DHAKA: The financiers of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman are identified. Now, they will be netted soon. The process of netting has already started. Steps are underway against them, who are financing the BNP leader. From news media, it is learnt that at least fifty expatriate

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general on Thursday said Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the blockade would continue until the victory is achieved.The senior BNP leader made the remark in a statement sent to media.Rizvi said, “The ruling Awami League has grabbed the country getting only five percent

CHANDPUR: A Chandpur court on Thursday issued arrest warrant against former state minister for education ANM Ehsanul Haq Milon for irregularities in the 2008 parliamentary elections. Chandpur Chief Judicial Magistrate Asim Kumar Dey passed the order at 2:30pm after framing the charge in

DHAKA: Bangladesh Manobadhikar Party (BMP) and also Bangladesh National Alliance (BNA) chairman Nazmul Huda on Thursday sought assistance of United Nations (UN) in solving the country’s ongoing political crisis.Huda was addressing a program on the occasion of launching a new political

DHAKA:  Police detained chairman of Bangladesh Labour Party Dr Mostafizur Rahman Iran from city’s Paltan area on Thursday noon.Sources said the chief of Labor Party, one of the allies of BNP-led 20-party alliance, was picked up by Paltan thana police at 1:30pm on his way to his

DHAKA:  Awami League (AL) publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday categorically said former state minister for foreign affairs Reaz Rahman was attacked following instructions of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.The senior AL leader made the remarks while

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Thursday expressed no-confidence in the judges of Zia charitable graft cases as her petition for adjourning deposition had been denied.Later a Dhaka court adjourned the deposition hearing till January 29.Earlier in the morning, the court began recording

DHAKA: Over one thousand people under the banner of ‘Dinmojur-Shramajibi Janata’ (laborers and workers),  have brought out a procession to gherao BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan political office in the city. They have set the program demanding withdrawal of nationwide

COMILLA: At least six people were injured in a clash between leaders and activists of Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in Kandirpar area of the district town on Thursday morning. Joint convener of the Kotwali unit Juba Dal committee Momen sustained severe injuries

COMILLA: At least nine people, including DB police constable Aminul, were injured in a clash between leaders and activists of ruling Awami League (AL) and opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in Kandirpar area of the district town on Thursday morning.Moreover, joint convener of

DHAKA: Police have foiled the program of ‘Dinmojur-Shramajibi Janata’ (laborers and workers) to besiege BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan political office in the city on Thursday. Earlier in the morning, more than one thousand people under the banner ‘Dinmojur-Shramajibi

DHAKA: BNP leaders and activists brought out processions and exploded cocktails at different places of the city on Thursday morning during the 20-party alliance-called hartal and the 10th day of nationwide indefinite blockade. Police held a picketer while trying to set fire to a CNG-run

GAZIPUR:  A bus driver was burnt alive as arsonists set fire to the vehicle in Kaliakoir upazila of the district early Thursday, hours before the beginning of 20-party-called hartal. The deceased was identified as Toazzal Hossain, 28.  Confirming the matter, Kaliakoir thana

DHAKA: Miscreants set fire to a private car and a truck in Jorpukurpar of city’s Khilgaon area on Thursday hours before the beginning of 20-party alliance-called hartal, amid the 10th day of nationwide indefinite blockade.The arson attack took place around at 4:40am. Being informed,

DHAKA: The dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by 20-party alliance, is underway across the country on Thursday amid stray incidents of arson attack and blasts along with nationwide blockade. Activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami vandalized and torched vehicles including bus-truck in different

DHAKA: Miscreants on Wednesday evening set fire to two passenger buses in Signboard and Nilkhet areas of the capital and blasted four cocktails in Purana Paltan and Badda areas ahead of the daylong countrywide hartal on Thursday.Sources said a bus was torched in Signboard area around

NEW YORK: In a wake of several embarrassing situations, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) discharged Dr Mujibur Rahman Majumder and Zahid F Sarder Saddi from their duties for publishing fake statement of US Congressmen.BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka disclosed the development at

MYMENSINGH: A Mymensingh court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against Supreme Court lawyer Dr Tuhin Malik in a case filed for derogatory remark on religion and hurting religious sentiment.The Mymensingh No-1 Cognizance Court Judge Ahsan Habib passed the order.Momtaz Uddin Monta,

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia wants consensus and solution of the prevailing political crisis through dialogues.A six-member delegation of Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal made the disclosure while talking to journalists after their meeting with Khaleda on

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia denied any chance of dialogue with the incumbent government as he termed it ‘unelected’.The senior leader of the party came up with the assertion while addressing a discussion organized by