DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP, called daylong hartal for Monday Dhaka and 13 other adjoining districts in protest against confinement of their Chairperson Khaleda Zia.The other districts are Narayanganj, Gazipur, Tangail, Narsinghdi, Munshiganj, Manikganj,

DHAKA: District BNP units separately called a daylong hartal for Monday in Gazipur, Tangail, Narayanganj, Manikganj, Munshiganj, Comilla, Bogra and Noakhali (Chatkhil upazila) districts amid the nonstop countrywide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.Banglanews

DHAKA: New trucks with mud, bricks and sand have been kept in front of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in city’s Gulshan area.Seven trucks were seen parked in the area at 12:45pm while the report was filed.Five trucks are positioned in

SYLHET: An activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student affiliate of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, was killed in Sadar upazila after a mini-truck knocked him down while he was vandalizing vehicles on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Shariful Islam Sharif, 25, son of a

DHAKA: Local units of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have separately been observing hartal in four districts and an upazila since Sunday morning amid the BNP called nationwide indefinite blockade.BNP is observing dawn-to-dusk hartal in Sirajganj, Lalmonirhat, and Patuakhli

GAZIPUR: BNP-led alliance called a dawn-to-dusk hatal in the district for Monday protesting the confinement of its chief Khaleda Zia to her Gulshan office and detention of senior BNP leaders.BNP central committee organizing secretary AKM Fazlul Haque Milon, also Gazipur district BNP

PABNA: Police arrested an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islam and seized arms, explosives and leaflets from Atua Kha area of the district town on Saturday night. The detainee is identified as Shibir cadre Nur Hossain Leon, resident of the area. Police

NARAIL: Miscreants torched a Dhaka bound passenger bus in Rupganj Bazar Bus-stand area of the district town on Saturday night. Witnesses said that some miscreants hurled petrol bombs at the bus and set fire to it in the area around 9:30pm and fled the scene. Five passengers of the bus

KHULNA: Law enforcers held the vice-president of Khulna Mahanagar Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP Moshiur Rahman Jadu and two other JCD leaders from the district town on Saturday night. Dtective Branch (DB) of Police personnel held them from different areas of the

DHAKA: Two persons, including a police constable, were injured after miscreants blasted a cocktail in city’s Bangshal area on Saturday night. The injured are police constable Abdus Salam and a rickshaw puller Motaleb. Witnesses said that the duo was injured as some miscreants hurled a

DHAKA: A 14-year old school boy, Khalid Hossain, was injured as miscreants blasted two cocktails in city’s Kamrangirchar-Banagram area on Saturday night. The ill fated boy is a student of class (vii), of a local kindergarten school. Khalid’s father, Billal Hossain, said that his son

Narail: Police held the municipality mayor of Narail and also Organizing Secretary of district BNP Mohammad Zulfikar Ali Mandal on Saturday night. Sources said that the BNP leader was held by the law enforcers from his residence around 10:00pm. Narail Sadar Thana Officer-in-Charge

DHAKA: The leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP, torched two passenger buses in city’s Kataban and Dhanmondi area on Saturday night. Sources said that some JCD men set afire in the buses in the areas around 9:30pm at the sixth day of the 20-party

DHAKA: A passenger of a bus received burn injuries as some miscreants hurled petrol bomb at a passenger bus in city’s Mirpur area on Saturday night. The injured, Kazi Shafiul Alam told banglanews that some miscreants hurled petrol bomb at the bus, Projapoti Paribahan, when it reached

DHAKA: Private car of Sabihuddin Ahmed, adviser to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, was torched in city’s Gulshan area on Saturday night.Locals said that some unidentified miscreants torched his vehicle in the area around 8:55pm when it was parked in front of the residence of Khaleda’s

DHAKA: Blockaders blasted six cocktails in Pirjangi Mazar area in Kamalapur in city Saturday night.Officer-in-Charge of Kamalapur Railway Thana Abdul Majid told banglanews that a gang of 10-12 youth chanted slogans in support of blockade and left the place after blasting six

DHAKA: Blockaders blasted six cocktails at Pirjangi Mazar in Kamalapur area of the capital on Saturday night.Kamalapur Railway Thana Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdul Majid told banglanews that a gang of 10-12 youths chanted slogans supporting the ongoing blockade and left the place after

DHAKA: Blockaders set fire to nine vehicles in several places in Dhaka on Saturday evening, sixth day of the 20-party alliance’s nationwide road-rail-waterway indefinite blockade.A passenger bus was torched by the blockaders in city’s Natun Bazar area around 8:30pm.In Khilgaon, a

DHAKA: A team of former secretaries led by former cabinet secretary Abdul Halim Saturday evening met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan political office in the city.The secretaries entered at her office around 7:20pm.The former secretaries are BNP chairperson’s adviser

DHAKA: Blockade supporters set fire to a human hauler in Modhya Badda area of the capital on Saturday evening.No one, however, was injured in this connection.Witnesses said some miscreants suddenly set fire to the human hauler in the evening and managed to flee the scene.Local fire