DHAKA: The High Court on Thursday asked the Detective Branch of Police to follow the Supreme Court guidelines while treating the Jamaat-e-Islami leaders during remand.The SC guideline asks police to behave gentle with the accused and give opportunity to take advice from doctors and

DHAKA: Sons of detained Jamaat leaders Kamaruzzaman and Quader Mollah and five other persons who were arrested late Wednesday during protests against the leaders’ remand hearings were remanded Thursday for interrogation.Hasan Imam, son of Kamaruzzaman, Hasan Jamil, son of Quader Mollah,

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Thursday rejected the bail petition of Mahmudur   Rahman, the acting editor of the now-defunct daily Amar Desh, in a corruption case of evading submission of his wealth statement to the Anti-corruption Commission. Metropolitan Magistrate Kanika Biswas issued the

DHAKA: The Supreme Court Thursday endorsed the cancellation of ruling-party lawmaker Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir’s nomination for election and thereby left his parliament membership virtually void. After the final verdict on the election dispute, Election Commission’s lawyer Advocate

DHAKA: A chamber court of the Appellate Division Wednesday stayed the bail order in one of a raft of cases against Mahmdudur Rahman, the detained acting editor of the now-defunct daily Amar Desh. Justice Mozammel Haque passed the order of stay on the bail in the case filed with Tejgaon

DHAKA: The policymakers of the ruling Awami League are engrossed in reckoning over Dhaka City Corporation election coming quick on the heels of their Chittagong debacle.       Leaders of different stages and workers of the party confided to the Banglanews24.com.bd staff writer their

DHAKA: Police Wednesday intercepted leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami in city’s different parts from staging demonstration protesting the arrest of top party leaders. On the second day of three-day party programme, Jamaat staged demonstration in Jatrabari, Mohammadpur, Mirpur

DHAKA: A lack of coordination among the leaders in Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) while trying to regroup after past upset restrained them from performing the right role as the main opposition, insiders observed.  Mid-level leaders in the party termed such ‘lack of coordination’

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretaries-general Muhammad Qamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah were held Tuesday at the High Court gate for their alleged crimes during 1971 Liberation War in what happens to be the first arrest of prominent politicians on war-crime charges of

DHAKA: Interrogators prepare to stand the detained militant kingpins and three top Jamaat leaders together in a ‘face-to-face’ brainstorming session of grilling them over Islamist activities on a number of fronts.    Competent sources said 12 questions are being set to be shot at

DHAKA: BNP Secretary-General Khondaker Delwar Hossain demanded that the name of party leader Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu be dropped from the charge sheet on the BDR carnage at Pilkhana. Addressing a press conference at BNP central office Tuesday, a day after the charges of mutiny-time crimes

DHAKA: Eminent politician and former BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan`s health condition remained unchanged on Tuesday, doctors said.Bhuiyan has been on life support at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Square Hospital since Wednesday. "His physical condition did not improve in

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Tuesday granted ad-interim bail to former BNP minister Tariqul Islam in a corruption case, one of some hundreds filed by the past interim regime against country’s leading politicians and other high-society people. Metropolitan Sessions Judge Ismail Hossain passed

DHAKA: Opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia Monday warned the government of strong movement for party leader Chowdhury Alam, said to be held incommunicado.  “The ruling party has started secret killings as it did in the post-independence period. It has resorted to politics of killings

DHAKA: The High Court Monday granted bail for Mahmudur Rahman, the acting editor of now defunct daily Amar Desh, in four cases. A Division bench of the HC comprising Justice Syed Muhammad Dastogir Hossain and Justice AKM Jahirul Haq also asked the government to explain within two weeks

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Maitur Rahman Nizami was now taken on a fresh four-day remand Monday in a case filed with city’s Ramna Thana for his alleged involvement in torching vehicles on the night before June 27 hartal.Earlier on Saturday, party Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad

SYLHET: A leader of the MC College unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League was hacked to death by his rivals near the campus Monday following internal feuds, witnesses said.   The deceased, Udoy Sinha Polash, was a third-year student of Mathematics Department. Campus sources said Udoy’s

 DHAKA: Dispelling flying rumours, Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad Sunday categorically said his brother GM Quader did not resign as Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister. Ershad’s comment came in the wake of rumours that Kader, also a presidium member of the party his brother heads,

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League`s presidium member Obaidul Quader MP Sunday apparently gave vent to deep frustrations over the performances of ministers.   “Those who could not attain skills in 18 months wouldn’t be able to attain in 18 years,” he said on an enigmatic note. The

DHAKA: Hearing of a revision case challenging the celebration of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s birthday on August 15 will be held on July 18 in the High Court. Advocate Suhrawardy had filed the case on August 20, 1997 with an Assistant Judge`s court in Dhaka seeking an injunction so