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

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).