DHAKA: Relief and Disaster Management Affairs Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury on Thursday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia would be sued for bomb attacks carried out by blockade and hartal supporters across the country. She (Khaleda Zia) will be arrested for instigating all the

DHAKA: Another phase of installing barbed wire fence around BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in Gulshan began Thursday. Three workers, two of them were identified as Monir Hossain and Amirul, brought barbed-wire rings by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at 10:30am on the day.

DHAKA: A group of miscreants consecutively blasted two cocktails in front of Judge Court in older section of the city on Thursday morning. Witnesses told banglanews that they heard loud sounds of blasts that created panic in the area. However, the miscreants managed to flee the scene,

GAZIPUR: A Gazipur court on Thursday placed Professor MA Mannan, mayor of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC), on a two-day remand in a case filed with Joydevpur Thana.Senior Judicial Magistrate Manwara Begum passed the remand order after police produced him before the court with a 10-day

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained a total of 20 people during separate drives across the city in the last 24 hours till Thursday morning.Of the detainees, twelve are leaders-activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and eight are leaders-activists of

GAZIPUR: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), called a 48-hour hartal in the district from Saturday protesting the arrest of Gazipur City Corporation mayor MA Mannan.Gazipur city JCD unit member secretary Jahangir Alam confirmed the matter

LAKSHMIPUR: Detective Branch (DB) of police detained Saydur Rahman Chutto, acting president of the district unit BNP, on Wednesday night.A team of DB police picked up Saydur from Shankharipara area of the district town around 9:30pm.Lakshmipur Sadar Thana duty officer Assistant

NARAYANGANJ: Police detained two people, including an activist of Jatiyatabadi Chattra Dal (JCD), student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), with a petrol bomb in Fatulla area under Sadar uapzila of the district on Wednesday night.The detainees are Rafiqul Islam, a activist

DHAKA: The 120-hour hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance, has rolled into the fifth and last day across the country on Thursday, supplemented by nationwide road-rail-waterway blockade.No act of sabotages and arson attacks was reported in the city

DHAKA: At least 10 petrol bombs were recovered from two persons in city’s Gulshan area Wednesday evening.Sources said that Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel recovered the bombs in front of Gloria Jeans Café of Gulshan-1.The elite force members, according to the sources, detained

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad, also former President of the country, on Wednesday said sometimes he feels like spitting the prevailing politics in the country.“Due to present political culture, people are suffering from hunger if they stay at home and sustaining petrol

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted a cocktail in front of Paltan Thana in the city on Wednesday evening.Another cocktail was exploded in front of City Heart Market near the thana.However, police could not hold anyone in this connection.Paltan Thana sub-inspector (SI) Jahangir Alam said they are

DHAKA: A Dhaka court asked the government to publish a notice against BNP vice-chairman and Dhaka city’s former mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka and two others to appear before the court by March 29 in a case of bomb blast in front of Election Commission Secretariat.The other accused are

NATORE: At least four people, including district Sadar Thana Jubo Dal president Mamtaj, were injured in a blast while they were making petrol bombs in Nischintapur village of the upazila on Wednesday afternoon.The other injured are Jewel, Sajal, and Mahfuz. They are assistants of

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained at least 267 people, including BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists, from 14 districts in nightlong drives.Without disclosing the identities police claimed that the detainees were involved in recent violence.Banglanews24.com correspondents reports from their

DHAKA: A Dhaka court placed BNP’s two former lawmakers Ashraf Uddin Nizam and Nazim Uddin Ahmed on a three-day remand in vandalism and torching cases.Metropolitan Magistrate M Tasruzzaman passed the order after the hearing on Wednesday, in response to a remand plea by Motijheel

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday granted five-day fresh remand to Mosaddek Ali Falu, adviser to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, in a cocktail blast case filed with Mirpur Police Station in the city.Metropolitan Magistrate Tareq Mainul Islam Bhuiyan passed the remand order in the afternoon

GAIBANDHA: Members of joint forces arrested 23 leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in nightlong drives across the district.Additional police super (ASP) Mosharraf Hossain said that the law enforcers conducted drives from Tuesday night to Wednesday

DHAKA: Information minister Hasanul Haq Inu said that they will think about the proposed dialogue to address the current situation, if BNP-led 20-party alliance stops violence.The minister made this remark in response to the eminent citizens’ letter to the President, Prime Minister and

BRAHMANBRIA: Police, in separate drives, detained 105 people, including six leaders-activists of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir at different places of the district.The six BNP-Jamaat-Shibir men were picked up for their alleged acts of sabotage during nationwide hartal and