DHAKA: The newly formed Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) central committee on Monday suspended three leaders of the rebel group.The suspended leaders are former JCD vice-president Abu Syed, former organizing secretary Anisur Rahman Talukder Khokon and incumbent

CHITTAGONG: Islami Chhatra Shibir President of Chittagong North unit was detained again on Monday.Sources told banglanews that the detainee, Kutubuddin Shibli, was held around 2:30pm from in front of Chittagong Central Jail just after he was freed.However, this time he was held by a

SHERPUR: Another sedition case has been filed against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for making derogatory remarks on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.District Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) president Monirul Islam Liton filed the lawsuit with the court of District Chief

DHAKA: A Dhaka court has deferred until December 15 the recording of deposition in the case against 147 BNP and 18-party men including BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and former chief whip Zainul Abedin Farroque over vandalism in front of BNP’s Naya Paltan central

DHAKA: Two rival groups of ruling Awami League (AL) locked into a clash centering sitting at a rally at city’s Bangabandhu Avenue on Monday afternoon.Sources said members of 56 Ward Awami League unit (Ramna) and the followers of Elias Uddin Molla of Mirpur locked into the clash.The

DHAKA: BNP acting general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday categorically said information minister Hasanul Haque Inu and his accomplices tried to oust the then Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman led government after liberation war.Fakhrul made the remarks while

GAZIPUR: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday categorically said that there would be no dialogue with BNP whose hands are colored with the blood of martyrs.The ruling Awami League lawmaker came up with the assertion while addressing a rally at Tongi on the occasion of 64th

DHAKA: The former president and Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad urged people to observe November 10 as ‘Democracy Day’.He made the assertion in a statement Sunday afternoon.According to the statement, Ershad, who is also a special envoy to the Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina, claimed

GAZIPUR: At least 30 people, including six bullet-hit, were injured in a clash between law enforcers and BNP men in the city on Sunday.The six bullet-hit injured are counselor Shirin Chaklader of Gazipur City Corporation, BNP activists Jahangir Alam, Yunus Mia, Rasheda Begum,

DHAKA: A legal notice was issued against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for making derogatory remarks over Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.The SC Bar Association former secretary and also Awami League central committee member Advocate Momtaz Uddin Ahmed Mehedi sent the

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has reached the make-shift court at Bakshi Bazar in the capital for hearing in Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases. Sources told banglanews that the BNP chief reached there around 11:00am following set out from her Gulshan residence

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before the make-shift court at Alia Madrasa ground in the city on Sunday morning in Zia Orphanage and Zia Charitable Trust cases. BNP chairperson’s media wing member Shamsuddin Didar confirmed the matter to banglanews. The BNP chief will

SYLHET: Bangladesh Nationalist Party announced its Sylhet city committee on Saturday making Dr Shariar Hossain and Badruzzan Selim as convener and member secretary respectively.BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the 33-member committee in the

SHERPUR (BOGRA): Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Saturday said BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman is enough for the debacle of his party.He was addressing a fresher reception program of Sherpur Town Club Public Library College in the district.The ruling Awami League lawmaker also

DHAKA: BNP called for a countrywide protest for Sunday as it did not get permission to hold rally at Suhrawardy Uddyan marking the ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’. Acting Secretary General of the party Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announcement from a press briefing

DHAKA: Awami League (AL) general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam termed BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman unwise and ignorant. He came up with the remark in reply to a query of the reporters at AL president Sheikh Hasina’s Dhanmondi political office on Friday. Sheikh Hasina

BOGRA: Law enforcers, in separate drives in different upazilas from Thursday night to early Friday, arrested 18 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir in arson and vandalism cases. Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police of the district Ujjal Kumar Roy disclosed

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League secretary of publicity and publication Affairs Hasan Mahmood on Friday termed BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman as a precocious boy and coward.Hasan Mahmood made the assertion in a press conference arranged at AL office at Dhanmondi protesting

RANGPUR: Law enforcers, in ongoing drives, arrested 1,200 people from the eights districts of the division sometimes between Monday evening and Thursday to prevent anarchy.Of the arrestees, around three hundred people are leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has chalked out 10-day long programs marking ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’ that falls on November 7.BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Ahmed Rizvi announced the program schedule at party headquarters in city’s Nayapaltan