FROM KHALEDA’S MOTORCADE: The Joypurhat rally of BNP is depending on weather as it was raining heavily from Saturday. Locals said that if such bad weather continues then it would be impossible to hold BNP’s rally. But BNP leaders claimed that the rally will be held by hook or crook

DHAKA: Maruf Kamal Khan, press secretary to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, was injured in a road accident in Koddar intersection area of Sirajgaj district in the evening.Shairul Kabir Khan, media wing member of BNP’s Gulshan office, confirmed the matter to banglanews.Shairul Kabir Khan

DHAKA: Newly elected lawmaker from Barisal-5 constituency Jebunnessa Afroz, widow of late Awami League lawmaker Shawkat Hossain Hiron, will take oath on Sunday. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will administer the oath ceremony at the parliament at 10:00am. The constituency fell vacant

RAJSHAHI: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, also special envoy to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday said people in the country have become panicked apprehending being kidnapped at any moment. “There is no justice in the country at this moment. Police do not file cases if even

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged President Abdul Hamid betrayed the nation refusing the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s proposal to give mid-term elections.   He made the allegation while addressing a workshop at a city hotel on

JAMALPUR: An activist of Juba League received bullet injury in an attack by miscreants in Islampur municipal area of the district on Friday night. The injured is- Julhash, 30, an activist of Juba League. Locals said that at least four to five youths attacked Julhash and opened fire

DHAKA: BNP standard Committee member Nazrul Islam Khan categorically said dialogue would be took place only on the issue of restoration of Caretaker Government System. Nazrul made the remarks after paying wreath on the grave of late President Zaiur Rahman in capital’s Sher-e-Bangla

JOYPURHAT: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia set her first visit after 10th parliamentary election to Joypurhat. She will also visit 16 districts in the northern part of the country and she chose Joypurhat to visit first as the activists of the district played a

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday sent 24 activists of Bangladesh Islami Chhatri Sangstha, female students’ wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, to jail rejecting remand and bail pleas. The court also ordered that the women police members could interrogate the accused in jail gate during four

BARGUNA: A Barguna court sent some 47 BNP leaders and activists to jail on Thursday. Magistrate Baijoyanti Biswas passed the order when the defendants, reporting before the court, pleaded for a bail release in a case filed in 2013. On November 28, 2013, local BNP leaders and activists

DHAKA: The High Court on Thursday rejected the writ petition filed by Khaleda Zia challenging legality of judge appointment of Zia Charitable Trust and Orphanage Trust graft cases.  An HC single bench of Justice Kazi Reza-ul Haque rejected the writ after two days hearing in the noon. 

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the nation to take two children in a family ignoring the slogan of one child preferable. She on Thursday told the health ministry officials during her visit to the ministry. With the references of the population scenario in the developed

DHAKA: The High Court Thursday rejected the writ, filed challenging the legality of an electoral rule which allows lawmakers to be elected uncontested. An HC bench comprising Justice Mirza Hossain Hyder and Justice Muhammod Khurshid Alam passed the order. Lawyers said that 154

DHAKA: A Dhaka court deferred to July 9 the recording of deposition in Zia Charitable and Orphanage Trust graft cases against BNP chief Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahnam and six others. The deposition in the two cases was scheduled to begin on Thursday. Special Judge-3 Basudeb Roy

DHAKA: Former president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Enamul Haque Shamim, also central committee member of Awami League, sustained bullet wound in an attack by miscreants on Thursday morning.  The incident took place at 10:00am in capital’s Dhanmondi area. Ramna Zone DC Maruf

DHAKA: Police detained a few number of activists of Bangladesh Islami Chhatri Sangstha, female students’ wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, in Khilgaon Thana area of the city on Wednesday. They were held during a meeting on the afternoon. Khilgaon Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) Sardar Wahiduzzaman

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir categorically said his party is now agreed to sit for dialogue though the incumbent government is illegal. He made the remark while addressing a round-table discussion on countrywide kidnap, extrajudicial murder and the

DHAKA: A money loan court on Wednesday set the hearing of defaulting state-owned Sonali Bank loan of Tk 45.59 crore of Dandy Dyeing Limited against 11 people, including BNP vice-chairman Tarique Rahman on June 25.  Judge of the court Mohammad Robiuzzaman of first money loan court passed

DHAKA: The government is making a plan to shift the grave of former President of the country Ziaur Rahman, also founder of BNP, from the National Parliament area.  This has caused furor among the leaders, activists and supporters from every level of the party. A major section of BNP

DHAKA: The hearing on two writ petitions filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the legality of the appointment of a judge who indicted her in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases began Wednesday. An HC single bench comprising Justice Quazi Rezaul-Ul