DHAKA: Main opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia visited the ailing Mayor of Gazipur City Corporation Professor Mannan at United Hospital in capital’s Gulshan area on Thursday midnight.Khaleda went to the hospital at around 11:45pm and inquired about his present physical

BOGRA: Opposition BNP led 18-party called dawn-to-dusk hartal for demanding inclusion of the name of senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for Tuesday in the district.District BNP President Saiful Islam made the announcement of the hartal while addressing a protest rally at Edward Park on

CHITTAGONG: Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested Labour Party port city president Alauddin on charge of subversive activities.He was arrested from Halishahar area of the city and handed over to Halishahar Thana on Thursday afternoon.City Detective Police Additional

DHAKA: The secretary general level meeting of 18-party alliance will be held at Nayapaltan office on Friday afternoon.BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will preside over the meeting.Sources said the decision would be taken regarding the new course of programmes of

DHAKA: Opposition BNP led 18-party alliance will stage protest programme on Saturday at upazila level across the country protesting killing, repression and cases against 18-party men during last 3-day hartal.BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam announced the programme while

NOAKHALI: A Chhatra Dal activist was shot dead and seven others were chopped to injure by the miscreants in Amishapara Bazar area of Sonaimuri upazila of the district on Thursday.The deceased was identified as Parvez, 18, son of Jahangir Alam of Amishapara.The incident took place around

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Mufti Harun Izhar, son of Hefajat-e-Islam Nayeb-e-Amir Mufti Izharul Islam, on a 15-day remand for police interrogation in three cases for arson and violence at Shapla Chattar.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Erfan Ullah passed the order when Paltan

JESSORE: Local administration imposed section 144 at Monirampur upazila as Awami League and opposition BNP convened meeting at same venue and time.Upazila Nirbahi Officer Sharif Nazrul Islam imposed the ban on Thursday morning.The ban will be imposed from 11:00am and continue till 7:00pm

DHAKA: Islami Chhatra Shibir central office secretary Atiqur Rahman on Thursday said the ruling government would be tried in people’s stage if it does not stop killing by law enforcers.He came up with the forewarning while addressing a protest rally organized by BNP-led 18-party

COX’S BAZAR: The dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by 18-party alliance, underway in the district amid stray incidents of picketing.Witnesses said that activists of Juba Dal, Chhatra Dal and Chhatra Shibir attempted to picketing in Madrasa gate, Kalur Dokan, Bazar Ghata and Fire Service

DHAKA: US ambassador to Dhaka Dan W Mozena had seperate meetings with Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam and BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday night.Both the meetings were held in the residence of Mozena’s Gulshan residence in the

DHAKA:  Main opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance took decision in principle to enforce another 3-day non-stop nationwide hartal from November 4.The alliance is set to declare hartal on November 4-6 demanding election-time non-party neutral government.Party sources said the decision has

DHAKA: Opposition BNP led 18-party is set to hold a protest rally at city’s Suhrawardi Udyan at 2.00pm Thursday as per earlier declaration.Joint General Secretary of the party Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told banglanews that the rally would be hold as a protest against the killing and assaulting

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of Police held four leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam from city’s Rampura area on Wednesday afternoon.The detainees are Abdullah Wasel, head of the media wing of the party, Maulana Mufti Sakhawat, president of Juba Hefajat, Altab Hossain and Manjur, leaders of

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League Advisory Council Member Tofail Ahmed on Wednesday said there is no scope of dialogue over restoration of the caretaker government.The senior parliamentarian came up with the observation while addressing a rally organized by Krishak League at Bangabandhu Avenue

KHULNA: The law enforcing agency Wednesday arrested three Jamaat men including Dumuria upazila Jamaat Ameer Abdul Gani Khan.Other arrestees are upazila Jamaat secretary Khan Ohidul Islam and activist Nasir Uddin.They were arrested from Chechuria area under the upazila this noon.Confirming

DHAKA: Opposition BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday declined of taking decision over blockade from November 4 to 6 during JSC and JDC examinations.The spokesperson for the party claimed that the media is responsible for publishing such news and they

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed alleged that incumbent government unleashed countrywide violence to stay in power illegally. He came up with the allegation while addressing a press conference at Party central office in city’s Nayapaltan on

PABNA: Miscreants stabbed to death a Juba League man in Sahara club area of the district town on Wednesday morning.The deceased was identified as Geda, 30, an activist of Juba League, hailed from Mandalpara of Municipal Sadar of the district, says Juba League district unit general

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith categorically said that next general election would be held within last week of December to January 24.He came up with the disclosure while talking to journalists after a meeting with Audit and accounts officers at his secretariat office on