DHAKA: Miscreants torched another passenger bus in city’s Mirpur area on Monday night.Fire Service sources said that the hartal-blockaders set fire to a passenger bus in the area around 7:45pm.On information, two fire fighting units rushed in and doused the blaze.No one was reportedly

DHAKA: Miscreants set fire to a passenger bus in front of DESCO office in Gulshan-1 area of the city Monday evening.Fire Service duty officer Nilufar Yeasmin told banglanews that the miscreants set fire to the bus around 7:40pm.“On information, two fire fighting units were sent,” she

JHENIDAH: BNP district unit called a daylong hartal (shutdown) for Wednesday protesting arson attack at the party office, filing ‘fake’ cases against party-people, arresting them and police raids at their houses.The district general secretary Abdul Malek made the announcement

COMILLA: Detective Branch (DB) of Police on Monday detained Nayeb-e-Ameer of the city unit Jamaat-e-Islami Aminul Haque.He was held from the Tomchhom Bridge area in the town around 5:00pm.Officer-in-Charge of Comilla DB police Manjur Alam confirmed the matter to banglanews.BDST: 1938 HRS,

CHITTAGONG: Miscreants hurled a cocktail at Chittagong court building on Monday amid the ongoing 72-hour nationwide hartal and indefinite blockade.However, no one was injured in the incident.Sources told banglanews that the cocktail was blasted around 3:30pm outside of bar council

DHAKA: Religious affairs minister Matiur Rahman on Monday donated Tk 12,500 to each of thirty-four burn victims, who sustained injuries during the ongoing blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance.Sources said the minister handed over the money to the injured at the burn unit of

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday granted five-day remand to Mosaddek Ali Falu, adviser to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, in an attempt to murder case by arson attack on a passenger bus in the city.Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque passed the remand order in the afternoon when

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday placed Shamsuzzamna Dudu, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser, on a four-day fresh remand  in a case filed for hurling cocktails aiming at a passenger bus in Mirpur of the city. Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman passed the remand order after

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday asked Gulshan Thana police to investigate the case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and three other leaders for instigating murder of 42 people by arson attacks. Metropolitan magistrate Atikur Rahman recorded the statement of AB Siddique, plaintiff

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