DHAKA: The first meeting of the newly elected presidium committee members of ruling Awami League (AL) is underway be held at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s official residence Ganabhaban in city on Friday evening (October 28). Prime Minister and also reelected party president Hasina

COMILLA: Police arrested a upazilla unit Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from Nangalkot upazilla of Comilla district on Thursday (October 27). The detainee was identified as Maulana Mohiuddin, Ameer of Nangalkot upazilla unit Jamaat. Nangalkot police station officer-in-charge

DHAKA: The first meeting of the newly elected presidium committee members of ruling Awami League (AL) will be held at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s official residence Ganabhaban in city on Friday evening (October 28). Prime Minister and also reelected party president Hasina will

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday (October 27) commented that there is no alternative of talks in reestablishing democracy and ensuring a fair national election. He made the remark while talking to the media after paying tribute to the tomb of former

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced the committee of Swechhasebok Dal on Thursday noon (October 27). BNP made former student leader Safiul Bari Babu as president, Abdul Quader Bhuyan Jewel as general secretary. Moreover, Mohammad Yasin Ali has been announced as the

RANGPUR: Police arrested 51 accused including an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami in overnight drivers in eight upazilas of the district on Thursday (October 27). The law enforcers also seized yaba tablets and phensedyl during the drives. Rangpur police super (SP) Mizanur Rahman told

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has appointed Jubo Dal vice-president Albert P Costa as acting president of the party’s associate body. Albert replaced former president Moazzem Hossain Alal who has submitted a resignation letter to party chief after being elected as joint

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League will observe historic Jail Killing Day that falls on November 3. Road transport and bridges minister and also newly elected party general secretary Obaidul Quader made the announcement Wednesday (October 26) at Dhanmondi party office in city. According to

DHAKA: Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina and newly elected general secretary Obaidul Quader paid tribute to father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. They along with the other presidium members and secretaries, elected in the party’s 20th national council, paid

DHAKA: BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed called for constituting an acceptable election commission (EC) by creating a search committee based on opinions from all quarters. He came up with the call to ruling Awami League’s newly elected president Prime

DHAKA: The names of another 22 members of central working committee of ruling Awami League (AL) was declared on Tuesday (October 25). Party’s newly elected general secretary Obaidul Quader announced their names at AL president’s Dhanmondi political office in Dhaka. Earlier,

BAGERHAT: Police detained four members of banned extremist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Kachua upazilla of the district early Tuesday (October 25). Three police members sustained injuries as the JMB members threw crude bombs aiming the cops during the drive

RANGPUR: Police on Monday night (October 24) arrested former president of Mithapukur upazila unit Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, from his residence in the upazilla. The arrestee was identified as Shafayat, son of one Siddiqur Rahman of the upazila.

DHAKA: Government has decided to arrange Zilla Parishad elections in the last quarter of December next. Local government has already sent a letter to the Election Commission (EC) in this regard. Ministry deputy secretary Zobaida Nasreen confirmed the matter to Banglanews on Monday

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday (October 24) commented that ruling Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina’s speech is a threat to democracy. Fakhrul made the comment while addressing the 15th death anniversary of former lawmaker Afsar Ahmed

THAKURGAON: Police detained a district unit president of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, from Thakurgaon sadar town on Monday afternoon (October 24). The detainee was identified as Rajiur Rahman Raju, president of Thakurgaon district unit Chhatra

LAKSHMIPUR: Police detained at least seven Jamaat-e-Islami men including a metropolitan Jamaat-e-Islami secretary from Nutun Bazar area under Raipur Thana of the district on Sunday (October 23). Locals said Jamaat secretary Kamal Uddin, along with hundreds of Jamaat activists, was

DHAKA: Prime Minister and also ruling Awami League president has unanimously been reelected as the party president for eighth time in the party’s 20th national council. Besides, road transport and bridges minister and also AL presidium member Obaidul Quader has been made the

DHAKA: A 14-member presidium committee of ruling Awami League (AL) has been announced on Sunday (October 23), the second and concluding day of the party’s national council. The newly elected presidium members are Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, Matia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim,

DHAKA: BNP on Sunday (October 23) congratulated the newly elected members of ruling Awami League (AL) national committee. The party’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam in an immediate reaction expressed his greeting to the AL committee. Earlier in the evening, the councilors