A team of 15-17 security members will be posted at each polling station in the 300 constituencies throughout the country in the 12th parliamentary elections slated for January 7. According to a notification issued by the Election Commission on Thursday, tighter security would be taken for vulnerable polling stations. There are some
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Jatiya Party declares 24-point election manifesto
Jatiya Party (JaPa) today announced a 24-point election manifesto for the forthcoming January 7 parliamentary polls with a slogan "Change for Peace, Jatiya Party for Change". The party's secretary general Mujibul Haque Chunnu declared the manifesto in a press conference at JaPa chairman's Banani office. The manifesto includes introduction of provincial system,
Quader blasts BNP’s non-cooperation movement before polls
Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today came down heavily on BNP for announcing non-cooperation movement ahead of polls, posing a question how the party would wage such a movement. "What does the BNP say now? Will it wage a non-cooperation movement? Monkey sings
People to vote defying BNP’s noncooperation movement: Home Minister
BNP announces mass contact from Dec 21-23, blockade Dec 24
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has announced fresh programmes, including a series of mass contact programmes on December 21, 22, and 23, and a nationwide daylong blockade on December 24. The party is enforcing the fresh programmes to press home its demands for holding polls under a non-party caretaker government, and to
PM offers ziarat at Hazrat Shahjalal, Hazrat Shah Paran mazars
None has rights to dissuade people from voting: PM
Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said vote is the constitutional rights of the people, adding that no one has the rights to resist them from casting votes. "Vote is the people's constitutional rights, and people will cast their votes. None has rights to dissuade people from casting
Train set on fire in Tejgaon: BNP demands judicial probe
Calling it a planned act of sabotage by a certain quarter, BNP today demanded an immediate impartial judicial inquiry into the incident of setting the Dhaka-bound Mohanganj Express train on fire. In a statement, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi also said this kind of heinous and atrocious crime
Some intellectuals are implementing BNP’s agenda: Obaidul Quader
Criticising a recent joint statement of 40 intellectuals over the 12th national elections, Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said the intellectuals are implementing the political agenda of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). “Those, who are talking about elections without calling for stopping arson attacks, are the agents of BNP.
Police asked to quiz Fakhrul, Khasru at jail gate
A magistrate court in Dhaka on Monday asked police to interrogate main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury at jail gate for two days in a case filed on charge of attacking Paltan Police Station and assaulting police