RAJSHAHI: BNP central committee on Thursday expelled joint general secretary of Rajshahi district BNP DM Ziaur Rahman Zia, also general secretary of Baghmara upazila for violating party discipline.Ziaur Rahman is set to participate in the upazila polls as a rebel candidate of BNP whereas

DHAKA: Election Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Mobarak, also acting Chief Election Commissioner, Thursday said that BNP leaders do not have reins in their mouth. He came up with the observation after a meeting with law-enforcement agencies about third phase of 4th Upazila Polls around the

DHAKA: Hefajat-e-Islam leader Maulana Sakhawat Zamil, also president of Jubo Hefajat, youth wing of the party, was freed on bail on Thursday noon.Media cell member of Hefajat-e-Islam Imran Hossain confirmed the matter to banglanews.Sakhawat was released on bail in six cases filed against

DHAKA: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has got information of money laundering of five ministers of the then BNP-led 4-party alliance.      ACC Commissioner Sahabuddin Chuppu made the disclosure while talking to journalists at its secretariat office on Thursday noon.    

DHAKA: A Dhaka court placed BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on a 3-day remand in a money laundering case.Magistrate Shamsul Arefin passed the order after hearing on the case on Thursday afternoon.Earlier, Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Deputy Director Ahsan

DHAKA: The voting in the third phase of upazila parishad elections will be held at 81 upazilas in 41 districts across the country on Saturday.Army personnel were deployed on Thursday to keep the law-and-order situation normal in the election areas. They will stay till Sunday.The polls

DHAKA: The voting in Supreme Court lawyer Association (SCBA) election 2014-15 is underway for second and last day at Supreme Court Lawyers Association from Thursday morning.Election Sub-Committee convener Noor Hossain said that the two-day long voting started at 10:00am Wednesday and will

DHAKA: National Democratic Institute Senior Country Representative Rishi Datta met BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday morning.The one and half an hour long meeting started at 10:45am at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan Political office in the capital.BNP

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia expressed concern and condemned the arrest of its standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain.Expressing the condemnation, BNP issued a written statement signed by BNP Joint Secretary General and Office Secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed on

DHAKA: The Anti Corruption commission (ACC) is interrogating BNP standing Committee Member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on charges of money laundering on Thursday morning.A team of the ACC led by its Deputy Director Ahsan Ali started quizzing Mosharraf at the commission’s Segun

DHAKA: Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a five-day remand plea at Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate`s Court against BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain. The ACC Deputy Director Ahsan Ali came up with the disclosure while talking to banglanews on Thursday

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said government was trying to keep prices of daily necessary goods reasonable.Market monitoring cell is in this connection, she added.The premier came up with the assertion in response to a supplementary question from Syed Nazibul Bashar Maizvandary at

DHAKA: BNP vice-president Sadeque Hossain Khoka appealed to Chairperson Khaleda Zia to exempt from the post of Dhaka Metropolitan BNP convener.The BNP leader said that he placed his urge to the BNP Chairperson in a meeting with her and proposed three names for the post. They are-BNP

NOAKHALI: A local leader of ruling Awami League, who was kidnapped from his office Monday, was rescued from Bashikpur village under Ramganj Upazila in Laxmipur on Tuesday night.The victim was identified as Noakhola UP member Abu Hanif Ripon, 32, also general secretary of union Awami

GAZIPUR: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, is set to visit High-tech Park at Kaliakoir in the district on Wednesday.A reliable source of Gazipur District police confirmed the matter to banglanews.The source said that Sajeeb Wazed Joy will arrive at the park at

DHAKA: Qatar Ambassador to Bangladesh Abdullah Abdul Aziz M Al-Mana met with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her residence at Gulshan on Tuesday night.The Qatar envoy arrived at Khaleda’s residence around 8:00pm.Besides, ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Dhaka Abdullah bin Nasser Al Basiri

DHAKA: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday said Bangladesh progressed a lot and it would not be run by following the prescription of the World Bank.“It is not important whatever World Bank said about Bangladesh rather it is important what we are doing,”

LALMONIRHAT: Aditmari upazila unit Awami League President Shawkat Ali and district AL member Azizul Islam Pradhan were expelled for ignoring the decision of the party.General Secretary of district AL Advocate Motiar Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews.They were expelled for

DHAKA: Jatiya Party secretary general ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader Tuesday categorically said there can be no question of interim polls in the country.“We are not thinking on this issue now as general elections were held just two months ago,” he also said.JP leader came out with the

DHAKA: Ambassadors of Qatar and Saudi Arabia to Bangladesh are set to meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan political office in the city on Tuesday and Thursday night respectively.BNP sources said that Qatar ambassador Abdullah Abdulaziz Mohamed al-Mana will meet Khaleda Zia at