The Election Commission yesterday launched a countrywide campaign to update the voter list when the number of women voters is decreasing due to social and religious grounds and the absence of door-to-door drive over the last two years.

Under an orchestrated plan, BNP leaders are making ill-efforts to create confusion in people’s minds by misconstruing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s comments over the successful construction of Padma Bridge, said Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader.

The BNP yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s remark about pushing the party’s Chairperson Khaleda Zia into the river from the Padma bridge was tantamount to a “death threat”.

BNP has expelled Cumilla City Corporation mayoral candidate Monirul Huq Sakku from the party.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (May 18, 2022) said BNP has no right to speak about elections as they tainted the election process during their tenures.

The BNP will take strong punitive measures against the party men running for Cumilla City Corporation mayor as the party is hell-bent on not contesting any polls under the incumbent government.

The Awami League’s hints at an all-EVM national polls will only raise the BNP’s distrust of the ruling party, political analysts have said.

Two policemen, including Sylhet Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge, were injured after activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir attacked them in Sylhet city this afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated that she returned to Bangladesh with only one goal: to put smiles back on the faces of people.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday said Bangladesh seems to have become a paradise for money launderers.

BNP yesterday warned that the country is going to face an acute crisis due to shortage of food and soaring prices of daily essentials.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday said they will not allow connecting sewerage lines -- the main polluter of Dhaka city’s canals and waterbodies -- to the corporation’s storm-water drains from July 1.

Today is the 42nd homecoming day of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The council of Chattogram south district unit of Awami League will be held by September, the party’s joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said yesterday. He made the announcement while addressing the grassroots representatives conference organised by the AL unit at a convention centre in the port city.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday urged party leaders and activists to continue movements to restore democracy through the 2023 elections.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said repeated attempts were made to remove the name of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from history and thus the nation was deprived of knowing the real history since 1975.

The council of Chattogram south district unit of Awami League will be held by September, the party's Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said today.

BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy yesterday said the party will soon unveil the outline of a united movement for the “restoration” of democracy.

To strengthen the party ahead of the next parliamentary election, BNP has focused on strengthening the grassroots in Chattogram by forming new committees in various organisational units.

Commemorating the historic 1971-Concert for Bangladesh, the ICT Ministry organized, at the same Madison Square Garden, another concert, evoking the precedence of 'melody for humanity' set by the world's all-time best musicians, said Prime Minister's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy.