DHAKA: Top Jamaat leaders Matiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee were Wednesday remanded for 16 days each in five cases, a day after they were arrested in the wake of latest significant developments on the country’s

DHAKA: The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) lawmakers staged a human-chain demonstration in front of the National Parliament House on Wednesday morning against the arrest of Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annee MP.Opposition Chief Whip Jainal Abedin Farrouk led the protest by 24 BNP

SATKHIRA: A court here on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a man and his two sons to life term imprisonment in a murder case.The Additional session Judge Court also fined the lifers Tk 10,000 each, in default, to serve three months more in jail.The lifers are Abdul Khaleq Gazi and his

DHAKA: BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed MP asked the government to stop what they call tyrannical treatment with the opponents or else his party would launch a mass movement against the rulers.“Stop repression on arrested BNP leaders, otherwise we will be forced to

DHAKA: Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of the now-defunct daily Amar Desh newspaper, Wednesday secured bail in a defamation suit filed against him in a litany of cases he faces.Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Sahadat Hossain granted the bail.Morshedul Islam, younger brother of State

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Wednesday granted bail to general secretary of Jatiyatabadi Swechchasebak Dal Mir Sharafat Ali Sapu, who was held during the June 27 hartal hullabaloo.Metropolitan Magistrate SK Tofayel Hassan gave the bail order.A case was filed against him on charge of preventing

DHAKA: At least 30 activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami were injured in a clash while 45 arrested from different parts of the country till Wednesday afternoon amid a backlash against the arrest of its three top leaders Tuesday.In a fight with law-enforces in Savar area Wednesday, 30

NARSINGDI: A terrible road mishap left at least 7 people dead and another 25 maimed as a bus rammed a smaller passenger vehicle on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Shibpur upazila of the district, police and witnesses said.Among the deceased, two were identified as Sultan, 40, and Shahid,

DHAKA: Parliament Wednesday passed a Tk 132,170 crore national budget for the 2010-11 financial year, without the main opposition in the House as they remained on a prolonged boycott. The budget, a second crafted by the present government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, targets higher

RAJSHAHI: The three detained top Jamaat leaders, including party chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, were Wednesday shown arrested in the case of Chhatra League activist Faruque killing at Rajshahi University.Metropolitan Magistrate Amirul Islum granted the plea as investigating officer Sohel

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited critically injured Faruqe and Suman at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Wednesday morning, as the two lived on to bear the agonies of burns suffered in pre-hartal arson attacks.The two are undergoing treatment in the Burn and Plastic Surgery

FARIDPUR:   A suspected robber leader was killed in an encounter between the members of Rapid Action Battalion and his associates at Nazirpur in Bhanga upazila early Wednesday.The dead was identified as Emdadul Haque Emda, hailed from Rajoir upazila of Madaripur district. He was an

DHAKA: At least 30 people were injured, including four cops, as garment workers clashed with law-enforcers at Shewrapara in the capital Wednesday in a backlash against Tuesday’s rampage and shutdown of a factory, witnesses said. Meanwhile, the demonstrating workers claimed that one of

NATORE: Police arrested eight members of Jamaat-e-Islami in a drive in the district Wednesday. The arrested include former district secretary Abdul Awal and City unit’s chief Sadekur Rahman. Earlier on Tuesday, Jamaat top brass Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and

DHAKA: President Md Zillur Rahman returned home on Tuesday evening after receiving treatment in the United Kingdom. Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury and Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni received him at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.The Dean of Diplomatic Corps, the British

DHAKA: In a latest major development, the Anti-Corruption Commission filed a corruption case on Tuesday night against Mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka and a dozen other officials of Dhaka City Corporation.The others sued on the graft charge are Saifuddin Ahmed, Alamgir Hossain Khan, Mehedi Ali

DHAKA: Kurigram, Habiganj, Comilla, Sirajganj, SunamganjFlash flood caused by heavy rainfall marooned a large portion of and Jamalpur districts. Thousands of people of these areas were caught by sudden flood, local administrations said.The local authorities have already demanded relief

BARISAL: The district Bus owners’ Association on Tuesday evening called off their indefinite strike enforced in the morning on 10 local routes in protest against the launch of a bus service in Uzirpur upazila.As the Association withdrew the strike with intervention of the district

GOPALGANJ: State Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Advocate M Qamrul Islam Tuesday reiterated that the trial of war criminals would be completed within the tenure of the present government, may what come.“Jamaat-BNP allies are trying to save the war criminals creating

DHAKA: Reinstatement of 85 sacked election officers got stalled as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court Tuesday stayed for six weeks the Administrative Appellate Tribunal order that declared illegal the termination of their jobs.Chamber judge SK Sinha of the Appellate Division also