DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-4 detained four female members of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from different areas in city early Tuesday. RAB media wing senior assistant director ASP Mizanur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews. He further

KUSHTIA: Around 1,000 leaders and activists resign from BNP and its front organizations in the district. They submitted their resignation letters to the district unit party office on Saturday night (August 13). The BNP leaders and activists, led by Ward-5 vice-president Monirul

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad announced a 77-member central executive committee for the party. The names of committee were disclosed to the media on Sunday (August 14) through press release. According to the release, the committee was comprised of presidium members,

LAKSHMIPUR: A group of miscreants chopped a local unit leader of Jubo League to death at Balaishpur village in sadar upazila of the district on Saturday night (August 13). The deceased was identified as Mohammad Faisal (28), son of Fazlul Karim and also Bashikpur Union Ward 3 unit

DHAKA: BNP chairperson’s adviser and former state minister for youth and sports Fazlur Rahman Patal’s body arrived in Dhaka on Saturday evening (August 13). Shairul Kabir Khan, BNP chairperson’s Press Wing Officer, told banglanews that a Regent Airways flight carried the body

LALMONIRHAT: Police arrested Patgram upazila unit Shibir president Soheb Ahmed from his residence at Bherbherihat village in the upazila of the district early Saturday. Patgram Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Abinisankor Kaur told banglanews that Soheb Ahmed, 29, son of Afsar Ali was

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said absence of democracy in the country is the main reason of terrorism and militancy. He came up with the remarks while speaking at a commemoration program organized by National Democratic Party (NDP) at Dhaka Reporters Unity

DHAKA: BNP chairperson’s adviser and former state minister for youth and sports Fazlur Rahman Patal passed away on Thursday night.  He was 66. Patal breathed his last at Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Kolkata around 9 pm. He suffered from

DHAKA: Suranjit Sengupta, Chairman of Law Ministry Affairs Parliamentary Standing Committee, hoped that the verdict of August 21 grenade attack will be issued in September. Quoting Law Minister Anisul Haque, the committee chairman made the remarks in a briefing after a parliamentary

DHAKA: The next deposition of Zia Orphanage Trust case will be held on August 18. A makeshift court of 3rd special judge Abu Ahmed Zamadar, set up on the premises of jail department in city’s Bakshibazar area, passed the order on Thursday (August 18). However, Anti Corruption

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday (August 11) issued an arrest warrant against 56 people, including BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, in a case filed with Motijheel police station in city under explosives act. Dhaka metropolitan session judge M Qamrul Hossain Molla

DHAKA: A Dhaka court has taken into cognizance five more sabotage cases against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia. Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Kamrul Hasan Mollah passed the order after she appeared before the court on Wednesday (August 10). Earlier, the same court accepted three

DHAKA: A Dhaka court has taken into cognizance a sedition case against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia. Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Hasan Mollah passed the order after she appeared before the court on Wednesday (August 10). Later the court granted bail to her in the case. BDST:

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has appeared before the lower court on Wednesday (August 10) in 12 cases of sedition, sabotage and corruption. Khaleda Zia will seek bail in nine cases for creating sabotage in Darus Salam Thana area from January to March in 2015. She will also

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before the lower court on Wednesday (August 10) in 12 cases of sedition, sabotage and corruption. The chairperson’s lawyer and BNP central committee legal affairs secretary advocate Sanaullah Miah confirmed the matter to banglanews on

NETROKONA: Miscreants chopped dead a local leader of Jubo League, a front organization of ruling Awami League, at Purbadhala upazila of the district on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Habibur Rahman Tula, 32, joint-convener of upazila Jubo League, and hailed from

RAJSHAHI: Police, in an overnight drive, detained 35 people including five Shibir activists from Rajshahi metro on Monday (August 8). Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) spokesman and also Rajpara zone assistant commissioner (AC) Ifte Khair Alam confirmed the matter to banglanews. He

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrant against six razakars including Abdus Salam of Mymensingh. Three-member ICT tribunal, led by Justice Mohammad Anwarul Haq passed the order on Monday. Prosecutor Abul Kalam said war crimes cases have been filed

DHAKA: Election Commission (EC) has asked Awami League, BNP and eight other political parties to submit their annual reports on income and expenditure of 2015 by August 31. EC Public Relations Officer SM Asaduzzaman told Banglanews that 40 parities are registered and 10 of them have

DHAKA: Independent candidates have unofficially won in four municipalities while ruling Awami League (AL)-nominated candidates won three in elections held on Sunday (August 7). Elections in nine municipalities, including by-poll in one municipality, ended at 4:00pm. Independent