CHITTAGONG: Ruling 14-party alliance lended support to Awami League (AL) mayor candidate AJM Nasir Uddin in upcoming Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) election.The alliance leaders informed this in a meeting with AL leaders in Hotel Peninsula in the port city on Tuesday.Central leader of

GAIBANGHA: Police held four people with 4 petrol bombs in Ulyabazar area in Saghata upazila of Ganbandha on Tuesday noon.The detainees were identified as Abdul Jalil (45) and Shahin Mia (38), Sharif Mia (28) and Babu Mia (25), three sons of Akbar Ali of the area.Confirming the matter to

DHAKA: Health Minister Mohammed Nasim said ruling Awami League-backed candidates will get the support of 14-party alliance in the upcoming three city corporation elections.Nasim, also the spokesperson of the alliance came up with this assertion after the meeting at AL president Sheikh

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance has called countrywide hartal from 6:00am Thursday to 6:00am Friday keeping Dhaka and Chittagong cities out of purview.BNP joint secretary general Barkat Ullah Bulu made the hartal announcement through a press release on Tuesday afternoon.The alliance also

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on three-day remand in a vandalism and arson case filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on city.Metropolitan magistrate Mostafizur Rahman passed the remand order when the investigation officer

CHITTAGONG: Police detained eight leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in accusation of creating violence in Chittagong.The detainees include five from Jamaat and 3 from BNP.District additional police super (Special Branch) Mohammad Naimul Hasan told banglnews

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Law enforcers recovered 22 fresh cocktails from a graveyard area in Char Ghorapakhia in Sadar Upazila on Tuesday morning.Shibganj Thana Officer-in-Charge Mainul Islam confirmed the matter to banglanews.Quoting locals, he told banglanews that on information, police

DHAKA: The 48-hour, called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led 20-party alliance, is underway across the country on Tuesday – second day of the shutdown – in a relax mood.Began at 6:00am Monday, the shutdown is set to continue till 6:00am on Wednesday, coupled with ongoing

DHAKA: A meeting of ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance has been convened at Sheikh Hasina’s political office in city’s Dhanmondi area.The meeting is scheduled to be held at 12:00pm on Tuesday.AL presidium member, also 14-party alliance spokesperson and also health minister

DHAKA: Candidates from BNP in the upcoming Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections are waiting for the party’s green signal in commencing their campaigns.Competent party sources told banglanews that the candidates are waiting for the signal

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance demanded the government and Election Commission (EC) as well for free and fair elections in Dhaka and Chittagong.A press release signed by BNP joint secretary general Barkatullah Bulu made the demand on Monday.According to the statement, the nation and the

DHAKA: A group of snatchers attacked on Rebeka Sultana, wife of Nazimuddin Bhuiyan, a brother of liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Huq, on Dhaka University campus in the city Monday noon.Rebeka said that she was going to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) by a rickshaw

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained at least 164 people, including seven BNP-Jamaat men, in overnight anti-violence drives conducted in Narail, Jessore, Satkhira and Gaibandha districts on Monday.Banglanews Jessore correspondent reported that 56 persons were arrested in drives, conducted from

DHAKA: The fresh spell of 48-hour hartal, called by BNP-led 20-party alliance, is underway on Monday across the country, coupled with ongoing nationwide blockade.Dhaka and Chittagong Metropolitan cities remained out of purview of the two-day shutdown due to city corporation elections.The

FENI: A group of miscreants shot three people of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) local unit in Panchgachhiya in Feni town on Sunday evening.The bullet-shot injured were identified as BCL Feni sadar upazila unit leader Riaz Shikdar, and two activists Manjur Ahammad and Shahid.Witness said

DHAKA: BNP leaders Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, Abdus Salam and Abdul Awal Mintoo submitted their nomination papers as mayoral aspirants for the bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations on Sunday. Nasima Akter, wife of former BNP MP Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, and Fatema Salam, wife of city BNP former

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance called fresh spell of 48-hour hartal from Monday across the country, coupled with ongoing nationwide blockade.The shutdown will be enforced from 6am Monday and continue till 6am on Wednesday.  BNP joint secretary general Barkat-ullah Bulu disclosed the

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League-backed mayoral post aspirant Syed Khokon submitted his nomination papers for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Sunday.After submission of nomination form to regional returning officer Mir Sarwar Ali Morshed at 12:30pm, he said, “With bless of the

JESSORE: Police, in overnight drives, rounded up 57 people from eight upazilas of the district between Saturday night and Sunday morning for their alleged involvement in different crimes.Jessore police control room sources said all the arrestees are accused in different cases with

NARAIL: Police, in several drives, detained 52 people including a BNP leader from different upazilas of the district till Sunday morning.District Superintendent of Police (SP) Rakibul Islam confirmed the matter to banglanews.Narail police control room sources said the law enforcers’