Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee

Seemingly emboldened by prime minister's remarks about Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Monday, ruling Awami League leaders are now demanding the CJ's resignation.

Everyone thought she was dead and so was kept with dead bodies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. But she survived proving doctors and rescuers wrong.

The clock struck 3 in the afternoon of August 21, 2004. At Sudha Sadan, the residence of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, preparations were underway to head for Bangabandhu Avenue where the party was holding an anti-militancy rally.

Ruling Awami League and its political arch-rival BNP are sensing the new polarisation in politics ahead of the upcoming general election and they see it as a positive sign for democracy.

The government has decided in principle to launch a permanent prosecution service with professional lawyers, by abolishing the long-standing practice of appointing partisan people as public prosecutors.

If you google Bangladesh Chhatra League, you will find numerous awful images of incidents involving the pro-Awami League student body. Google can aggregate those pictures as they were published in various sites, including that of news outlets. Such incidents have resulted in, according to media reports, over 125 deaths in the last eight years with the latest casualty being a BCL activist in Sylhet yesterday.

Two years ago, BJP, the ruling party in India, claimed to be the world's largest political party with 8.8 crore members, surpassing the Communist Party of China, which has 8.6 crore.

Secretaries at a meeting with the prime minister yesterday requested the government to provide them with various facilities like vehicles, residences and house helps even after their retirement, said sources.

Some partners of the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday expressed their annoyance over price hike of daily essentials and poor government services, said sources present in the alliance's meeting yesterday.

Leaders of major political parties used the Eid holidays to campaign for the parliamentary elections scheduled for 2019.

The foreign ministry owes the home ministry Tk 3,786 crore which Bangladesh embassies and missions collected in passport and visa processing fees. The dues have accumulated over 16 years, and now the home ministry has asked the finance ministry to make the foreign ministry pay up.

The proposed budget brings some good news for war heroes.

The ruling Awami League is considering floating a new front, which will be the party's religious wing with representatives from Islamic scholars and thinkers.

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said divisions have been created within the ruling party because of infiltration by BNP-Jamaat men, and blamed some of her party lawmakers for this.

When the Awami League sits for a special extended meeting of the party at the Gono Bhaban today, party ministers and lawmakers may expect some rebuke from the grassroots leaders.

The “Vision 2030” unveiled by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was nothing but “a joke and an attempt to deceive the nation”, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

The ruling Awami League has taken the polls to seven city corporations quite seriously as, by winning those, it wants to boost the morale of party activists ahead of the 11th national polls.

The celebration of Eid will be more joyous for the freedom fighters as the government has decided to give them Eid bonuses.

Even a few years ago, metal objects in the shapes of tridents, crescents, stars and roosters could be seen on the roofs of buildings. They are hardly seen anymore.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she had suggested Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha either remove the statue of Greek Goddess Themis from the Supreme Court premises or reinstall it at another place so that it cannot be seen from the National Eidgah.