Sunday, 27 Apr, 2025

Politics

‘No more chance for BNP’

DHAKA: Food Minister and also Dhaka city Awami League joint general secretary Quamrul Islam said that no more chance will be given to BNP to create violence in the name of rally as a religious group Hefajat-e-Islam did it earlier.He came up with the assertion in a discussion in

BNP-Jamaat men among 38 held in Satkhira

SATKHIRA: Police detained 38 people, including 19 BNP-Jamaat men, on suspicion of subversive activities in Satkhira.A press release from Special Branch of Police of the district informed the media on Saturday.Confirming the matter, district police information officer also Sub-Inspector

Hartal in Noakhali Sunday, Rajbari Monday

DHAKA: Local units of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) separately called daylong hartal in Noakhali and Rajbari districts respectively for Sunday and Monday.The shutdown, however, will be enforced in the districts protesting the confinement of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to her

Expatriates’ Welfare minister flies to KSA

DHAKA: Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain along with an eight-member delegation on Saturday left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia.He will hold separate bilateral meetings with the ministers of labour and health, crown prince and with the

Police detain 21 in Khulna

KHULNA: Police detained 21 persons including three of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir in Khulna Metropolitan City of the district. They were held in several drives conducted from Friday evening to Saturday morning across the city. Police said that 18 of them were arrested in regular cases while

APC in front of Khaleda’s office

DHAKA: An armored personnel carrier (APC) has been deployed again in front of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan political office on the city Friday night. The APC took position on the southern end of Road No. 86 at 11:00pm Friday. Gulshan Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) Joynal Abedin

Khulna south Shibir president among 2 held

KHULNA: Police detained a district level leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student’s wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, and his associate with a shutter gun, three hand-made bombs and two rounds of bullets in Koyra upazila on Friday night. The detainees are Ayub Ali Mollah, president of

Dr Emajuddin urges for dialogue

DHAKA: Former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Professor Dr Emajuddin Ahmed urged the government and BNP to sit together for a dialogue before Bangladesh turns into a failed state.He was addressing a roundtable at the VIP lounge of National Press Club in city on Friday.Dr Emajuddin

Hartal in Rajshahi-Barisal division Sunday

DHAKA: The 20-party alliance led by BNP announced to enforce a 36-hour hartal from Sunday in eight districts of Rajshahi and 12-hour in Barisal division.In Rajshahi, the alliance called the hartal protesting the killing of a Chhatra Dal leader in Capainawabganj early Friday in a

20-party calls hartal in Comilla Sunday

COMILLA: The BNP led 20-party alliance of the district called hartal for Sunday on protest of Chhatra League and Juba League men’s attack in a peaceful procession of the alliance and case filed against the alliance men. The hartal declaration came from a press conference in district

Daylong hartal in Rangpur Saturday

RANGPUR: The district unit of BNP-led 20-party alliance called dawn to dusk hartal in the district protesting the confinement of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and arrest of BNP leaders including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.Metropolitan BNP president Mozaffar

BNP movement will fail within a week

DHAKA: Awami League Advisory Council member Suranjit Sengupta said that the ongoing ant-government movement of BNP would fail miserably within a week.He came up with the assertion in a discussion at the auditorium of Institute of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB) on Friday

‘Burning people not a politics’

DHAKA: Awami League (AL) Publicity and Publication Affairs Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud said killing people by burning and exploding cocktail-petrol bomb in the name of hartal and blocked can not be called politics for the people.The AL leader came up with the remarks while talking to

Labour party chairman Iran remanded

DHAKA: A court on Friday placed Bangladesh Labour Party chairman Dr Mostafizur Rahman Iran on a-day remand in a case of vandalism and arson attacks. The court of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim passed the order at noon in response to a seven-day remand plea filed by

Hartal in C’nawabganj on Sunday, Monday

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Local BNP called dawn-to-dusk hartal for Sunday and Monday protesting the killing of a Chhatra Dal leader during a ‘gunfight’ with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) early Friday. District BNP unit president Professor M Shahjahan Ali Mian confirmed the matter to banglanews

78 BNP leaders-activists sued in Comilla

COMILLA: A total of 78 leaders and activists of the district south unit of BNP and its associate bodies has been sued on charge of attacking a police constable in the wee hours of Friday.District Detective Branch (DB) Sub-Inspector (SI) Adil Mahmud filed the lawsuit with Kotwali Thana

JCD man killed in Noakhali clash

NOAKHALI: An activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student affiliate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has been shot dead here at Sonaimuri Thursday night.The deceased was identified as Morshed Alam Parvej, 25, son of Alamgir Hossain, residing in Hasanpur village under

DAB leaders meet Khaleda

DHAKA: The leaders of Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB) met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in her Gulshan political office of the city Thursday evening.A 14-member delegation led by DAB chairman Dr AKM Azizul Haque entered the office around 6:30pm.After meeting with Khaleda around

Cocktail attack in front of MP Badal’s office

CHITTAGONG: Miscreants hurled cocktails targeting the political office of ruling alliance MP of Chittagong-8 constituency and also Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) executive president Moinuddin Khan Badal in Chandgaon residential area of the district on Thursday night.Chandgaon Thana

Ctg Chhatra Dal leader held

CHITTAGONG: Police held Chittagong central Chaatra Dal vice-president Manjurul Islam Manju from the city gate area of the port city on Thursday evening. Police sources said that he was nabbed on charge of planning and creating violence in several places of the city. At least 30 cases