DHAKA: Law enforcers detained Dr Rezaul Karim, Ameer of Ramna Thana unit Jamaat-e-Islami, in the city on Saturday evening.Police held him from his Malibagh Chowdhury Para residence around 7:00pm.A competent source of police confirmed the matter to banglanews.BDST: 1955 HRS, JAN 17, 2015

FENI: The daylong hartal, called by BNP-led 20-party, was observed loosely in Chhagalnaiya upazila of the district on Saturday.However, no pickets were seen; no procession also was reported to be brought out in the upazila in support of the strike.Law enforcers were seen alert in Zero

NARAYANGANJ: Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan alleged that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is involved in the conspiracy of killing Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ruling Awami League president.He made the allegation Saturday noon while addressing the handover ceremony of a

DHAKA: Food Minister and also Dhaka city Awami League joint general secretary Quamrul Islam said that no more chance will be given to BNP to create violence in the name of rally as a religious group Hefajat-e-Islam did it earlier.He came up with the assertion in a discussion in

SATKHIRA: Police detained 38 people, including 19 BNP-Jamaat men, on suspicion of subversive activities in Satkhira.A press release from Special Branch of Police of the district informed the media on Saturday.Confirming the matter, district police information officer also Sub-Inspector

DHAKA: Local units of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) separately called daylong hartal in Noakhali and Rajbari districts respectively for Sunday and Monday.The shutdown, however, will be enforced in the districts protesting the confinement of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to her

DHAKA: Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain along with an eight-member delegation on Saturday left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia.He will hold separate bilateral meetings with the ministers of labour and health, crown prince and with the

KHULNA: Police detained 21 persons including three of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir in Khulna Metropolitan City of the district. They were held in several drives conducted from Friday evening to Saturday morning across the city. Police said that 18 of them were arrested in regular cases while

DHAKA: An armored personnel carrier (APC) has been deployed again in front of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan political office on the city Friday night. The APC took position on the southern end of Road No. 86 at 11:00pm Friday. Gulshan Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) Joynal Abedin

KHULNA: Police detained a district level leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student’s wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, and his associate with a shutter gun, three hand-made bombs and two rounds of bullets in Koyra upazila on Friday night. The detainees are Ayub Ali Mollah, president of

DHAKA: Former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Professor Dr Emajuddin Ahmed urged the government and BNP to sit together for a dialogue before Bangladesh turns into a failed state.He was addressing a roundtable at the VIP lounge of National Press Club in city on Friday.Dr Emajuddin

DHAKA: The 20-party alliance led by BNP announced to enforce a 36-hour hartal from Sunday in eight districts of Rajshahi and 12-hour in Barisal division.In Rajshahi, the alliance called the hartal protesting the killing of a Chhatra Dal leader in Capainawabganj early Friday in a

COMILLA: The BNP led 20-party alliance of the district called hartal for Sunday on protest of Chhatra League and Juba League men’s attack in a peaceful procession of the alliance and case filed against the alliance men. The hartal declaration came from a press conference in district

RANGPUR: The district unit of BNP-led 20-party alliance called dawn to dusk hartal in the district protesting the confinement of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and arrest of BNP leaders including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.Metropolitan BNP president Mozaffar

DHAKA: Awami League Advisory Council member Suranjit Sengupta said that the ongoing ant-government movement of BNP would fail miserably within a week.He came up with the assertion in a discussion at the auditorium of Institute of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB) on Friday

DHAKA: Awami League (AL) Publicity and Publication Affairs Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud said killing people by burning and exploding cocktail-petrol bomb in the name of hartal and blocked can not be called politics for the people.The AL leader came up with the remarks while talking to

DHAKA: A court on Friday placed Bangladesh Labour Party chairman Dr Mostafizur Rahman Iran on a-day remand in a case of vandalism and arson attacks. The court of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim passed the order at noon in response to a seven-day remand plea filed by

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Local BNP called dawn-to-dusk hartal for Sunday and Monday protesting the killing of a Chhatra Dal leader during a ‘gunfight’ with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) early Friday. District BNP unit president Professor M Shahjahan Ali Mian confirmed the matter to banglanews

COMILLA: A total of 78 leaders and activists of the district south unit of BNP and its associate bodies has been sued on charge of attacking a police constable in the wee hours of Friday.District Detective Branch (DB) Sub-Inspector (SI) Adil Mahmud filed the lawsuit with Kotwali Thana

NOAKHALI: An activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student affiliate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has been shot dead here at Sonaimuri Thursday night.The deceased was identified as Morshed Alam Parvej, 25, son of Alamgir Hossain, residing in Hasanpur village under