RANGPUR: Police arrested 50 people including three activists of Jammat-e-Islami from eight upazilas of the districts in over night drives on early Thursday (September 8). Rangpur Additional Police Super (ASP) Abdullah Al Faruq told Banglanews that the arrestees were charge-sheeted in

RIYADH: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia has arrived in Saudi Arabia to perform holy hajj. A jet of Saudi Arabian Airlines carrying the BNP chairperson landed at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah at 10:50pm (local time). BNP’s central

DHAKA: The High Court has granted a six-month bail to BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi in five violence cases. However, he has to remain behind bars in another case. A bench of justice Habibul Gani and justice Akram Hossain granted the bail after bail plea

DHAKA: The ‘Swadhinata Padak’ given to late president and also BNP founder Ziaur Rahman was removed from National Museum in city on Wednesday afternoon (September 7). A meeting between the ministry officials concerned and acting director of the museum was held regarding the removal

FROM SHAHJALAL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia left for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Wednesday (September 7) to perform hajj. She left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in a flight of Saudi Arabia Airlines at 5:00pm. The BNP chief’s advisor and also

RAJSHAHI: Police detained 40 people including 10 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wings Islami Chhatra Shibir in an overnight drives in several areas of the district on Tuesday (September 6). Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) spokesperson and senior assistant commissioner

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will go to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for performing hajj. She will go to KSA in a flight of Saudi Arabia Airlines from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon (September 7). BNP press wing official Shayrul Kabir

GAZIPUR: Journalist Shafik Rehman has been released on bail from Kashimpur Central Jail in the district on Tuesday (September 6). He came out from the jail around 12:50pm. The journalist’s wife Taleya Rehman, cousins Onasis-e-Khoda and Hasanur Rahman and other family members

RANGPUR: Police arrested 53 accused including eight activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from eight upazilas of the district. The arrest drives were conducted from Monday night (September 5) to early Tuesday (September 6). Rangpur additional police

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Brig. Gen. (retd) ASM Hannan Shah has been admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in city on Tuesday morning (September 6). Later, he was taken to the ICU (intensive care unit) of the hospital. BNP chairperson’s press wing officer Shairul

SIRAJGANJ: Detective Branch (DB) of police detained four female members, including three of a family, of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) at Kazipur upazila of the district early Monday (September 5). The detainees were Phulera Begum, wife of one Abu Sayeed;

JHENAIDAH: Police have detained six activists, including two women of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and their student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from Jhenaidah sadar town early Monday. District additional police super Azbahar Ali Sheikh told banglanews that the six were arrested in

KHAGRACHARI: Three Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) districts, Khagrachhari, Rangamati and Bandarban, observed a dawn to dusk hartal demanding the repeal of the Chittagong Land Dispute Settlement Commission Amended Act 2016 and protesting the one-sided meeting of Jana Shanghati Samiti (JSS).

RANGPUR: Police arrested three activists of Jamaat-e-Islami among 55 people in drives conducted in several areas in the district. The drives were conducted from Saturday (September 3) night to early Sunday (September 4). Rangpur Division Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP)

DHAKA: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called a half-day hartal across the country for Monday (September 5) in protest against the execution of its leader and war criminal Mir Quasem Ali. Immediately after the execution on Saturday night, the party website said the hartal would continue

DHAKA: A joint meeting of central leaders of the ruling Awami League (AL) and its associate bodies on its national council is scheduled to be held on September 6. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will chair the meeting to be held at her official residence Ganabhaban in city around 7:00pm.

JESSORE: Miscreants killed newly elected Union Parishad (UP) chairman of Pashapole Union under Chaugachha upazila of the district. The deceased M Abul Qashem was also Pashapole unit president of ruling Awami League (AL). The family identified the body on Saturday evening (September

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has left Dhaka Saturday morning (September 3) for Singapore. BNP chairperson press wing official Shayrul Kabir Khan told Banglanews that Mirza Fakhrul left Dhaka in a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines with his wife Rahat Ara at

GAZIPUR: Family members met Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, a convict of sentence to death for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. Six members of his family met with him around 12:00 pm on Friday (September 02) in Kashimpur prison-2. They are

RANGPUR: A member of Jamaat-e-Islam affiliated Islami Chhatra Shibir’s Majlish-e-Shura was arrested from Changmari area under Gangachara upazila on Friday (September 02). Mahmud Hasan Swapon, 19, son of Makbul Hossain was Shura member of Gangachar upazila and remained fugitive of a