Monday, 13 Jan, 2025

Politics

3 burnt in Bogra arson attacks

BOGRA: At least three people sustained burn injuries as two trucks were torched by miscreants in two different places of the district on Saturday night.Witnesses said that a group of blockaders set fire to a truck on Natore-Bogra highway in Rupihar area under Shajahanpur upazila

2 buses torched in city

DHAKA: Miscreants torched two passenger buses in city’s Rayerbagh and Tejgaon industrial areas Saturday night.No casualty was reported in the incidents as the passengers managed to get down from the buses immediately.Fire Service Duty Officer Bhojon Sarker told banglanews that a gang

Jubo Dal leader held with gunpowder in city

DHAKA: A Jubo Dal leader was held with gunpowder and bomb making materials from city’s Mouchak-Malibagh area on Saturday night.The detainee is joint general secretary of Ward No-53 Jubo Dal Ramna Thana Dulal Chandra Sheel alias Bulu.Police sources said, acting on a tip off, police

14 suspected anarchists held in city

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained a total of 14 people, including three members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, during separate drives across the capital. Of the detainees, 10 are the activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), three are the members of Hizb ut-Tahrir and one

AL rules out dialogue with BNP

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) ruled out the possibility of any dialogue on prevailing political situations with its political rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).  A meeting of AL’s executive committee unanimously decided that the party would hold no dialogue with BNP.  Prime

8 cocktails blast in city

DHAKA: Pro-blockaders blasted eight cocktails at various areas in city Friday night.  Of those, four were blasted in front of Malibagh Super Market, one at Ramna and three at Gulshan-2 areas of the city. However, no one was reportedly injured in this connection. Rampura Thana

20-party calls 72-hour hartal from Sunday

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party on Friday called countrywide 72-hour hartal starting from Sunday morning. The hartal will be enforced from 6:00am of Sunday to 6:00am Wednesday. BDST: 2108 HRS, FEB 06, 2015** Shibir calls countrywide hartal for Sunday  

‘Blockade till PM steps down’

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party vowed to continue their countrywide blockade until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina steps down from power. BNP vice chairman Major (retd) Hafiz made the announcement at a press conference at BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office Friday. He said, “BNP

Shibir calls 2-day hartal in Ctg div from Sunday

COMILLA: Islami Chhatra Shibir on Friday called two day hartal in the division starting from Sunday protesting death of Chauddagram upazila unit Shibir president Sahab Uddin Patwari in a gunfight with law enforcers on Thursday night.Comilla town unit Shibir president Shah Alam

Khaleda’s effigy burnt in city

DHAKA: Leaders and activists of different organizations staged demonstration in front of National Press Club in the capital on Friday protesting sabotages and arson attacks during BNP-led 20-party alliance-sponsored blockade and hartal. They also burnt the effigy of BNP chairperson

Shibir calls countrywide hartal for Sunday

DHAKA: Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami has called a dawn-to-dusk shutdown across the country for Sunday.The hartal was enforced protesting ‘killing, forced disappearance, vandalizing houses, arresting of the party people’.Shibir president Abdul Jabbar and

CPB-BSD’s mass sit-in protesting violence

DHAKA: Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) started mass sit-in in front of National Press Club in the capital on Friday.They are observing the program protesting the killing by petrol bomb attack during ongoing hartal, blockade called by BNP-led

48-hr hartal in Rajshahi division from Sunday

RAJSHAHI: Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, has called a 48-hour hartal from Sunday morning in the division.Rajshahi Metropolitan’s Publicity Secretary of Shibir Asaduzzaman made the disclosure through a press release around 11:30am on Friday.The press release

16 BNP-Shibir men held in city

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate drives detained 16 leaders-activists BNP and Chhatra Shibir from different areas of the capital between Thursday morning and Friday morning.DMP sources said as part of ongoing drives to prevent sabotage during the BNP led 20-party

JCD Kolaroa Poura president shot

SATKHIRA: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal’s Kolaroa poura unit president sustained bullet injuries in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Thakurbari area of the upazila early Friday.The injured Abdul Majid, one of the BNP-Shibir men who fled from police custody in Sharsha Upazila Thursday

RU Shibir leader killed in clash with police

RAJSHAHI: A leader of Rajshahi University unit Chhatra Shibir was killed in a clash with police in Shamsadpur area of the city early Friday.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Shahabuddin, information and technology affairs secretary of RU unit Shibir and student of department of Crop

Bus torched in Kishoreganj

KISHOREGANJ: Miscreants torched a parked bus in front of sub-registry office under Hossainpur upazila of the district Thursday night.Officer-in-charge (OC) M Nannu Miah of Hossainpur Thana confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said a bus of Borna Paribahan was set ablaze by suspected

‘Dialogue possible, if BNP leaves violence’

DHAKA: Members of the parliamentary standing committee on law, justice and parliamentary affairs told European Union (EU) ambassador to Bangladesh that dialogue between the two parties is possible, if only BNP leaves the violent activities.They made the comment Thursday night at the

55 held in Bogra

BOGRA: At least 55 allegedly anarchists, including 24 Jamaat-Shibir men, were held in Bogra in the last 24-hour.Assistant Superintendent of Police of the district (Sadar) Gaziur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews on Thursday evening.Gaziur Rahman said that 55 perpetrators were

14-party to meet front organizations

DHAKA: The leaders of 14-party alliance led by ruling Awami League on Friday will exchange views with the leaders of different socio-cultural organizations. The organizations include Muktijoddha Sangsad, Sammilita Sangskritik Jote, Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote, Awami Sangskritik Forum