DHAKA: Indian foreign ministry had given a statement in response to questions of Bangladesh, including the statement of the opposition Leader Khaleda Zia.The official Spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs of India made the disclosure on Friday. In the statement the ministry said,

DHAKA: Jatiay Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad claimed that he was not sick and government detained him at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in a bid to arrest.He asserted that Jatiya Party would not participate in ensuing parliament election under present election schedule.Ershad’s special

CHITTAGONG: Three people, including a mother and her son, were killed in a road accident in Chunti area under Lohagara upazila of the district on Friday afternoon.Of the deceased, two were identified as Delwara 45, and her son Tamim, 6 of the Chunti area.Police sources said a goods-laden

BOGRA: Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir went berserk and torched at least 20 vehicles and set fire to government and private offices in different parts of the district on Friday.The district went crippled as Jamaat-Shibir men triggered mayhem from Thursday night till Friday

DHAKA: Leaders of ruling Awami League and opposition BNP has exchanged proposals to reach a consensus for holding the 10th parliamentary elections in free, fair and credible manner.The four-member delegation for both the parties gave the proposal on behalf of their parties and they will

CHITTAGONG: Jamaat-Shibir activists locked into sporadic clashes with law enforcers in Lohagora after Juma prayer on Friday noon.Officer-in-Charge of Lohagora Thana Mohammad Shahjahan told banglanews that Jamaat-Shibir men blocked few kilometers area of Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar highway

DHAKA: Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir went berserk in different parts of the city after Juma prayer on Friday. The activists of the party set fire on roads, vandalized vehicles and attacked law enforcers in city key spots, including Motijheel, Rampura, Fakirapool and

NARAYANGANJ: Jamaat-Shibir men activists torched four vehicles  and vandalized 22  others in Panchabati area of the district on Friday morning.Sources said that Sadar upazila Chhatra Shibir brought out a protest procession with sticks and bamboos  in the area at around

DHAKA: The United States has asked all parties in Bangladesh to exercise restraint and refrain from violence, a day after top Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah was executed."We are aware that his execution took place on Thursday, now is a very sensitive moment in Bangladesh, and

DHAKA: Demanding release of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, opposition BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that the government had detained him to hold planned election.He came up with the observation through a statement Friday.Mirza Fakhrul said, “Ruling

FENI: At least 35 passengers were injured as Jamaat-Shibir men vandalized 20 vehicles in Mohipal of the district town on Friday morning protesting war criminal Quader Mollah’s execution. Sources said that Jamaat-Shibir men vandalized 20 vehicles in the area at around 11:00am and the

NOAKHALI: A vendor was killed and a rickshaw puller sustained bullet injury in a clash between law enforcers and Jamaat-Shibir men in Afania bazaar under Begaumganj upazila early Friday.The deceased was identified as Khorshed Alam, 45, a Chotpoti seller. Witnesses said Jamaat-Shibir men

JESSORE: A Jamaat activist was killed as a trucked rammed him when he tried to torch the truck in Bagharpara upazula of the district on Friday morning.The deceased was identified as Ashraful, 20, son of Mokbul of Mohiron village of the same upazila.Local sources said that a group of

SATKHIRA: Jamaat-Shibir activists chopped and beat two leaders of ruling Awami League to death in Kolaroa of the district early Friday.The deceased were identified as Azizur Rahman Azu, 53 and Mehedi Hasan Zoz Mia, 35, of the same upazila.Family sources of deceased said that some 20/25

FARIDPUR: Police in several drives held 44 Jamaat-Shibir men from various spots of the district on Friday morning apprehending subversive act.The identity of the detainees could not be known immediately.Assistant Police Super Kamruzzaman confirmed the matter to banglanews.Earlier on

DHAKA: The law enforcing agency arrested ten Jamaat leaders and activists from its central office in city’s Mogbazar area immediately after the execution of Jamaat leader Quader Mollah on Thursday night.Confirming the matter assistant commissioner of police of Ramna Zone Shibli Noman

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel took Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) from his Banani’s residence on Thursday night.RAB personnel picked him up at around 11:30pm on Thursday.Earlier in the day, a 10-memebrs police team

DHAKA: The law enforcement agency arrested younger son and brother-in-law of Quader Mollah who was executed Thursday night for committing crimes against humanity in the country’s liberation war in 1971. The arrestees are identified as Mollah’s son Hasan Moudud and brother-in-law Mir

DHAKA: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called dawn-to dusk hartal across the country for Sunday protesting execution of the war crimes convict Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah,.Acting Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Maqbul Ahmed announced the hartal in a statement immediately after the execution of

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday urged the government to walk on the pathway of peace and compromise avoiding obstinacy.The Leader of the Opposition came up with the plea in a statement signed by her press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan in the evening.She also asked