BNP
Ekramul murder: Stay on Minar’s bail extended
The Supreme Court extends for two weeks its earlier stay order on bail of BNP leader Mahtab Uddin Minar in Feni’s Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque murder case.
24 March 2016, 07:29 AM
BNP won't quit
The BNP will stay in the union parishad elections so that it can expose “the real face of the Awami League and the Election Commission”.
23 March 2016, 18:00 PM
BNP blasts CEC for polls remarks
BNP lambastes the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) for yesterday’s comment that the first phase of the Union Parishad election was largely fair and acceptable.
23 March 2016, 13:18 PM
UP polls: AL wins 356 chairman posts, BNP 30
Awami League-backed chairman candidates won elections in 356 union parishads while contestants from its arch rival BNP’s camp won in 30.
23 March 2016, 09:29 AM
Govt is holding a farcical election: BNP
BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleges that the government held a farcical election “under a partisan election commission”.
22 March 2016, 08:48 AM
Man killed in Jhalakathi, polling officers shot in Noakhali
Two presiding officers are shot in Noakhali as reports of gunfire came from voting centres in Patuakhali and Satkhira during the first phase of union parishad elections.
22 March 2016, 03:39 AM
AL distorted Khaleda’s statement: Fakhrul
BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claims that ruling Awami League distorted Khaleda Zia’s statement to mislead the people.
21 March 2016, 08:12 AM
Charges pressed on Fakhrul, 33 others in violence case
Paltan police has submitted charge sheet against BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 33 others in a violence case of last year.
21 March 2016, 07:52 AM
BNP high-ups were in dark
Khaleda Zia's new government model, unveiled at the BNP's council on Saturday, took many of her party's policymakers by surprise as they claimed to have been kept in the dark about it until its disclosure.
20 March 2016, 18:00 PM
BNP councilors endorse Khaleda, Tarique re-election
Councilors of BNP approve Khaleda Zia and her elder son Tarique Rahman as chairperson and senior vice-chairman of the party respectively through the party’s sixth national council in Dhaka.
19 March 2016, 13:37 PM
BNP unveils plan for ‘rainbow nation’ by 2030
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia unveils her party’s ‘Vision 2030 Plan’ to turn the country into a higher middle income nation. Addressing the BNP’s sixth national council, Khaleda briefly described the plan.
19 March 2016, 05:11 AM
Will BNP think for a change?
The BNP holds its national council today with the theme of freeing democracy from captivity, but democratic practice in its own home has remained absent since its birth in 1978.
18 March 2016, 18:00 PM
BNP may amend charter to denounce extremism
The BNP is likely to amend its declaration and charter to clear its stance on religious extremism, amid criticisms at home and abroad for its alleged leniency towards militancy and radicalism.
17 March 2016, 18:00 PM
BNP seeks govt cooperation for council
BNP seeks “all-out cooperation” from the government to make the party’s sixth national council a success.
17 March 2016, 13:19 PM
Govt trying to protect people behind BB reserve heist: BNP
BNP terms “very mysterious” the filing of a case against anonymous people 40 days after the heist of US$101 million from the central bank’s reserve account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
16 March 2016, 12:29 PM
Khaleda invites Hasina, Ashraf to BNP council
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia invites Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam to her party’s sixth national council scheduled to be held on March 19.
16 March 2016, 12:20 PM
Khaleda calls top leaders ahead of council
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened a meeting of the party’s top policy-making body – the standing committee – tomorrow ahead of its national council on March 19.
16 March 2016, 09:50 AM
Bribery case against Tarique to go ahead
The High Court clears the way for trial court to run the trial proceedings against BNP leader Tarique Rahman and three others in a case filed on charge of bribery.
16 March 2016, 06:53 AM
Govt should quit over BB reserve heist: BNP
BNP demands Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government's resignation over the recent heist from Bangladesh Bank account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
15 March 2016, 13:55 PM
SC stays Mirza Abbas’ release from jail
BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas’ bail in a graft case has been stayed for a week by the Supreme Court, thereby halting his release from prison.
14 March 2016, 04:57 AM