Narail: Police held the municipality mayor of Narail and also Organizing Secretary of district BNP Mohammad Zulfikar Ali Mandal on Saturday night. Sources said that the BNP leader was held by the law enforcers from his residence around 10:00pm. Narail Sadar Thana Officer-in-Charge

DHAKA: The leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP, torched two passenger buses in city’s Kataban and Dhanmondi area on Saturday night. Sources said that some JCD men set afire in the buses in the areas around 9:30pm at the sixth day of the 20-party

DHAKA: A passenger of a bus received burn injuries as some miscreants hurled petrol bomb at a passenger bus in city’s Mirpur area on Saturday night. The injured, Kazi Shafiul Alam told banglanews that some miscreants hurled petrol bomb at the bus, Projapoti Paribahan, when it reached

DHAKA: Private car of Sabihuddin Ahmed, adviser to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, was torched in city’s Gulshan area on Saturday night.Locals said that some unidentified miscreants torched his vehicle in the area around 8:55pm when it was parked in front of the residence of Khaleda’s

DHAKA: Blockaders blasted six cocktails in Pirjangi Mazar area in Kamalapur in city Saturday night.Officer-in-Charge of Kamalapur Railway Thana Abdul Majid told banglanews that a gang of 10-12 youth chanted slogans in support of blockade and left the place after blasting six

DHAKA: Blockaders blasted six cocktails at Pirjangi Mazar in Kamalapur area of the capital on Saturday night.Kamalapur Railway Thana Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdul Majid told banglanews that a gang of 10-12 youths chanted slogans supporting the ongoing blockade and left the place after

DHAKA: Blockaders set fire to nine vehicles in several places in Dhaka on Saturday evening, sixth day of the 20-party alliance’s nationwide road-rail-waterway indefinite blockade.A passenger bus was torched by the blockaders in city’s Natun Bazar area around 8:30pm.In Khilgaon, a

DHAKA: A team of former secretaries led by former cabinet secretary Abdul Halim Saturday evening met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan political office in the city.The secretaries entered at her office around 7:20pm.The former secretaries are BNP chairperson’s adviser

DHAKA: Blockade supporters set fire to a human hauler in Modhya Badda area of the capital on Saturday evening.No one, however, was injured in this connection.Witnesses said some miscreants suddenly set fire to the human hauler in the evening and managed to flee the scene.Local fire

DHAKA: Miscreants set fire to a passenger bus in Shahbagh area of the city on Saturday evening.The driver of the bus told banglanews that two miscreants got on the bus from National Press Club area and at one stage they set fire around 5:45pm at Shahbagh intersection and fled the scene

MOULVIBAZAR: Police detained 23 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in special drives in Moulvibazar.The drives were conducted in different areas of the district Saturday early morning.The detainees include Uzzal Mia (25), Nazmul

DHAKA: The respiratory related condition of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has deteriorated.Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)’s women wing Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal’s president Nure Ara Safa informed the media about the updates of Khaleda’s health Saturday. She further said, “Madam

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted three cocktails at central office of ruling Awami League in city’s Gulistan area on Saturday afternoon.Witnesses said that three cocktails were hurled targeting the central office of AL at Bangabandhu Avenue around 3:00pm.On information, police rushed to spot

DHAKA: Blockaders blasted a cocktail at Bangladesh Television (BTV) office complex in the capital on Saturday, the fifth day of nationwide blockade called by BNP.Sources told banglanews that the incident took place around 1:45pm.Witnesses said that a group of youths, who reached the

DHAKA: Local units of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) separately called a daylong hartal in Daganbhuiyan upazila of Feni, Sirajganj and Lalmonirhat districts for Sunday amid the nationwide indefinite blockade called by BNP.  Banglanews Sirajganj Correspondent reports: District BNP

DHAKA: Mentioning global rights groups Amnesty International (MI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) as the ‘agents’ of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the ruling Awami League (AL) leaders demanded end of these organizations’ activities in Bangladesh.The demand came from a

SIRAJGANJ: At least 10 people were injured when leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) locked into clash with police in the district town on Saturday - the fifth day of the nationwide blockade called by BNP. Details of the injured could not be known immediately.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday called his party leaders and activists to continue the anti-government movement by staying cautious.The BNP leader made the urge to his party people through reporters of several private

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted cocktails in front of the residence of Law Minister Anisul Haque in Banani area of the city Friday night. An Ansar member, who was on duty at the residence, was injured in the blast while a vehicle was damaged. Public Relations officer (PRO) of the law ministry

DHAKA: BNP on Friday claimed that India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah called confined BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to know about her health condition on Wednesday night.The party also repudiated the news that claimed ‘the news item on calling Khaleda by