DHAKA: Law enforcers detained at least 169 people, including 90 leaders-activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, in separate drives across the country apprehending sabotage during nationwide hartal and blockade.Banglanews Correspondents reported from the respective areas.In capital, some

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained at least 169 people, including 90 leaders-activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, in separate drives across the country apprehending sabotage during nationwide hartal and blockade.Banglanews Correspondents reported from the respective areas.In capital, some 27

DHAKA: Pickets set fire to a passenger bus at Mirpur section-1 in Dhaka on Wednesday noon. The arson attack took place around 1:15pm in Diabari area. Fire service duty officer Farhaduzzaman told banglanews that the bus of Classic Paribahan was set ablaze by allegedly hartal supporters. On

DHAKA:  Detective Branch of Police detained two former lawmakers of BNP Ashraf Uddin Nizam and Nazim Uddin Ahmed from capital’s Motijheel area on Wednesday noon.A team of DB police picked up them when they went there to meet Kader Siddiqui.Despite several attempts, DMP media center

NARAYANGANJ: At least four pedestrians were injured when blockade and hartal supporters exploded hand-made bombs targeting on-duty police in Deubhog area of the city on Tuesday night.Witnesses said prior to the attack on police, blockaders blasted a pair of hand-made bombs that

DINAJPUR:  Five people were injured when hartal supporters vandalized eight trucks at Kanchan Bridge, on outskirts of the district town, Wednesday morning.General people caught one anarchist Tafail Hossain, 25, and handed him over to police.Locals said eight trucks, on arrival at

COMILLA: Two cases were filed against BNP chief Khaleda Zia and 71 local 20-party activists over Tuesday’s petrol bomb attack that killed 7 passengers in a bus in Chuadduagram.Sub-Inspector Nuruzzaman filed the case on Wednesday morning.Seven people were burnt to death on the spot

DHAKA: A total of 20 BNP leaders and activists, including its joint secretary general Amanullah Aman and Dhaka city BNP unit member secretary Habib Un Nabi Khan Sohel, also president of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebok Dal, were sued for sabotages. Police on Tuesday filed two separate

JESSORE: A total of 43 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its major ally Jamaat-e-Islami were sued over an arson attack in Monirampur upazila of the district.Monirampur Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) Siraj, on Tuesday night, filed the lawsuit making 43 BN

DHAKA: The hartal that extended by BNP-led 20-party alliance is underway across the country on Wednesday amid stray incidents of violence. Earlier, the alliance, which has been observing a 72-hour countrywide hartal, beginning from Sunday morning, expanded the shutdown till 6:00pm

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted some cocktails in front of a school in city’s Shahzadpur area on Tuesday evening.Sources said miscreants hurled the cocktails in front of Cambrian School and College in the area during the ongoing nationwide hartal and indefinite blockade called by BNP-led

DHAKA: A passenger bus was torched in city’s Gabtoli area Tuesday afternoon soon after the extension of the ongoing 72-hour hartal of BNP-led 20-party alliance to Thursday evening.Sources said miscreants set fire to the bus around 4:00pm.Witnesses said that the bus used to plying from

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on a 5-day fresh remand in a vandalism case filed with Motijheel Thana.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Emdadul Haque passed the remand order after Detective Branch (DB) sub-inspector Anwar

DHAKA: Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan on Tuesday announced that all drivers will blow their vehicle horns on Thursday noon protesting the countrywide violence amid blockade enforced by BNP.The minister made the announcement when addressing a pretest rally in front of the National

KHULNA: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) on Tuesday called 72-hour hartal in the district starting from 6:00am Wednesday.A press release was issued, regarding the shutdown, by Khulna city Chhatra Dal general secretary SM Kamal Hossain and district Chhatra Dal general secretary Ebadul Haque

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance has extended hartal till 6:00pm Thursday (January 5) protesting case against the party leaders, including BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed made the disclosure through a press release on Tuesday.The release said the

DHAKA: Jatiya Ganatantrik Party (JAGPA) has called dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) in city for Wednesday in protest of the detention of its Dhaka city committee general secretary Sanaullah Sanu.JAGPA general secretary Khandaker Lutfur Rahman announced the shutdown in the morning

DHAKA: Miscreants exploded a pair of cocktails on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhammondi area of the city on Tuesday.The blast occurred at 11:20am when the leaders and activists of ruling Awami League were taking preparation to bring out an anti-hartal procession.However, no causality and

DHAKA: Miscreants torched another passenger bus in city’s Mirpur area on Monday night.Fire Service sources said that the hartal-blockaders set fire to a passenger bus in the area around 7:45pm.On information, two fire fighting units rushed in and doused the blaze.No one was reportedly

DHAKA: Miscreants set fire to a passenger bus in front of DESCO office in Gulshan-1 area of the city Monday evening.Fire Service duty officer Nilufar Yeasmin told banglanews that the miscreants set fire to the bus around 7:40pm.“On information, two fire fighting units were sent,” she