BNP has removed its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Taimur Alam Khandakar, who is contesting Narayanganj City Corporation election as an independent candidate.

The dishonest politicians and bureaucrats, no matter how big they are, are a curse and burden for Bangladesh, Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said today.

The income of ruling Awami League in 2020 was about Tk 10.33 crore, 51 percent down from that of 2019, according to its audited financial statement submitted to the Election Commission yesterday.

Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) locked into a clash on Dhaka University campus yesterday morning.

BNP activists and police personnel clashed at Dhaka’s Chandrima Udyan this morning, leaving several injured.

BNP has called upon the government to form a crisis-time advisory committee comprised of health experts, all political parties, NGOs and social organisations, and take coordinated steps towards curbing the transmission of Covid-19 across the country.

Veteran leftist politician and the founder of a faction of Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) Mobinul Haider Chowdhury passed away at a private hospital in Dhaka last night.

Top leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam today demanded that the government release its “innocent” leaders and activists arrested since March 25.

Ruling Awami League’s senior lawmaker Tofail Ahmed and Jatiya Party MP Kazi Firoz Rashid in parliament today expressed their frustration and anger over the growing presence of government bureaucrats in various jobs without importance being given to politicians.

The current Narayanganj City Corporation Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy has declared to contest the upcoming city corporation elections for the mayoral post.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today described the nationwide lockdown announced by the government to contain Coronavirus spread as a 'joke' since it repeatedly failed to fully enforce such restrictions in recent times.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today at a press conference said that the party’s efforts regarding advanced treatment of chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia abroad is “ongoing”.

Abdul Quader Mirza, mayor of Noakhali’s Basurhat municipality, has said he has made arrangements to have Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, his wife Isratunnesa Quader, and AL lawmaker of Noakhali-4 Ekramul Karim Chowdhury killed if he is murdered.

Alleging that their party Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been subjected to “state repression”, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said her life is now at risk since the government has snatched her right to receive advanced treatment abroad.

Aga Khan Mintu, Awami League’s nominee for the Dhaka 14 by-polls, is likely to be elected unopposed.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking the 72nd founding anniversary of Awami League.

Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed, lawmaker of Bhola-1, has announced that he will donate all his movable and immovable property to Tofail Ahmed Foundation.

Two persons were stabbed by rivals outside a voting centre at Keshabpur in Baufal upazila of Patuakhali during the union parishad election today.

At least eight were injured, including two shot, in a clash between two groups of Awami League (AL) activists in Madhabdi municipality area of Narsingdi last night.

Jatiya Party Lawmaker Mujibul Haque Chunnu today said that former president of Uttara Club Limited Nasir U Mahmud is a “good person”.