DHAKA: A court on Tuesday sent BNP leader and also former MP Syeda Asifa Ashrafi Papia to jail in nine cases of torching and sabotage.Metropolitan Magistrates Mostafizur Rahman, Maruf Hossain and Mahbubur Rahman passed the order separately after the hearing in the afternoon.Earlier, Papia

DHAKA: Police, in special drives, arrested 41 Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Chhatra Shibir men from Gaibandha and Rangpur districts on Tuesday.Gaibandha correspondent said 30 Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists among 46 people were arrested in the drive in several areas of the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday denied the bail plea of Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of Pinu Khan of ruling Awami League lawmaker from reserved women’s seats and also general secretary of the party’s women wing, in a double murder case.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul Haque gave the

DHAKA: The appeal hearing of death row convict BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury adjourned till Wednesday.The hearing started on Tuesday at the four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha.The other members of the SC bench are Justice Nazmun Ara

CHITTAGONG: Police arrested at least 103 persons including seven activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in special drives in different areas of Chittagong district.Moreover, 68 liters of liquor and 113 pieces of yaba tablets were also seized during the

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 24-hour hartal countrywide from 6:00am Wednesday as Supreme Court upheld death penalty to their leader Ali Ahsan Mojahid for war crimes.A press release signed by party’s acting Ameer Mokbul Ahmed made the disclosure on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, SC

SATKHIRA: Police arrested district Jamaat Ameed Maolana Abdul Khalek alias jollad Khalek with a foreign pistol and two round bullets from a secret meeting at a Madrasa in Sadar upazila early Tuesday.He is accused of several cases including two of murders and war crimes during Liberation

MAGURA: Police recovered a total of 35 live bombs from a madrasha, run by Jammat-e-Islami, in Dari Magura area under Sadar Uazila of the district early Tuesday.Police sources said acting on a tip-off, police raided Al-Aaim Trust Dakhil Madarasha and Orphanage of the area and recovred the

JHENAIDAH: Police arrested the Kotchandpur Upazila vice chairman Moabia Hossain, 55, of the district on Friday night.Moabia Hossain, son of late Mohammad Ali of Bon Bibhag Para of district town, is also the general secretary of the upazila unit of Jamaat-e-Islami.Police sources said,

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia met the visiting 7-member delegation of Communist Party of Chinese (CPC) at her Gulshan residence in city.The hour-long meeting started around 4:15pm. The delegation led by vice-minister of the international department of CPC central committee Guo

DHAKA: ‘Missing’ Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal former central organizing secretary Anisur Rahman Talukdar Khokon has been found on Monday afternoon.Khokon along with two other JCD activists, Jony and Babu, had been handed over to Kotwali Thana in Faridpur district.BNP chairperson’s media

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday rejected the bail plea of BNP chairperson’s adviser Shamsuzzaman Dudu in four cases  on charge of vandalizing vehicles, hurling cocktails, and creating bar in police duties filed with Paltan Thana .The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge M Kamrul Hasan

CHITTAGONG: Police arrested at least 71 people including two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir after conducting special drives in different parts of Chittagong district.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Chittagong Special Branch (SB) additional police super (ASP) Naimul Hasan said

DHAKA: As in the previous years, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for iftar in advance.A BNP delegation, led by the party’s international affairs secretary and also its spokesperson Dr Asaduzzaman Ripon, conveyed the invitation at ruling Awami League

DHAKA: After treatment, Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad returned home from hospital Monday morning.He left the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for home in the city around 9:45am.Earlier, Ershad got admitted to the CMH as he suddenly felt sick at night on June 9.BDST:

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia appealed to the High Court (HC) for cancellation of deposition against her in the Zia Orphanage and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases.The bench of Justice M Moinul Islam Chowdhury and Justice JBM Hasan might hear the plea on Monday.Earlier on May 25,

Park Lane Hotel, London: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that traveling the boat upstream is the duty of Awami League. The party has traveled upstream in all levels, beginning from the independence movement of Bengalis to the war of liberation and journey will be continuing,’ she

DHAKA: Supreme Court Appellate Division upheld the chamber judge’s order that stayed a High Court order halting suspension of Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul as Rajshahi City Corporation Mayor.An Appeal bench led by Chief Justice SK Sinha passed the order on Sunday.Earlier on May 7, Local

DHAKA: The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has finalized investigation report on crimes against humanity against 12 war crimes suspects, including former Jamaat-e-Islami MP Sakhawat Hossain.Chief Coordinator of the agency Abdul Hannan Khan and investigation

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday appealed for bail in three violence cases filed with Paltan Thana in city.The appeal was placed to the High Court bench of Justice Mohammad Rezaul Haque and Justice Mohammad Khasruzzaman.Lawyers Joynul Abedin and