DHAKA: Miscreants torched a bus in Nadda Bus stand area of the city on Monday.Witnesses said the Tongi-bound bus from Jatrabari was set afire presumably by blockaders in the area around 11:15am. However, none was reportedly injured as the passengers get down from the bus immediate after

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT) has issued show-cause notice to five leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir along with their lawyer Advocate Tajul Islam in accusation of contempt of court.A three-member ICT team, headed by its chairman M

DHAKA: The dawn-to-dusk hartal called by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has laxly been observing in Dhaka and 13 other adjoining districts on Monday.The districts include Narayanganj, Gazipur, Tangail, Narsingdi, Munshiganj, Manikganj,

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained BNP joint secretary general Mohammad Shahjahan along with another party activist from Gulshan in the capital on Monday morning.He has been taken to the headquarters of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).BDST: 1044 HRS, JAN 12, 2015

DHAKA: Miscreants hurled a petrol bomb to a cement-laden covered van in Rail Gate area of Gazipur district on Monday morning.Joydebpur Town Sub-Inspector (TSI) Shahidul Islam confirmed the matter to banglanews.A car also torched in Cherag Ali area of Tongi in the morning.However, none was

DHAKA: Miscreants hurled a petrol bomb to a cement-laden covered van in Rail Gate area of Gazipur district on Monday morning.Joydebpur Town Sub-Inspector (TSI) Shahidul Islam confirmed the matter to banglanews.A car also torched in Cherag Ali area of Tongi in the morning.However, none was

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has given permission to Awami League for holding its pre-scheduled rally on eleven conditions withdrawing ban on all kind of rallies, processions and gatherings. DMP additional deputy commissioner(media) Saidur Rahman confirmed the matter to

GAIBANDHA: A man was run over by a truck when he jumped out of a passenger bus to escape petrol bomb attack in Kalitola area under Gobindaganj upazila on Rangpur-Dhaka highway Sunday late night. Three other passengers of the bus sustained burn injuries in the attack presumably by

DHAKA: Miscreants torched a bus in Shewrapara bus stand area of the city on Sunday afternoon.Fire service control room operator Ziaur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said some miscreants set fire to a passenger bus of ‘Zabal-e-Nur’ transport service, in the area around

DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP, called daylong hartal for Monday Dhaka and 13 other adjoining districts in protest against confinement of their Chairperson Khaleda Zia.The other districts are Narayanganj, Gazipur, Tangail, Narsinghdi, Munshiganj, Manikganj,

DHAKA: District BNP units separately called a daylong hartal for Monday in Gazipur, Tangail, Narayanganj, Manikganj, Munshiganj, Comilla, Bogra and Noakhali (Chatkhil upazila) districts amid the nonstop countrywide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.Banglanews

DHAKA: New trucks with mud, bricks and sand have been kept in front of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in city’s Gulshan area.Seven trucks were seen parked in the area at 12:45pm while the report was filed.Five trucks are positioned in

SYLHET: An activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student affiliate of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, was killed in Sadar upazila after a mini-truck knocked him down while he was vandalizing vehicles on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Shariful Islam Sharif, 25, son of a

DHAKA: Local units of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have separately been observing hartal in four districts and an upazila since Sunday morning amid the BNP called nationwide indefinite blockade.BNP is observing dawn-to-dusk hartal in Sirajganj, Lalmonirhat, and Patuakhli

GAZIPUR: BNP-led alliance called a dawn-to-dusk hatal in the district for Monday protesting the confinement of its chief Khaleda Zia to her Gulshan office and detention of senior BNP leaders.BNP central committee organizing secretary AKM Fazlul Haque Milon, also Gazipur district BNP

PABNA: Police arrested an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islam and seized arms, explosives and leaflets from Atua Kha area of the district town on Saturday night. The detainee is identified as Shibir cadre Nur Hossain Leon, resident of the area. Police

NARAIL: Miscreants torched a Dhaka bound passenger bus in Rupganj Bazar Bus-stand area of the district town on Saturday night. Witnesses said that some miscreants hurled petrol bombs at the bus and set fire to it in the area around 9:30pm and fled the scene. Five passengers of the bus

KHULNA: Law enforcers held the vice-president of Khulna Mahanagar Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP Moshiur Rahman Jadu and two other JCD leaders from the district town on Saturday night. Dtective Branch (DB) of Police personnel held them from different areas of the

DHAKA: Two persons, including a police constable, were injured after miscreants blasted a cocktail in city’s Bangshal area on Saturday night. The injured are police constable Abdus Salam and a rickshaw puller Motaleb. Witnesses said that the duo was injured as some miscreants hurled a

DHAKA: A 14-year old school boy, Khalid Hossain, was injured as miscreants blasted two cocktails in city’s Kamrangirchar-Banagram area on Saturday night. The ill fated boy is a student of class (vii), of a local kindergarten school. Khalid’s father, Billal Hossain, said that his son