DHAKA: Namaz-e-janaza of Dhaka city Awami League (AL) acting president MA Aziz will be held in front of Awami League’s central office on Bangabandhu Avenue in city after maghrib prayers Saturday evening (January 23).Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to pay tribute to the fellow leader

DHAKA: Dhaka city Awami League (AL) acting president MA Aziz has died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday (January 23).He has been suffering from heart decease for long.His relatives said he was admitted to the hospital this morning as he fell seriously ill at his Old

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday convened a meeting of party standing committee.The meeting is scheduled to be held at Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan political office in city at 8:30pm on Saturday (January 23).Chairperson’s press wing officer Shairul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter

DHAKA: A city court on Thursday ordered to look into the case against BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy for making defaming comments on intellectuals, who were martyred during the country’s war of independence in 1971.Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul Haque passed the

PATUAKHALI: Police arrested upazila unit Jamaat-e-Islami ameer in Dumki upazila of Patuakhali district on Thursday (January 21).He was identified as Mawlana Altaf Hossain.Dumki Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Azam Khan Faruki told banglanews that the Jamaat leader was arrested around 4:30pm

DHAKA: A defamation suit has been lodged against BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy for his remarks about the martyred intellectuals.Son of a martyred freedom fighter’s family and also Mercantile Bank Limited additional managing director Monindra Kumar Nath filed the

DHAKA: BNP senior leaders, in a meeting with the foreign diplomats on Wednesday, alleged that the recent municipal elections faced irregularities including vote rigging.  The meeting started at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office at 4:00pm and continued till 5:15pm.BNP International

SYLHET: An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), who was severely injured in an attack following intra-party conflict, died at a private clinic in Sylhet city on Tuesday midnight.The deceased was identified as Kazi Habib, 24, BBA fourth year student of Sylhet International

DHAKA: Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal categorically said that BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed will be brought back from India after completion of his judicial process there.The minister made this assertion while talking to the leaders of Crime Reporters Association of Bangladesh (CRAB)

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad on Tuesday (January 19) sacked Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu from the secretary general position of the party.He also announced Ruhul Amin Hawlader as the new secretary general as per rights of party chairman.Ershad disclosed the decisions in a press

DHAKA: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad called an emergency press conference as the party is on the verge of splitting.The conference will be held at party’s Banani central office at 2:00pm on Tuesday.Party sources confirmed the matter to banglanews around 10:00am.Reactions arose as he

DHAKA: Leaders and activists of BNP and ‘Asal BNP’ (Original BNP) locked into a clash in city’s Nayapaltan area.The BNP-men set fire to a pickup-van that carried the ‘Asal BNP’ leaders.The clash was created as ‘Asal BNP’-men advanced to occupy BNP’s headquarters in

DHAKA: Convicted war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee filed a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict that commuted his death penalty to jail unto death. Sayedee’s lawyer M Saifur Rahamn informed the matter to banglanews on Sunday (January 17).The war

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir once again pressed the government to talk about the process of establishing an elected government.He made this call at a program celebrating 37th founding anniversary of ‘Jubo JAGPA’ at Photojournalist Association

DHAKA: Ganajagaran Mancha on Friday declared to gherao the Pakistan High Commission to Bangladesh in the afternoon of January 20 (Wednesday).Mancha convener Dr Imran H Sarker made the announcement from a protest rally at Shahbagh intersection in city in the afternoon.“We will gherao the

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Dr RA Gani was buried at Banani graveyard in city on Friday afternoon.He was buried around 4:15pm after the third janaza at south plaza of Jatiya Sangsad.Earlier, the BNP leader died at intensive care unit (ICU) of Square Hospital in city around

HABIGANJ: Police detained 14 top leaders of district unit Jamaat-e-Islami, including its ameer Mokhlesur Rahman, from Habiganj Sadar on Friday morning.Habiganj assistant police super (sadar) Masudur Rahman Monir told banglanews that the detainees were holding a clandestine meeting at the

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir  have expressed deep sorrow at the death of the standing committee member Dr RA Gani.They expressed their condolences in separate messages, said BNP chairperson’s press wing member Shairul

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Dr RA Gani has died at Square Hospital in city early hours of Friday. He was 89.He breathed his last around 12:30 am at the hospital where he had been kept on life support since Wednesday after his condition deteriorated.BNP media wing member Shairul

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Dr RA Gani has been kept on life support at Square Hospital in city on Thursday.On January 6, RA Gani was admitted to the hospital in city's Panthapath area as he fell sick and complained of respiratory problems.Later on Wednesday, the BNP leader was