Bangladesh

Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman GM Quader has claimed that neither his party is in the grand alliance, nor they had shared seats with the ruling Awami League. Many people think about them wrongly, but he called upon the countrymen not to believe anything wrong about them. He also said JaPa would win in many constituencies if the election is free, ...

Bangladesh Workers Party has announced its election manifesto for the 12th parliamentary election slated for January 7 next year. The party highlighted its all the socio-economic aspects in 144 subsections in the 28-point election manifesto. Politburo leader of Workers Party Noor Ahmad Bakul read out the party’s election manifesto at a press briefing at Akram Khan Hall of the National ...

The leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during the party’s mass campaign for the third consecutive day distributed leaflets among the people encouraging them to boycott the one-sided dummy parliamentary election slated for January 7. BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi distributed leaflets in Rampura and Shahjahanpur areas of the capital on Saturday. The BNP ...

Terming BNP as a “terrorist” party, Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it is not a political party. She made the remarks while speaking virtually at the public meetings held at Kushtia, Jhenidah, Satkhira, Netrakona, Rangamati and Bamna and Patharghata upazilas in Barguna district on Saturday (December 23) afternoon. Sheikh Hasina took part in the public  ...

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal on Saturday stated that polling will be suspended if there is an any attempt of vote rigging. “Follow the electoral code strictly and come out from the belief that irregularities must be done in the voting field. If there is an allegation of vote rigging in any polling booth, the Election Commission will ...

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader started his election campaign in his constituency Noakhali-5 on Friday. The Awami League-nominated candidate started his election campaign after offering ziarat to the graves of his parents at Miah Bari family graveyard in Bara Rajapur village under Basurhat Municipality of Companiganj upazila. His younger brother Abdul Quader Mirza, mayor of Basurhat Municipality and ...

The Dhaka Metro Rail will be fully operational by next month, January, after two stations that are currently under construction are opened. A total of 14 stations out of 16 between Uttara and Motijheel have already been opened, while the construction works of Shahbagh and Karwan Bazar stations are still ongoing. MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company, ...

Members of the Bangladesh Army will be deployed across the country on 29 December for the next 13 days, to help the civil administration hold a free and fair election. The home ministry issued a notification in this regard on Friday, saying the army men will carry out their duties, alongside other law enforcement agencies. The ministry also noted that ...

National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in a joint operation, have arrested nine persons at the airport railway station of the capital over vandalizing railway lines and trains and subversive activities. In a press conference at the capital’s airport railway station on Thursday night, RAB-1 commander Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Mostak Ahmed said they were arrested by raiding ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi conducted a mass campaign and distributed leaflets at Uttara in the capital on Friday morning and called upon the countrymen to boycott the upcoming national polls scheduled for 7 January. He distributed the leaflets in the kitchen market of Sector 11, Uttara in support of party’s non-cooperation programme. The BNP leader ...