NATORE: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit the district on Saturday to address a mass rally.  She is expected to reach the rally venue at Nawab Siraj-Ud-Daulah Government College ground around 3:00am, said party sources. Leaders and activists of the BNP and allies are in a cheerful

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami is likely to announce another spell of two-day countrywide hartal for Wednesday and Thursday, if the verdict of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in the war crimes case against its leader Mir Quasem Ali goes against him. The party has taken the decision on hartal

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami is likely to announce another spell of two-day countrywide hartal for Wednesday and Thursday, if the verdict of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in the war crimes case against its leader Mir Quasem Ali goes against him. The party has taken the decision on hartal

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami marked the 1st phase of three-day hartal across the country amid stray incidents of picketing, beginning from 6:00am Thursday to 6:00am Friday. Leaders and activists of Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chhattra Shibir brought out processions in Rampura and Chawk

DHAKA: Incumbent Awami League on Thursday sent a letter of expulsion of former minister Abdul Latif Siddique from the party to his permanent address.Office Secretary of the party Abdus Sobhan Golap confirmed the matter to banglanews.On October 24, former Posts, Telecommunication and

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted some cocktails in city’s Paltan area during hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday.Witnesses said some miscreants blasted 10-12 cocktails near the National Mosque Baitul Mukarram and Paltan intersection in the evening.On information, police rushed to

DHAKA: A joint meeting of BNP will be held at Nayapaltan central office of the city on Friday.BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will preside over the meeting.Joint secretary general, organizing secretary and president and general secretaries of the front and associate

DHAKA: Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Shibir torched a passenger bus during hartal hours in city’s Kadamtali area on Thursday noon.Police sources said a group of Jamaat-Shibir men brought out a sudden procession in the area and torched a passenger bus.Two passengers

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith has termed the movement of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia “just bogus”.“The speech of Khaleda Zia will be continuing and her movements are just bogus,” he said.The minister came up with the observation in response to

GAIBANDHA: Pickets vandalized 11 vehicles at Polashbari upazila in the district during hartal hours on Thursday.They also blockaded Rangpur-Dhaka highway and vandalized 10 trucks and a passenger bus around 9:00am.They also brought out procession in support of hartal in the area.The law

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday denied bail plea of Jubo Dal president Moazzem Hossain Alal and five other leaders and activists of BNP and its front organizations, in a case filed under the Special Powers Act.The five other accused include Saidur Rahman, M Jahangir, Kamrul Islam, Abul

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday issued arrest warrant against recently sacked posts, telecommunications and ICT minister Abdul Lafit Siddique for his derogatory remarks on hajj and Tabligh Jamaat.Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Yunus Khan passed the order on Thursday.On September 28,

DHAKA: Six activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, were detained with petrol bombs from Monipur area of Mirpur in the city on Thursday.The detainees are Ajgar Hamid, 22, Iqbal Hossain, 21, Mehedi Hasan, 23, Abu Nayeem, 25, Akash Mahmud, 24 and

DHAKA: The government will make a new list of ‘Razakars’, and anti-liberation forces, who were the members of the paramilitary force organized by the Pakistan Army in the then East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel

DHAKA: Stray incidents of vandalism and cocktail explosions in capital marked the morning of first phase of Jamaat-e-Islami’s three-day hartal, which is underway across the country Thursday protesting death penalty to the party chief Matiur Rahman Nizami.  The Jamaat men along with

BOGRA: Police in special drives arrested a total of 87 people, including 15 men of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wing Islami Chhattra Shibir, across the district in 24 hours from Wednesday morning. All arrestees are accused in different cases related to carry out vandalism and

DHAKA: The 1st phase of three-day hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami, is progressing across the country amid stray incidents of picketing. It began from 6:00am on Thursday. In Dhaka, the activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhattra Shibir torched a passenger bus

RAJSHAHI: Police detained Rajshahi city Jamaat Ameer Maolana Ataur Rahman among 26 early Thursday on charges of planning sabotage in hartal. Confirming the matter, Officer-in-Charge of Motihar Thana Alamgir Hossain said, “We had information that Ataur Rahman and five others were

DHAKA: Cocktails were blasted in front of a CNG Filling Station in Pallabi Thana area in city during countrywide hartal on Thursday protesting the death penalty of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Nizami. Police said that children hurled two cocktails in the area around 8:00am.  Confirming the

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ruling Awami League president, will address a press conference on Thursday about the outcomes of her recent visit in United Arab Emirates (UAE).Confirming the matter, PM’s press wing said the press conference will be held around 4:30pm at