NARAYANGANJ:  Blockaders, from a procession, vandalized 10 vehicles in Nitaiganj area of the district on Friday, the fourth day nationwide blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance.Sources said leaders and activists of BNP, led-by its district unit president Advocate Toimur Alam

DHAKA: At least five passenger buses were torched in the capital on Thursday, the third day of BNP-led 20-party alliance called nationwide blockade.Sources told banglanews that the incidents took place at city’s Banasree, Mohakhali, Motijheel, Shantinagar and Gulistan area.According

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) vice chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury has been detained by detective branch (DB) of police on Thursday night.Plainclothes police picked him up from his Banani DOHS house in the capital around 11:00pm, sources told banglanews.The BNP leader,

DHAKA: Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) President Shawkat Mahmood, also adviser to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, on Thursday said the party chief put emphasis on continuing blockade until ensuring the victory.He was talking to journalists after meeting ‘confined’ Khaleda

DHAKA: A passerby was injured as miscreants blasted five cocktails in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on Thursday night.The cocktails blasted at 8:38pm, banglanews24.com correspondent reports.None was held in this connection.BDST: 2115 HRS, JAN 08, 2015

DHAKA: Miscreants torched two passenger buses in city’s Mohakhali and Motijheel areas during the third day of BNP-led 20-party alliance called nationwide blockade on Thursday night.Fire service sources said that blockaders set fire to a passenger bus in Mohakhali around 7:15pm while

RANGPUR: Law enforcers early Thursday filed a case under explosives act against 69 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations for blasting cocktails in various areas and vandalizing vehicles.Sub-Inspector of Kotwali Thana Saifur Rahman filed the lawsuit mentioning names of

DHAKA: Separate sedition cases were filed against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and Ekushey Television (ETV) chairman Abdus Salam on Thursday. Second officer of Tejgaon Thana sub-inspector Borhanuddin filed the case with the police station at noon. Deputy Police Commissioner

NOAKHALI: Police sued 3,500 mentioning the names of 217 people under speedy trial act following a clash with BNP-Jamaat men in Chowmuhani Bazar in Begumganj upazila of the district.Begumganj Thana sub-inspector (SI) Jisan Ahmed filed the lawsuit for killing, creating violence and

GAZIPUR: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was brought to Kashimpur Jail (Dhaka Central Jail Part-2) from Dhaka Central Jail.The prison van carrying Fakhrul reached at Kashimpur Jail around 4:43pm.Senior jail super of the jail Jahangir Kabir confirmed the matter to

GAIBANDHA: Blockaders vandalized some 50 vehicles in Maheshpur area under Palashbari upazila of the district on Thursday, the third day of the nationwide indefinite rail-road-waterway blockade, called by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.Witnesses said the picketers hurled brickbats and chips

DHAKA: Central leaders of the ruling Awami League (AL) will meet their party chief and also prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday.They are scheduled to meet the PM at her official residence Ganabhaban on Thursday evening.Sources confirmed the matter to banglanews.According to the

DHAKA: Members of Islami Chhatra Shibir of Jagannath University unit brought out a brisk procession in city’s Dholaikhal area and blasted a series of cocktails.The incident took place at 1:15pm on Thursday.Police and witnesses said that a group of Shibir activists of Jagannath

LONDON: Pro-Awami League lawyers, living in the UK, lodged a complaint against BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman at the UK Home Office for ‘provoking’ violence in the British-Bangladeshi community.The lawyers requested the authorities concerned “to take necessary actions

DHAKA: Police on Thursday unlocked the main gate of Gulshan political office where BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been confined for last couple of days.The gate was unlocked at 11:45am while the north gate is still locked.However Officer-in-Charge of Gulshan Thana Rafiqul Islam said,

GAZIPUR: District BNP leaders requested BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to withdraw or relax blockade ahead of Biswa Ijtema that going to be started on January 9 at Tongi.Kaliakoir Municipality Mayor, also member of BNP central committee Mujubur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews

DHAKA: The day-long hartal, called by Jessore unit of BNP, is progressing in the district on Thursday amid stray incidents of vandalism, picketing. The party-men are observing the shutdown in protest against filing case against 49 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat.Hartal supporters

DHAKA: Chhatra Shibir activists blasted three cocktails and vandalized some human haulers and auto-rickshaws at Banasreee area in the capital on Thursday as 20-party’s non-stop blockade underway.Earlier, a group of Shibir activists led by Dhaka East Shibir president Rezaul Haq brought

DHAKA:  Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia’s condition has improved, said her adviser Sabih Uddin Ahmed. He disclosed the update of Khaleda Zia’s health condition while talking to the reporters after coming out of her Gulshan office at 11:30pm Wednesday.

MOULVIBAZAR: Blockaders allegedly removed fishplates of rail track in Kulaura upazila of the district early Thursday, causing derailment of fives bogies and engine of Udayan Express that left over 100 people injured.The derailment took place amid the third day of nationwide blockade in