DHAKA: Newly appointed state minister for post and telecommunications ministry Tarana Halim categorically said that she will not tolerate any incident of bribery in the office.‘No mercy on bribery,’ she vowed.Tarana made the vow when exchanging views with the ministry officials at

CHITTAGONG: An Awami League (AL) leader succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital in Chittagong district Wednesday night.The deceased was identified as Abdur Rahim, 45, president of AL Nangalmora union of Hathazari upazila.Hathazari Thana officer-in-charge (OC) M Ismail told

SYLHET: Terming the killers of boy Shamiul Alam Rajon as demons, State Minister for women and children affairs Meher Afroz Chumki said special tribunal will be formed to try the brutal killing.She made the remark while visiting Rajon’s family in Kumargaon Bade Ali village on Wednesday

DHAKA: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Kamal categorically said his incumbent government will continue to uphold the zero tolerance policy to terrorism and violence.The minister, who took oath as full minister on Tuesday, made the comment to the media on Wednesday morning while he went to place

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday evening was released on bail after six months in jail.He was arrested from city’s National Press Club area on January 6.The BNP leader was released from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) prison

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia greeted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ruling Awami League (AL) president, for upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr by sending her an Eid card.BNP assistant office secretaries Shamimur Rahman Shahim and Asadul Karim Shahin carried the card to the AL president’s

DHAKA: City’s Kadamtali Thana police arrested Alamgir Hossain alias Alamgir Member, president of BNP's youth wing Jubo Dal Shyampur union unit.Police arrested him on Monday noon in accusation of extortion.Earlier at 11:30am, Alamgir along with his aides went to Iman Dyeing factory and

DHAKA: Rajshahi Metropolitan Magistrate Court (RMMC) has sent BNP joint-secretary general Mizanur Rahman Minu to jail, denying his bail plea in a violence case.RMMC judge Jayanta Rani Das passed the order on Monday noon.Earlier, the BNP leader surrendered to the court and appealed for

DHAKA: The Supreme Court upheld the High Court order that granted bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam in three cases.A 4-member Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice SK Sinha passed the order on Monday morning.There is no legal bar for his client's release

MYMENSINGH: Local government ministry has discharged Zakaria Harun, chairman of Muktagachha upazila of Mymensingh district.Harun is also general secretary of upazila unit BNP.As per Upazila Parisad Act-1998 (amended in 2011), the discharge order was issued following a case filed with the

DHAKA: Members of city metropolitan detective branch (DB) detained 12 female members of Jamaat-e-Islami from city’s Segunbagicha area during their secrete meeting on Sunday noon.Confirming the matter to banglanews metropolitan detective branch deputy commissioner (DC) Mashrukh Khaled

NARAIL: Police arrested Narail district unit president of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student affiliate Jamaat-e-Islami, on Sunday noon.The arrestee has been identified as Khan Mohammad Subhan (30), a resident of Makrail village of Lohagora upazila.Moreover, a shuttergun and two rounds of

DHAKA: Khandker Mosharraf Hossain took charge of the Local Government, Rural Development and cooperatives (LGRD) ministry on Sunday.The minister arrived around 11:30am at his office at secretariat in city where LGRD state minister Mashiur Rahman Ranga received him.Later, the minister

DHAKA: BNP demanded an international investigation under the United Nation on the violence created during the BNP-led 20-party alliance called nationwide hartal and blockade.Moreover, the removal of LGRD minister Syed Ashraful Islam should be made clear to the nation.BNP spokesperson Dr

DHAKA UNIVERSITY: The next council of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) will be held on July 25-26 at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan in city to elect its central committee leadership.President and general secretary aspirants are asked to collect nomination forms from the central office and

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Tariqul Islam has been admitted to Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital in city due to old-age related diseases.BNP press wing officer Shairul Kabir Khan, on Saturday noon, told banglanews that the veteran BNP leader was admitted at the hospital this

DHAKA: BNP chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia expressed deep sorrow at the casualties in stampede while collecting zakat in Mymensingh.In a message of condolence, she prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and expressed sympathy to the bereaved family members.BNP

DHAKA: Minister without portfolio and also ruling Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam joined a discussion and iftar program organized by the party’s youth wing Jubo League (JL) at its central office in city on Thursday evening.However, Syed Ashraf was removed from local

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit Saudi Arabia to perform holy Umrah after Eid Ul Fitr.Party’s spokesman Dr Asaduzzaman Ripon made the disclosure in a press briefing at Nayapaltan central office on Thursday noon.Earlier though everything was ready, but she had to postpone

DHAKA: BNP chairperson and also former prime minister Khaleda Zia expressed her deep shock at the death of Major General (retd) Amjad Khan Chowdhury, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Pran-RFL Group.A statement, signed by BNP spokesperson Dr Asaduzzaman Ripon, expressed the