Politics

BNP activists for party reform

Shawdesh Desk: Leaders and activists of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party at different levels, including from grassroots and associate bodies, have demanded massive reforms in party committees to ensure

Khaleda under close observation

Shawdesh Desk: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, was taken back to the coronary care unit of the Evercare Hospital in Dhaka as her health condition deteriorated

FM sees progress in efforts to free hijacked Bangladeshi ship

Shawdesh Desk: Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said that there had been progress in the government’s efforts to free the Bangladeshi ship MV Abdullah, which was hijacked by Somali

Rizvi favours ‘India Out’ campaign

Shawdesh Desk: Throwing his Indian shawl away, the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, expressed solidarity with the social media campaign for boycotting Indian

BNP aims to popularise state reform proposals

Shawdesh Desk: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party is planning to organise some programmes to popularise its previously announced 31-point democratic reform agenda among the people and the party’s grassroots.

Shakib’s joining BNM was not known: Quader

Shawdesh Desk: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said he was unaware of the issue of national cricketer Shakib Al Hasan’s joining the Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM), a

Govt investigating whether BNP has connections with syndicates, hoarding: Quader

Shawdesh Desk: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said the government is trying to identify those who are involved in market syndicates and investigating whether BNP has any

BNP leader Maj Hafiz sent to jail in case filed in 2011

Shawdesh Desk: A magistrate court in Dhaka on Tuesday rejected the bail petition of BNP vice-chairman Major (Retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed and ordered to send him to jail a sabotage case filed in 2011. Earlier in