BNP

10th session of JS starts April 24

The 10th parliament will go into its 10th session on April 24, after a 54-day recess.
30 March 2016, 13:04 PM

Jatrabari arson: Arrest warrant for Khaleda

Dhaka court issues arrest warrant against BNP chief and 27 others in connection with an arson attack on a passenger bus at Dhaka’s Jatrabari on January 23 last year that left one killed and 30 others injured.
30 March 2016, 10:16 AM

Fakhrul walks out of jail

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is freed on bail from prison hours after a Dhaka court sent him to prison in two arson cases.
30 March 2016, 07:21 AM

Fakhrul made BNP secy gen, Rizvi promoted

Six years after shouldering the responsibility of acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been made a full functioning secretary general of BNP. The party’s spokesperson makes the announcement at a press conference, 11 days after BNP held its long-awaited council.
30 March 2016, 05:39 AM

Women aren’t safe now: Fakhrul

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that women are not safe in the country now due to frequent violence against them.
26 March 2016, 14:35 PM

Khaleda bats for national unity

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia underscored the need for a national unity to keep the integrity of country’s independence and democracy.
25 March 2016, 12:42 PM

Pro-AL candidates bag SCBA polls

Awami League-backed panel Sammilita Ainjibi Samannaya Parishad (SASP) wins eight posts including president among 14 posts in the Supreme Court Bar Association election.
25 March 2016, 03:46 AM

Independents win twice as many as BNP

Independent candidates have won more than double the chairman posts grabbed by BNP-nominated candidates in
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM

BNP blames EC for UP polls violence

BNP blames Election Commission for deaths and violence that took place during the first phase of the Union Parishad elections.
24 March 2016, 12:21 PM

Ekramul murder: Stay on Minar’s bail extended

The Supreme Court extends for two weeks its earlier stay order on bail of BNP leader Mahtab Uddin Minar in Feni’s Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque murder case.
24 March 2016, 07:29 AM

BNP won't quit

The BNP will stay in the union parishad elections so that it can expose “the real face of the Awami League and the Election Commission”.
23 March 2016, 18:00 PM

BNP blasts CEC for polls remarks

BNP lambastes the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) for yesterday’s comment that the first phase of the Union Parishad election was largely fair and acceptable.
23 March 2016, 13:18 PM

UP polls: AL wins 356 chairman posts, BNP 30

Awami League-backed chairman candidates won elections in 356 union parishads while contestants from its arch rival BNP’s camp won in 30.
23 March 2016, 09:29 AM

Govt is holding a farcical election: BNP

BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleges that the government held a farcical election “under a partisan election commission”.
22 March 2016, 08:48 AM

Man killed in Jhalakathi, polling officers shot in Noakhali

Two presiding officers are shot in Noakhali as reports of gunfire came from voting centres in Patuakhali and Satkhira during the first phase of union parishad elections.
22 March 2016, 03:39 AM

AL distorted Khaleda’s statement: Fakhrul

BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claims that ruling Awami League distorted Khaleda Zia’s statement to mislead the people.
21 March 2016, 08:12 AM

Charges pressed on Fakhrul, 33 others in violence case

Paltan police has submitted charge sheet against BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 33 others in a violence case of last year.
21 March 2016, 07:52 AM

BNP high-ups were in dark

Khaleda Zia's new government model, unveiled at the BNP's council on Saturday, took many of her party's policymakers by surprise as they claimed to have been kept in the dark about it until its disclosure.
20 March 2016, 18:00 PM

BNP councilors endorse Khaleda, Tarique re-election

Councilors of BNP approve Khaleda Zia and her elder son Tarique Rahman as chairperson and senior vice-chairman of the party respectively through the party’s sixth national council in Dhaka.
19 March 2016, 13:37 PM

BNP unveils plan for ‘rainbow nation’ by 2030

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia unveils her party’s ‘Vision 2030 Plan’ to turn the country into a higher middle income nation. Addressing the BNP’s sixth national council, Khaleda briefly described the plan.
19 March 2016, 05:11 AM