BDNews24.com: Polls and beyond: ‘Still no guarantee’ Hasina unveils 23-point ‘Charter for Change’. Download the Awami League Manifesto from here. Dream list, but can AL deliver? Khaleda promises to cut prices, create jobs Jamaat’s manifesto promises ‘rights for the freedom fighters’ The Daily Star: Country in deep crisis: Khaleda says nationalist-Islamist forces can solve...
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The development in politics might not be “proactive”, out right contradicted by a media practitioner friend who conducted a political assessment of Bangladesh in November and returned to Ottawa, Canada. He does not hesitate to predict that politicking could be “provocative”. A spontaneous reaction came from my long-term outspoken friend while in transit at...
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Members of the Bangladesh Armed Forces prepare to return to the barracks as the Caretaker Government decides to withdraw the army from across the country. Dhaka, November 05 2008. Photo:Munir uz Zaman, DrikNEWS. The festive mood has returned to the country. The two battling begums have exchanged pleasantries breaking all the ice. Finally the...
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The interim government has not yet decided whether to withdraw emergency before the December elections, an adviser to the interim government said. ‘How can you be certain that the state of emergency is going to be withdrawn before the polls?… I cannot say at this moment whether the emergency will be withdrawn,’ the home...
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The ninth parliamentary elections will be held on December 29 and the third upazila elections on January 22, the Election Commission announced on Sunday. The chief election commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda, in a jam-packed news conference after consultation with BNP and Awami League, announced the fresh polls schedules after the BNP-led alliance announced to...
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The Awami League-led alliance on Saturday censured the military-backed government of Fakhruddin Ahmed for trying to mislead the nation by making a ‘false’ claim that the two rival political alliances had failed to reach a consensus over polls. ‘The adviser either deliberately or mistakenly lied to the nation by accusing the two...
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Photo: Banglar Chokh The two former prime ministers of Bangladesh, arch political rivals Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia exchanged greetings and shook hands on Friday. Their meeting after more than a decade was accompanied by thunderous applause by hundreds of invited guests and dignitaries in a reception in Dhaka cantonment. The two leaders, who...
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On Friday evening the chief election commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda said that the only target of the Election Commission (EC) was now to hold elections with the participation of all parties and he hoped to announce a decision on polls deferral as soon as possible. ‘This is an important national issue...
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Photo:Munir uz Zaman, DrikNEWS Large fire caught in a slum known as sweeper colony in Hazaribag caused more than 100 houses burnt down. Fire fighters rushed to the place in time and brought the fire down before it cause any casualties and huge lose of properties. Dhaka, Bangladesh. November 21 2008.
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Major political parties and the interim government on Thursday put in hectic efforts to resolve the current political crisis by ensuring participation of the parties in the parliamentary elections. Some leaders of the BNP, Awami League and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and the panel of advisers dealing with political negotiations were keeping in touch till Thursday...
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Khaleda Zia, chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance, on Thursday said the alliance would participate in the parliamentary elections if the date of ballot was deferred to December 28 from December 18, provided the government fulfilled the three other demands of the alliance. ‘We will certainly participate in the elections if it...
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Photo: Advisers with Sheikh Hasina, BanglarChokh. Photo: Advisers with Khaleda Zia, BanglarChokh. The military-backed government and the political parties until Tuesday night failed to forge any consensus to reschedule the next month’s elections despite hectic negations, overt and covert, as the BNP’s 48-hour deadline expires tonight. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party rejected the government’s offer...
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It was 5.23 pm on 21st august 2004 when Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina was wrapping up a rally protesting Sylhet blasts. A wave of grenade attacks on her left at least 16 people killed and left around 200 persons critically injured including top Awami League leaders Abdur Razzak, Amir Hossain Amu, Suranjit Sengupta,...
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