussion and criticise the

Dhaka: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Friday again threw a challenge for the ruling Awami League to test their popularity in a midterm election.The demand came from a roundtable on ‘Democracy of Bangladesh and Ziaur Rahman’ arranged by National Youth Forum at

Dhaka: The ruling Awami League’s organizational regeneration drive appears to have lost gear, as its top leaders’ district tours and extended meetings remained half-done. After holding meetings in 52 districts, the programme now got stuck-up, party sources said. Awami League

DHAKA: The High Court Monday issued twin-rules upon the government and the Anti-Corruption Commission to explain within seven days why the notices served by the ACC to BNP chairperson and ex-PM Begum Khaleda Zia regarding two graft charges “should not be declared illegal”.The High

Dhaka: Senior joint secretary-general of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Saturday threw a challenge for an Awami League minister to prove their sweeping allegation that slain former president General Ziaur Rahman was a ‘spy’ of Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war. He

DHAKA:  A government leader Friday alleged that the opposition BNP is out with destructive programs like hartal to destabilize the country and thereby forestall the trial of war criminals.“But the ruling government must try the war criminals within its tenure, and the trial be a fair

Chittagong: The Election Commission Friday sent the list of candidates for the upcoming Chittagong City Corporation elections to Bangladesh Bank to check out any loan defaulter.District election officials said among the nomination-paper collectors, 45 percent didn’t submit their

DHAKA: Senior BNP leader Gayeswar Chandra Roy Friday made it a point that the government should first try the killings committed during the post-liberation era and Chhatra League-Jubo Leagues atrocities and then war criminals.   The comment of the BNP standing committee member, making

DHAKA: It was about 4:30pm while Mosharraf Mollah from Araihazar of Narayanganj was walking past the National Press Club. “I am carrying lunch for my sick mother admitted into Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University,” he says.Roads in downtown Dhaka were closed to buses and other

Dhaka: Police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) forces purged over 200 street children, vagrants and drug addicts out of the city to clear the decks for the grand rally of Bangladesh National Party (BNP).Police claimed they removed the waifs and strays to avert extra troubles, as ensuring

Chittagong: Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury will step down tomorrow (Thursday) at 10am to submit his nomination to stand in the forthcoming election for a fourth consecutive term as the candidate of Nagorik Committee.The mayor declared his decision Wednesday at a programme in the CCC

DHAKA: Opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia eventually kicked off a vigorous anti-government movement by calling a dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal for June 27. This is for the first time that the opposition BNP called for countrywide shutdown after the Awami League-led grand

Dhaka: Dhaka divisional grand rally of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) formally began at 2:05pm Wednesday at Paltan Maidan, with party faithful pouring in by their tens and thousands. BNP Chairperson and main opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia is likely to announce a set of

Dhaka: The hearing on the corruption case of making illegal wealth against Gayeshshar Chandra Roy, a member of BNP’s policymaking standing committee, was deferred again Tuesday.A Dhaka court dealing with the graft case set July 5 as the date for hearing after Gayeshshar’s lawyer

DHAKA: The opposition BNP forewarned the government Tuesday against any bid to hinder the holding of their grand rally in the capital Wednesday, saying that any such bad attempt would only boomerang.  “Any bid by the government to foil the grand rally would yield a boomerang effect,”

DHAKA: The opposition BNP is unlikely to join the upcoming budget session, a key leader of the aggrieved party said Monday, as they faced with the puzzling question whether to condone the ‘Baksal’ government or stay out on the street with the people.Opposition chief whip Joynul Abdin

Dhaka: Government’s police administration has arranged a three-pronged security umbrella for opposition BNP’s much-orchestrated grand rally on May 19 at Paltan Maidan in the capital, wherefrom former premier Begum Khaleda Zia could pronounce her party’s anti-government protests.

Dhaka: The counsel of former President and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad Monday cross-examined his divorced wife Bidisha in a family-feud case field with the Family Court of Dhaka for keeping custody of her son Eric.Judge Shammi Akhter later fixed June 1 as the next date for further

Dhaka: BNP chairman Begum Khaleda Zia left the capital in a motorcade on Wednesday morning for Barisal to address a grand rally in the southern city as part of her countrywide political campaign mission.  The caravan carrying the former premier, who now speaks of anti-government

Dhaka: Former State Minister for Education Ehsanul Hoque Milon Monday got an interim bail in a case filed by the Election Commission.   A High court bench of justice Siddiqur Rahman Mia and justice Krishna Devnath granted the three-month ad-interim bail to Ehsanul Hoque Milon. The High