DHAKA: The High Court (HC) fixed February 23 (Sunday) to hear a petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking bail in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. The HC bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice AKM Zahirul Huq on Wednesday (Feb 19) kept the case hearing on the

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said nothing was said on behalf of the party about its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release on parole. “Rather, it is totally a matter of her family. They will take decision,” said Mirza Fakhrul.     The BNP leader came

GAZIPUR: Former minister and Awami League MP from Gazipur-3 constituency advocate Rahmat Ali passed away at a city hospital Sunday morning. He was 75. Rahmat, also the advisory committee member of Awami League, breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Square Hospitals around

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamg hoped the government will release party chairperson Khaleda Zia on humanitarian ground. He said: “Our party chairperson Khaleda Zia has been imprisoned for two years.…. We hope that government will release her on humanitarian

DHAKA: Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said BNP leaders were confused about the release of their chairperson Khaleda Zia.  He told reporters after attending a sports competition on Government Physical Education College ground at Mohammadpur in the capital on Saturday (February

DHAKA: Additional police have been deployed in front of the headquarters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the capital’s Nayapaltan area. Members of law enforcement agencies in uniform and plain clothes gathered in front of the BNP office on Saturday (Feb 15) morning. The

    DINAJPUR: A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was hacked to death allegedly by unknown miscreants in Sykdebpur Chowrasta in Bochaganj upazila of Dinajpur on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Moznur Rahman Moznu, 35, son of Obaidul Islam of Dhontola

CHATTOGRAM: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said not only in Chattogram City Corporation election, the party will take part in all upcoming elections. He also said: The decision was not right to stay away from a number of elections earlier. As the BNP is a democratic

DHAKA: A Dhaka Court on Sunday granted ad-interim bail to 35 BNP leaders including its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in different cases filed on charges of vandalising vehicles and attacking police. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Kayes granted the bail on

DHAKA: BNP has secured permission for holding a protest rally demanding release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia from prison and cancellation of city corporations’ polls. BNP’s publicity secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie confirmed the matter to Banglanews on Friday (February 7).

DHAKA: A man was detained in connection with an attack on Mostafizur Rahman Sumon, a crime reporter at online news portal Agami News, in Mohammadpur on the day of the Dhaka city corporations elections. Police picked up Ismail from a house in Rayerbazar area of the capital on Wednesday

DHAKA: BNP demanded fresh elections to Dhaka south and north city corporations as people’s opinion, according to the party, was not reflected in the Feb 01 voting. Only 7-9 percent votes were cast in the city polls, the party claimed.  Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam

DHAKA: Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said the reluctance of people in vote-oriented politics was not good for democracy. The minister made the remark while talking to reporters on contemporary issues at the Secretariat on Tuesday

DHAKA: A cocktail was exploded again in front of Madhur Canteen and DUCSU building of the Dhaka University (DU) on Monday (Feb 3). The cocktail was blasted around 10:45 am and no casualties were reported. None was nabbed in this connection, Banglanews correspondent reports. 

DHAKA: Bringing allegations of vote rigging in elections to Dhaka North and South City Corporations, BNP will stage demonstration at the thana-level of the capital on Tuesday (February 4). After observing hartal (shutdown) from dawn-to-dusk on Sunday (February 2), BNP secretary

DHAKA: Awami League candidate Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh won a landslide victory in elections to Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC). Taposh bagged 4,24,595 votes while his opponent BNP-nominated candidate Ishraque Hossain has bagged only 2,36,512 votes, according to unofficial

DHAKA: Awami League mayoral candidate Atiqul Islam won the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) polls by a wide margin, according to unofficial results. Atiqul bagged 4,47,211 votes while his nearest contestant Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) mayoral candidate Tabith Awal got

DHAKA: Having made allegations of vote rigging in elections to Dhaka North and South City Corporations, BNP has called for hartal (shutdown) in Dhaka city from dawn-to-dusk on Sunday (February 2). BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the program at a press

DHAKA: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader was shifted to a cabin from Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Saturday morning as his condition improved. Physicians advised the minister to rest for two days, said Abu Naser,

DHAKA: The Awami League (AL) and BNP mayoral candidates have cast their votes at their respective polling centres on Saturday (Feb 01). AL-backed mayoral candidate in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh cast his vote at the polling centre of Dr Malika