CATEGORY: POLITICS

Oikyafront demands re-election

Banglapress Desk: Jatiya Oikyafront convener Dr Kamal Hossain today demanded re-election while briefing the media this evening. Rejecting the election result, Jatiya Oikyafront demanded election under a non-partisan interim government at the soones...

Frequent power outages worsen Khaleda’s ordeal, alleges BNP

Banglapress Online: BNP on Wednesday alleged that its chairperson Khaleda Zia has been undergoing a terrible ordeal in Old Dhaka Central Jail as she has to use hand fan and candle due to frequent power outages amid sultry weather. Besides, party secr...

Preparations underway for peaceful KCC polls: Returning Officer

All sorts of preparations are being taken to hold Khulna City Corporation (KCC) elections in a free, fair, transparent and credible way.  Returning Officer of KCC election Md Younus Ali on Friday said "we are taking all preparations to arrange a fai...

Won't tolerate violence, PM warns students

Asking students to refrain from resorting to vandalism in their educational institutions, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said the government will no longer tolerate such acts.  “Any sort of vandalism won’t be tolerated. It won’t happen that...

Look at Malaysian election’, Fakhrul to PM

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to look at the Malaysian national election as it has manifested that public opinion cannot be resisted by an undemocratic and corrupt government, reports U...

BNP plans to publish Khaleda’s biography

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said an biography of their chairperson Khaleda Zia, now in jail, is being written.  "An biography of her (Khaleda) is being written. We'll find many things in it that we many people don't k...

Jatiya Party MP AKM Maidul Islam passes away

AKM Maidul Islam, a Jatiya Party MP from Kurigram -3 constituency and also a former minister, died at a hospital in Dhaka due to lung complications on Thursday night. He was 76. The Kurigram MP breathed his last around 11:30 pm at the United Hospi...

Tk 2 lakh crore plundered from banking sector: Fakhrul

Accusing the ruling quarters of plundering Tk 2 lakh crore from the banking sector, BNP on Thursday warned the trial of the plunderers will be held someday in people's court. "The banking sector has now been in an unstable and anarchic condition for...