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BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday that it was not possible to say anything definitively about who would be the next president of Bangladesh, adding that the matter would become clear “in due time.”

President Mohammed Shahabuddin may resign within the next one or two days, according to multiple sources in the BNP and Bangabhaban cited on Thursday by Ajker Patrika. If he steps down, Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed will discharge the duties of president in line with the Constitution. A Bangabhaban offi

Several leaders expelled by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party for contesting the 13th national parliamentary election as rebel or independent candidates are seeking to return to the party after BNP formed the government, according to party sources and statements given to Ajker Patrika. BNP, however,

Major General Manzoor, then General Officer Commanding in Chittagong, summoned senior military officers to his office by 7am after being informed by Major Mozaffar that “The President has been killed.” In the meeting, Manzoor told 40 officers that some army officers had killed President Zia, after w

An investigative report says Bangladesh President General Ziaur Rahman was killed in a nine-minute military operation at Chittagong Circuit House in the early hours of 30 May 1981, after a group of army officers moved out of Chittagong Cantonment in heavy rain and launched an armed assault on the bu

Jamaat-e-Islami-led opposition alliance has rejected a special parliamentary committee formed to amend the Constitution, insisting that the referendum verdict be implemented through a Constitutional Reform Council instead. The alliance said it would not join the committee and warned that its movemen

Prime Minister's Information advisor Dr Zahed Ur Rahman today said the government wants to ensure justice through trial by bringing death-row convict Sheikh Hasina back to the country. "The government is determined bringing Sheikh Hasina to justice. Her trial process will continue in a transparent

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today inaugurated a tree plantation campaign by planting coconut and neem saplings along the bank of the newly re-excavated Sarikal–Batajor Canal in Batajor Union of Gournadi upazila in the district. A munajat (prayer) was offered following the inauguration of the tree

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Zahir Uddin Swapon, MP today said all discourses of the experts on the challenges of country’s graduation from LDC and overall development of trade and commerce would ultimately remain confined to theoretical debates unless the country's politics is brought