DHAKA: Centering the Zia Orphanage Trust Graft case verdict, the government is planning plots to keep BNP outside of the upcoming national polls, said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. “The whole nation is concerned and enraged over the verdict”, he said. 

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed has said that his party chief Khaleda Zia would be acquitted if the court delivers verdict neutrally. Speaking at a public rally in Noakhali on Saturday (January 27), the BNP leader said that the cases filed against the BNP

DHAKA: HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party has proponed its pre-announced grand rally scheduled to be held on February 15 at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city.   The party chairman HM Ershand took the decision on Saturday (January 27). The grand rally was postponed due to the Ekushey Book Fair,

FENI: Referring to the imminent verdict of Zia Orphanage Trust case, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said BNP will not join polls without its chairperson Khaleda Zia. The BNP senior leader even warned that polls under Hasina government will not be allowed at all in

MANIKGANJ: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said any identified extortionist, terrorist, communalist or member of the anti-liberation force will not be qualified to get party membership. Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, made the remarks while

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened a meeting of party standing committee on Saturday (January 27). Khaleda’s press wing official Syrul Kabir Khan told Banglanews that the meeting will be held at 8:30pm on Saturday at Khaleda’s Gulshan office. Earlier on Jan 14,

SAVAR (DHAKA): Rivals allegedly stabbed a local leader of Jubo League to death in Birulia union of Savar. Jahangir, the deceased, was the general secretary of Birulia union ward-9 unit Jubo League. One Faruq Hossain was injured in the same incident.  Relatives of the deceased

SYLHET: Six activists of Bangladesh Chhatra league (BCL), the student wing of the ruling Awami League, have been jailed for four years by a Sylhet court for assaulting an Army officer. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Sylhet Saifuzzaman Hero delivered the verdict on Thursday (January

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said his party is not worried about the presidential election.  He made the remark to reporters at a press conference in BNP’s Naya Paltan central office on Tuesday (January 25). Fakhrul said a total of 50,074 cases were

DHAKA:  The verdict of Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case against BNP Chief Khaleda Zia will be delivered on February 8 (Thursday). Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Special Court-5 in Dhaka’s Bakshibazar fixed the date on Thursday afternoon (January 25) as the defence argument hearing

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday (January 24) visited the grave of her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko and offered Fateha there. She prayed for the salvation of her son’s departed soul. The BNP chief visited Koko’s grave at Banani Graveyard in the capital city in

DHAKA: Vice chairman of Atpara upazila in Netrokona and president of the upazila unit of Jamaate-e-Islami Delowar Hossain was held on Wednesday (January 24). Detective branch (DB) of police detained the Jamaat leader from Satpai area of Netrokona district town at noon. Inspector of

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC) will announce the election schedule for electing country’s 21st President on Thursday (January 25). The date for the presidential election likely to be fixed from February 18 to 20. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda confirmed the

DHAKA: Law Minister Anisul Huq said the presidential election must be held before February 23 as per constitution and election commission will take steps for it. He made the remark to reporters after inaugurating a workshop of associate judges in city’s Judicial Administration

DHAKA: The High Court stayed the polls and by-polls to the mayor and councilor posts of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) for six months, not three months. DNCC Election Returning Officer Abul Kashem told Banglanews: “We didn’t get the copy of the verdict earlier. We got the

NARAYNAGANJ: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Advocate Taimur Alam Khandakar was arrested from Narayanganj, in a sabotage case. A team of Fatullah Model Police Station arrested Taimur from the Adalatpara area, at around 1:15pm Tuesday (January 23). He was accused in several

NETROKONA: Police arrested a local BNP leader in Khaliajuri upazila of Netrokona Monday (January 22). The arrestee, Abdur Rouf Shadhin, 48, is the president of Khaliajuri upazila unit of BNP and a former union parishad chairman. Khaliajuri Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md

DHAKA: Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad expressed his hope to saying that his last wish before death is to establish his party to power.  He made the remark in a joint meeting at party office in city’s Banani area on Monday morning (January 22). The meeting was called upon to discuss

DHAKA: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said that there is no necessity to have dialogue with BNP on election issue. Obaidul Quader, also, the Road Transport and Bridges Minister came up with this statement at a press conference on Sunday (January 21) at the conference

RAJBARI: Deputy Speaker Md. Fazle Rabbi Miah on Saturday (January 20) said that the next general elections will be held in December or January next under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as per the constitution. Addressing a reception program in Rajbari, the Deputy Speaker said that the