Awami League (AL) on Saturday nominated ex-Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) president Atiqul Islam to contest by-election to DNCC mayoral post scheduled for February 28. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader made the announcement. The nominations were finalized at a joint meeting of the AL Local Government Election Nomination Board and Parliamentary Board…

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has been reappointed as her honorary Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adviser. The premier appointed him under the power of Rules of Business 1996 3(B)x(i). Joy, as a part-timer and unpaid, will work for his mother Sheikh Hasina as per her direction and suggestions. The appointment has been confirmed in a notification signed…

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Tuesday said polls irregularities took place in 47 out of 50 constituencies it surveyed during the latest national election. The constituencies were selected randomly, said the primary report of TIB published at its Dhanmondi office. TIB reported the casting of fraudulent votes at one or more centres of 41 constituencies and ballot stuffing in 33 constituencies.…

Jatiya Oikyafront chief and Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain is set to hold a press conference this afternoon. He will hold the press conference at the party’s Motijheel headquarters around 4pm in the capital. Gono Forum’s media coordinator Lotiful Bari Hamim has confirmed the news. The Oikyafront’s key leader is likely to talk about the overall political atmosphere after the…

Awami League General-Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges   Minister Obaidul Quader has said that we have to take the country forward following the way shown by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The minister said this after paying tributes to Bangabandhu's portrait at Dhanmondi in the city on the occasion of his home coming day on Thursday He said, “Awami…

Jaitya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Sunday took oath as a member of the 11th Parliament. Earlier, Ershad went to the Parliament in a wheelchair. After taking oath he left the Parliament building in the same wheelchair. UNB adds : Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath at Parliament Bhaban around 12:30 pm, said a Parliament Secretariat handout. Ershad was elected MP from Rangpur-3…

The 71th founding anniversary of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of ruling Awami League, is being observed today. The programme was inaugurated by cutting a cake on the premises of Curzon Hall on Dhaka University (DU) campus at 8:00 am. Before that, leaders and activists of BCL placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Bangabandhu Bhaban at 7:00 am. On…

Former Awami League General Secretary and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam died at a hospital in Bangkok on Thursday night. He was 68.unb.

HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party (JP) is again likely to become the main opposition in the 11th Parliament. Most JP leaders are still upset over the election results as they failed to get their intended seats, even though they begged the Awami League (AL) for them. Some JP senior leaders revealed this to The Independent yesterday. The JP bagged 22 seats as part of the Awami League-led Grand Alliance in…

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday alleged that BNP is resorting to lies over Khaleda’s illness to confuse people. “Dhaka’s civil surgeon has already visited Khaleda Zia in jail and said she’s doing fine… BNP is spreading lies over her sickness,” he said. Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister, came up with the remarks while…

A Dhaka court on Thursday cancelled BNP chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s bail and issued arrest warrants against her in two graft cases, reports UNB. The graft cases - Zia Orphanage graft case and Zia Charitable Trust graft case -were filed in 2008 during the military-propelled emergency government. Dhaka Special Court-5 judge Md Akhtaruzzaman passed the order rejecting a…

The BNP failed to distribute relief materials among Rohingya refugees for the second day on Thursday due to obstruction by the law enforcement agencies. Cox's Bazar district BNP President and former MP Shahjahan Chowdhury told media that the relief materials have been kept in the district BNP office at the direction by the central leaders. Measures will be taken on receiving  central direction,…

Earlier on August 5, 2015, the High Court dismissed two petitions, including one seeking stay on the trial proceedings, submitted by the BNP chief. "Today the High Court rejected dismissed petitions of Khaleda Zia and disposed of a ruling it had passed earlier in this regard. The court has removed all the lagal bars to continue proceedings of the case," Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) counsel…