DHAKA: BNP advisory council member Amir Khasru Mohammad Chowdhury said Dr Muhammad Yunus will be given due honour if his party assumes power through upcoming parliament elections.He came up with the observation while addressing a roundtable at Dhaka Reporters Unity on Thursday as chief

DHAKA: State Minister for Home Affairs Advocate Shamsul Haque Tuku on Thursday categorically said law enforcers are ready to face the so called protest of 18-party on October 25.The ruling Awami League lawmaker came up with the disclosure at a human chain formed by ‘Sommilito

RANGPUR: Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad on Sunday his party would take part in the next election independently and assume power.“The people of the country want changes. They also want to get rid from the misrules of the ruling Awami League and opposition BNP,” he said.The former

DHAKA: Chinese ambassador to Dhaka Li Jun will meet opposition chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday.He would meet her at 8:30pm at Khaleda’s Gulshan office, sources added.In the same day a special delegation of Kuwait will also meet Khaleda around 9:30pm.Sources also said various bilateral

DHAKA: The High Court fixed Thursday for holding the hearing on writ petition seeking the court directives to hold next two general elections under Caretaker Government System.An HC bench of Justice Mirza Hossain Haider and Justice Khurshid Alam Sarker on Sunday fixed the date. On last

DHAKA: Law enforcement agency arrested five Jamaat men in the capital while they were engaged in a secret meeting.They were arrested from capital’s Hazaribag area on Friday around 8:00pm.DMP media centre assistant police commissioner Abu Yusuf confirmed the matter to banglanews.Acting

MEHERPUR: Jamaat-e-Islami has called a half day shutdown for Sunday in the district protesting Jamaat leader Delwar killing.Jamaat’s district unit acting Ameer Siddiqur Rahaman confirmed the matter to banglanews on Friday.He said, “We announced the strike after a meeting demanding

DHAKA: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami will stage protest across the country on Monday demanding release of its top leaders and protesting government ‘anarchy’.Acting Secretary General of the party Moulana Rafiqul Islam disclosed it on Friday in a statement.He claimed that one Jamaat

CHITTAGONG: Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir attacked Kanchana police outpost under Satkania upazila of the district on Wednesday noon.A police man received bullet injuries in Shibir firing during the attack.Police source said Chases and counter-chases also took place

DHAKA: An auto-rickshaw driver was killed and 10 persons including two cops were injured amid sporadic violence throughout the country on Wednesday, the first day of 48-hour Jamaat-e-Islami sponsored hartal.Law enforcing agencies, however, nabbed 43 Jamaat-Shibir activists from different

DHAKA: Jamaat-Shibir activists unleashed violence in some districts in the early hour of 48-hour hartal that began at 6:00am Wednesday.In the capital, Chhatra Shibir activists brought out sudden procession in capital’s Mirpur and exploded four cocktails. Police arrested three Shibir

DHAKA: The 48-hour hartal, called by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting Supreme Court verdict that awarded death penalty to Quader Mollah, is underway amid stray incidents of violence countrywide from 6:00am Wednesday.Jamaat-Shibir activists unleashed violence in some districts in the early hour

FROM HOUSE: Expressing satisfaction over the Quader Mollah verdict, parliamentary committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry put emphasis on the immediate execution of the verdict.The suggestion came from a meeting of the body on Tuesday. Lawmaker Fazle Rabbi Mia

MIRZAPUR, TANGAIL:  Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina affirmed that each school will get computers and electricity facility will be provided throughout the country if Awami league assume power next. He came up with the pledge while addressing a rally as a chief guest

TANGAIL: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, categorically said that the government would execute the verdicts of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). He came up with the observation while addressing a rally as a chief guest organized by district Awami League at

FROM RAJSHAHI: BNP Chairperson Khaleda categorically said that Awami League itself is an anti-liberation force.“Government has to quit power as it has become a mad,” she said.She came up with the observation while addressing a rally at Madrasa ground in Rajshahi on Monday

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islam has threatened to call hartal for Wednesday and Thursday if Supreme Court passed any verdict against Qauder Mollah.A source in Jamaat confirmed the matter to banglanews.Earlier in the day, Appellate division will deliver a verdict Tuesday on appeals filed against

FROM RAJSHAHI: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia alleged that the Awami League government is plotting to stay in power forever.She came up with the allegation while addressing a rally at Madrasa ground in Rajshahi on Monday afternoon.Khaleda Zia said, “Government patronizing drug smuggling on

SHYLHET: Communist party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) said that the government backed Chhatra League assailants, who attacked on a rally Sunday, as no initiatives was seen so far to arrest them.Leaders of the left-leaning parties categorically asserted after

DHAKA: BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed said that Awami League leaders had opened a laboratory of lying.He came up with the allegation at party’s Nayapaltan office on Monday in reaction to the remark of Sajeeb Wazed Joy about BNP and its key allies. Rizvi Ahmed said,