DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance Tuesday extended its ongoing countrywide hartal for 48-hour more. As per new decision, the hartal will now continue till 6:00am Friday.Joint Secretary General of BNP Salahuddin Ahmed made the announcement through a press release on Tuesday afternoon.

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained a total of 22 people during separate drives across the city in the last 24 hours till Tuesday morning.Of the detainees, 17 are the leaders-activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and 5 are Jamaat-e-Islami.DMP deputy commissioner

DHAKA: The fifth session of 10th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) is scheduled to be resumed Tuesday afternoon after five days’ adjournment.The 14th day’s proceedings of the parliament will start at 4:30pm.On February 4, Deputy Speaker M Fazle Rabbi Mia adjourned the session till 4:30pm of

MYMENSINGH: Miscreants torched two passenger buses by hurling petrol bombs at them in Tarakanda and Trishal areas of the district on Monday night and early Tuesday. Tarakanda Police sources said that a gang of miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at a passenger bus, Shymoli Bangla Paribahan,

DHAKA: Two rickshaw pullers were injured as miscreants blasted a cocktail in city’s Chawk Bazar area on Monday.The injured are identified as Rubel and Saddam.Police sources said that miscreants blasted cocktails around 7:00pm in the area, leaving them injured.However, the injured were

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed on Monday categorically said the anti-government movements would continue until the government steps down. The spokesperson for the party made the forewarning in a press release issued in the afternoon. He also urged the Prime Minister

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed on Monday categorically said prevailing anti-government movements would continue until the fall of the incumbent government. The spokesperson for the party made the forewarning in a press release issued in the afternoon. He also urged

DHAKA: Two local leaders of the ruling Awami League were slaughtered in Noakhali and Bogra districts on Monday.The deceased were identified as Babul, 55, upazila AL member and also Member of Charmatua Union Ward No-2 under Sadar upazila in Noakhali and Shamsul Haque, 50, AL

DHAKA: At least 128 leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami were detained in nightlong drives in six districts.Banglanews district correspondents on Monday report:Mymensingh: Police detained 15 leaders and activists of Jamaat’s student front Islami Chhatra Shibir

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif alleged that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is unleashing violence countrywide following the prescription of foreigners. The spoke person for the party made the assertion in a press conference at AL president’s

NOAKHALI: Miscreants slaughtered a member of local Awami League (AL) in Charmatua Union No 2 Ward under Sadar upazila of the district early Monday.The deceased was identified as Babul, 55, upazila AL member and also Member of Charmatua Union No. 2 Ward.Charmatua Union Parishad chairman

NILPHAMARI: Blockaders allegedly vandalized a car of a ruling Awami League (AL) district unit cultural secretary Arifa Sultana in Syedpur Upazila of the district on Sunday night.Police, however, detained two Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists from the area after the incident.The

DHAKA: Claiming that the law enforcers ‘murdered and kidnapped’ many leaders of BNP-led 20-party alliance in the last one  month, BNP sent a list in this regard to international human rights organizations and foreign embassies.The party also requested international human rights

DHAKA: At least five students were injured in several cocktails blast in Central Shaheed Minar and Teacher-Student Center (TSC) areas on Dhaka University (DU) campus Sunday evening.The injured are Imdadul Haque Imon, 22, DU student of History Department; Sabjia Sampa, 20, student of

SATKHIRA: Law enforcers arrested district unit Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer and also former lawmaker Abdul Khaleque Mandal.He was arrested from Khalilnagar village of Satkhira Sadar upazila on Sunday evening.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Sadar Thana Officer-in-Charge Golam Rahman said

BOGRA: A Juba League activist was killed in a clash between two groups over establishing supremacy in Fultala area of Shahjahanpur upazila of the district on Sunday.The deceased was identified as Ranju Pramanik, 40, son of late Shukur Ali of the area.Shahjahanpur Thana Officer-in-Charge

PATUAKHALI: Miscreants chopped a BNP affiliate Jubo Dal leader to death in Chakamaiya Bazar area under Kalapara upazila of the district Sunday afternoon. The victim was identified as M Monir Hossain Talukder, 35, general secretary of Chakamaiya Union Parishad Jubo Dal unit. Kalapara

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League (AL)-led 14-party alliance asked the government to take tougher actions against BNP-led 20-party alliance for killing people during the ongoing hartal and blockade.They made the plea Sunday afternoon while forming a human chain in the capital as part of the

DHAKA: Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury has claimed that if the incumbent government completes its present tenure, the electricity will be so much available that it would be sold like hawkers.The minister came up with this assertion while addressing a seminar titled ‘Biotism Crops

DHAKA: Two Dhaka courts on Sunday granted four-day remand to Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, vice-chairman of BNP and Shamsuzzaman Dudu, adviser to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrates Jahangir Hossain and Hasibul Haque passed the orders in respective courts in this