DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday (March 28) adjourned till April 10 the hearing of framing charges on BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s 11 cases, including a sedition case. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah passed the order after Khaleda Zia’s counsels

DHAKA: Police have detained four suspected militants from Senpara area under Mirpur model thana in Dhaka on Monday (March 27). The identities of the detainees could not be known till filling the report. Confirming the matter, Mirpur model thana officer-in-charge (OC) Mohammad Nazrul

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia paid her tributes to the martyrs at the National Mausoleum in Savar on Sunday morning (March 26), the 47th Independence Day. The BNP chief along with her party leaders placed wreaths at about 9:30 am.  BNP’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam

DHAKA: Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader said that politicians should engage in politics with ideals of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He made the call while speaking at the inauguration of a three-day

KUSHTIA: Awami League joint secretary general Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif alleged that BNP’s hostile reaction against government’s anti-militant operations proves that they have connections with all these militant organizations. He made the allegation to journalists at his home in Kushtia

DHAKA: The Awami League-supported ‘White Panel’ faced debacle in the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections as the BNP-supported ‘Blue Panel’ won a landslide victory in the polls. According to the result, the “Blue Panel’ under the banner of Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) has ordered to send all the records of corruption case of former president and Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad to the Chief Justice.  The HC bench of Justice Ruhul Quddus issued the order on Thursday (March 22), as the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) also

DHAKA: The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the lower court to resume the trial proceedings against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Niko graft case. The three-member bench of Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha scrapped a High Court order that stayed the

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld the High Court order that stayed the government suspension decision of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury. The HC’s order upheld through a decision of the three-member bench of the Appellate

NAOGAON: Police detained a listed member of the banned extremist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a fugitive in five cases including kidnapping, killing and extortion, from Atrai upazila of the district on Wednesday (March 22). The detainee, Mohammad Abdus Sattar, 55, son

GAZIPUR: The copy of the Supreme Court’s verdict that rejected Harkatul Jihad top leader Mufti Abdul Hannan’s review petition against his death penalty has reached the Kashimpur High Security Jail. The prison’s superintendent Mizanur Rahman on Wednesday (March 22) informed that

DHAKA: Officer-in-charge (OC) of Comilla Sadar South model police station Nazrul Islam was withdrawn from the duty over the allegation of electoral irregularities. The announcement was made through a press release of the Election Commission (EC) issued on Sunday (March 19).   The

CHITTAGONG: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Dhan Bikash Chakma, leader of a faction of Jana Samhati Samiti (JSS) of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), along with his two aides.  The RAB members arrested the JSS men from Hathazari upazila in Chittagnong early on Sunday (March 19). The

DINAJPUR: Police arrested a BNP leader from Dinajpur district town on Saturday (March 18) night. The arrestee is Bakhtiar Ahmed Kachi, 38, son of Dinajpur district association’s president Advocate Md. Khatib Uddn.    Bakhtiar Ahmed Kachi is convener of town unit of the

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday cancelled the bail of local BNP leader Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury alias Minar Chowdhury, the prime accused in Feni’s Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque Ekram murder case. The Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice

DHAKA: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said that BNP is the main patron of extremism and other communal evil forces in Bangladesh. He made the remarks in a program organized on the occasion of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth anniversary at

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that a vested quarter is working to establish militancy and terrorism in Bangladesh. He made the claim while talking to journalists after placing floral wreath to BNP founder Ziaur Rahman’s tomb in city’s

CHITTAGONG: A district court on Tuesday (March 14) placed 17 detained extremists on a two-day remand each.  Metropolitan Magistrate Harunur Rashid passed the order in response to a seven-day remand plea by Double Mooring thana police. Recently Double Mooring police detained three

DHAKA: A Dhaka court fixed March 28 as the date to frame charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in 11 cases, including sedition. The court of Metropolitan sessions Judge Kamrul Hossain Molla passed the order after Khaleda Zia’s lawyer had appealed for time. Meanwhile, the BNP

DHAKA: A Dhaka court fixed March 28 as the date to frame charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in 11 cases, including sedition. The court of Metropolitan sessions Judge Kamrul Hossain Molla passed the order after Khaleda Zia’s lawyer had appealed for time. Meanwhile, the BNP