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BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia today urged people from all walks of life to march towards Dhaka on December 29 to force the government to scrap the January 5 parliamentary election. Calling upon the government not to create any obstacles towards the 'March for Democracy', Khaleda warned of tougher agitation programmes otherwise.

The court has ordered a two-day remand for senior BNP leaders ASM Hannan Shah and Sadeque Hossain Khoka. 0   0   0  

BNP Vice-Chairman Abdullah Al Noman has claimed that the ruling Awami League’s identity will be at stake after the Jan 5 national elections. 0   0   0  

The ruling Awami League has dubbed Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia’s statement “full of lies”. 0   0   0  

US envoy in Dhaka Dan W Mozena has again pushed for “constructive dialogue” between the two bickering political parties, but said it was getting “very late” for the 10th parliamentary polls slated on Jan 5. 0   2   4  

Hefajat-e Islam has postponed its rally in the capital slated for tomorrow shortly after police stopped its top leaders from starting for Dhaka this morning. The decision came soon after police stopped Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi and Junaid Babunagari, the group's ameer and secretary general respectively, in Hathazari from starting for the capital. The group later sat at an emergency meeting to decide their next course of action. Within minutes, Noor Hossain Kashemi, Hefajat nayeb-e-ameer and convener of the Dhaka city unit, held a press conference in the capital to announce postponement of the rally. "Since the government has yet to issue us permission for the rally, we are postponing it for now," Kashemi told reporters during the briefing at Madrasa-e-Jamia Madani, his madrasa at Baridhara. Contacted by The Daily Star for confirmation by the group's headquarters, Azizul Haque Islamabadi, organising secretary, said they h

Like the European Union, the US will also not send its observers for the Jan 5 parliament polls. 0   1   12  

The home ministry has asked owners of licensed firearms to deposit their weapons ahead of the Jan 5 national election. 0   0   0  

Police is yet to make any arrests two days after six people were murdered in Dhaka's Gopibagh. 0   0   0  

War crimes convict Abdul Quader Molla will be hanged by ‘tonight’, State Minister for Home Shamsul Hoque Tuku has said. 0   0   18  

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah who has been sentenced to death for wartime offences did not seek president’s clemency. “He had one choice left. He could seek present’s clemency,” State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam said at a press briefing at his official Mintoo Road residence this evening.

The ruling and the opposition parties today initiated much-sought-after dialogue, brokered by the United Nations, where they decided to work together to decrease tension. In what so far appeared to be an elusive but much-sought-after meeting, the secretaries of the ruling and the main opposition party sat for a dialogue brokered by the United Nations at a house in Baridhara, according to sources. Thought to be a key catalyst to breaking the prevailing political deadlock, the meeting continued till around 4:30pm, our correspondents reported from outside the house reported quoting highly-placed sources in the BNP and Awami League.

At least three people have suffered burn injuries in a fire on a lighter in the Chittagong port. 0   0   16  

At least one person has been killed in clashes in Feni when Opposition activists attacked a local police outpost. 0   0   3