DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Swadhinota Forum President Abu Naser Mohammad Rahmat Ullah from his Lalmatia residence in the city Wednesday noon.Sources told banglanews that police took the leader of pro-BNP platform to the Dhanmondi Thana around 1:45pm from his residence.BDST: 1536 HRS, JAN 21, 2015

DHAKA: At least 29 people were killed and many injured in last 16 days of nonstop blockade across the country enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.Moreover, some 55,217 people sustained injuries so far during the period across the country.The data was made public from a report of

DHAKA: The government declared Tk 1 lakh bounty for help in arresting anarchists, arsonists and bomb attackers.Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu made the disclosure while talking ti journalists at his secretariat office in the capital Wednesday.Earlier on Tuesday (January 20), State

DHAKA: At least 237 persons, including leaders and activists of BNP and its major ally Jamaat-e-Islami, have been detained in seven districts on Tuesday night.The districts are Rangpur, Chandpur, Satkhira, Bogra, Chittagong, Meherpur and Jessore.Banglanews correspondents said that the

JESSORE: At least 78 persons, including 36 local leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, have been detained here on Tuesday night.The identity of the detainees could not be known yet.Sources told banglanews that police, in a night long drive, held them from different places of

DHAKA: Transport workers-leaders under the banner of Bangladesh Road Transport Shramik League will besiege BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan political office on Thursday. The organization disclosed the matter in leaflets those are being distributed in front of National Press Club in

DHAKA: Police arrested 40 persons from different areas of the district in last 24 hours. Sources told banglanews that among the arrestees there are 13 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.They were held between Tuesday and

DHAKA: Miscreants torched a teachers’ bus of Jagannath University (JnU) in its campus at 11:45am Wednesday.Witnesses said miscreants set fire to the bus that was parked in front of Shaheed Minar and staffs doused the fire immediately.Administrator of transport pool Dr Nur-e-Alam

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi called upon people to make the ongoing 48-hour hartal in Dhaka and Khulna divisions successful.He made the urge in a statement issued on Wednesday morning and protested the frequent raids in the residences of BNP leaders-activists. 

SYLHET: The dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led 20-party-alliance, is progressing in a relaxed way in the district on Wednesday amid the non-stop countrywide blockade.However, the strike is being observed protesting the detention of senior BNP

DHAKA: Five leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student affiliate of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, have been detained from city’s Mohakhali area with 130 pieces of cocktails and huge cocktail-making explosives.In a two and half-an-hour long special drive, police picked up Mustafizur

DHAKA: The first day of the 36-hour hartal, enforced by BNP, is underway in Dhaka and Khulna divisions on Wednesday amid stray incidents of blasts and arson attacks.Miscreants torched a teachers’ bus of Jagannath University (JnU) parked in front of Shaheed Minar on its campus at

GAZIPUR: Miscreants torched a passenger bus in Shibbari area of the district on Tuesday night.No one was reportedly injured in the incident.Gazipur Fire Service sources said that miscreants set fire to a passenger bus in the area around 7:30pm.However, on information, fire fighters rushed

FROM PARLIAMENT: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday claimed that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is carrying out militant activities in the name of anti-government movement.“There is no room of militants in the country. Even, the world leaders also take stand against the militancy,”

DHAKA: Two people were injured in two different places in city as miscreants hurled cocktails on Tuesday night.One of the victims, Mannan, a rickshaw puller, said miscreants blasted two cocktails in Dhaka University campus area around 7:30pm while he was pulling rickshaw there, leaving

RAJSHAHI: A blockade supporter and also local Jubo Dal leader was killed and another one injured in a road accident on Godagari-Kakonhat road in Godagari upazila of the district on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Eslam Hossain, 36, Risikul union Ward president of Jubo Dal, son of

SYLHET: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led 20-party-alliance has called daylong hartal for Wednesday in Sylhet amid the non-stop countrywide blockade.However, the strike has been called protesting the detention of senior BNP leaders including the party acting secretary general Mirza

JESSORE: Miscreants chopped a Juba League leader to death in Monirampur upazila of the district on Tuesday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Shahin, alias Thute, son of one Lutfur Rahman and a Juba League leader of Ward No-7 of Khedapara union of the upazila.Officer-in-Charge of

RAJSHAHI: The 24-hours hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), is underway in a relaxed mood across the district since Tuesday morning amid the fifteenth day of BNP-called nationwide road-rail-waterway blockade.No hartal-supporter was seen picketing and no sabotage was

DHAKA: Miscreants hurled two cocktails at the house of Chittagong-8 constituency lawmaker Moinuddin Khan Badal in the district on Tuesday.This is the second recent attack on the executive president of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD). Earlier on January 15, miscreants hurled three