DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the youth front of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), called a rally across the country Sunday (May 21), to stage protest over the police search at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday (May 20). Jubo Dal Secretary General Sultan Salahuddin Tuku

DHAKA: A team of Gulshan thana police carried out a search at BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office on early Saturday (May 20). They, however, found no evidence to charge with sedition after searching the office for almost two hours from 7:30 am. Gulshan police

DHAKA: Police on early Saturday (May 20) carried out a search at Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office, to check whether there was any evidence or document of seditious activities.  Gulshan police station officer-in-charge (OC) Abu Bakar

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League will start its preparation for 11th national parliament election through the extended party meeting to be held on Saturday (May 20), said its secretary general Obaidul Quader. Quader said this while speaking at a newsreel exhibition and discussion marking the

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) issued an arrest warrant against Abdul Momin Talukder alias Khoka, 65, a former lawmaker from BNP for Bogra constituency 3, for crimes against humanity during the Liberation war in 1971.  After hearing, a 2-member ICT tribunal led by

DHAKA: A Dhaka court sent BNP joint secretary general Barkatullah Bulu to jail after he surrendered before the court on Thursday (May 18).   The BNP leader surrendered before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court in the morning, seeking bail in several cases filed against him for

DHAKA: The High Court has also granted BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s plea for transferring the trial court for the Zia Charitable Trust graft case, and asked the fresh court to dispose of the trial proceedings within 60 days. The HC bench of Justice M. Enayetur Rahim and Justice

RAJSHAHI: The BNP men locked into factional clash during their party meting at the same venue in Rajshahi on Tuesday (May 16), a day after another clash of two rival groups of the party.    The incident happened at about 11:30 am at Uttara Community Centre in Rajshahi city in the

RAJSHAHI: Two rival groups of the BNP locked into a factional clash during the party’s Rajshahi city unit activists’ conference at the Uttara Community Centre in the city on Monday (May 15). The incident happened at about 5:00 pm in presence of the party’s senior leaders,

DHAKA: A Dhaka court has fixed June 13 for submitting the probe report in the case filed over plotting to kidnap and kill Prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and her ICT advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy. Earlier court fixed May 15 for the report submission; however, no report was submitted in

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has pleaded in the High Court to change the trial court for the Zia Charitable Trust graft case, citing lack of confidence in the judge. Her application was submitted to the High Court's concerned wing on Monday (April 15), a day after the HC

JESSORE: At least seven people were injured in a clash between the local leaders and activists of Awami League and BNP, over derogatory remarks against the Prime Minister in Keshabpur upazila.  The incident took place at Pazia Bazar area in the upazila at around 9:30 pm Sunday (May

JESSORE: At least seven people were injured in a clash between the local leaders and activists of Awami League and BNP, over derogatory remarks against the Prime Minister in Keshabpur upazila.  The incident took place at Pazia Bazar area in the upazila at around 9:30 pm Sunday (May

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC) will finalize the roadmap for the 11th Parliamentary elections on May 23. EC Secretary Mohammad Abdullah said this while talking to the journalists at his office at the EC’s Secretariat at Agargaon in the city on Sunday noon (May 14). Mohammad

DHAKA: The High Court has once again granted BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s plea for transferring the trial court, where her Zia Orphanage Trust graft case is on the trial proceedings, to another court. The HC bench of Justice Md Shawkat Hossain and Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder

DHAKA: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said they support voting in EVM system in next polls. Obaidul Quader said this at the council meeting of the fourth class government employees association at Mahanagar Natyamancha in the city on Saturday (May 13). He said,

DHAKA: BNP vice-chairman and former state minister Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku has been released on bail. He was freed from Dhaka Central Jail on Friday morning (May 12). Later, he was admitted to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for treatment, said BNP

DHAKA: BNP will hold a day-long seminar on “Education System of Bangladesh and Our future” at the Ladies Club in the city on Saturday (May 13). Former President and Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh chief Prof Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury is expected to join the inaugural session of the

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League has rejected the ‘Vision 2030’ placed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, and claimed that the BNP chief duplicated the vision of the ruling party. “The 37-point Vision 2030 of Khaleda Zia is nothing but mercenary, substandard, double-minded, idiotic

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia unfolded her party’s ‘Vision 2030’ at a press conference at the Westin hotel in Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon (May 10), featuring 37-point proposals.   She said shat the sole executive power of the prime minister in the existing system makes the