by Bilkis Irani in Dhaka Tribune, July 17th, 2018 The Election Commission is apparently creating confusion over the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the 11th parliamentary elections – likely to be held at the end of this year. The commission recently said it is going ahead with plans to use EVMs in the national polls, despite opposition from a number of political parties, and has started training its officials on EVM operation. On…
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report in The Daily Star, Julyb 16, 2018 The government is planning to amend the Representation of People Order (RPO) to disqualify Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman from the election, BNP alleged today. “The government is engaged in hatching a deep-rooted conspiracy to remove Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman from the party’s leadership,” the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged in a press conference at Nayapaltan. It is trying to add a similar…
report in Prothom Alo,July 15, 2018 at 18.30hrs Dhaka: The sixth Bangladesh-India home minister-level talks on Sunday decided to work in closer cooperation to ensure a crime-free border, training of policemen and combating militancy. Briefing newsmen after the talks with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said security issues largely came up for discussion at their meeting with particular focus on border management, cross-border crimes and illegal activities. “Discussions were held…
report in The Daily Star, July 13, 2018 BNP today presented statistics of gross violation of human rights in Bangladesh to the diplomats of different nations and urged them to take note of this issue in their effort to boost democratic practice in the country. “According to our own estimate, over 500 opposition party men have gone missing while 10,000 people became victims of political killings during the Awami League-led government’s rule,” BNP Secretary General…
report in Dhaka tribune by Fazlur Rahman Raju There are reports and rumors of turbulence between BNP and Jamaat, political allies of 17 years, and rifts over the selection of a mayor candidate in Sylhet City Corporation election, scheduled to be held on July 30 Ruling Awami League leaders have said that they will not sit with arch political rival BNP for discussion ahead of the general election, but they will consider the possibility if…
BNP mayoral candidate Ariful Haque Chowdhury is set to face a tough challenge in the upcoming Sylhet City Corporation polls as he will be fighting the election also against his party rebel as well as another contender from the BNP’s key ally Jamaat-e-Islami. The BNP yesterday expelled the rebel candidate, Sylhet City BNP General Secretary Badruzzaman Selim, for violating party discipline. Meanwhile, all the mayoral candidates in the city corporation polls in Sylhet, Rajshahi and…
report in The Daily Star, July11, 2018 A Dhaka court yesterday extended the bail period of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia until July 17 in connection with the Zia Charitable Trust graft case. Judge Md Akhteruzzaman of the Special Judge’s Court-5 of Dhaka passed the order after Khaleda’s lawyer Sanaullah Miah submitted a petition seeking extension of her bail. The court fixed the same date for hearing arguments on behalf of two other accused in that…
BNP has started a seven-hour token hunger strike at Mohanagar Natya Mancha in Dhaka, protesting the Supreme Court order upholding its stay on party chief Khaleda Zia’s bail. Leaders, activists of BNP and its associate bodies, pro-BNP intellectuals, civil society members, professionals, and members of the 20-praty alliance joined the program that Monday morning. Leaders of other political parties are scheduled to join the program to express solidarity. Besides, similar programs are being held in…
report in The daily star, July 9, 2018 A Bangladeshi man and a security official were killed in a terrorist attack at a security checkpoint in Buraidah of northcentral Saudi Arabia yesterday. Identity of the Bangladeshi expatriate was not known immediately, Saudi Gazette reports quoting Saudi Press Agency. Two terrorists were also killed in the attack. An Interior Ministry security spokesman of the country said that a checkpoint on Buraidah-Tarafiyah Road in Buraidah, Al-Qassim Province,…
by Mahadi Al Hasnat in Dhaka Tribune, Juy 6, 2018 at 08:55 pm Two quota reform movement demonstrators are seen holding placards in front of the National Press Club on Friday; July 6, 2018 Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune ‘A few teachers have already expressed solidarity with our movement, and some are staying with us in the field, but still we need more support from the teachers’ Having repeatedly faced attacks by members of Bangladesh Chhatra…
Awami League president, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the party’s members of parliament to address any gap with grassroots leaders and activists in their constituencies since, she said, the next general elections will be a participatory one. She also told the party MPs that she believes the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will join the parliamentary polls later this year, a number of MPs said. The prime minister made the hint of an…