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Election will be held as scheduled, no uncertainty: CA's press secretary

Dhaka, July 19 -- Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam has brushed aside any uncertainty over the national election, reiterating that the voting would take place within the timeframe announced by the chief a... Read More


Govt to impose curfew in Gopalganj again from 8pm Saturday

Dhaka, July 19 -- Authorities will bring back curfew in violence-hit Gopalganj from 8pm until 6am Sunday after a 14-hour break following clashes surrounding an NCP rally. Deputy Commissioner Muhammad... Read More


NCP rally foiled amid BNP protests over Nasiruddin's 'objectionable' remarks

Dhaka, July 19 -- The National Citizen Party (NCP) has been forced to abandon rallies in Cox's Bazar's Eidgaon and Chakaria following protests by the BNP loyalists angered by comments by NCP leader Na... Read More


'Crisis of democracy' emerging in Bangladesh, stay vigilant, BNP's Fakhrul says

Dhaka, July 19 -- Awami League has become completely irrelevant in Bangladesh's politics following its ouster by a mass uprising last year, Jamaat-e-Islami deputy chief Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher ha... Read More


Farhad Mazhar advises Jamaat to 'change name', revive its post-'75 IDL identity

Dhaka, July 19 -- Farhad Mazhar has urged Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami to "change" its name out of respect for the spirit of the Liberation War and revive its post-1975 identity as the Islamic Democrati... Read More


BNP leader Fakhrul visits Jamaat chief in hospital

Dhaka, July 19 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has paid a visit to Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman in the hospital, who fell ill during a rally. He went to Dhanmondi's Ibn ... Read More


A 'radical and aggressive' reader section threatens media freedom, says Debapriya

Dhaka, July 19 -- Debapriya Bhattacharya, a distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), has said a section of newspaper readers has become "radical and aggressive", posing a new chal... Read More


Assistant train driver's hanging body found in Brahmanbaria home

Bangladesh, July 18 -- A railway worker has been found dead in Brahmanbaria's Akhaura. Police recovered the hanging and partially decomposed body from a rented house in the municipality's Masjidpara ... Read More


AL human chain, rally in New York protests Gopalganj attack

Bangladesh, July 18 -- Awami League supporters in New York have organised a human chain and rally to protest the violent incidents surrounding the National Citizen Party (NCP) march and rally in Gopal... Read More


Gopalganj violence: Autorickshaw driver succumbs to gunshot wounds, raising death toll to 5

Bangladesh, July 18 -- An autorickshaw driver who was wounded by gunfire in Gopalganj has died, bringing the death toll from the violence surrounding the National Citizen Party (NCP) rally to five. R... Read More