DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Wednesday categorically said they would bring the people who are involved in abduction and killing across the country under trials like Nuremberg.The BNP leader made the forewarning through a statement issued at noon on behalf of

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party has called daylong hartal for Thursday in Dhaka and eight other districts protesting case against Khaleda Zia and remand order against acting secretary general of the party Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.The other districts are Gazipur, Narayanganj, Munshiganj,

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami leaders’ lawyer advocate Tajul islam Wednesday apologized unconditionally before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 for making adverse comment over its judgment.Supreme Court Lawyers’ Association general secretary Barrister Badruddoza Badal and Advocate Ruhul

GAZIPUR: Police nabbed 25 persons in nightlong drives conducted in different parts of Gazipur.However, a Jamaat-e-Islami called dawn-to-dusk hartal, demanding the release of its leaders and activists, is underway on Wednesday in the district.Joydebpur Thana duty officer Sub-Inspector

DHAKA: The nationwide blockade of roads, railway and waterways for an indefinite period enforced BNP-led 20-party alliance has entered the 23rd straight day on Wednesday amid stray incidents of sabotages.The alliance has been observing the blockade since BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia,

GAZIPUR: Law enforcers detained 14 people, indulging district unit Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami of Gazipur Abul Hashem Khan and city Finance Secretary Mohammad Nasrullah with petrol bombs, on Tuesday. Police sources said some 14 leaders and activists of BNP led 20-party alliance, including

RANGPUR: The city Jamaat-e-Islami called 48-hour hartal in eight districts of the division from Wednesday protesting the forced disappearance of three Jamaat-e-Islami men, including Mithapukur upazila Ameer.Jamaat metropolitan unit publicity and office secretary Rabiul Islam Tuesday

COMILLA: District BNP called 36-hour hartal from Wednesday in the district protesting the case against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on charges of instigating sabotage in Chauddagram upazila.District BNP general secretary Haji Amin-ur-Rashid Yasin confirmed the matter to banglanews on

DHAKA: Police nabbed 31 alleged anarchists from different places of the city in drives conducted from Monday to Tuesday noon.Sources said the law enforcers led a special drive in the several areas and detained 31 people on charge of creating violence in city during blockade and

SYLHET: BNP-led 20-party alliance called daylong hartal for Wednesday in Sylhet division protesting the case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.Sylhet Metropolitan BNP convener committee member Imran Ahmed Chowdhury confirmed the matter to banglanews on Tuesday.He said the

GAIBANDHA: A Gaibandha court on Tuesday sent 24 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami on charge of creating anarchic situation.However, joint forces, in a special drive, detained the BNP-Jamaat men from different places of the district from Monday night to Tuesday

CHITTAGONG: ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury MP, Chairman, Standing Committee on Railway Ministry, was elected as the vice president of Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians of Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva of Switzerland for three years.He was elected in the four-day

RAJSHAHI: Islami Chhatra Shibir has called 48-hour hartal from 6:00am Wednesday in Rajshahi division after one of their activists killed in road crash when tried to flee from custody of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).The hartal announcement was made on Tuesday noon through a press after an

HOBIGANJ: Police detained 51 in nightlong special drives in nine thanas in Habiganj on Tuesday.Assistant Police Superintendent (Habiganj Sadar) Masudur Rahman Monir told banglanews that 16 of the detainees were wanted in several cases.The rest 35 were accused of different regular cases,

BRAHMANBARIA: Police detained 107 people, including 13 activists of Bangladesh Nationalists Party (BNP) and its major ally Jamaat-e-Islami, across the district during nightlong drive from Monday evening to Tuesday morning.Of the detainees, the BNP-Jamaat men were shown arrested in

SYLHET: Law enforcers, in a drive, detained six Chhatra Shibir leaders with 2,000 books on extremist ideas from Sadar upazila of the district in the wee hours of Tuesday.The detainees are Fatehpur Madrasa Shibir president M Shakib Ahmed, and sadar upazila unit office secretary Minhaj

DHAKA: Another case has been filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia bringing allegation of instigating sabotage in Comilla.Chauddogram Thana Sub-Inspector Nuruzzaman Hawlader filed the case over torching a covered van in Hyderpool area Monday.Officer-in-Charge of the Thana Uttam Kumar

RAJSHAHI: Law enforcers on Monday arrested three BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists, including Charghat upazila unit Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Nazmul Haque Kochi, who is also the vice chairman of the upazila.Kochi was arrested from his Holidagachhi village residence at the

RAJSHAHI: BNP called 24-hour hartal in Rajshahi division from Wednesday protesting the case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and the arrests of other BNP leaders.BNP Rajshahi division unit organizing secretary Harun-or-Rashid confirmed the matter to banglanews on Monday noon.

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Monday forewarned BNP-led 20-party saying it would be very dangerous if they cross the limit.He also asked the oppositions to remember it while conducting violence in the name of staging anti-government movements.The minister made the assertions