COMILLA: Local unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Friday announced a dawn-to-dusk haral for Sunday across the district. Comilla (south) district unit organizing secretary Mostaf Mian made the announcement in the afternoon. BNP called the shutdown in protest of filing

DHAKA: Miscreants torched a bus near Mayor Hanif Flyover in city’s Gulistan area Friday afternoon. Duty officer Nilufar Akhter of Fire Service told banglanews that some miscreants torched the bus in the area around 3:00pm that created panic in the area. However, there was no report of

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed on Friday announced that the enduring countrywide blockade will continue during the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations. Rizvi, in a statement, made the announcement in response to requests

DHAKA: At least 355 suspected anarchists, including a mentionable number of leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami, were detained from 11 districts of the country including the capital.Detective Branch (DB) of police detained three suspected petrol bomb attackers

JHENAIDAH: The district unit of Chhatra Dal, student wing of BNP, called a 24-hour-long hartal from Sunday morning in the district protesting the arrest of its convener Ariful Islam Anan.The announcement came in a media statement signed by district Chhatra Dal joint convener Abul Bashar

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud has termed BNP as the enemy of humanity and Islam.He went on to say “The almighty Allah has become disappointed to the BNP chief for hurling petrol bombs at the Muslim devotees during Biswa Ijtema in

DHAKA: Blockaders set fire to a passenger bus at city’s Tanti Bazar on Friday morning, the 25th straight days of the non-stop countrywide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.Locals told banglanews that the Victor Paribahan bus was torched around 8:30am. However, no one

DHAKA: Opposition leader Begum Raushan Ershad appointed Selim Uddin, a lawmaker of Jatiya Party (JP) from Sylhet-2 constituency, as the party’s whip of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad.A press release signed by Raushan’s JS office information and public relations M Mamun Hasan was issued

DHAKA: Seven standing committee members of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Thursday expressed their deep condolences and sympathy to their chairperson Khaleda Zia over the recent demise of her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko.The BNP leaders met Khaleda at her Gulshan’s

JESSORE: District unit BNP called 24-hour hartal in the district for Sunday protesting cocktail blasts in BNP leaders’ house and business enterprise, filing false cases against them and harassment by police.District BNP organizing secretary Delwar Hossain Khokon confirmed the matter to

DHAKA: Six standing committee members of BNP went to their party chief Khaleda Zia’s political office in Gulshan Thursday night.The leaders, Dr RA Gani, Barrister Maudud Ahmed, Dr Abdul Moin Khan, Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia, Nazrul Islam Khan and Sarwari Rahman, gradually reached

DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday, enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance in Dhaka and eight neighboring districts ended.The other districts are Gazipur, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Tangail, Kishoreganj, Narsingdi and Mymensingh.Earlier, BNP Dhaka division organizing

DHAKA: Special Envoy to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and also Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad claimed that currently the country’s democracy is limited in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka and in the Parliament House.The JP chief said to the media after a token mass hunger strike on

SYLHET: The local unit of Chhatra Dal, student wing of BNP, has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Sylhet district for Sunday.Sylhet metropolitan Chhatra Dal president Nurul Alam Siddique Khaled confirmed the matter of hartal on Thursday.However, Chhatra Dal announced the hartal protesting

DHAKA: At least 335 people, including a mentionable number of leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami, were detained from the city and 12 different districts of the country.They were nabbed from the capital and Brahmanbaria, Jessore, Satkhira, Khulna, Habiganj,

BARISAL: Law enforcers detained district (west) unit Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Habibur Rahman for his alleged involvement in sabotage.A team of police picked up the Jamaat leader at 10:00am Thursday from in front of City College of the town.Legal action would be taken against him, said

DHAKA: A special court Thursday deferred the deposition submission in the Zia Charitable and Orphanage Trust Graft cases against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and others till February 25.Newly appointed Judge of Special Judge Court-3 Abu Ahmed Jamadar adjourned the deposition recording

DHAKA: Leaders and activists of Jatiya Party (JP) started the token mass hunger strike on Thursday morning in protest against the ongoing ‘violent politics’.The token mass strike began at 11:35am on party’s Kakrail office premises in the city with its Dhaka City (south) convener

BRAHMANBARIA: Police detained 104 people, including 12 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), across the district between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.Police did not disclose the detailed identities of the detainees.Of them, 12 BNP men were shown

DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance, is underway in Dhaka and eight neighboring districts since Thursday morning.The other districts are Gazipur, Narayanganj, Munshiganj, Manikganj, Tangail, Kishoreganj, Narsingdi and Mymensingh.Earlier, BNP Dhaka Division