BNP in the soup: Arrests of leaders make June 11 rally hard to hold
By: Rakib Hasnet Suman With record number of its top leaders in jail, BNP is having a tough time in preparing for the rally on June 11, the day after the party’s ultimatum for restoring caretaker government system expires. In fact, many BNP leaders are unsure about whether the rally is possible at all if [...]
The jail authorities on Friday shifted 30 out of 37 18-party alliance leaders, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, accused in hartal violence, from Dhaka Central Jail to Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur. Masud Hasan, a deputy jailer at Dhaka Central Jail, told The Daily Star that the 30 leaders were transferred [...]
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BNP central leader Khairul Kabir Khokon was arrested and former Rajshahi city corporation mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu sustained minor injuries as stray clashes marked the opposition-enforced hartal on Thursday. Khokon, Narsingdi district president of the main opposition party, was sent to jail in a case filed for cocktail blasts near the BNP’s central office during [...]
Continue reading …The BNP-led 18-party alliance has cancelled a mass procession which was scheduled for Monday evening as police did not permit it for the programme. The opposition, meanwhile, staged a massive rally in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office in the capital to press home its demands including return of missing BNP leader M Elias Ali. [...]
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BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said their party is ready to join dialogue on non-party government either in or outside parliament if the government announces to accept their demand in principle, reports UNB. Mirza Fakhrul came up with the remark replying to a question from reporters when he (Fakhrul) went [...]
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday urged Bangladesh’s feuding political leaders to work together and end their most recent bout of discord for the good of their impoverished country. Clinton said that weeks of strikes and protests that have paralyzed the country and killed at least five people [...]
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BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was denied bail on Thursday in two separate cases filed for violence during hartal on Sunday. Two separate courts also rejected remand prayers for the BNP’s joint secretary general and sent him back to jail. Earlier on Monday, Rizvi landed in prison a day after his arrest in the cases [...]
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By: Jessica Fox Latest situation in Dhaka, the Capital city of the South Asian country named Bangladesh is fearsome in real sense. Members of law enforcing agencies are continuing combing operations in the city in search of top brasses of main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), while private television channels in particular are already in [...]
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The BNP on Monday questioned the source of money required to open six new banks that the government approved a day before. The government gave the go-ahead to six new banks to please the people tied to the ruling Awami League and its allies, said acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a news [...]
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By: Muhammad Yeasin The copy of the verdict regarding the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is soon going to be released, as former Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque has already finished writing the full verdict. Sources said that the former Chief Justice had submitted the copy of the full judgment to the authorities concerned, on [...]
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said those who want to protect the war criminals will have no place to stay in Bangladesh, and the opposition leader will not be able to protect them. Addressing a huge public meeting at the Polo Ground in the port city, she alleged that BNP chief Khaleda Zia has [...]
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called upon people to remain vigilant so that the collaborators of the defeated forces cannot come to power any more. The Prime Minister made the call while addressing a meeting marking the Independence Day 2012 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC). Organised by the ruling Awami League, Deputy [...]
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