Police have detained BNP Vice Chairperson Selima Rahman on Tuesday, hours after she announced the extension of the party’s ongoing...
Sagar Biswas : The government has decided to show ‘zero tolerance’ to the post-poll violence which was unleashed by opposition BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami across the country. It has already directed the law enforcement agencies to deal with the troublemakers with an iron hand. Official sources said that the government has been apprehending that deadly violence might further spread, especially when the opposition has announced new agitation programmes including hartal and blockade from Monday dawn rejecting the polls. The government wants...
The BNP-led 18-party alliance on Tuesday extended its ongoing 48-hour nationwide hartal by 12 hours until 6pm Wednesday demanding the cancellation of Sunday’s election results. The shutdown that will go alongside its ongoing nonstop countrywide blockade is also meant for protesting the arrest of its leaders and activists, including those picked up today, and the killing of alliance activists ahead and after the election. BNP vice-chairman Selima Rahman came up with the announcement at a press conference at her Gulshan...
Senior Foreign Office Minister of UK Baroness Warsi has urged the new government and all political parties of Bangladesh to act in line with the interests of the people. Commenting on the results of 10th Parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, she said: “We therefore urge the new government and all political parties to act in line with the interests of the people of Bangladesh. Bangladesh is an important partner for the UK and we continue to support its people in their...
Police have arrested BNP chairperson’s adviser and Bar Council Vice Chairman Khandaker Mahbub Hossain. He was nabbed as soon as...
UNB, Jessore : Criminals on Sunday evening went on the rampage, torching and vandalising the hoses of Hindu community members...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will meet President Abdul Hamid after sweeping the 10th parliamentary elections. The meeting has been scheduled...
Detective Branch (DB) of police picked up eight BNP leaders including BNP chairperson’s adviser Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, BNP Vice-Chairman Selima...
Instead of following the US in debunking the recent Bangladesh elections as ‘not credible’, the UN has chosen to lambaste...
At least two persons were killed and several others injured in incidents of violence in Feni, Sirajganj, Rajshahi and Chittagong on Tuesday. In Feni, driver of a covered van died and another suffered burn injuries as miscreants torched the covered-van with cocktail at Jatrashiddhi at Feni-bypass on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in the early hours of Tuesday The driver was identified as Shah Alam (35) who died after he jumped from the van with fire on his body while Al Amin,...
The second day of the BNP-led 18-party alliance’s 48-hour countrywide hartal, demanding the cancellation of Sunday’s election results, is passing off slackly without any incident of violence today (Tuesday). The shutdown that will end at 6:00am Wednesday is also meant for protesting the arrest of opposition leaders and activists. In the capital, any picketing of opposition activists centering the shutdown was not seen in the morning. Movement of public transport on the city streets was somewhat more than the previous...
The United Nations, United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and Commonwealth also expressed their disappointment over the just-concluded parliamentary elections in...