When general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) expressed his worry about the country to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during the iftar hosted by her on Saturday, the Prime Minister abruptly dismissed him saying she was not worried at all.  Talking to the reporters after the Iftar, Selim said that he also [...]

  Reiterating that BNP will not participate in any general election under a partisan government, the party’s Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said an election without her party’s participation will not be acceptable, and will not be allowed without a caretaker government. “Participation of just Hasina and Ershad will not make any election acceptable,” she said [...]

  The 30-hour countrywide general strike ended on Monday noon without any untoward incidents occurring in the capital or elsewhere in the country. The shutdown was enforced by 12 Islami parties and some kindred organizations supported by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jammat-e-Islami. The parties warned of tougher movements if their demands were not met [...]

  Chaos descended on Dhaka streets yesterday as the city struggled to cope with the rush of traffic after the two-day hartal last week followed by the weekend. With another two days of hartal beginning today, many office-goers, students and businessmen had to run important errands yesterday as to some it was the only working [...]

  The BNP has called the 48-hour general strike from Wednesday to protect the country and democracy, not to capture power, its chairperson Khaleda Zia says. Khaleda on Tuesday urged the people of the country to make the shutdown a successful one and join future agitation programmes. She gave the call at a meeting at [...]

  Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said the party would spearhead a ‘tougher movement’ for a one-point demand – fall of the Awami League-led government. ‘We no longer demand mid-term polls. Now we have just one demand and that is fall of the government and we are going [...]

  The BNP has dropped the call for snap polls and is now focussed on the one-point demand to push the government from power instead, according to acting secretary-general. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the shift in the stance at a council of a Dhaka metropolitan unit of the largest opposition in parliament on Friday. [...]

  Opposition BNP is likely to call for 48-hour countrywide non-stop hartal in the first half of July to press for retaining the existing provision of the caretaker government in the Constitution. A BNP leader told UNB Monday night that hartal might be declared from its protest rally today (Tuesday).   He said there is [...]