BRAHMANBARIA: Police arrested district unit secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami from Medda Sabujbagh area in Sadar upazila of the district Thursday afternoon (September 22). Sadar Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Mainur Rahman said that the Jamaat man Kazi Yakub Ali, 55, was arrested from his

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia returned Bangladesh from Saudi Arabia on Thursday (September 22) after performing hajj. A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the BNP leader arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city around 5:00pm. Police and Khaleda Zia’s

NARAYANGANJ: District administration confiscated 50 acres land of former Dhaka mayor and also BNP leader Sadek Hossain Khoka in Tarabo and Goalanda areas in Rupganj upazila of the district. The authorities on Thursday noon (September 22) implemented the order of a special court against

DHAKA: A city court on Thursday (September 22) issued arrest warrant against 14 people, including BNP vice-chairman Selima Rahman and party chairperson’s special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas in a sabotage case. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge M Qamrul Hossain

FENI: Police arrested a local leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, in murder, arms and explosives and sabotage cases from Sonagazi upazila of the district on Wednesday evening (September 21). The arrestee was identified as Kamrul Islam Prokash

FENI: A district court granted a seven-day remand for a member of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) in the case of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina murder attempt. Feni senior judicial magistrate Jubo Juti Paal passed the order Wednesday afternoon (September 21).

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday (September 20) framed charges against 74 leaders and activists of 20-party, including BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in a sabotage case filed with Paltan police station in city. The court of additional chief Mahanagar Hakim Ali Masud

DHAKA: Ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) is set to accord a grand reception on September 26 to its chief and also Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her arrival in Dhaka from New York. The reception program will take place around 4.00pm from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to

SIRAJGANJ: Detective Branch (DB) of Police detained four members of outlaw outfit Jamaat Ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Arandhaha area in Shalanga Thana of the district. They also recovered bombs, bomb making materials and jihadist books from the possession of the detainees.

RANGPUR: Police have arrested a leader of Islami Chatra Shibir, the student of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from Mithapukur upazila of the district Monday morning (September 19). The arrestee Younus Ali (25), president of Shibir’s Mithapukur upazila unit, was a charge-sheeted accused.

TANGAIL: Member of Parliament (MP) of Tangail-3 (Ghatail) Amanur Rahman Khan Rana has been sent to jail in the murder case of freedom fighter and also ruling Awami League (AL) leader Faruk Ahammad in the district. Earlier in the day, the warranted accused Rana surrendered to the court

RANGPUR: Police arrested 58 people including two warranted Jamaat-e-Islami activists from several upazilas of the district. The drives were conducted from Friday night (September 16) to Saturday morning (September 17). Rangpur additional superintendent of police (ASP) Abdullah Al

RANGPUR: Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad will start his election campaigns after visiting the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal (R) in Sylhet on October 1. He said free and fair elections will help JP form government. The former president made the assertion while talking to

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) announced full committees of Dhaka city north and south units. A press release, signed by AL central office secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap, said on Sunday (September 11). The 69-member committees of AL Dhaka units also included nine members of advisory

RANGPUR: Police, in separate drives, arrested 42 charge-sheeted people including two activists of Jammat-e-Islami from eight upazilas at the district. Police conducted the drives from Saturday night (September 10) to Sunday morning (September 11). Rangpur Additional Superintendent

CHITTAGONG: Miscreants gunned down an Awami League (AL) leader in Bashirkhil village in Satkania upazila of the district on Saturday night (September 10). The deceased was identified as Zahirul Islam, general secretary to Kanchana union Ward No 7 of the upazila. Satkani Police

FROM AZIMPUR: Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Haque said the dead militant Abdul Karim was the mastermind of Gulshan attack. Moreover, one of the detained women is allegedly the wife of militant Major (retd) Zahid who was killed in another police raid in Mirpur’s

DHAKA: A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained two members of banned extremist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), including its the chief coordinator of Gazipur district, from Chourasta area of the town early Saturday (September 10). The coordinator was identified as Rashedul

DHAKA: BNP has declared to hold rallies in Dhaka on Friday and other district towns on Saturday (September 10) protesting the cancellation of Ziaur Rahman’s Independence Award. Party general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the program at a press briefing at BNP

COMILLA: A union-level activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), a front organization of ruling Awami League (AL), was beaten to death in district’s Sadar Upazila early Thursday (September 8). The deceased was identified as Oliullah, 25, son of one Harun-ar-Rashid, and nephew of