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

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said the nation is passing critical time as people do not have basic rights, democracy, franchise and freedom of speechThe spokesperson for the party came up with the assertion

DHAKA: The government is satisfied with the death sentence awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 to Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami for his crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Haque

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will hold a mass rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on November 8 marking ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’.The decision came after a meeting of Dhaka city BNP leaders at its central office in city’s Nayapaltan area on Wednesday.Mirza Abbas,

DHAKA: Motiur Rahman Nizami’s lawyer Tajul Islam said the Supreme Court appellate division will rule out the tribunal verdict in the war crimes case against the Jamaat-e-Islami chief.Tajul made an instant reaction to the media at tribunal premises immediately after International

DHAKA: Police in overnight derives detained a total of 155 people in Pabna and Satkhira districts to prevent atrocity centering the verdict in war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami. Our Pabna Correspondent reports police in special drives detained a total of

DHAKA: Jamaat-Shibir men blasted cocktails, protesting the death penalty of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Nizami in city’s Rampura area on Wednesday. The incident took place in the area at 1:25pm. Earlier in the day, ICT-1 chairman Justice M Enayetur Rahim awarded Nizami death sentence for

DHAKA: Miscreants chopped SM Yasir, member secretary of Rangpur city unit of Jatiya Party, in front of his home in the city early Wednesday. City unit convener Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa alleged that supporters of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives state minister Mashiur

SATKHIRA: Police in overnight drives detained a total of 49 people including 13 men of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wing Islami Chhattra Shibir across the district Tuesday. District superintendent of police (SP) Syed Modasser Ali confirmed the matter to banglanews. The

PABNA: Police in special drives detained a total of 67 people including 10 men of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wing Islami Chhattra Shibir across the district Tuesday.District superintendent of police (SP) Miraz Uddin Ahmed confirmed the matter to banglanews.The SP said, they

DHAKA: Indicating the incumbent government, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claimed that evil forces grab the country.The senior BNP leader came up with the observation while addressing a discussion titled “October 28 tragedy,

DHAKA: Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury left for India on Tuesday to join a three-day long workshop in India’s Chandigar.She is visiting India with the parliamentary delegation for the first time after being elected as chairperson of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

BHOLA: Law enforcers on Tuesday detained two Shibir men, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, while pasting posters and distributing anti-government leaflets in Daulatkhan.The detainees are upazila unit Shibir President Anwar Hossain, 28, son of Abdul Khaleque, of Charshuvi village and

DHAKA: State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Tuesday said former posts, telecommunications and information technology minister Abdul Latif Siddique would be arrested soon after he returns home.The home minister was talking to journalists at the secretariat in the

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) standing committee member Brigadier General (retd) ASM Hannan Shah on Tuesday alleged that a vested quarter in India has been conspiring against Bangladesh and its leaders.He made the allegation while addressing a human chain formed by

DHAKA: Bangladesh holds its head high as a ‘highly respected member’ of the world community for the achievement of incumbent government, said Sazeeb Wajed Joy on Tuesday. Joy, the son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said different countries and nations have come up with

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 fixed Wednesday for pronouncing its verdict in war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami. ICT-1 Chairman Justice M Enayetur Rahim will lead the three-member tribunal. The other two members are Justice Anwarul Haque and