DHAKA: Before flying for Saudi Arabia after an airport hassle, opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Monday alleged the ruling Awami League outshone all ‘autocratic’ regimes.Security personnel at Shahjalal International Airport barred her party-men, including BNP

DHAKA: Opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia reached Saudi Arabia on Monday night for performing Umrah. She has been visiting Saudi Arabia at the special invitation of Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.According to BNP’s press wing, Khaleda Zia arrived at the King

DHAKA: Dhaka city Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Rafiqul Islam Khan was again taken on two days’ remand in a case of vandalizing and torching a car in pre-hartal violence.Metropolitan Magistrate Ismail Hussain passed the order of remand as Investigation Officer and SI of the Detective Branch of

KHULNA: A Khulna court Monday fixed September 2 for hearing on charge framing against Khulna city Jamaat Ameer and former MP Mia Golam Parwar and 47 others in a case filed in speedy trial act.Judge Abu Shamim Azad of Metropolitan Speedy Trial Tribunal passed the order for lack of

DHAKA:  Leaders of the ruling Awami League blamed BNP for conspiring against the government to make it unpopular trying to grab power. The Al leaders made the comment on Sunday evening at a discussion and doa mehfil organized by Diploma Engineers’ Association to mark the national

DHAKA: Opposition BNP`s standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury MP Sunday opined that the constitutional and political stability is disrupted due to political ambitions in the judiciary.  "The Chief Justices have maintained their tradition extending their support to military

DHAKA: Opposition BNP apprehended that the country is heading towards a constitutional crisis after the back-to-back abrogation of the fifth and the seventh amendments by court orders.“Where do we stand? Are we in a constitutional crisis as the 7th amendment to the constitution was

KHULNA: BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed Sunday said democracy returned in the country through the fifth and seventh constitutional amendments, which were enacted in the process of transition from two martial-law regimes. “Democracy was revived in the country through

DHAKA: A Dhaka court granted bail to detained BNP Standing Committee member and ex-minister Mirza Abbas in the latest two cases filed with Mirpur and New Market thanas on charges of torching and vandalizing cars.  With these two bail orders, the BNP leader got interim release in all six

DHAKA: Opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia leaves for Saudi Arabia Monday for performing Umrah at the special invitation of Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.She will be accompanied by her family members, officials of her office and a group of journalists on the

DHAKA: Estranged former state minister for Home Affairs Sohel Taj will return home on September 3 from the United States of America. Sohel, son of Bangladesh’s founder-prime minister Tajuddin Ahmed, tendered his resignation from the cabinet of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reportedly in

DHAKA:  The government opts for giving a second thought to the much-debated Detailed Area Plan (DAP) amid ongoing protests by people who are to bear the brunt of expansion of the capital through massive acquisitions. Several hundred people have been staging demonstrations in different

DHAKA: State Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Advocate Quamrul Islam Saturday said the fugitive killers of Bangabandhu would be brought back to execute the court verdict against them."A committee has already been formed to bring back the fugitives and the government is

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Secretary-General Khandaker Delwar Hossain Saturday bitterly criticized the government for what he said its iron rule based on `repressive policy`.   "The accused of Malibagh murder case have been released on political considerations, but Mirza Abbas has not been

DHAKA: Pushed into tight corners, Jamaat-e-Islami lashed out at government policies as its leaders said the ruling Awami League outshone an ‘autocratic’ regime by “repressing” opposition leaders and denying political right to protest.“We could stage demonstration on streets even

DHAKA: Awami League presidium member Obaidul Kader said after the abrogation of the 5th and the 7th amendments to the constitution, the government would now decide action against behind-the-scene actors in bringing such repugnant constitutional changes.He made the comment Saturday as the

DHAKA: Family members, followers and his party activists gathered in front of Dhaka Central Jail from Saturday morning to greet Mirza Abbas on his release on bail, but all got frustrated once again.       The detained BNP Standing Committee member and ex-minister was shown arrested

HABIGANJ: Police on Friday night arrested two local Jubo Dal leaders from Lakhai upazila on charge of looting and vandalizing an iftar party.Arrested Abdul Mannan, Sadar upazila Jubo Dal convener, and Kumed Ali, joint-convener, were taken into Sadar thana. Police said a gang of

DHAKA: Opposition BNP’s standing committee member Khondakar Mosharaff Hossain Friday alleged that countrymen have started crying out in agony for the government’s misrule.“Because of government, the price hike of essential commodities is yet to be controlled and people’s

DHAKA : BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed Friday said implementing the High Court verdict on the seventh constitutional amendment would be a big challenge for the government. Giving his reaction over the High Court verdict at his Gulshan residence, the BNP leader said,