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Major parties' UZ election boycott disappoints CEC

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Sunday said the decision of some major political parties to refrain from joining the upcoming upazila election is disappointing, reports UNB. The CEC came up with the remark while addressing a training programme for trainers as the chief guest at the Election Training...

BNP warns of action if any party man contests UZ polls

BNP on Sunday warned of taking organisational action if anyone of its leaders and activists takes part in the upcoming Upazila Elections violating the party decision, reports UNB.Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi issued the warning at a press conference at the BNP's Nayapaltan central office."I would like...

Khaleda's 10-year jail term justified: Anisul

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq said on Sunday BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia's 10-year imprisonment in a graft case was not too harsh but appropriate, reports BSS."She was Prime Minister of the country at that time. She was supposed to check graft, but she plundered money meant...

Defer Ducsu election by three months, demands JCD

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of BNP, on Sunday demanded that the elections to Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) be deferred by at least three months to ensure a stable and congenial political environment on the campus, reports UNB.JCD general secretary Akramul Hasan made the demand at...

Bogura AL president Momtaz Uddin dies

BOGURA, Feb 17 (UNB): Freedom fighter and Awami League leader Momtaz Uddin passed away here early Sunday. He was 74.Momtaz Uddin, district Awami League president and a member of the party's central working committee, had been admitted to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital at 9pm on Saturday after suffering...

Rivals stab dead JL leader in Jashore

JASHORE, Feb 17 (UNB): A local leader of Jubo League (JL) was stabbed to death and his brother injured in an attack by their rivals at Charabari village in Chaugachha upazila on Sunday.The deceased was identified as Abdul Barik, 45, joint general secretary of No 3 ward unit Jubo League...

FF Manjur Ahmed passes away

Manjur Ahmed Bachchu, one of the organisers of the 69 Mass Upsurge and civil affairs adviser of sector-3 during the 71 Liberation War, died of old age complications at a city hospital on Sunday, reports BSS. He was 85. Family sources said Manjur beathed his last at Dhaka Medical College...

Jamaat axes Shura member Monju

In the wake of resignation of a party senior leader, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has expelled its Majlis-e-Shura member Mojibur Rahman Monju, reports UNB.In a post on his Facebook account, Monju on Saturday said a party leader, on behalf of its Ameer Maqbul Ahmed, informed him around 7:30pm on Friday that his...