DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir complained that the country is heading to a single party politics. The BNP leader said while speaking at a roundtable on the newly enacted broadcast policy at National Press Club in city on

DHAKA: Four births take place every second across the world. Also, almost two people die every second. The number of per day birth is 360,000 while for death figure it is 151,600. So, the birthday of a person falls on the same day of death anniversary of hundreds of thousands of people.

DHAKA: The 20-party alliance got verbal permission from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) authority for organizing a demonstration with black flag on Saturday, protesting Israel’s mass killing at Gaza. Shairul Kabir Khan, media officer of BNP chairperson’s political office,

DHAKA: State minister for Homes affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Friday categorically said the verdicts of Bangabandhu murder case will be executed by bringing back the convicts from foreign lands.   He made the remarks while addressing a Doa Mahfil and discussion meeting, arranged by

DHAKA: Dhaka City unit BNP convener Mirza Abbas and Member Secretary Habib Un Nabi Khan Sohail failed to turn up at the party office at Naya Paltan for celebrating Chairperson Khaleda Zia's 69th birthday party on Friday morning.Apart from several middle row leaders, who left without

SATKHIRA: Law enforcers on Friday arrested general secretary of Kaliganj upazila unit Chhatra Shibir of the district.   Aminur Rahman, 23, was arrested from Fultala intersection area of the upazila around 2:00pm.   Assistant Superintendent of Police of Kaliganj Circle Mir Monir

DHAKA: Health and Family Welfare minister Mohammad Nasim on Friday expressed his resentment to the celebrators of ‘fake birthday of Khaleda Zia’, which they observed on the National Mourning Day. “BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is hurting countrymen celebrating her ‘fake birthday’

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said not a single country could prosper through the way of democracy. He made the remark while addressing a seminar at city’s Water Development Board auditorium on Friday noon arranged by its Sramik Kormachari

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday said law enforcement agencies has besieged the BNP’s central office confined in order to keep the party confine in a cage.Rezvi, in a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan office in the morning, claimed his party ‘the biggest

DHAKA: Security at the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office of the city has been beefed up on Friday morning. Additional police forces in uniform and plainclothes have been deployed in the area.Members of Rapid Action Battalion are patrolling the area. Armored personnel carrier, water

GOPALGANJ: Former Member of Parliament of Gopalganj-1 constituency Kazi Abdur Rashid passed away at his residence in the capital on Thursday night. He was 83. The former MP breathed his last around 10:10pm at his Kalyanpur residence due to old age complexities.Gopalganj-2 constituency

BARISAL: Police, in a drive, detained 20 Jamaat men, including its district unit Ameer and Nayeb-e-Ameer, from a building in South Alekanda area of the district on Thursday night.The detainees are- Barisal Metropolitan Jamaat Ameer Advocate Muyazzem Hossain Helal, Nayeb-e-Ameer

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia celebrated her 70th birthday at Gulshan party office in city on Friday morning.Leaders and activists of the party were present there.BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir among others attended in the party.  After cutting the cake,

DHAKA: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday approved charge-sheet against Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain over money laundering case.ACC director Nasim Anwar submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

GAZIPUR: At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two groups of BNP over distribution of saplings on the eve of birthday of the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia.The clash took place over a trifling matter while distributing plants after a discussion jointly organized by

KHULNA: District Jamaat-e-Islami called daylong hartal at Koyra and Paikgachha upazilas for Sunday in protest against the arrest of district (South) unit Ameer Maulana AKM Tamiz Uddin, also Koyra upazila chairman.  District (South) Unit secretary of the party Maulana Golam Sarwar

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday placed 10 Jamaat leaders, including former president of Shibir Dr Shafiqul Islam Masud, on a fresh two-day remand.Metropolitan Magistrate Ataul Haque passed the remand order in response to fresh remand plea filed by police.After completion of four-day

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) submitted their audit reports to the secretariat of the Election Commission (EC) on Thursday, the last extended date for submission of the report for last fiscal year. Earlier, the party failed to submit the report by July 31 and prayed to the EC

DHAKA: The leaders and activists of ruling Awami League’s political rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are getting packed with the piles of lawsuit, mostly filed by the government. Scores of stalwarts, including BNP chairperson, its standing committee members, Dhaka city unit’s

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) indicted former Jatiya Party (JP) lawmaker Abdul Jabbar for crimes against humanity during Liberation War in 1971. ICT-1 passed the order Thursday bringing five war crimes charges including killing, mass killing, looting and forced conversion.