DHAKA: Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad and Indian High Commissioner Pankaj Saran held a meeting at President Park Bhaban on Monday afternoon.Sources said various important issues, including upcoming parliament polls, present political situations and Jaitya Party’s stance on election

DHAKA: BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur on Monday ahead of the verdict in war crimes related cases.International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 will pass the verdict on Tuesday.SQ Chowdhury was taken out of unit-1 of the

DHAKA: Opposition BNP along with 18-party alliance will start movement from October 25 to press home their demand of reinstating caretaker government.Party sources said they party would take position in the capital by calling a grand rally here.The party insider said, besides, BNP-led

DHAKA: The International Crimes Tribunal and its adjacent areas at Ramna in the capital were taken under stiff scrutiny measures to avert any untoward situation ahead of verdict of BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for his involvement in crimes against humanity during liberation war

DHAKA: Opposition BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Monday said the party would take stand after the verdict in war crimes related case against BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. The BNP leader came up with the statement while talking to journalists after

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home Monday from New York after attending the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). An Emirates flight carrying the premier and members of her entourage landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 5:30pm.Senior

DHAKA: The International Crime Tribunal (ICT)-1 transferred the war crimes case against Jamaat leader Mir Kashem Ali to ICT-2.Chairman of ICT-1 ATM Fazle Kabir passed the suo-moto order on Monday. Along with this, six cases were shifted to ICT-1 to ICT-2.Monday was fixed for starting

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 will pass the verdict in war crimes related case against BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury on Tuesday.On August 14, the tribunal led-by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir concluded the proceedings of the case fixing no date and time for the

DHAKA: The Opposition BNP’s chairperson Khaleda Zia returned to Dhaka on Sunday night after attending the grand rally in Khulna.While addressing the grand rally at the Khulna circuit house ground on Sunday afternoon, the opposition leader once again voiced her demand for restoration of

DHAKA: Opposition BNP standing committee member MK Anwar on Sunday said if BNP voted to power, Awami League leaders would be sent to abroad.The senior leader of the party came up with the forewarning in response to a remark of Awami League leader Mohammad Nasim while speaking at a

JESSORE: A local Awami League leader and a transport worker were shot by miscreants in Taltola area on Dhaka-Jessore road in the district on Sunday. The injured are Nazrul Islam, 52, Ward-1 Awami League general secretary also president of district’s tire traders’ association and

FROM KHULNA: Opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday categorically said the government would be allowed to set up power plant destroying Sundarbans at Rampal in the district.“We will not allow the government to set power at Rampal destroying Sundarbans,” she said.The BNP

DHAKA: Main opposition BNP alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh had insulted the whole Bengali nation before United Nations General Assembly delivering speech entangling BNP which was out of diplomatic manner.  BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi came up with the allegation in a

FROM KHULNA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia categorically said that the people of Khulna had shown yellow card to out the incumbent government.She came up with the observation at the grand rally of 18-party alliance on Sunday afternoon at Khulna Circuit House ground. Earlier in the day, with

COMILLA: Police detained 25 suspected activists of Chhatra Shibir including its Comilla Victoria Government College unit president from various spots of Dharmopur area in the metropolitan city on Sunday morning.The identity of the detainees could not be known immediately.Confirming the

TANGAIL: Abdul Mannan, the ruling Awami League MP from Bogra-1 constituency, along with her wife Syeda Mannan Shilpi and their driver were injured in a road accident in Kalihati upazila of the district on Sunday morning.Syeda Mannan Shilpi is the president of Sariakandi Upazila Awami

KHULNA: The main opposition leader Khaleda Zia is set to address Khulna rally on Sunday afternoon.The mass rally will be started from 2:00 pm at Khulna Circuit House ground with the local leaders’ speech.Khaleda is to deliver her speech at around 4:30 pm.The rally venue has got a

FROM UN PERMANENT MISSION: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alleged that the opposition leader of the parliament Khaleda Zia does not want to see her (PM) alive.Mentioning though several attempt to attack me, I shown flexible attitude to the opposition, the premier said Khaleda Zia can place

RAJSHAHI: The dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by Chhatra Shibir, was observed in four districts of Rajshahi division on Sunday.The student wing of Jamaat enforced the shutdown protesting the arrest of its eight leaders, including Rajshahi University secretary Saifuddin Yahiya. The hartal

GAZIPUR: Deputy Leader of the parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, also Awami League lawmaker categorically said if BNP assumes power in the next general election all the Rajakers and war criminals would be freed.The senior leader of the party came up with the observation in an extended