DHAKA: A vacation bench of High Court on Tuesday granted three-week anticipatory bail to Abdul Awal Mintoo, adviser to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, in a case filed over Bakshibazar clash.An HC bench comprising Justice Muhammad Abdul Hafiz and Justice M Badruzzaman passed the order at

DHAKA: A case has been filed against 59 Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists including its president and secretary of Chittagong city unit for vandalizing vehicles. Confirming the matter to banglanews, Sub-Inspector Kotwali Thana said the case was filed on Monday night against

HABIGANJ: A court here on Tuesday sent Sylhet City Corporation mayor Ariful Haq Chowdhury to jail after his surrender in former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder case. Sources told banglanews that Habiganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Rokeya Akter passed the order at noon. Earlier,

DHAKA: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called countrywide hartal for Wednesday and Thursday protesting International Crimes Tribunal’s death penalty to party’s assistant secretary general ATM Azharul Islam. Party’s acting Ameer Mokbul Ahmed made the hartal declaration on Tuesday

DHAKA: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Monday said the pickets, who killed a female school teacher on Monday in Noakhali, would be detained shortly. The ill-fated teacher, Shamsunnahar, 37, mother of two children, hailed from Lakshmipur district was killed on Monday morning when

JESSORE: A case was filed against 29 BNP leaders and activists, including district BNP vice-president Golam Reza Dulu, with Kotwali Thana on Monday.A Sub-Inspector (SI) Moshiul Alam of Narendrapur Police Camp filed a law suit with the thana.Officer-in-Charge of Kotwali Thana Enamul Haque

DHAKA: Police nabbed at least 11 persons on suspicion from in front of BNP central office in city’s Naya Paltan area on Monday.They were held from Monday morning to noon. Their identities are not made public.Confirming the matter police Sub-Inspector (SI) Mansur told banglanews that

DHAKA: Senior leaders of ruling Awami League claimed that people of the country have rejected the countrywide hartal enforced by BNP led 20-party alliance.They made the remarks from anti-hartal rally, procession in Bangabandhu Avenue, other parts of the city on Monday.Targeting at BNP

SYLHET: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called a half-day hartal for Tuesday in Sylhet protesting city BNP convener Dr Shahriar Hossain Chowdhury’s detention.District joint convener Dilder Hossain Selim made the strike announcement at a rally, held at Judge Court area in the

DHAKA: Former state minster for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan was sued for demeaning Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman damaging his photo and trampled it.  President of Jananetri Parishad AB Siddiqui on Monday filed the case with Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.

DHAKA: Chhatra Dal activists blasted four cocktails in BIRDEM lane at Segunbagicha in the capital on Monday.Witnesses said some 10-12 activists of Chhatra Dal brought out a procession in the area and blasted the cocktails at 10:30am.However, police could not arrest any of the picketers.

NOAKHALI: A female school teacher was killed as a brick hit her in Noakhali while she was returning home during first hours of hartal of 20-party alliance on Monday.The deceased was identified as Shamsunnahar, 35, teacher of Tawhid Laboratory School in Dhaka. She hailed from Ramgoti

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the 20-party alliance is observing the countrywide hartal against the fascist incumbent government aimed at restoring the people’s franchise.The BNP senior leader made the remark in front of main gate in BNP central office in

DHAKA:  The countrywide daylong hartal, called by the BNP-led 20-party alliance, was observed amid stray incidents of blasts, picketing, killing and detention.The alliance observed the shutdown protesting the occupying of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gazipur rally place by Chhatra

RUPGANJ, NARAYANGANJ: Awami League backed candidate Abu Hosssin Bhuiyan Ranu elected Rupganj Sadar UP election on Sunday.Ranu got 11,705 votes with the symbol of ‘pineapple’. He had been serving as chairman for 16 years.His opponent advocate Kabir Hossain got 9,951 votes with

DHAKA: Juba Dal president Moazzem Hossain Alal has been sent to the emergency unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) as he fell sick in Chawkbazar Thana on Sunday.Officer-in-charge (OC) of Chawkbazar Thana Azizul Haque confirmed the matter. Attending Doctor Resma Akhter told

DHAKA: Three members of a family were burned as some miscreants had thrown a petrol bomb in a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in city’s Mirpur area on Sunday evening. Moreover, a rickshaw-puller was injured as a cocktail blasted near Teacher-Student Center (TSC) intersection in Dhaka University

DHAKA: Hartal supporters set fire to a bus of the secretariat at city’s Paltan area on Sunday evening on the eve of 20-party’s Monday’s hartal. Sources told banglanews that the incident took place around 6:25pm in front of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) office. However, the bus

DHAKA: A court Sunday deferred the hearing of charge framing against 23 Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders and activists including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir until January 20 next year. They are accused of vandalism and arson. The court of Dhaka

DHAKA: Food minister Qamrul Islam warned the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) saying that all of the party’s leaders will be held if they create any violence during the upcoming hartal. The minister, in the Awami League (AL) extended meeting organized by its metropolitan