DHAKA: Jatiya Party Secretary General Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu on Thursday categorically said the so called civil society is plotting to kill the people of the country. “The civil society people utter the words of democracy in the talk-show but they are plotting to kill people secretly,”

BOGRA: A truck-driver was hurt as a group of miscreants hurled petrol bomb on his truck on Dupchanchia-Akkelpur road in Bogra on Wednesday midnight.The victim is identified as Jamal Hossain Sagar.After visitng the place on Thursday Dupchanchia Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) Abdus Sabur said

JESSORE: Police, in nightlong drives, arrested 56 people including a Jamaat-e-Islami activist from eight upazilas of the district till Thursday morning.District Police Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Reshma Sharmin confirmed the matter to banglanews.She said the law enforcers

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch of Police in drives held two leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) with 20 petrol bombs from the city early Thursday.The detainees were identified as Jahangirnagar University unit Chhatra Dal president, also central unit assistant

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained 13 activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami from different places of the city in the last twenty four hours till Thursday morning.Of the detainees, ten are BNP activists and three are Jamaat men.DMP assistant

DHAKA: The 120-hour hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance, has rolled into the fifth and last day across the country on Thursday.The shutdown began at 6:00am on Sunday and set to end at 6:00am on Wednesday, which was later extended to 6:00am

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted a cocktail targeting a passenger bus in city’s Gulshan area Wednesday evening.The incident took place at Gulshan-1 around 7:30pm.Gulshan Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) Nazimuddin told banglanews that they sent additional forces to search the area.BDST: 2114 HRS, FEB

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday granted 10-day remand for Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna rejecting his bail appeal in a case filed for instigating armed forces to revolt.Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman passed the order in the afternoon when Detective Branch

DHAKA: The Dhaka Special Court-3 on Wednesday asked BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman to appear before it on March 4 in Zia Charitable and Orphanage Trusts graft cases.The judge, Abu Ahmed Jamadar, passed the order asking Tarique’s lawyer advocate Sanaullah Mia to produce his

DHAKA: Police, in last 24-hour drives, rounded up 12 people, including a member of banned outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), at different places of capital.Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) media center confirmed the matter on Wednesday morning through an SMS.According to the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued arrest warrant against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and two others in Zia Orphanage and Charitable Trusts Graft cases.Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 at capital’s Bakshibazar passed the order canceling bail for

DHAKA: The extended hartal of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance has got underway across the country since Wednesday Morning.Sabotages were reported to some extent in the city and elsewhere of the city on Tuesday night. A truck was torched in Siranjganj.The

DHAKA: Three persons were injured as miscreants blasted cocktails in two separate places of the city on Tuesday evening.A rickshaw-puller was injured in a cocktail blast in Shegun Bagicha area at 7:30pm, locals said.On the other hand, a 50-year old person and a youth were injured as a

DHAKA: BNP asked the government to send Nagarik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna back to his family.BNP joint-secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed came up with the demand in a statement sent to the media on Tuesday.The BNP leader along with Manna’s wife Meher Nigar claimed that a

SAVAR (DHAKA): Birulia Union Parishad Chairman Haji Mahmudul Hasan Alal, also BNP Savar thana unit president, was detained on Tuesday.Sources said Savar Model Thana police nabbed him from a house in Birulia at noon on charge of killing people over setting fire to vehicles during

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued arrest warrant against five BNP leaders, including BNP standing committee member and also former housing and public works minister Mirza Abbas, on charge of irregularities in plot allocation among journalists.Dhaka Senior Special Judge's Court

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance has extended the ongoing 72-hour hartal till 6:00am Friday (February 27) protesting “false” cases against the party leaders, including BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed made the disclosure through a press release

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), in several drives, detained 13 men of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and its students wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from different places of the capital on Tuesday.Of the detainees, four are activists of Jamaat and Shibir while nine are BNP men.Police picked

GAZIPUR: Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) mayor Professor M A Mannan was shown arrested in another case filed with Sripur Thana.Mannan’s lawyer Advocate Manjur Hossain Prince told banglanews that there were three cases filed against him during his arrest.Of those, Mannan got bail release

DHAKA: The fresh 72-hour hartal, sponsored by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance, has entered the third day across the country on Tuesday.Began at 6:00am on Sunday, the shutdown will continue till 6:00am on Wednesday, coupled with a nationwide road-rail-waterway