SIRAJGANJ: Jamaat-e-Islami called dawn-to-dusk hartal for Wednesday in the district protesting the death of its leader who sustained bullet injuries during Sunday’s police drive at Bakua village in Ullahpara upazila.Jamaat Sirajganj district unit secretary Zahidul Islam confirmed

DHAKA: A murder case was filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and three other leaders on Monday morning for instigating murder.The BNP leaders are BNP chairperson’s adviser Dr Emaz Uddin Ahmed, vice chairman Shamser Mubin Chowdhury and standing committee member Rafiqul Islam

DHAKA: A murder case is going to be filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and three other leaders on Monday for instigating murder.The BNP leaders are BNP chairperson’s adviser Dr Emaz Uddin Ahmed, vice chairman Shamser Mubin Chowdhury and standing committee member Rafiqul

DHAKA: A meeting of the ruling Awami League’s Central Working Committee (ALCWC) has been scheduled to be held on Friday evening.The meeting, however, will be held at Ganobhaban, Prime Minister’s official residence, in the city around 7:00pm with AL chief Sheikh Hasina in the

DHAKA: Police shot a Jubo Dal leader while he was fleeing after torching a bus in New Marker area of the city Sunday night.The injured Abdur Razzak, 25, is identified as organizing secretary of BNP’s youth wing in Dhaka South City Corporation word no 18.New Market Thana Assistant

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of police detained BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Mosaddek Ali Falu Sunday night.Sources told banglanews that the law enforcers held him around 7:45pm from the BNP chief’s Gulshan office gate in the capital.He has been taken away to DB police office,

DHAKA: BNP threatened the government of nonstop hartal if phone, cable TV and internet connections of Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office are not restored immediately.A press release signed by party’s joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed made the forewarning on Sunday

FENI: Police in a drive on Sunday detained 12 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student affiliate of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, along with bomb-making materials. Among the detainees, four are examinees of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations, set to begin from February

DHAKA: Food Minister Advocate Qamrul Islam on Sunday claimed that BNP-enforced nationwide road-water-railway blockade, which lacks people’s support, is based on outsourcing.The acts of sabotage during hartal-blockade were being carried out hiring people from outside the party, he

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday placed BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on a 3-day remand in a case filed for vandalism, attempt to murder and arson attack. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir Raj passed the order after Sub-Inspector (SI) Mosharraf Hossain

DHAKA: The first day of the 72-hour hartal, called by BNP led 20-party alliance, is being marked on Sunday across the country amid stray incidents of blasts, vandalism and arson attacks, supplemented by nonstop blockade. The alliance called the shutdown protesting threats by ruling Awami

BRAHMANBARIA: Leaders and activists of BNP locked into a clash with police after a cocktail was hurled at Subarna Express Train on Sunday noon.Witnesses said BNP men hurled the cocktail, but none was hurt as all doors and windows of the train were closed.On information police rushed to

DHAKA: Two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, were caught red-handed while they attempted to set fire to vehicles in city’s Mirpur area.The incident took place at 8:00am on Sunday.Witnesses Alamgir Hossain and Sohrab Mia said that a group of

FENI: Pickets set fire to two vehicles and vandalized 10 more in the district town on Sunday morning, first day of the BNP-led 20-party alliance-enforced countrywide 72-hour hartal.Witnesses said that a group of the alliance supporters brought out a brisk procession on Trunk Road of the

DHAKA:  Law enforcers, in separate drives, detained at least 346 people, including 124 leaders-activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, in the capital and 10 districts across the country apprehending subversive activities during nationwide hartal.  In capital, police, in a 24-hour drive,

DHAKA: Police in a daylong drive detained 32 leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in the city in accusation of creating violence. The detainees include BNP cultural wing Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (JASAS) joint secretary. Dhaka Metropolitan Police

MEHERPUR: Miscreants exploded four hand-made bombs at the neighboring houses of two leaders of BNP and its major ally Jamaat-e-Islami at Jorapukuria village under Gangni upazila of the district early Saturday. The explosion occurred around 2:00am at the houses of BNP leaders Tagar Ali

DHAKA: First day of the 72-hour hartal, called by BNP led 20-party alliance, is being marked on Sunday across the country protesting threats by ruling Awami League leaders to arrest BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and uproot her Gulshan political office. The fresh program of hartal started

COMILLA: Two passenger buses were torched by hartal-blockade supporters in Syedpur area under Burichong upazila of the district on early Sunday.Locals said that the hartal and blockade supporters set fire to two passenger buses in the area around 12:30am.The anarchists also blasted

SAVAR (DHAKA): At least 20 people were injured while two received burn injuries as hartal supporters torched a passenger bus in Ulail in Savar on Saturday night.The passengers of the bus said that a group of blockaders and hartal supporters set fire to the bus, Bikash Paribahan, in