Political news from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer and Leader of the Opposition in the National Parliament, Dr. Shafiqur Rahman, has stated that the opposition cannot remain silent in the face of the gove...
Banglapress Desk: After casting her ballot at Dhaka City College centre this morning, Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she believes in democracy and will accept the people’s mandate. “We believe in democracy and we will...
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...
Banglapress Desk: Road Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader has stated that the government has no plans to hold any dialogue with the opposition parties over their demand of fresh polls under nonpartisan caretaker government. Quader, also...
Banglapress Desk: Ailing leader of the opposition in parliament and Jatiya Party Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad was kept on oxygen support today at Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital (CMH). Quoting physicians, Jatiya Party acting chairman GM Quad...
Banglapress Desk: A Dhaka court on Sunday sent 30 BNP leaders and activists to jail in a case filed over a bomb attack on a train carrying then opposition leader and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina in 1994. Additional District and Sessions Jud...
Banglapress Desk: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the lawmakers who demanded "crossfire" for the rapists expressed their personal opinions at the parliament. “They expressed their own opinions, that is not the stance o...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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