JESSORE: District unit BNP called 24-hour hartal in the district for Sunday protesting cocktail blasts in BNP leaders’ house and business enterprise, filing false cases against them and harassment by police.District BNP organizing secretary Delwar Hossain Khokon confirmed the matter to

DHAKA: Six standing committee members of BNP went to their party chief Khaleda Zia’s political office in Gulshan Thursday night.The leaders, Dr RA Gani, Barrister Maudud Ahmed, Dr Abdul Moin Khan, Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia, Nazrul Islam Khan and Sarwari Rahman, gradually reached

DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday, enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance in Dhaka and eight neighboring districts ended.The other districts are Gazipur, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Tangail, Kishoreganj, Narsingdi and Mymensingh.Earlier, BNP Dhaka division organizing

DHAKA: Special Envoy to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and also Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad claimed that currently the country’s democracy is limited in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka and in the Parliament House.The JP chief said to the media after a token mass hunger strike on

SYLHET: The local unit of Chhatra Dal, student wing of BNP, has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Sylhet district for Sunday.Sylhet metropolitan Chhatra Dal president Nurul Alam Siddique Khaled confirmed the matter of hartal on Thursday.However, Chhatra Dal announced the hartal protesting

DHAKA: At least 335 people, including a mentionable number of leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami, were detained from the city and 12 different districts of the country.They were nabbed from the capital and Brahmanbaria, Jessore, Satkhira, Khulna, Habiganj,

BARISAL: Law enforcers detained district (west) unit Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Habibur Rahman for his alleged involvement in sabotage.A team of police picked up the Jamaat leader at 10:00am Thursday from in front of City College of the town.Legal action would be taken against him, said

DHAKA: A special court Thursday deferred the deposition submission in the Zia Charitable and Orphanage Trust Graft cases against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and others till February 25.Newly appointed Judge of Special Judge Court-3 Abu Ahmed Jamadar adjourned the deposition recording

DHAKA: Leaders and activists of Jatiya Party (JP) started the token mass hunger strike on Thursday morning in protest against the ongoing ‘violent politics’.The token mass strike began at 11:35am on party’s Kakrail office premises in the city with its Dhaka City (south) convener

BRAHMANBARIA: Police detained 104 people, including 12 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), across the district between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.Police did not disclose the detailed identities of the detainees.Of them, 12 BNP men were shown

DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance, is underway in Dhaka and eight neighboring districts since Thursday morning.The other districts are Gazipur, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Tangail, Kishoreganj, Narsingdi and Mymensingh.Earlier, BNP Dhaka Division

DHAKA: An emergency meeting of ruling Awami League Parliamentary party has been called for Sunday.The meeting will be held at AL meeting room of the parliament after the session on the day.Parliament leader and also AL president Sheikh Hasina will chair the meeting.Chief whip ASM Feroz of

DHAKA: Civil society at a discussion proposed to form a consensus government in overcoming the prevailing violent situation in the country.The pro-BNP group of the civil society made the plea while addressing at a discussion titled ‘Ongoing National Crisis: Way to Overcome’ held at

KUSHTIA: Law enforcers detained district unit BNP secretary Sohrab Uddin from his Majampur area residence in the district Sadar town on Wednesday afternoon.Officer-in-Charge of Kushtia Model Thana Abdul Khaleque told banglanews that he was held in an arson attack case filed with Islamic

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Wednesday categorically said they would bring the people who are involved in abduction and killing across the country under trials like Nuremberg.The BNP leader made the forewarning through a statement issued at noon on behalf of

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party has called daylong hartal for Thursday in Dhaka and eight other districts protesting case against Khaleda Zia and remand order against acting secretary general of the party Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.The other districts are Gazipur, Narayanganj, Munshiganj,

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami leaders’ lawyer advocate Tajul islam Wednesday apologized unconditionally before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 for making adverse comment over its judgment.Supreme Court Lawyers’ Association general secretary Barrister Badruddoza Badal and Advocate Ruhul

GAZIPUR: Police nabbed 25 persons in nightlong drives conducted in different parts of Gazipur.However, a Jamaat-e-Islami called dawn-to-dusk hartal, demanding the release of its leaders and activists, is underway on Wednesday in the district.Joydebpur Thana duty officer Sub-Inspector

DHAKA: The nationwide blockade of roads, railway and waterways for an indefinite period enforced BNP-led 20-party alliance has entered the 23rd straight day on Wednesday amid stray incidents of sabotages.The alliance has been observing the blockade since BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia,

GAZIPUR: Law enforcers detained 14 people, indulging district unit Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami of Gazipur Abul Hashem Khan and city Finance Secretary Mohammad Nasrullah with petrol bombs, on Tuesday. Police sources said some 14 leaders and activists of BNP led 20-party alliance, including