CHITTAGONG: Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan on Sunday (November 19) said that the current government led by Awami League President Sheikh Hasina won’t influence the election commission (EC) despite remaining in power. The minister, as the chief guest, was addressing a program on

COMILLA: Miscreants cut off a leg and a hand of a Jubo League leader in Daudkandi upazila of Comilla. The victim, Md Alam, union unit secretary general of Jubo League, also sustained stabbings with sharp weapons in different parts of his body. Locals rescued Alam besides a road in

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that the conspirators tried to distort the history of Bangladesh following the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15 in 1975.     She urged the countrymen to remain alert so that the agents of Pakistan can’t

NARAYANGANJ: 24 Jamaat leaders and activists, including district ameer Moulana Moinuddin Ahmed, were sued on charges of plotting and preparation of sabotage activities in Narayanganj. Sub-Inspector (SI) Raju Mondal lodged the case with Fatullah Model Police Station on Saturday

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that country’s legendary leader Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani first called for the independence of Bangladesh.   He said this while speaking at a discussion at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) on Saturday (November

DHAKA: Prime Minister also Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has reached Suhrawardy Udyan to address the grand rally under the banner of Nagorik Committee, to celebrate the recognition to Bangabandhu’s March 7 speech by UNESCO. Sheikh Hasina reached the venue at around 2:38pm

DHAKA: The names of BNP leader Abdul Awal Mintoo, his wife and three sons including Tabith Mohammed Awal appeared in Paradise Papers, a massive document leak reveals secrets of world elites’ hidden wealth. Their names surfaced as shareholders of NFM Energy Ltd — a gas drilling

DHAKA: A rally will be held in Suhrawardy Udyan on Saturday (November 18) to celebrate the recognition of historic March 7 speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's as a world documentary heritage by UNESCO. Nagorik Committee is organizing the rally where

KUSHTIA: Information Minister also the President of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) Hasanul Haq Inu said that BNP is trying to foil the upcoming national parliamentary polls, in the name of dialogue. The minister was talking to the reporters after exchanging views with his party leaders

DHAKA: Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained Akramul Hasan, general secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of BNP, in Paltan Friday (November 17). Chhatra Dal President Rajib Ahsan told Banglanews that Akramul was nabbed while he was returning after

TANGAIL: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the next parliamentary election must be held under poll-time supportive government as his party proposed to EC. He came up with the remark after placing floral wreath at Mawlana Bhasani’s tomb on the occasion of his 41st

DHAKA: BNP Standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury commented that it will be a dangerous venture if his party participate in the upcoming national election with no deployment of army. He was addressing a discussion marking the BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman’s

DHAKA: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said that they are not intervening in any case of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia. “We are not intervening in any case of Khaleda Zia and we (government) won’t also intervene in the cases of the BNP chief in future,” he said on

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has expressed her doubt over justice in connection with the Zia Charitable Trust Graft case and the Zia Orphanage Trust Graft case. She said that conspiracy is being hatched against her. The BNP chief said these while delivering her self-defense

DHAKA: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said the government has put a bar on Anti-Liberation quarter to appear as guests in any programs marking the Victory Day on Dec 16. He made the remark to reporters on Thursday noon (Nov 16) after an inter-ministerial meeting on the overall

DHAKA: Several people were injured and motorcycles were put on fire in a clash between two factions of ruling Awami League in Dhaka’s Azimpur area on Thursday noon (Nov 16). The clash broke out in front of Pearl Harbor community center in Azimpur while police had to fire a few

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has given her self-defense statement in the Zia Charitable Trust Graft and Zia Orphanage Trust Graft cases for over an hour on Thursday (November 16) and will continue the next day. The court asked the BNP chief to appear before it on November 23 for

DHAKA: Ailing veteran Awami League leader and former mayor of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury is being taken to Singapore for better treatment. Mohiuddin’s Personal Assistant Osman Ghani told Banglanews that they will leave here for Singapore, on an

KHAGRACHARI: A dawn-to-dusk hartal called by United Peoples Democratic Front (UPDF) is being observed loosely in Khagrachari Thursday (November 16). UPDF, under the banner of ‘committee against miscreants and drug-terrorism’, called on the hartal to protest a newly-formed

DHAKA: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of AL, does not need troublemakers, including criminals and infiltrators, as it is a traditional organization.  Quader, also Road Transport and Bridges Minister, made the remark