Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the unprecedented development of Bangladesh has been possible due to the unhindered democratic process since 2008.

The ruling Awami League yesterday told US Ambassador Peter Haas that it was ready for talks with the BNP but not regarding a caretaker government, which the opposition party wants as the polls time administration.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday said the recently-published US human-rights report has been prepared after collecting information from biased sources, and so, it is one-sided.

BNP today said the US human rights report 2022 portrayed an “awful” picture of Bangladesh’s democratic and human rights situation..“I felt ashamed after reading the US human rights report as it depicted that there’s no shred of democracy and human rights here (Bangladesh),” BNP’s Secretary

BNP said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader should accept responsibility for the Madaripur bus accident that claimed 19 lives and resign from office.

Party's standing committee, its highest policy-making body, took the decision

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the accident in Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila did not occur because the road had faults.

The December 2018 elections were neither free nor fair because they were marred by serious irregularities, including ballot-box stuffing and intimidation of opposition polling agents and voters, said a US state department report, citing polls observers.

Detectives picked up 54 leaders and activists of Munshiganj BNP from the capital’s Banani Club early yesterday over allegations of planning “anti-state” activities including “sabotage”.

Pro-BNP lawyers staged demonstrations on the Supreme Court premises yesterday demanding a date be set for holding fresh elections to the Supreme Court Bar Association under an acceptable election conducting sub-committee.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today alleged that there is no accountability in the parliament..“No debate or discussion about the country takes place there (parliament). There are only two things they (AL) have been able to do successfully—one is theft: they are looting

Pro-BNP lawyers yesterday demanded that a date be immediately set for a fresh election to the Supreme Court Bar Association under an acceptable election conducting subcommittee.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the people of the country will never allow the BNP-Jamaat alliance to assume power again to play ducks and drakes with their fate..“Those who carried out bomb, grenade and bullet attacks, smuggled in 10-truck arms and misappropriated the money of the

A Dhaka court today framed charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and seven others in the Niko graft case

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday asked the BNP to participate in the upcoming general election to prove how popular they actually are among the countrymen.

The country’s resources are depleted due to the government’s all-pervading corruption as the ruling Awami League’s main principle is to indulge in graft and siphon off money abroad, alleged the BNP yesterday.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today alleged that the country's resources have been depleted due to all-pervasive corruption by the current government as Awami League's main principle is to indulge in graft and siphoning off money abroad.

Police yesterday released a local Awami League leader in Chattogram’s Boalkhali upazila, who was detained over a missing ballot unit of an Electronic Voting Machine from a polling centre during the by-polls to the upazila chairman post.

BNP yesterday alleged that Awami League has put the last nail in the coffin of the electoral system of the country by holding a lopsided Supreme Court Bar Association election, using police and outsiders.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the poisonous tree of communal forces must be uprooted for building the “Sonar Bangla” as dreamt by Bangabandhu.