DHAKA: Opposition BNP Secretary-General Khandaker Delwar Hossain Saturday bitterly criticized the government for what he said its iron rule based on `repressive policy`.   "The accused of Malibagh murder case have been released on political considerations, but Mirza Abbas has not been

DHAKA: Pushed into tight corners, Jamaat-e-Islami lashed out at government policies as its leaders said the ruling Awami League outshone an ‘autocratic’ regime by “repressing” opposition leaders and denying political right to protest.“We could stage demonstration on streets even

DHAKA: Awami League presidium member Obaidul Kader said after the abrogation of the 5th and the 7th amendments to the constitution, the government would now decide action against behind-the-scene actors in bringing such repugnant constitutional changes.He made the comment Saturday as the

DHAKA: Family members, followers and his party activists gathered in front of Dhaka Central Jail from Saturday morning to greet Mirza Abbas on his release on bail, but all got frustrated once again.       The detained BNP Standing Committee member and ex-minister was shown arrested

HABIGANJ: Police on Friday night arrested two local Jubo Dal leaders from Lakhai upazila on charge of looting and vandalizing an iftar party.Arrested Abdul Mannan, Sadar upazila Jubo Dal convener, and Kumed Ali, joint-convener, were taken into Sadar thana. Police said a gang of

DHAKA: Opposition BNP’s standing committee member Khondakar Mosharaff Hossain Friday alleged that countrymen have started crying out in agony for the government’s misrule.“Because of government, the price hike of essential commodities is yet to be controlled and people’s

DHAKA : BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed Friday said implementing the High Court verdict on the seventh constitutional amendment would be a big challenge for the government. Giving his reaction over the High Court verdict at his Gulshan residence, the BNP leader said,

RAJSHAHI: Some 29 people were died and over 2000 injured in fatal 62 clashes in Rajshahi University for last 39 years since independence.   Among the deceased, 27 were the students of different departments of the university. The university remained closed for around 600 days following

SAVAR: Jahangirnagar University Thursday expelled six of the infighting Bangladesh Chhatra League activists, including organizing secretary Shahadat Hossain Reza, from the varsity permanently.The varsity authority also punished 17 other activists of the ruling party by suspending them for

DHAKA: Home Minister Advocate Sahara Kahtun urged the Chhatra League to build up public opinion in support of the trial of the war criminals, as she said opponents are active to foil it."BNP and Jamaat are cooking up conspiracy against the trial of war criminals, but Chhatra League has to

DHAKA: A Dhaka court placed BNP chairperson and ex-PM Khaleda Zia`s nephew Saiful Islam Duke on four days’ remand in the August 21 grenade-attack case, taking the probe close into the corridors of power of the past government.Duke was also private secretary to the then prime minister,

DHAKA: The opposition BNP said law cannot make one proclaimer of independence as it is a historical fact and people know who that person was. A number of senior leaders of BNP made the identical comment in their reaction after the High Court verdict on the 7th amendment to the

DHAKA: The High Court stayed for 40 days the government decision canceling the parole of Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of BNP chairperson and ex-PM Khaleda Zia.An HC bench of Justice MA Wahhab Miah and Justice Kazi Rezaul Haque passed the order in response to a writ petition filed on

DHAKA: Staging a restrained demonstration in the restriction-bound capital Thursday against the cancellation of Coco’s parole, the main opposition BNP asked the government to shun politics of ‘vengeance and conspiracy’.Standing committee member of the party Khandaker Mosharraf

DHAKA: Dhaka city Jamaat-e-Islami chief Rafiqul Islam Khan was Thursday remanded for three days in the case of torching a car in pre-hartal violence.Third Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ali Hussain passed the order of remand as the Detective Branch of police produced him

DHAKA: Three senior BNP leaders got nearly four months to submit to the court the copies of their bail orders in a case they have been sued in for threatening Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.A Dhaka court Wednesday fixed December 21 as the latest date for submitting the copies of bail

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Wednesday alleged the government is shifting blames for everything to BNP only to cover up its “failures”, which put the country’s situation on a slide.“The ministers of the government, including the prime minister, are misguiding the common people of the

DHAKA: Police arrested Dhaka City Jamaat Ameer Rafiqul Islam Khan from his Mirpur residence on Wednesday noon, just a day after the High Court granted him anticipatory bail.  Operation Officer of Mirpur Model Thana Abu Bakr told banglanews24.com.bd that the Jamaat leader was arrested

DHAKA: Rajshahi University Chhatra League president Awal Kabir Joy and general secretary Majedul Islam Apu were expelled Tuesday over their political colleague’s death.BCL Central office secretary Al-Mamun-Rupak told banglanews24.com.bd that the decision against the RU BCL leaders was

DHAKA: State Minister for Law Quamrul Islam Tuesday said the government is investigating the August 21 grenade attack on Awami League rally without any kind of political interference to take the misdirected probe onto right track.“The BNP-Jamaat alliance government tried to divert the