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MNA National Desk: Obaidul Quader, Bangladesh Awami League (AL) new general secretary, said that the activities of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are now limited to holding press conferences. Quader said this while talking to reporters after placing wreaths at the grave of Bangamata Fazilatunnesa Mujib and other martyr members of Bangabandhu’s family at Banani graveyard on Thursday. Stating on coming elections, he said “We have two years and two months for the elections. We shall hold the polls at the scheduled time.” “Any effort by the BNP to make misperception about the general elections would again lead to the BNP ...

MNA Feature Desk: On upcoming November 8, all eyes of the world will be upon the US voters as on that day they will run to cast their votes in election to select their next president from between the diplomatic Hilary Clinton and the notorious Donald Trump. For its influence on the world economy and politics, the president election of the United States will be of great interest. Already the campaign of this election has been a matter of huge attraction over the world, especially due to the Republican candidate Donald Trump, who has already gained immense criticism for his ...

MNA International Desk: The citizens of Thailand began voting on Sunday in a referendum on a new junta-backed constitution that would pave the way for a general election in 2017. The ballot is the chief major popularity test for the junta, formally known as the National Council for Peace and Order, led by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who has repressed political action during the two years since he grabbed power in a 2014 coup. Polls suggested a small lead in favour of accommodating the new constitution, but most voters were unsure. Initial results were projected at around 9pm Hong Kong ...

MNA National Desk: Voting is ongoing peacefully in nine municipalities that went to polls on Sunday. People are polling in eight municipalities in the fourth stage of the polls with a by-election for the post of mayor in another municipality. The officials of election said that the polling began at 8am on Sunday and will end at 4pm. The by-polls for mayor also taking place at Shariatpur’s Narhia. About 39 candidates are competing for the mayor posts in these municipalities, among them 337 for general councilor and 82 for reserved councilor seats. The eight other municipalities are Ghoraghat in Dinajpur, ...

MNA International Desk: Barack Obama called Republican White House nominee Donald Trump ‘unfit’ to be president on Tuesday and called on party leaders to disown him. Obama made this statement at a White House news conference with Singapore’s Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong. He had been asked to comment on Mr Trump in the light of attacks he had launched since last week’s Democratic convention on the family of a Muslim-American soldier slain in Iraq, and foreign policy remarks at the weekend which betrayed a lack of knowledge about the circumstances of Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. “The Republican ...