DHAKA: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) quizzed BNP Vice-Chairman M Morshed Khan, also former foreign minister, on Tuesday in a money laundering case. Confirming the matter, ACC Deputy Director Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya (public relations), told banglanews that the interrogation started

JESSORE: Miscreants strangled a BNP activist to death in Ghop Central Road Bi-lane area of the district town on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Hye, 32, a local BNP activist, son of Abul Hossain of the area. Jessore Kotwali Thana Officer-In-Charge Inamul Haque told

DHAKA: Alleging that there is no independence of judiciary in the country, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday night said the power to impeach justices is being taken over by the Jatiya Sangsad to take the whole judiciary under government control.She made the allegation while

NATORE: A Natore court on Monday sent 72 BNP leaders and activists, including Baraigram upazila BNP president Sajedur Rahman, to jail in four cases.Chief Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Liakat Ali Mollah passed the order.Court sources said the accused were charged for looting and

DHAKA UNIVERSITY: Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) became imbalanced after they lost power.The communication minister made the observation while addressing a program marking the 39th death anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh

DHAKA: BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said ruling Awami League is grabbing the authority to impeach judges rather than giving the right to the Jatiya Sangsad.“The parliament is being given the authority to impeach judges but the incumbent

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (JP) has submitted its annual financial statement to the Election Commission (EC) for the 2013 calendar year.According the report, JP earned Tk 3.37 crore and spent Tk 2.82 crore during the period.Senior Joint General Secretary Rezaul Islam Bhuiyan handed over the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday placed on 14-day fresh remand central executive member of Jamaat-e-Islami Dr Shafiqul Islam Masud, also former president of Chhatra Shibir.Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan and Rezaul Karim passed the remand order after the hearing in six

PABNA: A local Juba League leader was strangulated to death by miscreants in Kathgara area of Sharatganj under Chatmohar Upazila of the district on Monday morning.The deceased was identified as Asit Kumar Bhadra, 48, assistant secretary of Juba League’s relief affairs of the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court has framed charge against Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Amanullah Aman and 13 others in vehicle vandalism case filed with Airport Thana in city.Metropolitan magistrate Hasibul Haque passed the indictment order after the hearing on Monday.They are

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday framed charge against 147 leader-activists of 18-party, including BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and former opposition chief whip Zainul Abdin Farroque, over vandalism in front of BNP central office.Magistrate Tarek Mainul Islam of Dhaka

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party is going to stage demonstrations on Tuesday and Wednesday protesting the restoration parliament's authority to impeach Supreme Court judges for irregularities.BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi declared the programme in a press conference in city’s

LONDON: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman termed Awami League as a ‘black sheep’ party.The leader made the comment while addressing a professionals’ meeting titled ‘Strategy for Prosperous Bangladesh’ in East London’s Queen Mary

FENI: A local Awami League office, located near to Shanti Company Intersection of the town, was vandalised by the party men over occupying government land on Sunday night.Didarul Alam, Feni, a leader of Juba League, youth wing of AL, told banglanews that supporter of AL faction of

DHAKA: After the vote counting in the by-elections to 18 Union Parishads (UPs) across the country Awami League supported candidates won in 10 seats and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) backed candidates won in 2 seats.  AL supported candidate those won are Krishnakanto Bidur in Vadai

DHAKA: Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Sunday said the trial of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman would be held in this land shortly for his alleged involvement in August 21 grenade attack. He also said former president and also BNP founder Ziaur Rahman was responsible for the

DHAKA: Taking the charges of war crimes into cognizance, International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 has asked Syed M Hasan Ali alias Hasan Ali to surrender before it.   A three-member tribunal led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim passed the order on Sunday. The court asked to issue a notice

DHAKA: Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Sunday categorically said the conspiracy against country’s independence is still going on. “The people who did not accept independence of the country, they are still conspiring against the

DHAKA: Counting in the by-elections to 18 Union Parishads (UPs) across the country underway from Sunday afternoon as voting ended peacefully.  Banglanews local correspondents report that the polls, started from 8:00am, continued till to 4:00pm without any break. Sources told us that

Dhaka: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir categorically said that Awami league did not cooperate during the investigation of August 21st grenade attack. He came up with the allegation in a press briefing at party’s central office at Nayapaltan in the capital on