BNP lawmakers threaten to resign
Opposition BNP lawmakers threatened Sunday to resign from parliament if anything untoward happened to party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia's life for want of "better treatment". "Please don't compel us to resign from the Jatiya Sangsad (national parliament). We also said it earlier that we would seriously consider resigning if our...
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BNP wants Khaleda Zia's illness so they can do politics: Hasan
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said BNP does not want Khaleda Zia's recovery from illness rather they want her illness so that they can do politics with her sickness, reports BSS. "Then they (BNP) can always demand to send Begum Zia abroad for treatment. But they...
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Let Khaleda go abroad or face oust-govt movement, says Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday threatened to wage a one-point movement seeking the fall of the government if Khaleda Zia is not allowed to go abroad for treatment, reports UNB."Our leader Khaleda Zia has been staying in a hospital with critical health problems. Doctors are saying...
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Former BCL leader sent to jail in journo assault case
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent former president of Dhanmandi Thana unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) to jail in a case lodged for assaulting a journalist of private TV channel Independent Television, reports BSS.Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Noor passed the order as police produced Nazimuddin Ahammed Babu and...
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