CHITTAGONG: Police in a nightlong drive arrested 16 leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in Chittagong.Among the detainees, three were BNP activists and 13 from Jamaat and its student affiliate Islami Chhatra Shibir.District additional police super (special

DHAKA: Members of Bangladesh Transport Workers League on Sunday demanded the government to arrest BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.The rally was organized in front of National Press Club in the city as a part of the protest against ongoing nationwide hartal and blockade.Speakers at the

KHULNA: Five activists of Islami Chhata Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islam, were held with four petrol bombs from a hostel of Khulna Alia Madrasa early Sunday. Confirming the matter to banglanews, Officer-in-Charge of Sadar Thana Sukumar Biswas said police held from acting on

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained a total of 23 people during separate drives across the city in the last 24 hours till Sunday morning.Of the detainees, 13 are the leaders-activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and 10 are leaders-activists of Jamaat-e-Islami.DMP

DHAKA: A fresh 72-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance, has begun across the country since Sunday morning.No acts of sabotages and arson attacks have yet been reported in the city since the shutdown has started from 6:00am.However,

FENI: The hartal and blockade supporters set fire to a passenger bus in Pachhgachhia area of the district on Saturday late night.Feni Fire Service Station Officer Jahangir Alam said that blockaders torched a bus in the area around 11:30pm.The bus was almost gutted before the fire

DHAKA: Barbed wires and a large refrigerator were brought at the political office of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night.The barbed wires were brought around 6:00pm while the refrigerator was brought around 9:00pm at her Gulshan office in the city.Confirming the matter to

MYMENSINGH: At least three persons received burn injuries as blockade and hartal supporters hurled petrol bomb aiming at a passenger bus in Kachijhuli-Shahartali area of the district on Saturday night.The injured are--- Oshad, Alamgir and Shahidul.Local and police sources said a

BARGUNA: Police held Barguna district unit Shibir president Iftekhar Hasan Farid and another activist of the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami from the district town on Saturday night. Police sources said that the law enforcers held the duo during a raid in the town around 8:00pm. The

BOGRA: At least three people sustained burn injuries as two trucks were torched by miscreants in two different places of the district on Saturday night.Witnesses said that a group of blockaders set fire to a truck on Natore-Bogra highway in Rupihar area under Shajahanpur upazila

DHAKA: Miscreants torched two passenger buses in city’s Rayerbagh and Tejgaon industrial areas Saturday night.No casualty was reported in the incidents as the passengers managed to get down from the buses immediately.Fire Service Duty Officer Bhojon Sarker told banglanews that a gang

DHAKA: A Jubo Dal leader was held with gunpowder and bomb making materials from city’s Mouchak-Malibagh area on Saturday night.The detainee is joint general secretary of Ward No-53 Jubo Dal Ramna Thana Dulal Chandra Sheel alias Bulu.Police sources said, acting on a tip off, police

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained a total of 14 people, including three members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, during separate drives across the capital. Of the detainees, 10 are the activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), three are the members of Hizb ut-Tahrir and one

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) ruled out the possibility of any dialogue on prevailing political situations with its political rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).  A meeting of AL’s executive committee unanimously decided that the party would hold no dialogue with BNP.  Prime

DHAKA: Pro-blockaders blasted eight cocktails at various areas in city Friday night.  Of those, four were blasted in front of Malibagh Super Market, one at Ramna and three at Gulshan-2 areas of the city. However, no one was reportedly injured in this connection. Rampura Thana

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party on Friday called countrywide 72-hour hartal starting from Sunday morning. The hartal will be enforced from 6:00am of Sunday to 6:00am Wednesday. BDST: 2108 HRS, FEB 06, 2015** Shibir calls countrywide hartal for Sunday  

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party vowed to continue their countrywide blockade until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina steps down from power. BNP vice chairman Major (retd) Hafiz made the announcement at a press conference at BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office Friday. He said, “BNP

COMILLA: Islami Chhatra Shibir on Friday called two day hartal in the division starting from Sunday protesting death of Chauddagram upazila unit Shibir president Sahab Uddin Patwari in a gunfight with law enforcers on Thursday night.Comilla town unit Shibir president Shah Alam

DHAKA: Leaders and activists of different organizations staged demonstration in front of National Press Club in the capital on Friday protesting sabotages and arson attacks during BNP-led 20-party alliance-sponsored blockade and hartal. They also burnt the effigy of BNP chairperson

DHAKA: Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami has called a dawn-to-dusk shutdown across the country for Sunday.The hartal was enforced protesting ‘killing, forced disappearance, vandalizing houses, arresting of the party people’.Shibir president Abdul Jabbar and