Dialogue can be held with political parties, not with those who instigate violence, says Hasan Mahmud

The Awami League is yet to decide on seat-sharing with its partners of the 14-party alliance, party's General Secretary Obaidul Quader said today

Anwar Hossain Manju, joint convener of Juri Upazila Swechchhasebak Dal in Moulvibazar, has been expelled from the party for buying nomination forms of Trinamool BNP to participate in the 12th parliamentary election

With the deadline for submitting nomination papers to the Election Commission only a week away, the BNP now faces two challenges: preventing defection from the party and drawing up fresh programmes to keep the anti-government movement going.

Tension has grown in Jatiya Party as its wing authorised to sell nomination forms yesterday refused to give forms to the leaders loyal to Chief Patron Raushan Ershad.

Star cricketer Shakib Al Hasan is set to start a new career in politics as he got the ruling Awami League’s ticket to run for parliament from Magura-1 constituency.

BNP’s national executive committee member Khandkar Ahsan Habib, who was recently expelled from the party, has filed his nomination papers to contest the 12th national election for Tangail-5 (Sadar) constituency.

The Awami League will unveil the final list of its candidates on Sunday to contest the 12th national parliamentary election, the party’s general secretary Obaidul Quader said today

Akramul Haque Guddu, 35, an aide to councillor Md Moniruzzaman of ward 27, was admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital with a bullet injury to his right leg, say police

The BNP appears to be in for even tougher times in the next few weeks with the government going all out to make sure the party does not gain momentum in its oust-the-government movement.

Little-known parties are planning big for the January 7 polls and a number of them are selling nomination forms to anyone willing to buy so that they can field candidates in all 300 constituencies.

The BNP and its allies have called another 48-hour blockade from Sunday morning.

Jatiya Party yesterday extended the deadline for collecting and submitting nomination forms until today as the party’s Chief Patron Raushan Ershad and other senior leaders loyal to her were yet to collect the forms.

A significant number of BNP leaders have shown interest in joining the upcoming national election and some are inclined to run as independents, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said yesterday.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government is not interfering in the trial proceedings of cases against the accused BNP men, as the judiciary is absolutely independent.

With worried eyes, Shuily Begum, a day labourer, was waiting in the capital’s Mirpur 11 area alongside hundreds of other day labourers, hoping to find work.

Former Chhatra League president Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury Shovon, who was removed from his post in 2019 for controversial activities, has been picked as the Awami League nominee for Kurigram-1.

In many constituencies, incumbent and former lawmakers of the Awami League treat their seats with a dynastic perspective.

A total of 137 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations were sentenced yesterday in three cases filed over political violence.

A physically challenged man was picked up from the capital’s Bhatara area yesterday on charges of attempting sabotage