DHAKA: At least 88 persons including 13 BNP-Jamaat men were held in nightlong drives in Chittagong, Jessore and Gaibandha districts on Saturday.In Chittagong, police nabbed 11 activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami from different parts of the district in accusation of their

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before the court on Sunday in Zia Orphanage and Zia Charitable Trust cases.  Khaleda Zia’s lawyer Advocate Sanaullah Mia confirmed the matter to banglanews on Saturday.Witness depositions in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League is yet to fix a single candidate for ward councilor posts each in the upcoming Dhaka North and South City Corporations elections. There are 57 wards in DCC South while 36 in DCC North. The voting to elect mayor and councilors in the two city corporations will

DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Swechchasebok Dal, voluntary wing of BNP, on Friday announced countrywide demonstration for Sunday protesting the attack on the party men in Sylhet.Organization’s central unit president Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel, general secretary Mir Sarfat Ali Sapu and organizing

DHAKA: Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan Friday categorically said the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will have to face trial for killing people in the name of hartal-blockade.He came up with the remark in a press conference arranged by Sramik-Peshajibi-Muktijoddha Samonoyak Parisad at Dhaka

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Awami League (AL) Joint general secretary Haji Mohammad Salim joined the campaign for ruling party-backed mayoral candidate Mohammad Sayeed Khokon of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections.Selim started the campaign from Friday noon after the Jumma prayer

DHAKA: Law enforcers, in special drives, rounded up 78 people, including six activists of BNP, from various areas of two districts in the country between Thursday night and Friday morning.In Jessore, police, in a nightlong drive, detained 53 people, including three activists of BNP, from

NARAIL: Law enforcers in a special drive arrested 25, including three activists of BNP, from various areas of the district from Thursday night to 9am of Friday.Narail police control room told banglanews that of the arrestees, 11 from Sadar thana, six from Lohagara, three from Kalia and

SYLHET: BNP affiliated Jatiyatabadi Sechchasebak Dal called a daylong hartal in Sylhet on Saturday.The shutdown was called as a protest of police firing on the party’s Thursday rally and injuring 17 of its leaders and activists.A press release signed by district unit Sechchasebak Dal

DHAKA: BNP leaders Abdul Awal Mintoo and Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu appealed to the Election Commission (EC) challenging cancelation of their nomination forms for mayoral posts in the upcoming Dhaka City Corporations polls.Mintoo’s lawyer Ehsanur Rahman and Pintu’s lawyer Aminul Islam, on

CHITTAGONG: Police, in over night drives, detained seven BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Shibir men from Sitakunda, Satkania and Lohagara upazilas of the district.District Additional Superintendent of Police (SP) Muhammad Naimul Hasan confirmed the matter to banglanews on

DHAKA: A 24-hour hartal, sponsored by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led 20-party alliance, is underway across the country on Thursday.Began at 6:00am, the shutdown will continue till 6:00am on Friday, coupled with ongoing nationwide blockade for indefinite period.No acts of sabotages were

BRAHMANBARIA: Police seized 36 cocktails and six petrol bombs from a school premises in Bancharampur upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Wednesday noon.Nobody was reportedly held in this incident.Bancharampur Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Abul Kalam Azad said that on a tip-off, police

DHAKA: The Election Commission declared a total of 41 candidates eligible for contesting mayoral posts in the bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations (DCCs) elections scheduled to be held on April 28.DSCC retuning officer (RO) Mihir Sarwar Morshed and DNCC Returning Officer Shah Alam

DHAKA: BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) demanded to Election Commission for deploying Army in upcoming city corporations’ elections.A BNP delegation, led by party’s standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah and Barrister Jamir Uddin Sircar, placed the demand in a meeting with Chief

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained at least 99 people including 36 BNP-Jamaat men in Meherpur, Chittagong, Jessore and Manikganj districts on Wednesday.In Meherpur, police detained 17 activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in different areas of the district.Among the detainees, 16

DHAKA: A delegation of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is set to meet Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Wednesday afternoon, party sources said.ASM Hannan Shah, Standing Committee Member of BNP, will lead the delegation.CEC’s personal secretary Mazharul Islam

DHAKA: Election Commission (EC) Wednesday cancelled the nomination paper of BNP leaders Abdul Awal Mintoo and Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu for upcoming Dhaka City Corporations polls. Returning officers cancelled Pintu’s nomination as he was convicted in much-talked BDR carnage case.On

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has fixed April 5 to hear the review petition filed challenging the death penalty for war crimes convict Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.A 4-member full bench of Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha on Wednesday fixed the date for

MEHERPUR:  Miscreants chopped a former leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) to death at Goal Gram under Gangni Upazila of the district early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Heser Ali, 35, son of BNP leader Sadiman Hossain and former member of Gangni Upazila JCD.The deceased