DHAKA: BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday alleged that incumbent Awami League government is trying to kill his party’s Chairperson Khaleda Zia.Rizvi, who is now undergoing treatment at city’s Apollo Hospitals, was talking to banglanews over telephone in the

NARAYANGANJ: At least 10 BNP leaders and activists, including district unit president of the party Advocate Taimur Alam Khandaker, sustained injury as they locked into chase and counter-chase with law enforcers Tuesday morning.During the clash, Police detained five people, said a spot

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is confined at her Gulshan political office for the third consecutive day on Tuesday as law enforcers kept the exit gate locked up.She failed to come out of her office after trying reiteratedly on Monday afternoon. During the time, she fell sick as

DHAKA: Leaders and activists of ruling Awami League (AL) and its front organization have taken position on the city streets on Tuesday in a bid to resist the countrywide blockade program of BNP.On Monday night, AL issued a press release, signed by its office secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan

CHITTAGONG: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Monday called day-long hartal in the port city for Tuesday in protest of the arrest of district (North) convener and vice president of district (South) with other leaders and activists.Chittagong Metropolitan Unit, Jubo Dal and North

DHAKA: Doctors have entered BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office in the capital with Oxygen cylinder after Khaleda Zia fell sick Monday night. Sources told banglanews that Dr Fawaz Shuvo, who has brought the Oxygen cylinder with him, entered BNP chief’s Gulshan political office around

DHAKA: Doctors have entered BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office in the capital with Oxygen cylinder after Khaleda Zia fell sick Monday night. Sources told banglanews that Dr Fawaz Shuvo, who has brought the Oxygen cylinder with him, entered BNP chief’s Gulshan political office around

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) and its front organizations will arrange peaceful programs across the country as a protest of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) called nationwide indefinite blockade program.Road Transport and Bridges Minister and also AL presidium member Obaidul

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has fallen sick on Monday evening after she was barred to go out of office.  A medical team led by her private physician Dr Shamim entered into her Gulshan political office to give her treatment at 7:30pm. Confirming the matter to banglanews, her

CHITTAGONG: Police held 70 more activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami in the port city Chittagong on Monday following clashes. The detainees include Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chittagong unit president Aslam Chowdhury and Chittagong district (south)

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi district BNP called a daylong hartal for Tuesday in the district in protest against killing a party-man on Monday.Office Secretary of the district BNP made announcement of the hartal in the evening.Earlier in the day, a man named Moziruddin, 45, was killed in a clash

CHITTAGONG: Police foiled the pre-scheduled rally of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the port city on Monday.Police opened fire bullets and teargas shells to disperse the leaders and activists of the party following clashes at 4:00pm in front of BNP office in the port city.The

DHAKA: A man was killed in a clash between BNP activists and police personnel in Baleshswar area under Putia upazila of the district on Monday afternoon.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. But he might be an activist of BNP, said a spot account of the

DHAKA: Activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir attacked a policeman from a rally in city’s Fakirapool area on Monday. They also blasted cocktails and set two motorcycles on fire. However, police opened fire teargas shells to disperse activists and detained six activists. Witness said that

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday called blockade program across the country to press home their demand.“The blockade program across the country will continue,” she said while talking to journalists at her political office at Gulshan in the city on Monday afternoon.She

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said they should break the ‘prison’ uttering national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s verse ‘boot and break the locks of all prisons’.The BNP leader said at a program, arranged by several

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to move out from her Gulshan political office for attending rally in the capital Monday.Detective Branch (DB) of Police locked the all the gates of the BNP chairperson’s political office.Khaleda Zia is now sitting at her private car in front

DHAKA: Law enforcement agencies in overnight drives detained 416 people from 12 different districts across the country on Monday to avoid possible sabotage ahead of BNP’s Monday rally.Most of the detainees are leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its key

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League and its front organizations brought out procession and staged sit-in demonstration on streets of the city marking January 5.After visiting some areas of the city, the banglanews team reported that AL, Swechhasebak League, Juba League, Chhatra League and

DHAKA: State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday said Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia is free to move anywhere in spite of having tight security.“It depends on her (Khaleda) whether she will move or not. But she must be aware about the