DHAKA: Three members of a family were burned as some miscreants had thrown a petrol bomb in a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in city’s Mirpur area on Sunday evening. Moreover, a rickshaw-puller was injured as a cocktail blasted near Teacher-Student Center (TSC) intersection in Dhaka University

DHAKA: Hartal supporters set fire to a bus of the secretariat at city’s Paltan area on Sunday evening on the eve of 20-party’s Monday’s hartal. Sources told banglanews that the incident took place around 6:25pm in front of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) office. However, the bus

DHAKA: A court Sunday deferred the hearing of charge framing against 23 Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders and activists including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir until January 20 next year. They are accused of vandalism and arson. The court of Dhaka

DHAKA: Food minister Qamrul Islam warned the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) saying that all of the party’s leaders will be held if they create any violence during the upcoming hartal. The minister, in the Awami League (AL) extended meeting organized by its metropolitan

DHAKA: A court on Sunday placed Juba Dal president Moazzem Hossain Alal on 3-day remand in a case over Bakshibazar clash.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh passed the order around 3:00pm in response to 10-day remand plea sought by police Inspector (investigation)

HABIGANJ: At least 30 people, including Habiganj Sadar Thana Officer-in-Charge (OC), were injured in a clash held between local BNP men and police on Sunday.Sources told banglanews that the BNP men locked into the clash with the law enforcers following a district court sent the

DHAKA: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet the opposition leader Rowshan Ershad at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in city on Monday morning.Wang Yi arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a three-day visit at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterpart AH Mahmood Ali.The Chinese minister had

DHAKA: Chhatra Dal activist Kawser Hossain, 35, regained consciousness on Saturday after he had been critically injured in Bakshibazar clash on December 24 and undergoing treatment at a Mohakhali hospital.  Hospital sources said doctors will conduct a surgical operation of the activist

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday issued an arrest warrant against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in a defamation case filed for calling Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujubur Rahman a ‘Razakar’.Dhaka district Chhatra League assistant General secretary Abdul Aziz lodged the lawsuit with

JHENAIDAH: One killed and 15 others injured in a clash between two factions of Awami League over establishing supremacy in East Gopalpur village under Shailkupa Sunday.The deceased was identified as Abdul Kuddus, 55.BDST: 1243 HRS, DEC 28, 2014

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi condemned the arrest of Gayeshwar Chanda Roy and Moazzem Hossain Alal. In a press briefing at party’s Nayapaltan central office on Sunday morning, the BNP leader also demanded immediate non-conditional release of the detained top

RUPGANJ, NARAYANGANJ: Polling in the Rupganj union parishad (UP) elections is underway on Sunday some 11 years after the last polls amid tight security. The voting began at 8:00am and will continue till 4:00pm at a stretch. Sources concerned of election office said a total of 28,566

DHAKA: Police detained Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, president of BNP's youth wing Jubo Dal, from his residence at Lalmatia in the city Saturday night. In a joint drive, Detective Branch of police and Mohammadpur Thana picked up Alal around 11:30am and later took him to the thana. BNP

JESSORE: Law enforcers Saturday detained three BNP leaders on allegation of their involvement in subversive activities.The detainees are city BNP vice-president Ali Asgar, joint secretary Jabed Hossain and assistant secretary of ward no. 6 of Narendrapur Union BNP Abu

GAIBANDHA: BNP-led 20-party on Saturday called a half-day hartal in the district town for Sunday protesting the baton charge by police in a procession by district unit of 20-party alliance.Witnesses said district 20-party leaders and activists staged a demonstration as part of central

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led 20-party alliance called a dawn to dusk shutdown across the country on Monday.BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir confirmed the matter to banglanews after a meeting with the secretary generals of 20-party in city’s

DHAKA: A meeting of secretary-general level of 20-party alliance is scheduled to be held at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday evening.The meeting will begin at 5:00pm with BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam in the chair.The 20-party alliance include BNP,

DHAKA: Joint General Secretary of ruling Awami League (AL) Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said that Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia will not be allowed to hold rally anywhere in the country unless BNP leaders seek apology for their offensive remarks on Bangabandhu.

DHAKA:  Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan residence on Sunday night. BNP source confirmed the matter to banglanews.  Wang Yi is set to arrive in Dhaka on Saturday on a three-day visit at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterpart

GAZIPUR: The daylong hartal, called by BNP protesting the occupying of party’s rally place by Chhatra League and issuance of section 144 by local administration, is progressing in the district from Saturday morning.    Hartal supporters vandalized a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Borobari