DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been sued for instigating a bomb attack on a procession, led by Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan on Monday, on its way to besiege her Gulshan office.Gulshan Thana police filed the case on Monday night accusing 13 more 20-party leaders and

CHITTAGONG: Police detained 14 activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in nightlong derives in different areas in the district on Tuesday.The detainees include four from BNP, and 10 from Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir.Chittagong district additional police

DHAKA: A group of miscreants consecutively blasted six cocktails on Johnson Road in city’s older section on Tuesday morning.No one was reportedly injured in the incident.Witnesses said that the blasts took place in front of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court on Johnson Road

GAIBANDHA: A Chhatra Shibir activist was killed in a gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Polashbari on Tuesday morning.The deceased was identified as Mostofa Monjil, 32.Confirming the matter to banglanews, assistant director of Rab-13 Ashraf Hossain Siddik said the gunfight

DHAKA: Law enforcers, in different drives in the last 24-hour, detained 16 leaders and activists of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir from various areas of the city.They were detained over alleged sabotage charges during hartal and blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party.Deputy

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi city unit Chhatra Shibir claimed that law enforcers detained three of its leaders including city president from Paba College intersection area on Monday night.The detainees are city unit Chhatra Shibir president Dr Anwarul Islam, secretary Nafis Raiyan and social

DHAKA: A fresh 72-hour hartal sponsored by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance has entered the third day on Tuesday. The shutdown began at 6:00am on Sunday and will continue till 6:00pm on Wednesday, coupled with a nationwide road-rail-waterway blockade for

DHAKA: BNP joint-secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed on Monday categorically said countrywide indefinite blockade and hartal will continue till the ‘mass’ demands are met.The top demand is holding of a general election under non-party caretaker government.The BNP leader made the

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted four cocktails in front of Dhaka National Medical College on Johnson Road in city Monday evening.Police sources said that a group of miscreants blasted four cocktails in the area around 6:15pm.No one was reportedly injured in the incident.On information, police

DHAKA: Bangladeshi film actor Helal Khan, also producer, was detained from city’s Judge Court area on Monday afternoon. Acting on a tip off, a team of Detective Branch (DB) police conducted a special drive in the area and nabbed him. DMP Media Center Assistant Commissioner

DINAJPUR: A Dinajpur court on Monday sent district BNP president Lutfur Rahman Mintu to jail rejecting his bail plea in a vandalism case and obstructing police from discharging government duties.Chief Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Syed Kamal Hossain passed the order when he

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday sent Mosaddek Ali Falu, adviser to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and former lawmaker, to jail after a 13-day remand in three phases.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tareq Mahbubur Rahman issued the order.Earlier on February 2, Falu was remanded for five days in

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday placed BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed on a three-day remand in an arson a case filed with Jatrabari Thana in the city.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Maruf Hossain passed the order after a hearing as investigation officer (IO) of the

SYLHET: At least four persons, including 18-month-old twin brothers, were injured following the blasts of a petrol bomb and three cocktails in Sylhet town on Monday.The twin brothers Nasir and Hafiz, sons of Mahbubur Rahman, hailing from Gobindaganj village under Chatak upazila of

DHAKA: At least 149 people, including 27 from the capital, were detained by police from eight districts of the country on charge of planning sabotage during ongoing hartal-blockade called by BNP-led alliance.  In capital, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), in special drives in last 24

DHAKA: Several organizations of workers and professionals lay siege to Gulshan political office of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday noon demanding withdrawal of hartal-blockade.Hundreds of people under the banner of Sromik-Kormochari-Peshajibi-Muktijoddha Somonnoy Porishod

DHAKA: Security measures have been beefed up once again around BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's office Monday ahead of the besiege program called by Sromik-Kormochari-Peshajibi-Muktijoddha Somonnoy Porishod (SKPMSP).Mohila Awami League, Sromik League, leaders-activists of several workers and

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in special drives detained 27 men of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and Hizb ut-Tahrir from different areas of the city in last 24 hours till Monday morning.DMP deputy police commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said of

DHAKA: A total of 247 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have been deployed across the country on Monday to prevent sabotage during hartal and blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance.BGB Headquarters’ public relations officer Mohammad Mohsin Reza confirmed the

DHAKA: The second day of the fresh 72-hour nationwide hartal, called by the 20-party alliance, is progressing across the country since Monday morning amid stray incidents of violence.The shutdown has started from 6:00am Sunday and will continue till 6:00am Wednesday along with