DHAKA: The lawyers of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia have reached at the gate of Central Jail in Old Dhaka with a plea to know about her overall condition. Three lawyers, Barrister Mahbubuddin Khokon, Advocate SM Zulfiqar and Zakir Hossain, reached at the main gate around 6:35pm on

DHAKA: Rajib Ahsan, president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), has been placed on a five-day remand in a case filed under Paltan police station.   Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mazharul Islam granted the remand after investigation officer and Paltan police station SI Abdul Hannan

DHAKA: Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader slammed the opposition BNP saying that the party has picked a corrupt politician as its new leader. BNP made party vice chairman and Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman as acting chairman after Khaleda sentenced 5 years in jail in a

DHAKA: Hundreds of BNP leaders and activists were staging demonstration in Dhaka demanding release of their Chairperson Khaleda Zia who was jailed in a corruption case. The protesters brought out a procession from the North entrance of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque that ended at the

DHAKA: BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said that they don’t know about the current condition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia as she is in jail. “We want to know from the government how the three-time Prime Minister (Khaleda Zia) has been kept in the prison. How

DHAKA: Tarique Rahman has been made the Acting Chairman of BNP, said Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. Rizvi was briefing the media at BNP’s central party office in Nayapaltan on Thursday night (February 8).   “Tarique Rahman will lead the party as the Acting

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is accompanied by her domestic help Fatema in the old Central Jail at Nazimuddin Road in the capital city. The jail authorities allowed Fatema to stay with Khaleda Zia inside the jail as the medical assistant following plea

DHAKA: About 100 leaders and activists of the BNP were detained in the capital city on Thursday (February 08) centering the verdict delivered against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.   The law enforcers detained them from several parts of the city before and after the verdict. The BNP men

DHAKA: Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas, a special aide to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, was detained in the afternoon on Thursday (February 08). Detective branch (DB) of police detained him from city’s Bakshibazar area just after pronouncement of verdict against Khaleda Zia.   Shimul

DHAKA: Rajib Ahsan, president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of the BNP, was detained in the afternoon on Thursday (February 08). Police detained the JCD president from a procession in front of the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office in the capital city at about 4:45

DHAKA: BNP has called countrywide demonstration for Friday (February 8) as court sentenced BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to five years imprisonment in a graft case. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the demonstration program in protest of the verdict at BNP’s

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has termed the verdict in Zia Orphanage case against Khaleda Zia as conspiratorial. “This is pure conspiracy. The verdict was given to keep Khaleda away from politics and polls”, he said. The senior BNP leader made the

DHAKA: BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman will lead the party as her mother BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has landed in jail in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, said Standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan. Tarique and four others were also given 10-years in jail each while

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia will file appeal challenging the five years imprisonment awarded by a special court of Dhaka on Thursday (February 08). The lawyers of the BNP chief have already filed a petition seeking certified copy of the verdict. They

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has been landed in the old Central Jail in city’s Nazimuddin Road after she was jailed for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. The BNP chief, accompanied by her domestic help Fatema, was taken to the central

DHAKA: BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the verdict in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against Khaleda Zia is a reflection of vengeance by the government and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.  He made the reaction at a press conference on Thursday afternoon (Feb

DHAKA: BNP supporters in United Kingdom have staged demonstration and vandalized the Bangladesh embassy in London centering the verdict in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against Khaleda Zia. Police arrested Swecchasebak Dal UK unit president Nasir Ahmed over the incident.  BNP

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has been jailed for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. The Special Court-5 of Dhaka, set up on the premises of Madrasa-e-Alia Dhaka in city’s Bakshibazar area, delivered the verdict in much-talked-about case

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia reached the special court in Dhaka’s Bakshibazar, to hear the verdict against her in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case Thursday (February 8). The BNP Chief’s motorcade reached at the court installed in prison department’s parade ground in

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia left her Gulshan home for a special court in Dhaka’s Bakshibazar, to hear the verdict against her in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case Thursday (February 8). Thousands of BNP activists flocked to the street, to accompany the motorcade of Khaleda Zia.