Observing that the Awami League has no strong opposition in politics right now, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader

Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan inaugurated three projects, including building of two ships, at FMC dockyard in

Police in different drives yesterday arrested three alleged robbers and six alleged snatchers in Chittagong city and

Ahmed Kamal, younger brother of late president and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman, yesterday said he was likely to launch a new political party within a year or two.

A preteen boy was killed and 12 others were injured when a stunt biker lost control and careened into a crowd of

The BNP has announced that it would hold its 6th national council scheduled for March 19 at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB).

A Dhaka court yesterday asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to appear before it on April 10 in a sedition case filed against her over her remarks on the number of Liberation War martyrs.

Given that birth defects are a leading cause of death of an overwhelmingly large number of babies, experts put

Police till yesterday could not arrest the alleged accused of the double murder occurred in Finringi Bazar area of

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her son, party's Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman, are going to be elected uncontested to their respective posts as nobody collected nomination forms to contest the posts yesterday, the scheduled day for collecting nomination forms of those posts.

The BNP could not nominate anyone within the deadline yesterday for contesting the chairman posts in at least 25 Union Parishads in the second phase of elections for a lack of interest among its grassroots.

A prosecution witness yesterday testified that former Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP lawmaker Shakhawat Hossain and his accomplices confined and tortured him at a Razakar camp in Jessore during the Liberation War in 1971.

Jatiya Party presidium member Anisul Islam Mahmud yesterday claimed that JP Chairman HM Ershad himself appointed him as the acting chairman of the party after the 1/11 political changeover in 2007 in a bid to “avoid arrest”.

Like the elections to other local government bodies, the upcoming polls to union parishad will see rebel candidates of the Awami League in many union parishads including the ones in the constituencies of the party president and general secretary.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night said if the government was sincere about trying the “architects” of the 1/11 changeover, it should arrest and put them behind bars.

Leader of the Opposition Raushan Ershad last night thanked President Abdul Hamid for his address to parliament saying his speech is “a clean document of development and progress” achieved by the Awami League-led government.

The March 28 national council of the ruling Awami League is set to be deferred for a couple of weeks due to union parishad polls. The 20th council might be held in mid-April, said party sources.

The nine-member medical board, formed for treatment of tree man Abul Bajandar, in a meeting yesterday decided to perform another

Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad yesterday branded his party's senior leader and Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud as one of the masterminds behind the 1/11 political changeover and demanded that he be tried.

Workers Party President and Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon yesterday in parliament sharply criticised the Election Commission for not playing its due role in arranging fair elections.