Shamim demands punishment of Khaleda for using national flag.
Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman on Wednesday demanded action against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia for using the national flag during her meeting with foreign diplomats at her office on Tuesday night.
Arson, vandalism mark another day of blockade, hartal.
An Awami League rally at Hazaribagh in the capital came under crude bomb attack leaving local lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and four others injured. Meanwhile, more than 20 vehicles were either set on fire or vandalized,
Khaleda’s graft cases hearing adjourned till April 5, warrant active Crude bombs exploded amid heightened security.
The Special Judge’s Court-3 on Wednesday adjourned the hearing on the two graft cases against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia till April 5, keeping the arrest warrants active,
Govt to procure 11 lakh tonnes of boro at Tk 32 a kg.
The government on Tuesday decided to procure 10 lakh tonnes of husked boro rice and one lakh tonnes of un-husked rice from local market starting from May 1. The boro rice procurement will continue till August 31,
Foreign diplomats meet Khaleda.
A group of foreign diplomats stationed in Dhaka on Tuesday evening met the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, at her Gulshan office and stressed need for de-escalation of political conflict in Bangladesh.
Khaleda asks people to form action committees.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Monday instructed the leaders and workers of BNP-led alliance to form action committees in all neighbourhoods across the country ‘to resist state terrorism.’
Farabi arrested over Avijit murder.
Rapid Action Battalion on Monday morning arrested Chittagong University student Shafiur Rahman Farabi on suspicion of his involvement in the killing of writer and blogger Avijit Roy.
Vehicles torched amid surge in violence.
In a fresh surge in violence, pickets in the capital torched and damaging buses and cars on the second day of the 72-hour hartal on Monday causing panic among the people. Traffic was thinner than usual on the city streets
Khaleda won’t appear in trial court on Mar 4, lawyer says.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyer on Sunday said that she would not appear in the lower court on March 4 until the High Court disposes of the petition seeking transfer of two cases..
PM asks military to remain alert to protect democracy.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday asked the armed forces to always remain alert like other forces of the country to protect the sacred constitution and maintain the continuation of democracy
