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

DHAKA: Acting Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Maqbul Ahmed on Thursday urged the countrymen to stage a peaceful protest against the conspiracy of political killing of war crimes convict Quader Mollah.The Jamaat leader came up with the plea in a statement in the afternoon.He also called upon the all

DHAKA: A meeting was held between US ambassador to Dhaka Dan W Mozena and BNP Standing Committee Member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan.The hour long meeting held at Mozena’s Gulshan residence from 2:00 to 3:00pm on Thursday.During the parley, they discussed various bilateral interests and

DHAKA: Rana Plaza tragedy got the seventh position in list of the Top Ten International news stories of 2013, published in Time Magazine on Wednesday.The story is as follows: Time Magazine has put together a list of itsTop Ten International news stories this year.One significant story

MOULAVIBAZAR: Police held a leader Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, for his alleged involvement in the fire incident of the Supreme Court Justice SK Sinha’s village home.The detainee is Saifur Rahman, 25, Joint Secretary of Upazila unit Chhatra Shibir.  Sources said

DHAKA: United Kingdom’s Senior Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Sayeeda Warsi is holding a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed on Thursday noon.The British Minister entered the election commission secretariat at 1:15pm.  

SYLHET: At least 15 people, including an assistant sub-inspector of police, were injured in a clash between Jamaat Shibir activists and police during hartal hours in divisional city’s Osmani Medical College road area on Thursday morning. Sources said that Shibir activists brought out

DHAKA: Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jun met Jatiyo Party chairman HM Ershad on Thursday morning.The Chinese ambassador entered ‘President Park’, the residence of former President of the country Ershad at 11:40am.After hour-long meeting Li Jun told to journalists that they

DHAKA: There was no legal bar to execute war crimes convict Quader Mollah as the full bench of the Supreme Court appellate division Thursday rejected the plea to file a review petition challenging the verdict.Attorney General Mahbubey Alam informed the press immediately after the apex

DHAKA: United Kingdom’s Senior Minister of state at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Sayeeda Warsi is scheduled to meet opposition Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday afternoon.The meeting would be held at around 4:00pm in Chairperson’s Gulshan office.As per the British High

LAXMIPUR: At least five people received bullets injury in a clash between law enforcers and BNP activists in the district town on Thursday morning.Later, district unit of BNP called dawn-to-dusk hartal for Saturday in the district in protest against the incident.The injures are- District

DHAKA: Sajib Wajed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said that BNP and Jamaat have both declared war on Bangladesh. He came up with the comment in his facebook status update at around 11:15 pm Wednesday.The post reads as below—“It appears that the BNP and Jamaat have both

DHAKA: A six-member Chinese delegation met opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan residence on Wednesday night.The delegation led by Director General of the Department of Asian Affairs Luo Zhaohui reached at her residence around 8:10pm.Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li

DHAKA: opposition BNP warned that the movement would continue if the government does not pay heed to the demands of non-party caretaker government during the polls-time.Standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan came up with the forewarning in a press briefing at the chairperson’s

GAIBANDA: Opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance called dawn-to-dusk hartal at Sadar upazila for Thursday protesting arson at business institutions of BNP a leader.District BNP president and 18-party convener Anisuzzaman Khan Babu and general secretary Gawsul Azam Dolar made announcement in

COMILLA: At least 20 people, including five police men, were injured in a clash between Jamaat-Shibir men and police in Syedpur under Burichang upazila of the district on the 5th day of blockade and 3rd day of hartal called by Jamaat (Wednesday) morning.The injured police were identified

DHAKA: The scheduled meeting for Wednesday between UN Assistant Secretary General Taranco and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was cancelled for their busy schedule.Media Adviser to the premier Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury made the disclosure while talking to journalists.He said, “Both Taranco

DHAKA: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami decided to call daylong hartal across the country for Thursday in protest against the government move to execute the death penalty of Jamaat leader Quader Mollah.The party sources said they would declare the shutdown formally on Wednesday evening.The