Khaleda to appear before court Feb 1 A Dhaka court on Monday asked BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to appear before it on February 1 in 10 different cases. The Judge, Kamrul Hossain Mollah, set the date after hearing separate petitions submitted by her lawyer Md Sanaullah Miah. Earlier on December 1 last, the court fixed January 9 for the charge framing of 10 different cases against BNP chairperson…

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) calls a nationwide protest on Sunday for not giving permission in Suhrawardy Udyan on the occasion of tenth national election anniversary. Party's senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced at a press conference at the central office in Nayapaltan on Saturday. According to the program, every district and city across the country and each…

Dhaka: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that the government wants to push the party men towards a conflict by creating obstruction on holding programmes marking the January 5, 2014, national election. “We don’t believe in politics of confrontation rather changeover of power through voting,” he said. The BNP leader said this while addressing a…

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday accused Awami League of annihilating democracy and voting rights on January 5, 2014, and urged all to take a vow to establish a pro-people government. On the day of stanching democracy and voting rights, on January 5, take a pledge to install a government of people, she tweeted in Bengali. Khaleda posted the message on her tweeter account when she was staying…

BNP demands fair probe into DNCC market fire BNP on Wednesday demanded a neutral probe involving experts into the Gulshan DNCC market fire to ascertain whether it was a premeditated one. “The businessmen and those who were running shops here are in doubt the fire incident might have been a preplanned one. A fair investigation is necessary to unearth the reason and find out those responsible…

Ruling Awami League general secretary on Sunday blamed the radical forces for the killing of Gaibandha lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton. “The Gaibandha-Sundarganj lawmaker was killed in a planned manner. It seemed that the fundamentalists were behind the murder,” Quader told reporters at a briefing after the meeting. “Fundamentalist groups will have to pay the price heavily,”…

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said their party did not join the Zila Parishad polls as it was ‘contradictory’ to the Constitution, UNB reports. “There’s a direction in the Constitution for holding the local body polls with direct balloting (of common people). But, the current zila parishad election is indirect one,” he said. The BNP leader…

Detective branch (DB) of police detained Hummam Quader Chowdhury, son of executed war criminal and BNP leader Salaudding Quader Chowdhury from Dhaka Judge Court premises today.  The detainee’s family claimed in the afternoon but the law enforcing agency did not acknowledge it yet.  Private secretary of Hummam, Minhaj Uddin Chowdhury Sibly said that members of detective branch (DB)…

Thursday, the June 23, is the 67th founding anniversary of the ruling Awami League. Floated on this day in 1949, Awami League has been transformed into a mass organisation of the people of the country by leading all the democratic- political-social-cultural movements including the long arduous freedom struggle and the War of Liberation. Talking to BSS on the eve of the party's founding anniversary,…

1/11, an occurrence happened in 2007 jerking the whole political system of Bangladesh. Most of the political party specially Awami League and BNP had experienced an immense setback in that time. Awami League, the main rival of BNP revives from that impede but BNP is still languishing after the 9 years of that episode. In fact, doubt and disbelieve of 1/11 are the main cause which pulling back BNP.…

Terming the arrest of thousands of people in the week-long combing operation unlawful, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that it has been carried out with a political motive, reports UNB. “Thousands of devoted Muslims along with opposition leaders and activists have been implicated in false cases. Around 12,000 people have been arrested in the combing operation.…

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday announced its countrywide demonstrations for Saturday protesting at ‘mass arrest in the name of anti-militant drive.’ BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a briefing at the party central office, also urged the Supreme Court to issue ruling suo moto, asking the government to stop mass arrest and extrajudicial killings so that…

The High Court on Wednesday upheld the penalty of six people in the case filed over assassinating Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master in Tongi in May 2004. The six are Nurul Islam Sarkjer, Nurul Islam Dipu, Mahbubur Rahman, Shahidul Islam Situ, Hafiz alias Kana Hafiz and Sohag alias Suruj. On May 7 in 2004, gunmen shot and killed Ahsanullah, also the president of Jatiya Sramik League, and Omar…