DHAKA: Ruling Awami League joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif alleged that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is unleashing violence countrywide following the prescription of foreigners. The spoke person for the party made the assertion in a press conference at AL president’s

NOAKHALI: Miscreants slaughtered a member of local Awami League (AL) in Charmatua Union No 2 Ward under Sadar upazila of the district early Monday.The deceased was identified as Babul, 55, upazila AL member and also Member of Charmatua Union No. 2 Ward.Charmatua Union Parishad chairman

NILPHAMARI: Blockaders allegedly vandalized a car of a ruling Awami League (AL) district unit cultural secretary Arifa Sultana in Syedpur Upazila of the district on Sunday night.Police, however, detained two Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists from the area after the incident.The

DHAKA: Claiming that the law enforcers ‘murdered and kidnapped’ many leaders of BNP-led 20-party alliance in the last one  month, BNP sent a list in this regard to international human rights organizations and foreign embassies.The party also requested international human rights

DHAKA: At least five students were injured in several cocktails blast in Central Shaheed Minar and Teacher-Student Center (TSC) areas on Dhaka University (DU) campus Sunday evening.The injured are Imdadul Haque Imon, 22, DU student of History Department; Sabjia Sampa, 20, student of

SATKHIRA: Law enforcers arrested district unit Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer and also former lawmaker Abdul Khaleque Mandal.He was arrested from Khalilnagar village of Satkhira Sadar upazila on Sunday evening.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Sadar Thana Officer-in-Charge Golam Rahman said

BOGRA: A Juba League activist was killed in a clash between two groups over establishing supremacy in Fultala area of Shahjahanpur upazila of the district on Sunday.The deceased was identified as Ranju Pramanik, 40, son of late Shukur Ali of the area.Shahjahanpur Thana Officer-in-Charge

PATUAKHALI: Miscreants chopped a BNP affiliate Jubo Dal leader to death in Chakamaiya Bazar area under Kalapara upazila of the district Sunday afternoon. The victim was identified as M Monir Hossain Talukder, 35, general secretary of Chakamaiya Union Parishad Jubo Dal unit. Kalapara

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League (AL)-led 14-party alliance asked the government to take tougher actions against BNP-led 20-party alliance for killing people during the ongoing hartal and blockade.They made the plea Sunday afternoon while forming a human chain in the capital as part of the

DHAKA: Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury has claimed that if the incumbent government completes its present tenure, the electricity will be so much available that it would be sold like hawkers.The minister came up with this assertion while addressing a seminar titled ‘Biotism Crops

DHAKA: Two Dhaka courts on Sunday granted four-day remand to Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, vice-chairman of BNP and Shamsuzzaman Dudu, adviser to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrates Jahangir Hossain and Hasibul Haque passed the orders in respective courts in this

CHITTAGONG: Police in a nightlong drive arrested 16 leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in Chittagong.Among the detainees, three were BNP activists and 13 from Jamaat and its student affiliate Islami Chhatra Shibir.District additional police super (special

DHAKA: Members of Bangladesh Transport Workers League on Sunday demanded the government to arrest BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.The rally was organized in front of National Press Club in the city as a part of the protest against ongoing nationwide hartal and blockade.Speakers at the

KHULNA: Five activists of Islami Chhata Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islam, were held with four petrol bombs from a hostel of Khulna Alia Madrasa early Sunday. Confirming the matter to banglanews, Officer-in-Charge of Sadar Thana Sukumar Biswas said police held from acting on

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained a total of 23 people during separate drives across the city in the last 24 hours till Sunday morning.Of the detainees, 13 are the leaders-activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and 10 are leaders-activists of Jamaat-e-Islami.DMP

DHAKA: A fresh 72-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance, has begun across the country since Sunday morning.No acts of sabotages and arson attacks have yet been reported in the city since the shutdown has started from 6:00am.However,

FENI: The hartal and blockade supporters set fire to a passenger bus in Pachhgachhia area of the district on Saturday late night.Feni Fire Service Station Officer Jahangir Alam said that blockaders torched a bus in the area around 11:30pm.The bus was almost gutted before the fire

DHAKA: Barbed wires and a large refrigerator were brought at the political office of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night.The barbed wires were brought around 6:00pm while the refrigerator was brought around 9:00pm at her Gulshan office in the city.Confirming the matter to

MYMENSINGH: At least three persons received burn injuries as blockade and hartal supporters hurled petrol bomb aiming at a passenger bus in Kachijhuli-Shahartali area of the district on Saturday night.The injured are--- Oshad, Alamgir and Shahidul.Local and police sources said a

BARGUNA: Police held Barguna district unit Shibir president Iftekhar Hasan Farid and another activist of the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami from the district town on Saturday night. Police sources said that the law enforcers held the duo during a raid in the town around 8:00pm. The