DHAKA: BNP leaders signed in the condolence book opened for the death of former President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam at High Commission of India in city’s Gulshan area Wednesday.A group, led by BNP standing committee member Dr Abdul Moin Khan, signed in the book at noon.BNP standing

DHAKA: War criminal BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury has no chance of acquittal after reviewing the appeal verdict of Supreme Court.Law minister Anisul Haque made the remark on Wednesday few hours after the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty to Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for

DHAKA:  A Dhaka court Wednesday placed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) president Rajib Ahsan on eight-day police remand in six sabotage cases. Metropolitan magistrate Shamsul Arefin granted the remand plea for police interrogation.Earlier in the day, the JCD president was produced before

DHAKA: Prosecutor Barrister Turin Afroz said justice has again been established through the appellate division verdict that upheld ICT verdict of Salauddin Qauder Choswdhury’s death penalty as he persecuted the Hindu community during the war. “Through trial of these crimes today it is

DHAKA:  Police sought 40-day remand for Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) president Rajib Ahsan to interrogate him, showing arrest him in four sabotage cases.Rajib Ahsan’s lawyer Sana Ullah Mia confirmed the matter to banglanews.He was taken to Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court

DHAKA: BNP will organize a milad mahfil at its central office in city’s Nayapaltan area on Thursday.The milad, seeking quick recovery of the party’s acting general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Tariqul Islam, will be held after asar prayers on the

BARISAL: A district court has sent eleven leaders and activists of BNP and Islami Chhatra Shibir to jail in Banaripara upazila of Barisal district.Barisal additional district and session second court and Special Tribunal-3 judge Mohammad Adib Ali passed the order on Tuesday.The court sent

DHAKA: Charge hearing of 26 BNP leaders and activists including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been fixed on August 26.Earlier, it was dated on July 28.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tarique Mainul Islam Bhuiyan rescheduled the date following a plea by

DHAKA: Court on Tuesday granted a three-day remand for eight members of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) including its acting ameer Fahim.Earlier, Detective Branch (DB) of police inspector Sarwar Hossain produced the arrestees to Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court and

PIROJPUR: A district court has sent twelve Mathbaria upazila unit leaders and activists of BNP and it’s youth wing Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal and student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal in Pirojpur.Pirojpur district and sessions court judge Mohammad Golam Kibria passed the order refusing their

DHAKA: The appellate division of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the HC order that granted bail to BNP leader Tariqul Islam in four cases filed for sabotages during this year’s blockade-hartals.A four-member bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order on

DHAKA: The report submission date has been deferred till October 13 in the case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and its three leaders in connection with killing 42 people during the hartal-blockade. Monday (July 27) was scheduled for the submission of the report.Dhaka

DHAKA: BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir left Dhaka for Singapore for better treatment late on Sunday. He left Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport by a flight of Singapore Airlines around 11:58pm, days after he was released on bail after six months in

PIROJPUR: Police arrested eight men of BNP and its youth wing Jubo Dal and student wing Chhatra Dal from Pirojpur district.They, accused in several cases, were arrested in drives conducted from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon.Pirojpur additional superintendent of police (ASP) Abu

DHAKA: Saifur Rahman Sohag was elected as president and Zakir Hossain secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Sunday.They will lead the student wing of ruling Awami League for two years.Councilors from all over the country elected the duo on the second day of the two-day BCL

DHAKA: A Dhaka court fixed November 2 for indictment hearing in a defamation case against Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Janata League (BKSJL) President Abdul Kader Siddiqui. Dhaka Additional CMM court judge Ali Masud Sheikh on Sunday fixed the date. Earlier on November 11 in 2014, a Dhaka

DHAKA: Prosecution on Sunday submitted formal charge against 12 war crimes suspects, including former Jamaat-e-Islami MP Sakhawat Hossain in a case for committing crimes against humanity during the country’s war of independence in 1971.Later, International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 fixed

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday asked for fair general elections under any impartial government even if it was not possible to arrange elections under caretaker government.She came up with the demand while exchanging views with the members of nationalist lawyers’ forum

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is set to leave for Singapore on Sunday for medical treatment.He will leave Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city on the evening.BNP chairperson’s press wing officer Shairul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter to

DHAKA: Bangladesh environmentalists on Saturday warned that the ‘Indian Rivers Inter-link Project’ will not only hamper Bangladesh, also at least 10 provinces of India.However, it is a proposed large-scale civil engineering project that aims to link India's rivers by a network of