Chittagong: Chittagong City Corporation goes to the polls Thursday in a crucial local-body election, amid a downbeat mood of the Election Commission office here, though, about smooth balloting as heavy rain inundated some areas and a few polling centers in the port city.“It is now

Chittagong: As the countdown to June 17 voting began, the authorities Monday deployed army for policing the crucial Chittagong City Corporation polls.Six companies comprising at least 600 members of the Army will be on duty as striking force till June 18, officials said. Meanwhile, six

DHAKA: Awami League presidium member and deputy leader of the House in Parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury urged premier Sheikh Hasina to immediate purge from the administration hordes of pro-BNP-Jamaat officials who rule the roost.She made the strong plea Saturday while speaking as chief

Savar: After igniting a heated debate in the countryÔÇÖs political circles by labeling ex-President general Ziaur Rahman as ÔÇÿPakistani spyÔÇÖ, State Minister for Law Advocate Qamrul Islam now says the BNP founder was ÔÇ£directly involvedÔÇØ in the assassination of

KUSHTIA: Leftwing politician Hasanul Haque Inu MP, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Telecommunications, came under a gun attack in Pangsha upazila of Rajbari district on his way home on Thursday night.The JSD chief was accompanied by party leader Karim Sikder, Standing

Dhaka: The High Court Thursday extended by three months its stay order on government notice directing opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia to vacate her leasehold cantonment residence.With the latest extension of the hold, the effect of the notice has been stayed five times—thereby

Dhaka: The main opposition BNP, whose leaders now talk of launching an oust-government movement, staged a ‘mass sit-in’ demonstration in the capital Wednesday professedly in protest against government interference in the judiciary.As scheduled, the 4-hour squatting began on the

CHITTAGONG: The Election Commission plans to replicate the Chittagong model in all local polls henceforth banning all kinds of showdown, as the restraints worked well in the port city. “Any kind of gathering, including rally and procession, would be banned in all local-government

DHAKA: The National Committee on review of politically motivated cases recommended the withdrawal of 411 more cases filed during the tenures of the past BNP-Jamaat alliance and caretaker governments. State Minister for Law Advocate Kamrul Islam chaired the committee`s 19th meeting in the

CHITTAGONG: The `nonpolitical` city corporation election turned into a political one, an election commissioner said here Monday, indicating the open-secret matter of all the major political parties jockeying behind the two rival mayoral candidates. Brig-gen (Retd) Shakawat Hossain,

DHAKA: A writ petition was filed Monday with the High Court for its ruling outlawing June 27 hartal called by the opposition BNP, as the opponents interpret the general strike as a disruptive political action.The petition was filed with a HC bench compressing justices Mohammad Mamtaz

DHAKA: The historic six-point movement day is being observed today (Monday) with the main pledge for keeping the country free from militancy, which emerges as the gravest concern for people at home and abroad in present times.The ruling party, Awami League, is observing the historic 7th

Dhaka: A writ petition is going to be filed Monday with the High Court for declaring the general strike called by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for June 27 as illegal and contrary to the constitution, as a legal notice went unheeded, said one of the petitioners.Five people, including

DHAKA: Awami League will observe the historic 7th June tomorrow (Monday) to commemorate the six-point movement it launched this day 43 years ago with the pivotal demand for autonomy of erstwhile East Pakistan. The six-point movement was scaled up with the supreme sacrifice of Sramik

DHAKA: Dhaka City Awami League Saturday started fundraising in aid to the people affected by Thursday night’s blaze at Nimtola in the old part of the capital city that put at least 120 people to a terrible death.The fund was formed at an extended meeting of the city unit of the ruling

CHITTAGONG: Strong contingents of law-enforcing agencies, led by executive magistrates armed with power of holding spot trial, started policing work Thursday in the run-up to the much-watched Chittagong City Corporation polls as the authorities are pledge-bound to make the June 17 vote

Chittagong: Election symbols were distributed Wednesday among eight mayoral candidates contesting the 17 June Chittagong City Corporation polls, giving them the formal go for electioneering on a full scale. Awami League candidate under the banner of Nagorik Committee ABM Mohiuddin

Dhaka: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on Tuesday noon fed poor people at a lawyers’ programme marking the 29th death anniversary of party founder and late president Ziaur Rahman.The opposition leader and ex-PM attended the programme at about 12:35pm and

Dhaka: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Sunday observed the 29th death anniversary of its founder and late president Ziaur Rahman, with thousands of his faithful and admirers renewing their pledge to advance the country along the line he set in national politics.General Zia, who founded

DHAKA: Speaker Advocate Abdul Hamid Saturday said that it would be a wrong decision if the main opposition BNP stayed away from the House during the upcoming budget session of parliament. ”Nothing happened. I hope they will join the session, attend budget dicussion and criticise the