NATORE: Police detained five leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student organissation Chhatra Shibir, including Ameer of Sadar Municipality Unit Atiqul Islam Russell, from a hospital here on Wednesday morning.Other arrested are Jamaat activists Mehedi Hasan, Jalal Uddin, Nur

BOGRA: A court here Wednesday sent the arrested organizing chief of the banned Islamist outfit JMB, Anwar Alam Khoka alias Bhagne Shahid alias Nazmul, on five days’ remand for police interrogation over their mission.Chief Judicial Magistrate court’s Judge Hasanuzzaman granted the

DHAKA: Detained Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretaries-general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah were Wednesday taken on five days’ remand for interrogation in a belated case of war crimes.   Metropolitan Magistrate Roksana Begum Happy passed order granting the remand

BOGRA: A court here Wednesday sent the arrested organizing chief of the banned Islamist outfit JMB, Anwar Alam Khoka alias Bhagne Shahid alias Nazmul, on five days’ remand for police interrogation over their mission.Chief Judicial Magistrate court’s Judge Hasanuzzaman granted the

RAJSHAHI: A Rajshahi court Wednesday fixed September 21 for the next hearing in the sedition case filed against 93 BDR members in the city for their part in last year’s mass mutiny. District Judge Abdus Samad fixed the schedule as police produced the detained border guards before the

DHAKA: Mahanayak of Bangladeshi film industry actor Bulbul Ahmed passed away at about 11:30 Wednesday night. He died at the age of 70.  Bulbul was taken to Square Hospital Wednesday night as he had chest pain, family sources said. The duty-doctors declared him dead at the hospital.  His

RAJSHAHI: A Rajshahi court Wednesday fixed September 21 for the next hearing in the sedition case filed against 93 BDR members in the city for their part in last year’s mass mutiny. District Judge Abdus Samad fixed the schedule as police produced the detained border guards before the

CHITTAGONG: Rapid Action Battalion personnel seized some 3,000 cans of foreign beer after trading fire with smugglers at Patenga coast of the bay in the port city on Tuesday night.RAB sources said the exchange of fire took place at about 11pm at jetty No 15 while the smugglers were

DHAKA: The Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 Wednesday convicted two members of Jama`atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and sentenced them to 50 years imprisonment each for exploding bombs in RK Mission Road area under Kotwali thana.Justice Rezaul Karim handed down the verdict at 12:10 pm. The

JESSORE: Police held three people and seized huge quantum of posters and leaflets from a printing press in the district town Tuesday night. Acting on secret information, the law enforcers raided Ansar and Nahar Printing Press at Jam-e-Mashjid Lane at about 11pm and seized some 60,000

KUSHTIA: Police arrested a suspected extremist along with a firearm and bullets from Madhupur near Islami University in the district town early Wednesday.Police said arrested Mannan Dhali, 45, of village Piarpur in Sadar upazila, is a member of JSD GanobahiniActing on a tip-off, a

NILPHAMARI: Two bikers were killed in a road accident near Dhuhuli bazar in the northern district town on Tuesday night. The deceased were identified as Bishal, 30, and Babu, 21, both hailed from Shantinagar area of the district.Witnesses and police told banglanews24.com.bd that at around

JESSORE: Police detained a youth named Sakhawat Hossain from Paulbari area of the town on Tuesday night with four bullets, half-kg gunpowder, watch, pencil batteries and scotch-tape.All the materials are used for making bombs or other destructive explosive devices, police said. They also

DHAKA: Farm-produced poultry birds are rapidly replacing the market of comparatively dear domestic chickens in the country, bringing a change in the dishes of consumers.While visiting different poultry markets in city’s Fakirerpul, Hatirpul, Rampura, Malibagh, Mirpur and Shantinagar

DHAKA: India will use Bangladesh’s Ashuganj river port and road for transporting heavy machinery for setting up a power plant in their landlocked northeastern state of Tripura. “In this regard, India will excavate waterways from Kolkata to Ashuganj and develop 40-kilometer road from

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Tuesday asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to deposit the money and gold ornaments seized following the BDR mutiny and marauding on February 25-26 last year with Bangladesh Bank.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka Mohammad Ali Hossain also

DHAKA: State Minister for Home Affairs Shamsul Haque Tuku Tuesday said BNP leader Chowdhury Alam, who has been missing for over a fortnight, was “kidnapped” from a city street.“All the law-enforcing agencies are now looking for the Dhaka City Corporation Councillor on the basis of

GAZIPUR: The workers of two garment factories in Gazipur Tuesday ran riot ransacking a security booth and halting traffic on the busy Dhaka-Mymensingh highway to press for regular payment of salary and attendance bonus.Witnesses said the angry workers came out of the factories,

BOGRA: Six kingpins of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, including its Bogra district chief, were arrested on Monday evening in the wake of a latest countrywide crackdown on Islamist operatives.   Police said JMB Shura member Anwar Alam alias Nazmul alias

DHAKA: The High Court sharply acted setting Wednesday for hearing on a petition filed for canceling the ongoing remand of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Nayab-e Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee.A High Court bench comprising Justice