Rashidul Hasan

The BNP will not go for any confrontation or movement right now even if it doesn't get permission for a rally to observe the January 5 as

The BNP gained huge political mileage contesting the municipality polls as the polls have “exposed that this government and the Election Commission cannot hold free and fair elections”, sources in the BNP said quoting party chief Khaleda Zia.

Thirteen monitoring teams of BNP are “positively reporting” to Khaleda Zia that party men are gradually joining the municipality electioneering “braving fears of arrest and harassment,” sources said.

The Islami Oikya Jote and the Jomiat-e-Ulamaye Islam, two components of the BNP-led 20-party alliance, are under “huge pressure” from the government to quit the opposition platform, according to their leaders and other sources.

The BNP yesterday received a poor response from the top leaders of the 20-party alliance for jointly taking part in the campaign of the

In her 72 statements on three national days, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia never mentioned the words Pakistani occupation army, Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams, who committed barbaric atrocities during the war.

Like in the past, BNP chief Khaleda Zia and Jamaat acting secretary general Shafiqur Rahman in their statements on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day did not name the Pakistan army and their local collaborators or mention their roles in the killing of intellectuals.

The BNP this time would stand ground and not boycott the polls “no matter what”, the party's national standing committee decided last night.

Even though Abul Kayes Ripon holds a top post in Feni district Awami League, he could not run for mayor in Feni municipality as an independent since his local MP's men did not let him.

Awami League lawmaker Nizam Uddin Hajari yesterday gave Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan a lavish welcome in Feni on the

The BNP has finalised its mayoral contenders for the December 30 municipality polls that it sees as an opportunity to "fight back" from its worst ever situation since birth in 1978.

Former BNP leader Nazmul Huda is not done with his political venture just yet.

The BNP is worried about finding suitable candidates for the upcoming municipality polls as over 500 of its prospective contenders

The police and the Dhaka University authorities are repeatedly asking the father of slain Faisal Arefin Dipan to file a case in connection with the murder. But Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq, a supernumerary professor of the DU, sticks to his earlier position that he wouldn't take legal actions.

BNP Dhaka city unit joint convener MA Quayum yesterday claimed his fear of being framed by the government in the case over the killing of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella had finally come true.

About 25 minutes before the blasts on the Hossaini Dalan premises, a child volunteer saw a youth handing a bag over to another youth over the wall of a tin-shed building about 150 yards away from the main entrance.

The condition of BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who is being treated in the US for cancer in the rib, has been deteriorating since the last couple of months.

The BNP is going to bring changes to the party's national standing committee and associate organisations, say party insiders. On advice of her elder son and BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman, party Chief Khaleda Zia, now in the UK, has finalised the names of future presidents and general secretaries of the party's front organisations, including Jubo Dal, Swechchhasebak Dal and Krishak Dal.

The BNP has decided in principle to form a “think tank” comprising like-minded intellectuals, professionals and experts that would give

A meeting of the parliamentary committee on public undertakings could not be held yesterday at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban as there