DHAKA: BNP leaders and activists will bring out procession and stage demonstration at in all wards of the city protesting foiling 20-party’s January 5 rally and besieging Khaleda Zia.Reliable sources in the party confirmed the matter to banglanews.Earlier on Saturday night, huge

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) police on Saturday night raided the rented house of BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.Later police cordoned off the house at capital’s Uattara, though Fakhrul was not at home then.Caretaker of the house Abu Kalam Kazal told

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to be cordoned off at his Gulshan office till January 6.Sources said Khaleda opted to go to Naya Paltan central office on Saturday night on information of government plan to besiege her residence on January 4.As Khaleda’s plan was also

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) Police took BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi to hospital after he fell sick at Naya Paltan central office on Saturday mid night.Duty manager of Apollo Hospitals confirmed that Rizvi has been taken to there for treatment. Besides, police locked

DHAKA: Top BNP leaders went into hiding as police raided their residences on Saturday night ahead of January-5 rally.Meanwhile, huge number of law enforcers cordoned the Gulshan office of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia where she has been under high surveillance since Saturday midnight.

Dhaka: Huge numbers of law enforcers have cordoned the Gulshan office of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia where she has been under high surveillance since Saturday midnight.  Police men wanted to guide Khaleda up to her nearby Gulshan residence, but Khaleda wanted not to move with them.

DHAKA: BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman is scheduled to address a discussion meeting in London over January 5 national elections.The BNP leader will address the discussion meeting titled ‘Democracy Murder Day’ in the Atrium London Auditorium around 6:00pm (London local time)

CHITTAGONG: Jatiya Party (JP) Secretary General (SG) Ziauddin Bablu has been taken to hospital in Chittagong after he faced a cardiac arrest.He was out of danger, said a competent source from the hospital.BDST: 2055HRS, JAN 03, 2014

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud commented that none but Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Khaleda Zia had made herself ‘minus’ from politics.He made the statement Saturday noon while addressing a discussion titled

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is determined to join the January 5 street movement ignoring all kind of government restrictions. She will come out of her Gulshan residence this time and join the programme, said a competent source of the party. Khaleda Zia wants to stay besides the

DHAKA: The leaders of pro-BNP lawyers’ platform Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum (JAF), UK unit are apparently disobeying the orders of BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman on formation of a full committee of JAP. Tarique, also elder son of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, asked the leaders

CHITTAGONG: An Awami League (AL) activist was shot dead by miscreants in Kanchana Fultala area under Satkania upazila on Friday.The deceased was identified as Jamal Uddin, 32, son of Badi Alam.Officer-in-charge (OC) of Satkania Thana Khaled Hossain told banglanews that four miscreants

FENI: At least 20 people including local traders were injured in a clash between Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and law enforcement agency personnel on Friday afternoon.Traffic plying on Shahid Shahidullah Kaiser road was halted for around two and a half hours due to the clash.Witnesses

DHAKA: Terming BNP leaders and activists as “Paper Tigers” incumbent Awami League (AL) joint general secretary Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif on Friday said they would not be in the field on January 5 though they are now threatening the government.He made the assertion while briefing the

SYLHET: Miscreants threw cocktails aiming the vehicle of former mayor of Sylhet City Corporation Badar uddin Ahmed Kamran, who is also metropolitan Awami League president, in Pathantula area of the town on Friday.Kamran told banglanews that some miscreants who were riding motorcycles

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Dr Abdul Moin Khan on Friday categorically said that the BNP-led 20-party leaders and activists will stay on street even if they do not get permission for holding rally. He made the observation after placing floral wreaths to Zia’s grave at

DHAKA: Gono Forum president, also constitution maker Dr Kamal Hossain said he will write to the Chief Justice to stop irregularities in court after investigation. He came up with this assertion in a discussion titled ‘43rd Victory Day and Human Rights Situation of Bangladesh’

DHAKA: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Khandker Mahbub Hossain on Saturday warned government of facing the “final game’ on January 5 unless seven-point demand of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is met.Mahbub said that under Khaleda’s seven-point demand, declare fresh

DHAKA:  State minister for home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal Friday said that BNP will not let to hold rally on January 5 if sabotage alarm remained.He said “We will think about the issue of giving permission to the party to hold the rally if the matter of sabotage is not feared.” The

MANAMA: Awami League Bahrain unit warned of showing zero tolerance to the slanderers of Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.The chief advisor of the unit Engineer Abul Kalam Azad was addressing a discussion at a hotel in Manama, capital city of Bahrain, organized by local