KHULNA: Police detained a district level leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student’s wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, and his associate with a shutter gun, three hand-made bombs and two rounds of bullets in Koyra upazila on Friday night. The detainees are Ayub Ali Mollah, president of

DHAKA: Former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Professor Dr Emajuddin Ahmed urged the government and BNP to sit together for a dialogue before Bangladesh turns into a failed state.He was addressing a roundtable at the VIP lounge of National Press Club in city on Friday.Dr Emajuddin

DHAKA: The 20-party alliance led by BNP announced to enforce a 36-hour hartal from Sunday in eight districts of Rajshahi and 12-hour in Barisal division.In Rajshahi, the alliance called the hartal protesting the killing of a Chhatra Dal leader in Capainawabganj early Friday in a

COMILLA: The BNP led 20-party alliance of the district called hartal for Sunday on protest of Chhatra League and Juba League men’s attack in a peaceful procession of the alliance and case filed against the alliance men. The hartal declaration came from a press conference in district

RANGPUR: The district unit of BNP-led 20-party alliance called dawn to dusk hartal in the district protesting the confinement of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and arrest of BNP leaders including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.Metropolitan BNP president Mozaffar

DHAKA: Awami League Advisory Council member Suranjit Sengupta said that the ongoing ant-government movement of BNP would fail miserably within a week.He came up with the assertion in a discussion at the auditorium of Institute of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB) on Friday

DHAKA: Awami League (AL) Publicity and Publication Affairs Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud said killing people by burning and exploding cocktail-petrol bomb in the name of hartal and blocked can not be called politics for the people.The AL leader came up with the remarks while talking to

DHAKA: A court on Friday placed Bangladesh Labour Party chairman Dr Mostafizur Rahman Iran on a-day remand in a case of vandalism and arson attacks. The court of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim passed the order at noon in response to a seven-day remand plea filed by

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Local BNP called dawn-to-dusk hartal for Sunday and Monday protesting the killing of a Chhatra Dal leader during a ‘gunfight’ with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) early Friday. District BNP unit president Professor M Shahjahan Ali Mian confirmed the matter to banglanews

COMILLA: A total of 78 leaders and activists of the district south unit of BNP and its associate bodies has been sued on charge of attacking a police constable in the wee hours of Friday.District Detective Branch (DB) Sub-Inspector (SI) Adil Mahmud filed the lawsuit with Kotwali Thana

NOAKHALI: An activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student affiliate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has been shot dead here at Sonaimuri Thursday night.The deceased was identified as Morshed Alam Parvej, 25, son of Alamgir Hossain, residing in Hasanpur village under

DHAKA: The leaders of Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB) met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in her Gulshan political office of the city Thursday evening.A 14-member delegation led by DAB chairman Dr AKM Azizul Haque entered the office around 6:30pm.After meeting with Khaleda around

CHITTAGONG: Miscreants hurled cocktails targeting the political office of ruling alliance MP of Chittagong-8 constituency and also Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) executive president Moinuddin Khan Badal in Chandgaon residential area of the district on Thursday night.Chandgaon Thana

CHITTAGONG: Police held Chittagong central Chaatra Dal vice-president Manjurul Islam Manju from the city gate area of the port city on Thursday evening. Police sources said that he was nabbed on charge of planning and creating violence in several places of the city. At least 30 cases

DHAKA: The financiers of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman are identified. Now, they will be netted soon. The process of netting has already started. Steps are underway against them, who are financing the BNP leader. From news media, it is learnt that at least fifty expatriate

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general on Thursday said Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the blockade would continue until the victory is achieved.The senior BNP leader made the remark in a statement sent to media.Rizvi said, “The ruling Awami League has grabbed the country getting only five percent

CHANDPUR: A Chandpur court on Thursday issued arrest warrant against former state minister for education ANM Ehsanul Haq Milon for irregularities in the 2008 parliamentary elections. Chandpur Chief Judicial Magistrate Asim Kumar Dey passed the order at 2:30pm after framing the charge in

DHAKA: Bangladesh Manobadhikar Party (BMP) and also Bangladesh National Alliance (BNA) chairman Nazmul Huda on Thursday sought assistance of United Nations (UN) in solving the country’s ongoing political crisis.Huda was addressing a program on the occasion of launching a new political

DHAKA:  Police detained chairman of Bangladesh Labour Party Dr Mostafizur Rahman Iran from city’s Paltan area on Thursday noon.Sources said the chief of Labor Party, one of the allies of BNP-led 20-party alliance, was picked up by Paltan thana police at 1:30pm on his way to his

DHAKA:  Awami League (AL) publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday categorically said former state minister for foreign affairs Reaz Rahman was attacked following instructions of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.The senior AL leader made the remarks while