DHAKA: Miscreants set fire to a passenger bus in Shahbagh area of the city on Saturday evening.The driver of the bus told banglanews that two miscreants got on the bus from National Press Club area and at one stage they set fire around 5:45pm at Shahbagh intersection and fled the scene

MOULVIBAZAR: Police detained 23 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in special drives in Moulvibazar.The drives were conducted in different areas of the district Saturday early morning.The detainees include Uzzal Mia (25), Nazmul

DHAKA: The respiratory related condition of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has deteriorated.Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)’s women wing Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal’s president Nure Ara Safa informed the media about the updates of Khaleda’s health Saturday. She further said, “Madam

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted three cocktails at central office of ruling Awami League in city’s Gulistan area on Saturday afternoon.Witnesses said that three cocktails were hurled targeting the central office of AL at Bangabandhu Avenue around 3:00pm.On information, police rushed to spot

DHAKA: Blockaders blasted a cocktail at Bangladesh Television (BTV) office complex in the capital on Saturday, the fifth day of nationwide blockade called by BNP.Sources told banglanews that the incident took place around 1:45pm.Witnesses said that a group of youths, who reached the

DHAKA: Local units of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) separately called a daylong hartal in Daganbhuiyan upazila of Feni, Sirajganj and Lalmonirhat districts for Sunday amid the nationwide indefinite blockade called by BNP.  Banglanews Sirajganj Correspondent reports: District BNP

DHAKA: Mentioning global rights groups Amnesty International (MI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) as the ‘agents’ of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the ruling Awami League (AL) leaders demanded end of these organizations’ activities in Bangladesh.The demand came from a

SIRAJGANJ: At least 10 people were injured when leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) locked into clash with police in the district town on Saturday - the fifth day of the nationwide blockade called by BNP. Details of the injured could not be known immediately.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday called his party leaders and activists to continue the anti-government movement by staying cautious.The BNP leader made the urge to his party people through reporters of several private

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted cocktails in front of the residence of Law Minister Anisul Haque in Banani area of the city Friday night. An Ansar member, who was on duty at the residence, was injured in the blast while a vehicle was damaged. Public Relations officer (PRO) of the law ministry

DHAKA: BNP on Friday claimed that India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah called confined BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to know about her health condition on Wednesday night.The party also repudiated the news that claimed ‘the news item on calling Khaleda by

DHAKA: The law enforcers again conducted a drive in the residence of BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas, who is also the party convener of Dhaka Metropolitan Unit, in capital’s Shahjahanpur area Friday afternoon.Sources said the plainclothes police raided his house around

DHAKA: The news item that said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India’s president Amit Shah called BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to know about her health condition is totally a false news item.Rather, the first call was from Khaleda Zia’s office in city to Amit Shah’s office, not

SYLHET: District and metropolitan BNP called daylong hartal in Sylhet district for Sunday protesting the confinement of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and demanding release of BNP leaders including acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.Sylhet district BNP joint convener

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Friday placed BNP vice chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury on five-day remand.Metropolitan Magistrate Imdadul Haque passed the order in response of 10-day remand plea sought by Shahbagh Thana inspector Shahidul Haque Bhuiyan at around 4:30pm.General Register

DHAKA: Awami League (AL) Advisory Council member Suranjit Sengupta on Friday categorically said blockade is similar to declaring war against the country.He also urged government to declare blockade as an unconstitutional, undemocratic and illegal program.He came up with the assertion

DHAKA: BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday again urged mass people and 20-party alliance leaders and activists to continue nationwide road-rail-waterway blockade with full force.He made the call at a press conference at party’s Banani office in the capital in the

NARAYANGANJ: Blockaders vandalized 17 buses and torched another in Nitaiganj and Fatulla areas of the district on Friday, the fourth-day of nationwide blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance.Witnesses said a group of 15 to 20 youths intercepted a Dhaka- bound passenger bus of

RAJSHAHI: Three activists of Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, have been arrested from Assam colony area of the district over assaulting police on Tuesday, the first day nationwide blockade called by BNP.The arrestees are Ilius Sheikh, 35, son of Abdus Samad Sheikh,

Faridpur: Jatiyatabadi Swechchasebok Dal (JSD), volunteers’ wing of BNP, on Friday announced a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district for Saturday protesting the ‘confinement’ of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to her office.District unit convening committee made the announcement at a