RANGPUR: The city Jamaat-e-Islami called 48-hour hartal in eight districts of the division from Wednesday protesting the forced disappearance of three Jamaat-e-Islami men, including Mithapukur upazila Ameer.Jamaat metropolitan unit publicity and office secretary Rabiul Islam Tuesday

COMILLA: District BNP called 36-hour hartal from Wednesday in the district protesting the case against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on charges of instigating sabotage in Chauddagram upazila.District BNP general secretary Haji Amin-ur-Rashid Yasin confirmed the matter to banglanews on

DHAKA: Police nabbed 31 alleged anarchists from different places of the city in drives conducted from Monday to Tuesday noon.Sources said the law enforcers led a special drive in the several areas and detained 31 people on charge of creating violence in city during blockade and

SYLHET: BNP-led 20-party alliance called daylong hartal for Wednesday in Sylhet division protesting the case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.Sylhet Metropolitan BNP convener committee member Imran Ahmed Chowdhury confirmed the matter to banglanews on Tuesday.He said the

GAIBANDHA: A Gaibandha court on Tuesday sent 24 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami on charge of creating anarchic situation.However, joint forces, in a special drive, detained the BNP-Jamaat men from different places of the district from Monday night to Tuesday

CHITTAGONG: ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury MP, Chairman, Standing Committee on Railway Ministry, was elected as the vice president of Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians of Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva of Switzerland for three years.He was elected in the four-day

RAJSHAHI: Islami Chhatra Shibir has called 48-hour hartal from 6:00am Wednesday in Rajshahi division after one of their activists killed in road crash when tried to flee from custody of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).The hartal announcement was made on Tuesday noon through a press after an

HOBIGANJ: Police detained 51 in nightlong special drives in nine thanas in Habiganj on Tuesday.Assistant Police Superintendent (Habiganj Sadar) Masudur Rahman Monir told banglanews that 16 of the detainees were wanted in several cases.The rest 35 were accused of different regular cases,

BRAHMANBARIA: Police detained 107 people, including 13 activists of Bangladesh Nationalists Party (BNP) and its major ally Jamaat-e-Islami, across the district during nightlong drive from Monday evening to Tuesday morning.Of the detainees, the BNP-Jamaat men were shown arrested in

SYLHET: Law enforcers, in a drive, detained six Chhatra Shibir leaders with 2,000 books on extremist ideas from Sadar upazila of the district in the wee hours of Tuesday.The detainees are Fatehpur Madrasa Shibir president M Shakib Ahmed, and sadar upazila unit office secretary Minhaj

DHAKA: Another case has been filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia bringing allegation of instigating sabotage in Comilla.Chauddogram Thana Sub-Inspector Nuruzzaman Hawlader filed the case over torching a covered van in Hyderpool area Monday.Officer-in-Charge of the Thana Uttam Kumar

RAJSHAHI: Law enforcers on Monday arrested three BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists, including Charghat upazila unit Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Nazmul Haque Kochi, who is also the vice chairman of the upazila.Kochi was arrested from his Holidagachhi village residence at the

RAJSHAHI: BNP called 24-hour hartal in Rajshahi division from Wednesday protesting the case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and the arrests of other BNP leaders.BNP Rajshahi division unit organizing secretary Harun-or-Rashid confirmed the matter to banglanews on Monday noon.

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Monday forewarned BNP-led 20-party saying it would be very dangerous if they cross the limit.He also asked the oppositions to remember it while conducting violence in the name of staging anti-government movements.The minister made the assertions

DHAKA:  Namaz-e-janaza of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and former President Ziaur Rahman, will be held at the National Mosque Baitul Mukarram in the city after Asr prayer on Tuesday.The janaza was scheduled to be held at Nayapaltan central office of

DHAKA: At least 157 people, mostly leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami, were detained in different districts including the capital for their alleged involvement in ongoing sabotage.The BNP-Jamaat men were held in special drives led by the law enforcers from

DHAKA: Some 216 platoons Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members are deployed across the country to avert sabotage during BNP-led 20-party’s hartal and blockade.In the meantime, 78 platoons more have been ready to be deployed anytime if situation goes out of control.Public Relations

SAVAR: Two persons were injured as blockade and hartal supporters blasted five cocktails aiming at two passenger buses in front of Jahangirnagar University in Savar on Monday morning.Witnesses said that the hartal and blockade supporters hurled five cocktails targeting two passenger

PABNA: Hartal and blockade supporters torched a truck and vandalized another truck and auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Pabna highway on Monday, the second and final day of 36-hour hartal enforced by BNP led 20-party alliance.On the other hand, law enforcers, in a nightlong special drive,

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party called 36-hour entered into the second day on Monday amid its ongoing violent blockade campaign.The law enforcers were seen in alert position in several important places of the city. However, no violent activities have been reported yet from the