DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia convened a meeting of top leaders of her party, including its Standing Committee members, on Wednesday night.The meeting is set to begin at party chairperson’s political office at Gulshan in the city around 8:30pm, said BNP standing committee member Lt

DHAKA:  Though returned home from London after two and half months stay there, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will not appear before court in the hearing of Zia Charitable and Orphanage Trust Graft cases to be held on Thursday.  The hearing will be held at the Special Judge's Court-3 of

DHAKA: Police detained an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami named Abdul Haque from city’s Tejgaon area for alleged issuance of death threat to eminent persons of the country.Tejgaon Thana police sources informed the development on Wednesday morning.BDST: 1143 HRS, NOV 25, 2015RS/SMS

GAIBANDHA: A district court on Tuesday extended the interim bail till December 8 granted earlier to Gaibandha-1 MP Manjurul Islam Liton in a case of shooting to a boy named Sourav.Gaibandha Amoly Adalat (Sundarganj) judge Moniruzzaman Shikder passed the order, rejecting a petition filed

DHAKA:  Cox’s Bazar municipality mayor Sarwar Kamal has been suspended as he was charged in a criminal case.Municipality division of Local Government Ministry took the decision on Tuesday afternoon following the court accepted the charge sheet against the Jamaat leader.Later, a letter

DHAKA: The High Court on Tuesday granted three-month bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three sabotage cases filed with Paltan Police Station in city.An HC bench comprising Justice Rezaul Haque and Justice Khairuzzaman passed the order in response to a

DHAKA: Awami League-backed candidate Saira Mohsin, wife of late Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali, has been elected uncontested in the by-elction of Moulvibazar-3 constituency. Regional Election Officer SM Ezharul Haque, also returning officer of the election, announced the

DHAKA: The Supreme Court (SC) adjourned the appeal hearing of condemned war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami till Tuesday. The 4-member appeal division bench, led by Chief Justice SK Sinha on Monday passed the order after hearing his appeal plea for third day.The other

DHAKA:  A total of 137 people, including 33 leaders-activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, from different places of five districts in the country apprehending sabotages.The drives have been conducted between Sunday night and Monday dawn. Banglanews Jhenaidhah correspondent reports: Joint

DHAKA: The dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the execution of its leader Ali Ahsan Mujahid, is underway in a relaxed manner.The shutdown started at 6:00am Monday. No picketing and procession in support of hartal has been reported in Dhaka, elsewhere

FARIDPUR: Jamaat-e-Islami has called a daylong countrywide hartal as a part of the post-execution protest program of its secretary general and also war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid.Jamaat central sura member and also Faridpur unit Jamaat ameer Professor Abdut Tawab told banglanews

DHAKA: BNP chairperson and former premier Khaleda Zia has returned home from London on Saturday evening.She reached her Gulshan residence around 7:30pm.Around 5:10pm, a flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the BNP leader landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city.Several

DHAKA: BNP has sent a letter to police seeking necessary security for its chairperson and also former premier Khaleda Zia.A press release, sent by BNP assistant office secretary Asadul Karim Shahin, said on Saturday afternoon.According to the release, the letter was handed over to Dhaka

GAZIPUR: Police arrested BNP’s Tongi Thana unit president and also former Upazila Parishad chairman Shen Shah Alam.Tongi Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Mohammad Firoz Talukdar informed banglanews on Saturday morning.The BNP leader was arrested from his house around 11:00pm on Friday as he

DHAKA: War criminals Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mujahid filed petitions seeking presidential clemency on their death penalties.On Saturday morning, two magistrates met Chowdhury and Mujahid at Dhaka Central Jail to know whether they would seek presidential mercy.Earlier, the

DHAKA: Wife of death row war criminal and also Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid sought the President’s consent as the convict considers the later as the country’s constitutional guardian.Tamanna-e-Jahan made this assertion at a press conference held at the

GAZIPUR:  Former state minister for home Lutfuzzaman Babar has been taken to Dhaka for treatment from Kashimpur jail in Gazipur on Saturday. He was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in an ambulance around 8:30am.Kashimpur jail part-1 superintendent Subrata Bala said Babar has

DHAKA: Barrister Nazmul Huda has announced formation of a new political party named Trinamool BNP.He made the announcement in a program at Westin Hotel of the capital on Friday morning.In 2010, national standing committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) expelled Nazmul Huda from the

DHAKA: The full and final verdicts of death row war crimes convicts BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdury and Jamaat-e-Isalmi secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid have been taken to the central jail in city on Thursday night.International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) deputy registrar

DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the upheld of death penalty for war criminal party’s secretary general leader Ali Ahsan Mujahid, ended Thursday evening.No effect of the shutdown was seen in the city as a large number of public transports