The supporters of a defeated woman candidate  have let loose reign of terror, thrashed a number of voters whom they took for sympathized to the rivals and imposed embargo on their going to the market situated at the western para of Nalpatua village  under  Zadabpur union in Moheshpur upazila.

The Mamata Banerjee-led coalition ministry in West Bengal was expanded with the induction of five Congress party legislators, two weeks after she took over as the first woman chief minister of the state.

Four women contesting for the posts of chairman in the upcoming elections to four union parishads under Manikganj Sadar upazila have pledged to stop child marriage and dowry and work for women’s empowerment, if elected.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said there is no evidence senior people in Pakistan knew that Osama Bin Laden lived so close to Islamabad.

It has been five days since West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has assumed office and officialdom is in a tizzy. Not to speak of her security staff desperately trying to cope with her unpredictable ways even as she goes about her duties in her inimitable and flamboyant fashion.

The chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, allocated portfolios to her newly sworn-in council of ministers on Friday retaining with her the charge of nine key ministries.

Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee has been sworn in to office as the West Bengal’s first woman chief minister.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has blasted Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia for demanding resignation of the government.

After singlehandedly demolishing 34 years’ rule of Left Front and leading her party Trinamool Congress to power in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee will be installed as the first woman chief minister of the state on May 20.

Riding the crest of a wave for paribartan (change), Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress stormed to power in West Bengal defeating the Communist government that had been in power since 1977.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson and leader of opposition, Khaleda Zia, has said, people have become fed up with the government’s misdeeds, mismanagement and failure to run the country properly.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday dismissed the opposition’s threat of anti-government agitation, saying this would not serve its purpose.

Speakers at a rally yesterday demanded immediate implementation of the National Women Development Policy.

Former adviser to a caretaker government, Sultana Kamal, yesterday said fundamentalists are terrifying people to impose their opinion against the women development policy.

The main opposition BNP is still undecided about extending its support to Monday’s countrywide hartal called by Islamic Law Implementation Committee (ILIC) to protest the National Women Development Policy 2011.