DHAKA: A Dhaka court issued arrest warrant against 16 BNP leaders including Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia in a case filed with Pallabi Thana.Metropolitan Session Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah passed the order after accepting charges on Monday.BDST: 1312 HRS, July 6, 2015AKA/SMS

JOYPURHAT: A local leader of ruling Awami League (AL) was electrocuted in Panchbibi Upazila of the district on Friday evening.The deceased was identified as Badsha, 35, son of Ibrahim Hossain of Nandi village of the upazila. He was a member of the convening committee of Mohammadpur Union

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before the court on Sunday for hearing in Zia Orphanage and Zia Charitable Trust cases against her if authorities concerned provides her adequate security.  Khaleda Zia’s top lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, also the president of Supreme

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) on Thursday approved Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) as a party in the case filed against Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, for concealing wealth information.The bench of Justice Mohammad Moinul Islam Chowdhury and Justice JBM

DHAKA: Police detained at least 106 people including 15 BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami men in Jessore and Gaibandha districts early Thursday.Jessore police control room sources said 69 men including six BNP and four Jamaat men were held in overnight drives in eight upazilas of the district.Moreover,

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) is observing the 2nd death anniversary of former president and veteran politician Zillur Rahman in a befitting manner on Thursday.Earlier, AL, in a press release on Wednesday night, said that the party was set to pay tribute to Zillur Rahman, placing floral

DHAKA: Russian ambassador in Dhaka Alexander A Nikolaev on Thursday greeted BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on the occasion of the Independence Day to be marked on March 26. The envoy also sent another greetings card to BNP vice chairman Shamser Mobin Chowdhury.  Abul Hossain, driver of

KHULNA: Law enforcers detained at least 39 people in special overnight drives conducted in Khulna, Chittagong and Moulvibazar districts on Thursday.In Khulna, 30 people including three Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Shibir activists were arrested from several areas of the.Khulna

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted five cocktails in Mohammadpur and Topkhana road areas of the city Wednesday evening.Mohammadpur Thana operation officer told banglanews that they were informed about blast of four cocktails in front of Shampa Market at Adabar Link Road around 7pm.Meanwhile,

DHAKA: A police constable received splinter injuries in front of Notre Dame College in city’s Arambagh area as a group of miscreants blasted a cocktail in the area on Wednesday afternoon.Witness said that the blockaders hurled a cocktail aiming at the police constable who was

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina categorically said the trial and execution of the verdicts against the war criminals will continue in spite of violences being carried out by the BNP-led alliance.She made the assertions on Wednesday afternoon while addressing a discussion at

DHAKA: BNP will participate in the elections of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Chittagong City Corporation (CCC).Sources from the party think-tanks on Wednesday told banglanews that they would select candidates who have relatively clean

ISHWARDI (PABNA): Bandhan Khandakar, a Bangladesh Chhatra League leader in Ishwardi upazila, was shot dead in broad daylight in the district on Wednesday.The victim was general secretary of Muladuli Union unit of ruling Awami League’s student affiliate Bangladesh Chhatra

DHAKA: Police nabbed a youth from the road in front of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in city’s Gulshan area on Wednesday noon.The detainee is named as Sujon.Confirming the matter Gulshan Thana sub-inspector (SI) Mohiuddin Alam told banglanews that the youth came to

CHITTAGONG: Police detained 10 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in drives conducted at Government Haji Mohammad Mohsin College and its adjescent areas in Chittagong on Wednesday.The port city Detective Branch of Police additional deputy

MOULVIBAZAR: Miscreants chopped an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami to death in Kathaltoli Bazar under Borolekha Upazila of the district on Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Jalal Ahmed, 33, son of late Mortofa Ali of BOC Kheshrigul village of the upazila. Victim’s sister Minira Begum

KURIGRAM: Police nabbed 16 female activists of Jamaat-e-Islami Suicide Squad from Baguarchar village Upazila Rowmari Upazila of the district. Mohammad Tabarak Ullah, Kurigram Superintendent of Police (SP), confirmed the matter to banglanews. Police sources said a team of police

JESSORE: Police detained 78 persons conducting overnight drives in different parts of the district on Wednesday.Confirming the matter Jessore district police control room sources said that the detainees were accused of several cases.They will be produced to the court soon, the sources

DHAKA: State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal claimed that BNP joint-secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed is in hiding.Asaduzzaman came up with this assertion while speaking at a discussion organized on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth anniversary in city’s

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained at least 106 persons in special drives conducted in Jessore, Dinajpur and Satkhira districts on Tuesday.Jessore police control room sources said that the detainees are accused of several.Moreover, 41 persons including three Jamaat-Shibir activists were held