TANGAIL: Symbols were distributed among the candidates of upcoming by-poll for Tangail-4 (Kalihati) constituency.Returning Officer Alimuzzaman distributed the symbols among four candidates on Thursday morning.Ruling Awami League (AL)-backed candidate Hasan Imam Khan Sohel Hazari got party

NATORE: A man was killed in infighting between two local factions of ruling Awami League (AL) at Singra Upazila of the district Thursday morning.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Hannan, son of one Abdul Karim, hailed from Tiroil village of the upazila.Local people said Singra

CHITTAGONG: BNP vice-chairman Abdullah Al Noman alleged that their party leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka was sentenced in a false case to create leadership vacuum in BNP.He came up with the assertions in a statement sent to media on Wednesday.Slamming the government Noman said former mayor

DHAKA: After Wednesday’s proceedings, Judge Abu Ahmed Jamaddar of Dhaka Third Special Judges Court set October 29 for the next hearing in the Zia Charitable and Orphanage Trust Graft cases.Earlier, lawyer of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, the key accused of two cases, advocate Abdur

GAIBANDHA: A district court has sent back Manzurul Islam Liton MP of Gaibandha-1 constituency to jail denying his bail petition in the case of shooting a minor boy Sourav in the area.District additional chief judicial magistrate (Sundarganj) court judge Maynul Hasan Yusuf passed the order

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) asked the Election Commission (EC) to accept nomination paper of Kader Siddiqui in the by-polls of Tangail-4 constituency. The HC vacation bench of Justice Miftah Uddin Chowdhry and Justice Kazi M Ijarul Huq Akand  passed the order on Wednesday. After rejection

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will return home from Singapore on Wednesday.The BNP leader will land in a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the evening.BNP chairperson’s press wing official Shayrul Kabir Khan

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday handed down BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka a 13-year jail term in a graft case filed by Anti Corruption Commission (ACC).Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of Special Judge Court-3 of Dhaka passed the verdict at noon.The court also fined Khoka Tk 11-lakh, in

CHITTAGONG: police, from several upazilas of the district, arrested 120 people, including seven leaders and activists of local units of Jamaat-e-Islami, early Tuesday.Of the arrested, 28 are accused in general cases and the court issued warrant against 85.Additional superintendent of

BAGERHAT: Miscreants chopped a local Awami League leader to death at Rampal Upazila of the district Monday night.The deceased was identified as Abdul Majed Sardar, 62, legal affairs secretary of Rajnagar union of the upazila.Rampal Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Rafiqul Islam told

SYLHET: A district court on Monday deferred the hearing of a case filed over the murder of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das.Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Court-2 judge SM Anwarul Haque fixed November 4 as the new date as the case documents did not reach here in time.On October 4, the hearing was

DHAKA:  Death row convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury filed a petition to the Supreme Court (SC) seeking permission for giving deposition of seven witnesses, including five foreigners, for him during the review hearing.Advocate on record Joynul Abedin Tuhin submitted the petition in the

MOULVIBAZAR: Police, in a nighttime drive, arrested convener of Moulvibazar unit Swechchasebok Dal, the volunteer wing of BNP, from Kusumbagh area of the district town.The arrestee is M Abdul Hannan, 40, son of Abdul Aziz of Darjir Mahal area of the town.Confirming the matter to

RAJSHAHI: Police arrested four top leaders of Rajshahi city unit Jamaat-e-Islami, including assistant secretary Imaj Uddin, from different places of the city early Monday.The other detainees are Shah Makhdum Thana Jamaat amir Mohammad Hafiz Uddin Isha, its rukons Zillur Rahman and Mamtaj

KHULNA: A city court on Sunday sent 19 leaders and activists of BNP and its associate organizations including district BNP organizing secretary Amir Ezaj Khan denying their bail on four torching cases.Confirming the matter to banglanews, district BNP general secretary advocate SM Shafiqul

MEHERPUR: Police arrested twenty accused, including nine activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, from different upazilas of Meherpur district.Of the detainee, four were sentenced in mobile court, nine were accused in sabotage cases while five in regular cases, one each in GR and CR

DHAKA: The hearing of Bangabir Abdul Kader Siddique’s appeal to the Election Commission (EC) against the decision of canceling his candidacy in the by-election of Tangail-4 (Kalihati) constituency will be held on Sunday.The hearing of his wife’s appeal will also be held on that day at

CHITTAGONG: Detectives arrested one of coordinators of Chittagong region Jamat-Ul-Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) from Nagarpur of Tangail district early Saturday.The detainee Minhazul Islam alias Sajid, 24, was involved in mugging at Majhirghat and had been coordinating the militant

NAOGAON: Police arrested Abul Hossain Master, 45, one of the closest aides of infamous Jamat-Ul-Mujahedin chief Bangla Bhai, from Pachpapiya village under Atrai Upazila on Saturday morning.Additional Police Super Khorshed Alam confirmed the matter to banglanews.He was wanted in several

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir left on Saturday morning for Singapore for routine cheek-up at National University Hospital there. The BNP leader left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Bangladesh Biman flight around 8:35am.During the tour, his wife