NARAYANGANJ: BNP called dawn-to-dusk hartal at Araihazar upazila in the district for Tuesday in protest against vote rigging.Upazila BNP President Baruzzaman Khan Khasru made the announcement on Monday noon.He brought allegation of casting fake votes, occupying polling centres and ousting

CHUADANGA: The 19-party called half-day hartal Sadar and Alamdanga upazilas of the district for Tuesday boycotting upazila polls and demanding fresh elections.Joint general secretary of district BNP Advocate Waheduzzaman confirmed the matter to banglanews.Earlier in the day, three

DHAKA: BNP, Jamaat and Awami League rebel candidates boycotted the polls to 19 upazilas in four districts in the fifth phase of upazila parishad elections on Monday.The candidates for the chairman post boycotted polls alleging vote manipulation and polls violence in the electoral

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to BNP Joint Secretary General Barkatullah Bulu in four separate cases filed with Ramna and Shahbagh police stations for killing people by torching bus. The lawyer Joynul Abedin Mezbah confirmed the matter to banglanews. Metropolitan Magistrate

RAJSHAHI: The Election Commission (EC) on Monday withdrew three presiding officers appointed in Paba upazila of the district for fifth phase of the fourth upazila polls over alleged incompetence.Rajshahi Upazila Election Returning Officer Saiful Islam confirmed the matter to

BRAHMANBARIA: At least five people were injured in a clash between Awami League and BNP supporters in four areas of Kasba upazila of the district on Monday morning.The identity of the injured could not be known immediately. Sources said that the incidents took place in Kasba Shikarpur

DHAKA: Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed, now in New York, expressed his concern over poll related violence and irregularities in the ongoing upazila parishad election.Last three phases of the fourth upazila parishad election is going to be completed in absence of the CEC

FROM JATIYA SANGSHAD: Retorting Khaleda Zia, telecommunications and information and communication technology minister Abdul Latif Siddique raised question over the declaration of independence. He told the House that those who do not believe in independence try to create controversy about

DHAKA UNIVERSITY (DU): Minister of Liberation War Affairs AKM Mozammel Haque on Sunday categorically said documents concerning the relationship between late President Ziaur Rahman and Pakistani army during the liberation war would be disclosed soon.He came up with the assertion while

DHAKA: Election Commissioner (EC) Mohammad Abdul Mobarak on Sunday criticized Khaleda Zia for her remarks that the EC is “spineless and inefficient”.“We might be zero but her (Khaleda) party is taking part in the upazila polls under the incumbent EC,” said Mobarak, who is

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC), on Sunday, exempted Awami League leaders Sheikh Afil Uddin and Monirul Islam, who were unofficially elected as members of parliament from Jessore constituencies 1 and 2, from their alleged involvement in violation of the electoral code.EC official said

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir sought bail in two cases filed for killing people by torching bus during anti-government movement before 10th national election.Fakhrul’s lawyer Joynul Abedin Mezbah filed the petition with Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge

NOAKHALI: The by-poll is underway to elect chairman in Dumuria Union Parishad under Senbagh upazila of the district on Sunday.The voting started in nine vote centers at 8:00am and will run till 4:00pm at a stretch.A total of 10 candidates are vying in the election for the post of

DHAKA: The official website of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was found closed immediate after a row over the first President of the country.The founder of BNP, Ziaur Rahman, was shown as seventh president in the website till it was closed.However, recently all the leaders of BNP

SYLHET: A dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by Jainta Janadabi Parishad, (JJP) is underway in Jaintapur, Kanaighat and Gowainghat upazilas of the district on Sunday The organization is enforcing the hartal in the three upazilas on a two-point demand including gas connections there.JJP convener

KUSHTIA: The strike called by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was withdrawn at Islamic University (IU), Kushtia on SaturdayChhatra Dal President Omar Faruk confirmed the matter to banglanews.Earlier in the day, the student wing of BNP called the strike demanding release of secretary

RANGPUR: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, also ex-President of the country, categorically said that there was no scope of national election in next five years. He came up with the assertion while talking to journalists at his Rangpur residence on Saturday noon.Ershad said that the

MYMENSINGH: Ruling Awami League called half-day hartal in Gouripur upazila of the district for Sunday demanding release of Juba League leader Kamal Hossain.Syed Rafiqul Islam made the hartal announcement on behalf of Municipal unit Awami League on Saturday afternoon.He told to banglanews

KUSHTIA: The strike of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) is underway at Islamic University (IU), Kushtia on Saturday. The student wing of BNP called the strike demanding release of secretary general and secretary of information and research affairs of JCD Islamic University unit. No vehicles

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia alleged that ruling Awami League was only developing their families by looting money of the country.She also asked the government to show what development work they have done during their regime.The BNP chief came up with the allegation while addressing