DHAKA: The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) quizzed BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas, also Dhaka city BNP convener, for his alleged involvement over allocation of a land by Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (RAZUK).ACC Deputy Director Jatan Kumar Roy started quizzing him from

DHAKA: Outgoing France ambassador to Bangladesh Michel Trinquier will meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday night.The meeting will be held at 8:00pm on the day at BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan political office.Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan Office sources confirmed the matter to banglanews.

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred the charge framing hearing against 67 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) till November 5 in the cases of vandalizing and torching vehicles.Among the accused, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday sent Abdur Rahman Bodi, elected from Cox's Bazar-4 constituency, to jail on the charge of alleged involvement in attaining illegal assets.  Metropolitan Magistrate Maruf Hossain of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court passed the order after the bail

DHAKA: A 5-member delegation of Dubai BNP unit met party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night. Sources said that in an hour-long meeting, started from 9:30pm at Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan residence in city, the Dubai BNP leaders highlighted on various activities of the party in United

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is scheduled to appear before the court on Sunday morning in a case filed for vehicle vandalism and obstruction of discharging police duties.  He will appear before speedy trial tribunal around 10:30am.  BNP Media Wing

DHAKA: Outgoing Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi Qureshi is set to meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday. The meeting would be held at 8:00pm on the day at BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan political office, said a competent source from the party. Khaleda

DHAKA: The physical condition of former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam, who is serving 90-year imprisonment for war crimes, remained unchanged till Saturday noon. He was been shifted to the coronary care unit (CCU) of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in city on

DHAKA: Krishak Shramik Janata League (KSJL) president Kader Siddique on Saturday apologized for his elder brother Post and Telecommunications Minister Abdul Latif Siddique’s derogatory remarks over hajj and Tablig Jamaat.Kader Siddique came up with the apology at a press conference

DHAKA: The Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) will hold a meeting at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's official residence Gano Bhaban on Sunday evening.The premier will preside over the meeting at 6:30pm.AL general secretary, also Local Government and Rural Development

SAVAR (DHAKA): Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said the fate of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddique for his derogatory remarks on hajj and Tablighi Jamaat will be decided on Sunday.The minister was talking to

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday warned of waging tough movement in case the government is not wake up on time.The BNP leader came up with the warning when addressing a program titled “24th Memorial Discussion of Historic Martyr Day” at

CHITTAGONG: BNP has called a dawn-to-dusk shutdown in Mirsarai upazila for Sunday protesting killing of upazila Chhatra Dal convener Adil Mahmud. The BNP leaders and activists also staged demonstration and demanded arrest and penalty of the killers of Adil.Convener of Mirsarai upazila

DHAKA: Awami League secretary of publicity and publication Hasan Mahmood on Friday alleged that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is solely responsible for her party’s current ‘vulnerable condition’.He came up with the observation while addressing a seminar arranged by Swadhinota

FROM MEDINA INTERCONTINENTAL: Terming himself as neutral, President Advocate Abdul Hamid said I always think for the 16 crore people of Bangladesh.He urged the expatriates to send money and contribute the development of Bangladesh by setting up factories.The president came up with this

MIRSHARAI (CHITTAGONG): Miscreants killed the convener of Mirsharai upazila unit Chhatra Dal at Bhorer Bazar area under Shaherkhali union in the upazila of the district on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Adil Mahmood, 25. Shaherkhali union parisad chairman Mostafa

KURIGRAM: BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi commented that the government is surviving on speeches and statements.He made the remark at his residence in Sardar Para of Kurigram on Thursday.The BNP leader said that the ministers and MPs of the incumbent government are doing

KHAGRACHHARI: Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader assured that all points of Chittagong Hill Tracks (CHT) peace agreement will be implemented during the incumbent government tenure.The minister came up with this assertion while inaugurating three bridges which cost Tk

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir commented that government has made a mistake by not giving state-honor to the Language Movement hero late Abdul Matin. He came up with this assertion in reply to a query from a journalist on

RAMU (COX’S BAZAR):  Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor on Wednesday said there is no place for communalism in Bangladesh.  The minister came up with the assertion while addressing the Probarona Purnima Festival on Ramu Khiri Ideal High School ground of the upazila as the