The ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday said BNP’s “Rainbow Nation” means giving state and social recognition again to the defeated forces of the Liberation War.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the elected local government representatives to play an effective role in overcoming global crisis due to the Covid-19 and Russia-Ukraine war.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and its standing committee member Mirza Abbas today sought bail from Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in a case filed over the December 7 clash between police and the party men in Dhaka's Nayapaltan area.

The ruling Awami League is all set to hold its 22nd triennial national council on December 24 with only one thing certain: Sheikh Hasina, who has been leading the party since 1981 after she returned home from a long exile, will be reelected as the AL president for the 10th time.

Police detained 17 leaders and activists of the BNP and its associate organisations in Tangail yesterday, said the party leaders.

Responding to the Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader’s comment criticising BNP’s state reform proposals, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said the ruling party wants to shift blame to others.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday termed the BNP’s 27-point state reform proposal nothing but a “stunt” to mislead people of the country.

Saddam Hossain and Sheikh Wali Asif Enan have been named president and general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the pro-Awami League student body.

Saddam Hossain and Sheikh Wali Asif Enan have been named president and general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student body of ruling Awami League.

After Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader criticised BNP's reform proposals, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said the ruling party wants to shift blame.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said there is "no reason to worry" about new US sanctions, and termed Bangladesh, US ties "very good".

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader termed the BNP's 27-point state reform proposal nothing but a "stunt" to mislead people of the country.

Alleging that the BNP is involved in anti-state conspiracy, leaders of the Awami League-led 14-party grand alliance yesterday vowed to resist the BNP and Jamaat unitedly.

If the BNP is voted to power, it will implement reforms so that no prime minister or president can serve more than two back-to-back terms, the party has said while unveiling its set of state restructure plans.

The BNP today proposed 27 structural reforms "for the rescue and true liberation of the people and for greater national unity" if the party is voted to power.

By-polls to the five parliamentary seats, which fell vacant following the resignation of BNP lawmakers, will be held on February 1 next year.

BNP has claimed that valuables worth over Tk 50.5 lakh were damaged in police attack at its Nayapaltan central office on December 7 and demanded a neutral investigation into it.

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail petitions of 146 leaders and activists of the BNP and its front organisations in a case over the December 7 clash with policemen in the capital’s Nayapaltan area.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said it won’t be easy for the BNP and others to overthrow the Awami League government through movements..They can, at best, hatch conspiracies against the government, she added..“BNP launched a movement to overthrow the government just a few days ag

By-polls to the five parliamentary seats, which fell vacant following the resignation of BNP lawmakers, will be held on February 1 next year.