Tarique urges BNP activists to prioritise reform, not revenge
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has urged his party leaders and workers to respond to their oppressors by making the party's 31-point proposal a success, rather than resorting to reprisal and revenge, reports UNB."If you want to respond to the injustice, oppression, and suppression that have been done to you,...
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Modi demeans Liberation War of Bangladesh: Rizvi
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, on Wednesday, said no country in the world except India had supported the autocratic Sheikh Hasina regime over the last 16 years.Alleging that the Indian Prime Minister has demeaned the Liberation War of Bangladesh, he said, "The neighbouring India,...
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Nat'l Revolutionary Council forms convening committee
National Revolutionary Council, a new political party, has announced a 77-member convening committee, reports UNB.Anisur Rahman, a former student of Dhaka University, was made its chairman while Mohammad Shafiur Rahman its organising chief, said a press release on Wednesday.Besides, Khomeni Ehsan was made the convener of the party and Hasan...
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Babar, five others acquitted in ten-truck arms haul case
The High Court (HC) has acquitted six death-row convicts, including former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar, in the sensational 10-truck arms haul cases, reports agencies.The HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Nasreen Akter passed the order on Wednesday.The court also commuted the death sentence of...
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Salman, Inu, Menon, Kamal shown arrested in several cases
A Dhaka court has shown arrested former private industry affairs adviser Salman F Rahman, ex-ministers Hasanul Haque Inu, Rashed Khan Menon and Kamal Ahmed Majumder in connection with different murder and attempt to murder cases, report agencies.The investigation officers (IOs) of the concerned cases produced them before the court of...
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Former MP M A Latif on two-day remand
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 18: A court in Chattogram has placed former member of parliament (MP) for Chattogram-11 constituency MA Latif on a two-day remand in a case over an attack on protesters during the anti-discrimination student movement in the port city's New Market area. Metropolitan Magistrate of Chattogram-3 Md. Alamgir Hossain...
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