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Don’t allow any injustice, PM tells cops
P Hasina asks police to deal with injustice with strong hands even if it is done by any politically influential person. She advises police to communicate with her if the offender is a leader of Awami League.
27 January 2016, 08:55 AM
Sedition case: Summons hung at Khaleda’s Gulshan house
Court officials hung a notice at the main entrance of Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan residence summoning the BNP chief in a sedition case.
26 January 2016, 13:13 PM
JP not seen as opposition in JS: GM Quader
Newly appointed Jatiya Party Co-Chairman GM Quader says people do not consider the party as an opposition in the parliament and stresses the need for his party's ministers to step down from the cabinet.
26 January 2016, 09:01 AM
Political failure, hence case against Khaleda: Fakhrul
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the government has resorted to filing false cases as it has failed to tackle BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia politically.
26 January 2016, 07:06 AM
Quader, Hawlader appointments: Ershad convenes joint meeting
Amid pressure from opponents in the party, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad convenes a joint meeting on January 31 to discuss appointment of GM Quader as JP co-chair and removal of Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu from the secretary general post.
25 January 2016, 14:47 PM
BNP to be thrown into dustbin of history: Ashraf
Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam says BNP will be thrown into the dustbin of history if it fails to accept the truth.
25 January 2016, 13:29 PM
Sedition suit against Khaleda a mockery: Fakhrul
On the note of the sedition lawsuit against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says “it is nothing but a mockery”.
25 January 2016, 07:11 AM
Noman’s graft trial to continue, SC rules
The appellate division upholds a High Court verdict that cleared way for a lower court to run trial against BNP leader Abdullah Al Noman in a graft case.
25 January 2016, 05:05 AM
Court summons Khaleda on Mar 3 following sedition suit
A Dhaka court summons BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on March 3 over a sedition suit filed by a Supreme Court lawyer for her statement regarding the number of martyrs in Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War.
25 January 2016, 04:05 AM
US envoy to meet Khaleda tomorrow
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat will call on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at the latter’s Gulshan residence in Dhaka.
24 January 2016, 14:13 PM
Amit Shah re-elected as BJP president
Amit Shah has been re-elected president of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the next three years.
24 January 2016, 12:57 PM
Municipal polls: AL rebels to face show-cause notice
Awami League decides to issue show-cause notice asking to its rebel candidates in the recently held municipality polls to explain as to why they would not be expelled from the party permanently.
24 January 2016, 12:17 PM
No chance to change decision, Ershad writes Raushan
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad turns down the call of Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and party’s senior presidium member Raushan Ershad to ‘reconsider’ his decision that brought changes in top posts.
24 January 2016, 10:55 AM
Quitting cabinet: Ershad seeks to meet PM for talks
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad and his wife Raushan Ershad have sought the prime minister’s appointment for talks on resignation of the party’s leaders from the cabinet.
24 January 2016, 10:34 AM
BNP urges govt to lower oil prices
BNP urges the government to adjust prices of all fuel oils in line with the plunge in the global market.
23 January 2016, 16:04 PM
I can’t dishonour PM: Ershad
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad says he does not want to dishonour Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by leaving from the post of her special envoy.
23 January 2016, 12:00 PM
CJ's remark jolted govt's base, says BNP
BNP senior leader Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman says Chief Justice (CJ) SK Sinha's recent remark on signing and writing judgement after retirement has shaken the foundation of the current government like a tremor.
22 January 2016, 11:48 AM
Khaleda to sit with senior leaders tomorrow
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia expects to hold a meeting with her party’s National Standing Committee members tomorrow to discuss the country’s latest political situation and to fix the party’s strategies to ensure victory in the upcoming Union Parishad polls.
22 January 2016, 06:50 AM
Mosharaff hospitalised with chest pain
Senior BNP leader and standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain is admitted to a hospital in Dhaka with chest pain.
21 January 2016, 08:21 AM
Changes to bring back spirit in JP activities: Ershad
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad says he brought new faces to the party’s top positions to bring back the spirit in its organisational activities.
20 January 2016, 14:17 PM