Two activists of Jamaat-e-Islami are detained when they tried to vandalise vehicles from a rally in Mouchak area of Dhaka.

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the BNP elected "two accused" in its highest posts and termed the re-election of Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman as the party's chairperson and senior vice-chairman “a drama”.

The BNP was supposed to hold its national council more than three years ago to elect the party chief and other office bearers according to its charter. But it did not do so. Its failure allowed those who were either elected or picked by the chairperson in 2009 to continue holding their posts for three more years, which is equivalent to a fresh term.

She was married at 14 and had two children before she reached womanhood. The result is known -- both mother and babies are having different health problems.

Khaleda Zia has been reelected chairman and her son Tarique Rahman for the first time elected senior vice-chairman of the BNP for another three years.

The ruling Awami League's 62 chairman candidates have been elected unopposed in the first phase of union parishad (UP) polls.

Terming BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia a "confused leader", Awami League leader Mohammad Nasim yesterday said she had ruined her party as well as BNP-led opposition alliance.

Police recovered the body of a teenage domestic help from the capital's Kafrul yesterday.

Three alleged members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh are detained with 23 bombs in Baghmara upazila of Rajshahi, says Rapid Action Battalion.

None of the death sentences given to the 14 perpetrators of acid violence have been executed so far, said Selina Ahmed, executive

Observing that the Awami League has no strong opposition in politics right now, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader

Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan inaugurated three projects, including building of two ships, at FMC dockyard in

Police in different drives yesterday arrested three alleged robbers and six alleged snatchers in Chittagong city and

Ahmed Kamal, younger brother of late president and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman, yesterday said he was likely to launch a new political party within a year or two.

A preteen boy was killed and 12 others were injured when a stunt biker lost control and careened into a crowd of

The BNP has announced that it would hold its 6th national council scheduled for March 19 at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB).

A Dhaka court yesterday asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to appear before it on April 10 in a sedition case filed against her over her remarks on the number of Liberation War martyrs.

Given that birth defects are a leading cause of death of an overwhelmingly large number of babies, experts put

Police till yesterday could not arrest the alleged accused of the double murder occurred in Finringi Bazar area of

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her son, party's Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman, are going to be elected uncontested to their respective posts as nobody collected nomination forms to contest the posts yesterday, the scheduled day for collecting nomination forms of those posts.