DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia said no polls will be held under Sheikh Hasina government and reiterated her party’s demand for army deployment and poll-time neutral government. She made the remarks while addressing as chief guest at the BNP rally held in Dhaka’s Suhrawardy

DHAKA: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that no election will be held in the country excluding BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Fakhrul was addressing the rally of his party at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka Sunday (November 12). “Ziaur Rahman introduced the

FROM JATIYA SANGSAD BHABAN: The 10th Jatiya Sangsad started its 18th and last  session of this year on Sunday afternoon (Nov 12). Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury as chairperson started the session around 4:10pm.  At the beginning of the session, Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia arrived at the rally being held in Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan on Sunday afternoon (Nov 12) marking the National Revolution and Solidarity Day. Earlier around 2:00pm Khaleda starts for Suhrawardy Udyan from her Gulshan residence. She reached the rally

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has begun its rally formally in city’s Suhrawardy Udyan with recitation from the Holy Quran. The rally started around 1:45pm on Sunday (November 12). Party’s metropolitan and central level leaders are seen delivering speech at the rally

DHAKA: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said the way opposition party BNP blocked roads in name of rally gives an insight that the country will collapse once they grab power. Quader, also Road Transport and Bridges minister, made the remark to reporters after the 25th

DHAKA: The authorities concerned have permitted the BNP to hold Sunday’s rally at  Suhrawardy Udyan in the city. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday (November 11) said that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has given permission to hold the rally on 23

BHOLA: Awami League senior leader and commerce minister Tofail Ahmed rules out any possibility of talks with BNP over the next general elections. The ruling party leader at a function in Bhola on Saturday (November 11) said that the next Parliamentary elections will be held as per the

DHAKA: The 18th session of the Jatiya Sangsad will begin on Sunday (November 12). The session of the current 10th Parliament will begin at 4:00 pm. It will be the last session for this year. Prior to beginning of the session, the meeting of the business advisory committee of the

DHAKA: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said if there was no democracy in the country then the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) conferences would not have been held.  Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister,

DHAKA: BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi commented that the government has kept the democracy confined with a vow to make the power unending. Rizvi was talking to the reporters after paying tribute by placing floral wreaths at Shaheed Noor Hossain Chattar in

DHAKA: BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed said that anarchy of the ruling party is not being stopped as the number of missing people increases day by day. He said this at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office on Thursday

DHAKA: The Election Commission has primarily decided to hold polls in four municipalities and at least 90 other institutions of the local government bodies on December 28.   The EC sources said that the polls schedule may be announced on November 12. According to the sources, polls

DHAKA:  Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader urged people not to disdain the historic 7th March Speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, rather use it with due reverence. As the chief guest, he made the remark while distributing books on ‘Bangabandhur Oshomapto

KUSHITA: A mobile court awarded ten days imprisonment to a local Awami League leader for entering an exam centre of Junior School Certificate (JSC) in Kushtia on Thursday (November 09). Ruhul Alam Biswas, organizing secretary of Mirpur upazila Awami League, along with some other

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday (Nov 9) adjourned till Nov 16 the hearing of BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s self defence statement in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. Earlier in the day, Khaleda appeared before Judge Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman of Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 in city’s

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday (November 9) rejected a plea filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking further cross-examination of 11 prosecution witnesses of Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. Khaleda sought directive to allow her lawyers for full

DHAKA UNIVERSITY: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said that BNP rally has no relation with democracy whether it exists or not in this country. He said while responding a question of reporters at a function at the National Museum in city’s Shahbagh on Wednesday

DHAKA: The High Court on Wednesday (November 08) commuted seven years rigorous imprisonment of former communications minister Barrister Nazmul Huda to four years for bribe charge. The higher court, however, upheld his wife Sigma Huda’s three years simple imprisonment in the same case

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the government will hopefully give all-out cooperation for organizing the party rally on Saturday (November 12), marking 'National Revolution and Solidarity Day'. He made the expectation at a press briefing after