DHAKA: Main opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance lawmakers are likely to join the current 19th session of the 9th Parliament on Wednesday.A BNP member of parliament informed the matter to banglanews after a meeting of the opposition MPs chaired by party Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League has postponed the press conference scheduled to be held at the party chief’s political office in Dhanmondi on Wednesday.Deputy Office Secretary of the party Mrinal Kanti Das made the disclosure to banglanews on Tuesday evening.Earlier in the day, the party

FROM DINAJPUR: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also ruling Awami League president, on Tuesday sought vote again for ‘Boat Symbol’ to continue the development of the country.“We have to go a long way for development. No people in Bangladesh will suffer from hunger or live without

DINAJPUR: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alleged that opposition BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and her two sons only looted during their previous tenure.She came up with the observation while addressing a rally at Gor-e-Shaheed ground of the district on Tuesday afternoon.Sheikh Hasina said,

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed former president of Chhatra Dal Sultan Salauddin Tuku on a 6-day remand in a case filed with Paltan Thana. Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur passed the remand order when police produced him before the court with 10-day remand plea.Earlier in

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed 18 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir on one-day remand.The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court also denied bail and sent another four activists to jail.Metropolitan Magistrate M Irfan Ullah granted the remand

NARAYANGANJ: Police, in nightlong drives, held 25 leaders and activists of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir from various places of the district early Tuesday.Amongst the detainees, six are Jamaat-e-Islami men and Chhatra Shibir while rests are BNP men.Police sources said that they

TANGAIL: District BNP called a down-to-dusk hartal for Wednesday protesting the arrest former president of Jatiyotabadi Chhatra Dal Sultan Salahuddin Tuku. The announcement came after a BNP procession near old bus stand area of the district town on Tuesday morning.   District BNP

DHAKA: Former president of Chhatra Dal Sultan Salauddin Tuku was shown arrest in two cases filed with Paltan Thana. Confirming the matter to banglanews, assistant commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Media Center Abu Yusuf said, “The cases were filed for obstructing and attacking

MUNSHIGANJ: A leader of Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (JASAS) was chopped to death by miscreants over previous feud at Rajanagar Bazar under Sirajdikhan upazila on Monday night.The deceased was identified as Engineer Asad Chowdhury 34, Upazila unit Joint Convener of JASAS, a

SIRAJGANJ: District BNP and its associate organizations observed half-day in the district amid stray incidents of violence on Tuesday protesting harassment and arrest of BNP leaders.The shutdown had started from 6:00am and continued till 1:00pm.Hartal supporters blasted one cocktail on SB

DHAKA: Law enforcers arrested former president of Jatiyotabadi Chhatra Dal Sultan Salahuddin Tuku from in front of BNP Nayapaltan office on Monday night.The incident took place when party chairperson Khaleda Zia went to party’s central office to see ailing leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.ADC

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to sit in a meeting with party lawmakers on Tuesday night.The meeting will be held at Khaleda’s Gulshan political office at 8:00pm.Opposition chief whip Joynul Abedin Farooque confirmed the matter to banglanews.BNP lawmakers may

DHAKA: Terming BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s interim government proposal as backward, ruling Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Monday said there is no any potential in her proposal. In an immediate reaction after Opposition Leader’s proposal Prime Minister’s

DHAKA: Some 26 activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir were held from Mirpur National High School at Mirpur-2 in the city on Monday evening.The members of law enforcing agency nabbed them in the evening.  However, the identity of the activists couldn’t be known

DHAKA: Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu on Monday said they would reply Tuesday on the proposal over interim government made by opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.The information minister came up with the assertion while addressing a programme of inauguration of 12 transmitters

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Monday said the outline of interim government made by Khaleda Zia “is not acceptable”.“The discussion can be held only on the proposal made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” he said.The spokesperson for the

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday proposed the outline of the interim government for holding the next general elections.“The interim government will be formed by the 10 members from the advisors of the caretaker government of 1996 and 2001 as per the proposal of

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday said her party would form a “government by the people” in the next.  The former prime minister of the country made the assertion while addressing a press conference at a city hotel in the afternoon.The opposition leader also

DHAKA: Main opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is briefing the media at capital’s Westin Hotel Monday. She is talking on present political crisis of the country.Khaleda will also express her reaction to Friday’s speech of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina before the nation.BDST: 1615