DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) would stage a long march after Eid-ul-fitr in a showdown against the government decision allowing India transit facilities.“Two separate long marches -- one from Dhaka toward Chittagong and the other toward Sylhet – are being planned so far.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) would stage a long march after Eid-ul-fitr in a showdown against the government decision allowing India transit facilities.“Two separate long marches -- one from Dhaka toward Chittagong and the other toward Sylhet – are being planned so far.

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League’s female lawmakers urged BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia not to celebrate her ‘fake’ birthday on 15 August.The appeal came from a human chain demonstration held in front of the National Press Club on Friday.Speaking at the demonstration, AL joint general

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Senior Joint Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir blamed the government for curbing civil rights like freedom of speech through meting out “repression” to journalists.“Detaining acting editor of the daily Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman and torturing him on

CHANDPUR: Movable property of the village home of former State Minister ANM Ehsanul Haq Milan was confiscated Wednesday on order from the district certificate officer.Kachua Thana OC Harun-or-Rashid told  banglanews24.com.bd that the movable property of Milan’s village home at

DHAKA:  BNP Standing Committee Member Barrister Moudud Ahmed said Wednesday that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would be hated for her comments about leader of the opposition and ex-premier Begum Khaleda Zia.  The opposition lawmaker and ex-law minister came up with the criticism while

DHAKA: Rabeya Siraj, wife of former BNP minister for Forest and Environment Shahjahan Siraj, was Wednesday sent to jail on surrender after absconding for long with prison terms nearly long as her life.      Judge Jasmine Anwar of the Special Judge Court-4 passed the order sending the

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) formed a human chain in front of the National Press Club on Wednesday afternoon protesting the remark of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina about Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Khaleda Zia. Opposition Chief Whip Jainul Abdin Faruque led the

DHAKA: Police picked up 25 Jamaat activists from and around their city office at Paltan in the capital Wednesday, as the party faces the worst ordeals in its history, with all its top leaders held for trial on war-crime charges.The detained Jamaat activists were sent to jail in the

DHAKA: Opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia said that the recent agreement with India was not with Bangladesh but with Awami League, once again disapproving of the deal. Speaking to a group of leaders who came to join BNP at her Gulshan office, the ex-PM said, “It is the

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Tuesday alleged that the government held in detention their party leader Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu to “save the MPs of the ruling Awami League involved in the BDR massacre at Pilkhana”.Leaders of the party made the sweeping allegation at a protest meeting organized

DHAKA: The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court Tuesday summoned Jamaat-e-Islami leader Dr Abdullah Mohammad Taher shortly after a sedition case was filed against him on charge of issuing threat to the government.President of Bangladesh Awami Ulema League Md Iliyas Hossain Bin Helali filed

DHAKA: The High Court exonerated two former ministers--Anwar Hossain Manju and Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin—from conviction on charges of corruption, overturning the rash justice of the emergency times.An HC division bench scrapped the jail sentences against former minister Anwar Hossain

DHAKA: The Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 on Tuesday sentenced wife of JMB second in-command Bangla Bhai and two others to 20 years jail for possessing explosive substances.Tribunal Judge Mohammad Rezaul Islam fined the convicts Tk 25,000 each, in default, to serve one year more in jail. The

JHENIDAH: One person was killed and 30 others were wounded in a factional fight of the ruling Awami League’s local unit at Achintapur in Shailakupa upazila of the district on Tuesday morning following rivalry for respective supremacy over the village. The victim, Rusdar Ali, was a

DHAKA: The High Court gave BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed MP anticipatory bail in a sedition case filed in Khulna till charge framing.An HC bench comprising Justice Dastagir Ahmed and MK Jahirul Haq passed the order following a petition filed by Moudud Monday seeking bail in the

DHAKA: The High Court Monday granted anticipatory bail to BNP leaders Shah Moazzem Hossain and barrister Rafiqul Islam Mian in a raft of nine sedition cases they are entangled in for their “threatening” speeches against the Prime Minister.An HC bench comprising Justice Mohammad

DHAKA: Significant changes are on the cards in leadership of ultra-right Jamaat-e-Islami party against the backdrop of most top brass of the party in jail with war crimes charges.   The second-tier of the leadership has been brought to the forefront who are comparatively junior to those

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday rejected the bail petitions of four top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, who are now facing trial in the war-crime tribunal, in separate other cases.They are Party Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee, and assistant

DHAKA: Opposition leader Khaleda Zia Monday led a mass march through the capital, asking the government to scrap the latest agreements with India that principally envisages transit to the neighbouring country.The procession of thousands of slogan-chanting activists, with the ex-PM and BNP