DHAKA: Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal politician and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Chittagong-8 Mayeen Uddin Khan Badal passed away in India on Thursday (Nov 7) morning. He was 67. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences Bangalore,

DHAKA: Samir Chand Chandra has been elected president of the Bangladesh Krishak League, an associate organization of the ruling Awami League, and Umme Kulsum Smriti was made the General Secretary. The president and general secretary were elected at the Council Session of the Seventh

DHAKA: BNP got permission for holding a rally in the capital marking the ‘7 November’, Party’s Assistant Organizing secretary Advocate Abdus Salam Azad told Banglanews on Wednesday (Nov 6). The rally will be held at the Mohanagar Natya Mancha in the capital on Friday (Nov 8), he

DHAKA: A court here set January 29 to hold hearing on charge framing in eight cases filed for allegedly committing subversive activities by BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and others. Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Imrul Qayes on Wednesday (Nov 6) set the new date, allowing the

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) submitted charge sheet accusing expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in an arms case. Shekhar Chandra Mallik, sub-inspector of RAB-1, on Wednesday (Nov6 6) submitted the charge-sheet before the Court of the Chief Metropolitan

DHAKA: Former foreign minister M Morshed Khan and also vice-chairman of the BNP resigned from the party. He sent the resignation letter to party chairperson Khaleda Zia through party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, sources concerned said. Morshed Khan became lawmaker

DHAKA: Rashed Khan Menon and Fazle Hossain Badsha have been again respectively elected President and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh. A 81-member new committee was formally announced at the closing sessions of the 10th congress of the party at Institution of

DHAKA: The body of Sadeque Hossain Khoka, BNP vice-chairman and former mayor of the undivided Dhaka City Corporation, will arrive in Dhaka on Thursday (Nov 7) morning.  After four Namaz e Janazas in Dhaka, he will be laid to rest at Jurain Graveyard next to his father’s grave in

DHAKA: A court here fixed December 2 to hold next hearing on the charge framing in Niko Graft case against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and 10 others.  Judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman of the a temporary court set up at the Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Tuesday ( Nov 5) deferred the

DHAKA:  Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said no controversial persons will get any post in fresh committees of the party and its affiliated organizations. Obaidul Quader said: “Those who are controversial, intruders and have links with communal forces will not be taken

DHAKA: The High Court granted four weeks anticipatory bail to three leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), including its president and general secretary in a case filed over an alleged attack on law enforcers.  An HC bench comprising Justice Muhammad Abdul Hafiz and Justice Kazi

DHAKA: Leaders of different political parties, including Jatiya Party, JSD, NDP and NAP, expressed deep shock at the death of former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka. They also expressed deep condolences to the family members, political colleagues and

DHAKA: A High Court bench rejected writ petition on seized bank account of GKB and Company Private Ltd by G K Shamim. The HC bench of Justice Sheikh Hasan Arif and Justice Md. Mahmud Hasan Talukder gave this order on Monday (November 4) for not placing the petition before the

DHAKA: Expelled organizing secretary of Dhaka South Jubo League Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan has been taken to Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to grill in connection with two cases relating to arms and drugs. He was brought to ACC office in Segunbagicha area from Kashimpur central jail

DHAKA: The High Court granted bail to former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique for six months in a corruption case filed on charge of misuse of power in selling a government property in Bagura. The HC bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice AKM Zahirul Huq on Monday

DHAKA: Elections to the Dhaka North and South City Corporations will be held in January next year. Electronic voting machines (EVMs) will be used in both city elections.  However, no decision has been made on Chittagong City Corporation elections. EC Secretary Md Alamgir told

DHAKA: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said efforts were underway to bring the killers of the four national leaders who fled abroad back to home and try them under the laws of the country. He said this after paying homage to a portrait of four national leaders at the old Dhaka

NARAYANGANJ:  Awami League General Secretary and Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said BNP is doing politics on its chairperson Khaleda Zia’s physical conditions. Obaidul Quader said: “The medical board informed that her conditions are not that bad so as to send

GAZIPUR:  Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the Road Transport Act was enacted to bring discipline on roads and highways. Development has no value, if there is no discipline on the roads.  So the discipline must be restored, he said adding that journalists have

MUNSHIGANJ: The Tongibari upazila administration of Munshiganj imposed section 144, as two factions of local Awami League (AL) declared to hold separate rallies at the same venue. Recently, AL committee was announced for wards of 1, 2, which are under Kamarkhara union, as a result