BNP writes to CEC urging not to use EVM in next JS polls

BNP submits a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda urging him not to use Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in the next general election.
22 May 2017, 07:35 AM

SC order on Khaleda’s ‘mine graft’ May 28

The Supreme Court is to deliver its verdict on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s appeal against her trial in Barapukuria coalmine graft case on May 28.
22 May 2017, 06:37 AM

North Korea declares medium-range missile ready for deployment

North Korea declares its medium-range Pukguksong-2 missile ready for deployment after a weekend test.
22 May 2017, 04:48 AM

Trump lashes out at Iran during Jerusalem visit

US President Donald Trump travels to Jerusalem to seek ways to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace, but also uses the visit to again lash out at Iran.
22 May 2017, 04:31 AM

Gulshan office raid a part of ‘nasty politics’: Khaleda

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia says that the police raid at her Gulshan office in Dhaka is a kind of “nasty politics”.
21 May 2017, 12:25 PM

Raid at Khaleda’s office based on info: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says the police raid at BNP Chief Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office was carried out following intelligence reports.
21 May 2017, 09:56 AM

Khaleda’s office raid: Fakhrul demands home minister’s resignation

Terming yesterday’s police raid at BNP chief’s Gulshan office “illegal”, the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir demands the home minister’s resignation.
21 May 2017, 07:52 AM

PM accorded warm reception in Saudi Arabia

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is accorded a warm reception as she arrived Saudi Arabia on a four-day official visit to join the Arab Islamic-American (AIA) Summit at the invitation of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
21 May 2017, 04:42 AM

Khaleda calls BNP standing committee meeting

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will hold an emergency meeting of standing committee at her Gulshan office.
20 May 2017, 18:14 PM

[WATCH] What really happened during cop raid at BNP Gulshan office?

After entering the office, the police officials turned off the CCTV cameras and also damaged some of the cameras, Rashed Ahmed, an employee of Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office, says.
20 May 2017, 09:33 AM

Trump starts foreign tour in Saudi as scandals mount at home

US President Donald Trump lands in Saudi Arabia for the start of an eight-day foreign tour, taking his first steps on the world stage as scandals mount at home.
20 May 2017, 08:50 AM

Fired FBI chief Comey to testify publicly in Congress

James Comey, the former FBI chief fired by President Donald Trump, agrees to publicly testify about Russian interference in the US elections, as fresh allegations increases pressure on the American leader.
20 May 2017, 08:28 AM

Khaleda’s Gulshan office raid: BNP announces countrywide demo tomorrow

BNP will stage a demonstration across the country tomorrow protesting today’s police raid at its party chief’s Gulshan office in Dhaka. Police in the morning conducted the raid for one and a half hours starting at 8:30am.
20 May 2017, 08:27 AM

BNP leaders slam govt for raid at Khaleda’s office

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir comes down heavily on the government over police raid at Gulshan office of the party chief Khaleda Zia.
20 May 2017, 06:19 AM

BNP’s ‘Vision 2030’ actually AL’s reproduction: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina thanks BNP for announcing Vision 2030 shunning the path of destructive politics but criticises it for copying Awami League's Vision 2021 and 2041.
20 May 2017, 04:59 AM

Khaleda’s Gulshan office raided

Police conduct a raid at Gulshan office of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Dhaka. A team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police conducted the raid at the party office for one and a half hours starting at 8:30am.
20 May 2017, 03:58 AM

BNP hits back at govt for putting journos on radar

Criticising the government’s directives to monitor the activities of Bangladeshi journalists abroad, the BNP says this directive is “manifestation of the one party government”.
19 May 2017, 10:39 AM

Be careful about your party men, BNP tells PM

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed calls up Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to be careful about the people around her.
18 May 2017, 15:48 PM

BNP's only work is to harm people: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says BNP indulges in plundering when comes to power and burns people to death when goes to the opposition.
18 May 2017, 14:33 PM

Students vandalise vehicles as cops foil demo at Shahbagh

Students vandalise 10 vehicles when police foiled their processions at Shahbagh in Dhaka.
18 May 2017, 08:17 AM