Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Bangladesh Information and Broadcasting Minister M Hasan Mahmud on Thursday blamed opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and pro-Pakistan elements for the recent communal violence in the country during Durga Puja.

Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik on Sunday said that his party - the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - will welcome the BJP's move "if it creates one country by merging India, Pakistan and Bangladesh".

A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced nine members of the main opposition party to death and handed life terms to another 25 for attempting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 25 years ago, a government lawyer said.

At least fivepeople were reportedly killedin election-related clashes in Bangladesh as the country went to the polls amid a weeks-long campaign that saw violence and allegations of a government crackdown on opposition activists.

Bangladesh is all set for a big fight on Sunday between the boat and the sheaf of paddy - symbols of the ruling Awami League and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, respectively.

One of the judges of the two-member High Court bench favoured Khaleda Zia's candidacy while the other ruled that she was disqualified from the polls for being a convicted prisoner serving a 10-year jail term in two graft cases, court officials and lawyers said.

An octogenarian former comrade of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's father in the country's independence struggle is now the face of an embattled opposition seeking to end her decade-long rule increasingly tainted by accusations of authoritarianism.

A Bangladesh court today ruled that people who have been jailed for more than two years with their appeals pending, cannot contest the December 30 general elections. The order was passed in response to an appeal seeking a stay order on the imprisonment of five opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders: Amanullah Aman, AZM Zahid Hossain,...

A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia to another seven years in prison on corruption charges that her supporters say are politically motivated. Zia, long a rival to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is already behind bars after being handed a five-year term in February on separate embezzlement ch...

India turned back British parliamentarian Lord Alexander Carlile from the Delhi airport soon after the top British lawyer's flight landed from London on Wednesday.

Bangladesh's High Court deferred the judgement on imprisoned ex-prime minister and main opposition BNP chief Khaleda Zia's bail petition, saying it would decide after receiving necessary papers from the lower court which has sentenced her.

Amid criticism by Bangladesh's opposition leader Khaleda Zia of the latest deals signed with India, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she hid nothing during the visit, unlike Khaleda did when she held the top post.

In a relief to Bangladesh's former premier and opposition leader Khaleda Zia, a court today granted her bail in nine cases, including one for sedition and others for a deadly transport blockade.

Suspected Islamists claiming to be the ISIS followers have threatened to kill a Hindu priest of the Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka if he continues to preach in "Islamic Bangladesh", prompting authorities to tighten security around the area.

The leader of Bangladesh's biggest opposition party on Tuesday issued a rare condemnation of a recent Islamist killing, a sign the party may be trying to avoid accusations that it is sympathetic to the Islamists as violence increases.

Bangladesh Information and Broadcasting Minister M Hasan Mahmud on Thursday blamed opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and pro-Pakistan elements for the recent communal violence in the country during Durga Puja.

Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik on Sunday said that his party - the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - will welcome the BJP's move "if it creates one country by merging India, Pakistan and Bangladesh".

A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced nine members of the main opposition party to death and handed life terms to another 25 for attempting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 25 years ago, a government lawyer said.

At least fivepeople were reportedly killedin election-related clashes in Bangladesh as the country went to the polls amid a weeks-long campaign that saw violence and allegations of a government crackdown on opposition activists.

Bangladesh is all set for a big fight on Sunday between the boat and the sheaf of paddy - symbols of the ruling Awami League and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, respectively.

One of the judges of the two-member High Court bench favoured Khaleda Zia's candidacy while the other ruled that she was disqualified from the polls for being a convicted prisoner serving a 10-year jail term in two graft cases, court officials and lawyers said.

An octogenarian former comrade of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's father in the country's independence struggle is now the face of an embattled opposition seeking to end her decade-long rule increasingly tainted by accusations of authoritarianism.

A Bangladesh court today ruled that people who have been jailed for more than two years with their appeals pending, cannot contest the December 30 general elections. The order was passed in response to an appeal seeking a stay order on the imprisonment of five opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders: Amanullah Aman, AZM Zahid Hossain,...

A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia to another seven years in prison on corruption charges that her supporters say are politically motivated. Zia, long a rival to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is already behind bars after being handed a five-year term in February on separate embezzlement ch...

India turned back British parliamentarian Lord Alexander Carlile from the Delhi airport soon after the top British lawyer's flight landed from London on Wednesday.

Bangladesh's High Court deferred the judgement on imprisoned ex-prime minister and main opposition BNP chief Khaleda Zia's bail petition, saying it would decide after receiving necessary papers from the lower court which has sentenced her.

Amid criticism by Bangladesh's opposition leader Khaleda Zia of the latest deals signed with India, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she hid nothing during the visit, unlike Khaleda did when she held the top post.

In a relief to Bangladesh's former premier and opposition leader Khaleda Zia, a court today granted her bail in nine cases, including one for sedition and others for a deadly transport blockade.

Suspected Islamists claiming to be the ISIS followers have threatened to kill a Hindu priest of the Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka if he continues to preach in "Islamic Bangladesh", prompting authorities to tighten security around the area.

The leader of Bangladesh's biggest opposition party on Tuesday issued a rare condemnation of a recent Islamist killing, a sign the party may be trying to avoid accusations that it is sympathetic to the Islamists as violence increases.