BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Friday said the government and the Election Commission can decide whether the Awami League should be banned or barred from the election. "Whether the Awami League will be banned or not is not a matter for the BNP to decide. It is up to the government and t
Protesters who gathered in front of the State Guest House Jamuna, the official residence of the chief advisor, to continue pushing for the banning of the Awami League have offered Jummah prayers at the protest location ahead of a “mass gathering”. Most of the protesters were located in
Ilias Kanchan, chairman of the newly formed ‘Janata Party of Bangladesh,’ has expressed his party’s full support for the ongoing student movement to ban Awami League (AL). In a video message from London, he expressed this solidarity with the students on Friday morning. He current
China is not involved with the UN initiative to channel aid supplies into Myanmar's Rakhine State from Bangladesh, says the Chinese envoy, also reaffirming their stand on noninterference in internal affairs. Speaking at a function Thursday in Dhaka, the Chinese Ambassador in Bangladesh, Yao Wen, a
Students and the public have started a sit-in programme in front of the Jamuna, the residence of the chief advisor, demanding that the Awami League be tried as a genocide perpetrator and that the party be banned. The programme began at 10 pm on Thursday (May 8) under the leadership of NCP's chief
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned British MP Tulip Siddiq, the niece of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to question her in a case that alleges she unlawfully received a flat from Eastern Housing Limited in Dhaka’s Gulshan area. The anti-graft watchdog asked her to appea
Information and Broadcasting Advisor Mahfuz Alam said, Awami League will be tried as a party. Tribunal-2 to be formed to expedite trialHe said this in a post on his verified Facebook ID on Thursday (May 8), according to local media. In a recent Facebook post, Information and Broadcasting Adviser M
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), buoyed by momentum after the political changeover last year, has set an ambitious goal to enrol more than 10 million new members within two months. Speaking at a media briefing on Thursday, Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the campaign w
More than a decade after the deadly Shapla Square crackdown on mass gathering of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, leaders of the National Citizen Party (NCP) have called for demanded an independent investigation for ensuring justice and state recognition of 'Martyrs'. At a discussion titled "A Decade s
BNP acting Chairman Tarique Rahman's wife Dr Zubaida Rahman returned to her homeland on Tuesday after nearly 17 years of exile. The air at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport was thick with emotion as thousands of BNP supporters, holding her photos, waving flags and chanting slogans, gathered f
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman will return home very soon to lead what the party calls the final phase of the struggle to restore democracy in Bangladesh, said BNP Standing Committee member Dr AZM Zahid Hossain on Tuesday. "Zubaida Rahman arrived today... the day is not far off when our acting
After 17 years in exile, Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, along with her mother-in-law Khaleda Zia and late Arafat Rahman Koko’s wife Syeda Sharmila Rahman, is moving towards her Gulshan residence from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. A vehicle with Khale
The National Citizen Party (NCP) on Tuesday attended talks with the National Consensus Commission for the second consecutive day. A four-member NCP delegation, led by its member secretary Akhtar Hossain, participated in the dialogue that began at 10:40 am, with Consensus Commission Vice Chairman P
