BNP gets nod to hold Dec 10 rally at Golapbagh field on 26 conditions

The BNP has got verbal permission from the authorities to hold its December-10 rally at Golapbagh field in Dhaka. 
9 December 2022, 09:15 AM

Heightened security at Nayapaltan, BNP office still locked

Police today put barricades on the road from Nightingale intersection to Fakirapool intersection in the capital's Nayapaltan, preventing vehicles from moving through area.
9 December 2022, 07:48 AM

BNP wants to hold Dec-10 rally at Golapbagh field

The BNP wants to hold its December-10 rally at Dhaka's Golapbagh field if they are not allowed to hold it at Kamalapur Stadium.
9 December 2022, 07:32 AM

BNP to ‘hold December-10 rally at any cost’

The BNP will hold its December-10 rally at any cost, the party’s standing committee members decided at an emergency meeting today.
9 December 2022, 06:57 AM

Fakhrul, Abbas shown arrested

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the party's Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas were shown arrested in a case over Wednesday’s clash between BNP men and police at Nayapaltan.
9 December 2022, 06:02 AM

‘A textbook example of fascism’

BNP Standing Committee Member Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku has said the "detention" of the party's secretary general and a standing committee member was "a textbook example of fascism".
9 December 2022, 05:22 AM

BNP holds emergency meeting to decide on next course of action

The BNP Standing Committee members are holding an emergency meeting virtually to discuss the latest political situation and decide on the next course of action.
9 December 2022, 05:05 AM

Fakhrul, Abbas 'picked up by detectives', says BNP

Plainclothes men identifying themselves as law enforcers picked up BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas from their homes in Dhaka early today, claims the BNP.
9 December 2022, 01:30 AM

AL under fire from allies

The ruling Awami League yesterday drew heavy flak from its left-leaning allies for ignoring them in taking many crucial political decisions  and also for already starting “electioneering” for the next national polls.
9 December 2022, 01:00 AM

Amnesty International calls for an end to repression of demonstrations

Amnesty International today called for the Bangladesh government to end repression of demonstrations.
8 December 2022, 19:34 PM

Wednesday’s Clash: US envoy, UN, Amnesty voice concerns

US Ambassador Peter Haas, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and Peaceful Assembly Clement Voule, and Amnesty International yesterday expressed concern over political violence in Dhaka on Wednesday.
8 December 2022, 18:00 PM

Case, arrest spree on ahead of Dec 10 rally

Failing to detain a BNP leader, police picked up his college-going son during a drive at their house in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj upazila early yesterday, claimed family members.
8 December 2022, 18:00 PM

Of checkpoints and sufferings

Police intensified frisking of people entering the capital from their checkpoints at different gateways of Dhaka ahead of BNP’s scheduled rally on Saturday.
8 December 2022, 18:00 PM

A hopeful prospect

In a welcome development, the BNP and Dhaka Metropolitan Police last night seemed to have considerably bridged their differences over the venue for the opposition party’s December 10 rally.
8 December 2022, 18:00 PM

AL rebel withdraws from Rangpur city polls

An AL rebel dropped out of the race for the Rangpur City Corporation election yesterday -- the last day for withdrawing candidacy.
8 December 2022, 18:00 PM

Political verbatims

Political verbatims
8 December 2022, 18:00 PM

'Bangladesh authorities must guarantee right to peaceful assembly'

UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and Peaceful Assembly Clement Voule said Bangladesh must guarantee the right to peaceful assembly and refrain from using excessive force against protesters.
8 December 2022, 16:41 PM

BNP proposes Kamalapur stadium for Dec 10 rally

BNP has proposed the Kamalapur stadium for its December 10 rally in Dhaka, while DMP gave the alternative of Mirpur Bangla College field, said BNP's Vice-Chairman Barkatullah Bulu.
8 December 2022, 15:26 PM

BNP man detained after police baton-charge ends uneasy calm in Nayapaltan

Police dispersed around a hundred or so people who gathered at Nayapaltan this evening by charging batons on them.
8 December 2022, 14:42 PM

'Police didn't attack, they merely searched BNP office'

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said police did not attack the BNP office but only carried out a search there yesterday.
8 December 2022, 13:31 PM