Politics

BNP on Thursday demanded police security at Firoza, the Gulshan residence of its chairperson Kaleda Zia. Read More »

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday urged BNP to stand by people refraining from trying to make political gains in this crisis of Coronavirus. Read More »

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday suggested the government to form a national committee to contain the coronavirus outbreak and its fallout. Read More »

by Sheri Berman on 30th March 2020 The coronavirus crisis may be a natural disaster but, Sheri Berman writes, how governments are responding is a product of their politics. An old adage has it that crises don’t make a person, but rather reveal what s/he is made of. The same applies to political systems: during times of crisis, their underlying ... Read More »

BNP on Monday accused the government of adopting a ‘hide-and-seek policy’ of ‘no test, no corona’ like that of Iran and Italy only to invite a grave danger for the country. Read More »

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday urged the affluent section of society to extend their helping hands at this critical time caused by global COVID-19 outbreak. Read More »

Despite having ‘serious’ illness, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, now quarantined, feels ‘mentally relaxed, said party Vice Chairman Dr AZM Zahid Hossain. He said the BNP chief’s daughter-in-law and her elder son Tarique Rahman’s wife Dr Zubaida Rahman are overseeing her treatment from London. Zahid, also former secretary general of pro-BNP physician’s body Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB), said 75-year-old Khaleda ... Read More »

After staying for 787 days in the party’s Nayapaltan central office, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi returned home on Thursday, a day after party chairperson Khaleda Zia was freed from jail for six months. Rizvi left the BNP office around 2:15pm with bag and baggage for his Adabar house in the city. Amid the police drive against ... Read More »

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said that a national consensus was needed to beat Coronavirus through awareness. Read More »

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday urged BNP to shun all negative politics considering the global crisis caused by coronavirus outbreak. Read More »

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was released on Wednesday from jail for six months suspending her sentences following an executive order over 25 months after she had been convicted and sent to jail in graft cases. Read More »

The government has decided to free BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail for six months suspending her sentences upon two conditions. Read More »

Dhaka, March 23 – Gonoforum on Monday alleged that the government’s steps to tackle the coronavirus situation in the country are very inadequate as it wasted too much of valued time to take preparations to overcome the disaster. In a statement, party president Dr Kamal Hossain and convener Dr Reza Kibria also said the government now needs to work out ... Read More »

BNP has postponed until April 15 the reorganisational activities of the party, including the formation of committees at all levels, to help contain the coronavirus spread. Read More »

The two-day special session of Parliament, scheduled to begin on Sunday on the occasion of the Mujib Borsho, was postponed on Saturday amid the growing coronavirus scare. Read More »

Dhaka, March 20 – The BNP on Thursday demanded of the Election Commission (EC) to suspend elections to Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) and by-polls to five parliamentary seats due to the growing number of coronavirus cases in the country. Read More »

Sirajul Islam Mamun has been nominated President and Niyamul Haq Maxim the General Secretary of a 120-member committee of the London Metropolitan Jubal that has been approved recently. Read More »

Chittagong, March 19 – A local Awami League leader was stabbed to death allegedly by his rivals at Dakkhin Katolli of the city on Wednesday night. Read More »

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday bemoaned that the country’s media industry is now ‘under the grip of businessmen who cannot go against the government to protect their own interests’. Read More »

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Friday laid emphasis on forging a national unity to create awareness among people to tackle the coronavirus. Read More »

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir reportedly cancelled a pre-set meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla though it was Fakhrul’s request to have a meeting, an informed source said here on Wednesday. Read More »

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday trashed Awami League’s accusation of doing politics over corona issue, saying their party is performing its political responsibility by identifying the government’s flaws in preventing the spread of the virus. Read More »

DHAKA – A special session of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) on the occasion of the Mujib Year will be held on March 22-23. President M Abdul Hamid will address the beginning of the session. Business Advisory Committee of the 11th JS took the decision at its 7th meeting held at the JS Bhaban with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the ... Read More »

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday urged BNP to refrain from doing politics over any sensitive and human issue like coronavirus. Read More »

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that an influential quarter is behind the fire in Mirpur’s Rupnagar Slum and they did it to launch a housing project there. Read More »

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join the birth centenary celebrations of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on March 17 next through videoconferencing. Read More »

A Supreme Court lawyer appealed to the President and Prime Minister on Tuesday seeking the release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Read More »

In the wake of detection of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh, BNP on Tuesday postponed its Wednesday’s scheduled countrywide demonstration seeking party chief Khaleda Zia’s release. Read More »

Dhaka, March 08 – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday said the family’s appeal to temporarily release BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail was sent to the Law Ministry for its legal opinion. Read More »

Dhaka, March 09 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the government has rescheduled the birth centenary celebration programmes of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman considering people’s welfare following the detection of coronavirus in Bangladesh. Read More »