DHAKA: The law enforcers again conducted a drive in the residence of BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas, who is also the party convener of Dhaka Metropolitan Unit, in capital’s Shahjahanpur area Friday afternoon.Sources said the plainclothes police raided his house around

DHAKA: The news item that said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India’s president Amit Shah called BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to know about her health condition is totally a false news item.Rather, the first call was from Khaleda Zia’s office in city to Amit Shah’s office, not

SYLHET: District and metropolitan BNP called daylong hartal in Sylhet district for Sunday protesting the confinement of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and demanding release of BNP leaders including acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.Sylhet district BNP joint convener

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Friday placed BNP vice chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury on five-day remand.Metropolitan Magistrate Imdadul Haque passed the order in response of 10-day remand plea sought by Shahbagh Thana inspector Shahidul Haque Bhuiyan at around 4:30pm.General Register

DHAKA: Awami League (AL) Advisory Council member Suranjit Sengupta on Friday categorically said blockade is similar to declaring war against the country.He also urged government to declare blockade as an unconstitutional, undemocratic and illegal program.He came up with the assertion

DHAKA: BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday again urged mass people and 20-party alliance leaders and activists to continue nationwide road-rail-waterway blockade with full force.He made the call at a press conference at party’s Banani office in the capital in the

NARAYANGANJ: Blockaders vandalized 17 buses and torched another in Nitaiganj and Fatulla areas of the district on Friday, the fourth-day of nationwide blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance.Witnesses said a group of 15 to 20 youths intercepted a Dhaka- bound passenger bus of

RAJSHAHI: Three activists of Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, have been arrested from Assam colony area of the district over assaulting police on Tuesday, the first day nationwide blockade called by BNP.The arrestees are Ilius Sheikh, 35, son of Abdus Samad Sheikh,

Faridpur: Jatiyatabadi Swechchasebok Dal (JSD), volunteers’ wing of BNP, on Friday announced a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district for Saturday protesting the ‘confinement’ of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to her office.District unit convening committee made the announcement at a

NARAYANGANJ:  Blockaders, from a procession, vandalized 10 vehicles in Nitaiganj area of the district on Friday, the fourth day nationwide blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance.Sources said leaders and activists of BNP, led-by its district unit president Advocate Toimur Alam

DHAKA: At least five passenger buses were torched in the capital on Thursday, the third day of BNP-led 20-party alliance called nationwide blockade.Sources told banglanews that the incidents took place at city’s Banasree, Mohakhali, Motijheel, Shantinagar and Gulistan area.According

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) vice chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury has been detained by detective branch (DB) of police on Thursday night.Plainclothes police picked him up from his Banani DOHS house in the capital around 11:00pm, sources told banglanews.The BNP leader,

DHAKA: Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) President Shawkat Mahmood, also adviser to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, on Thursday said the party chief put emphasis on continuing blockade until ensuring the victory.He was talking to journalists after meeting ‘confined’ Khaleda

DHAKA: A passerby was injured as miscreants blasted five cocktails in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on Thursday night.The cocktails blasted at 8:38pm, banglanews24.com correspondent reports.None was held in this connection.BDST: 2115 HRS, JAN 08, 2015

DHAKA: Miscreants torched two passenger buses in city’s Mohakhali and Motijheel areas during the third day of BNP-led 20-party alliance called nationwide blockade on Thursday night.Fire service sources said that blockaders set fire to a passenger bus in Mohakhali around 7:15pm while

RANGPUR: Law enforcers early Thursday filed a case under explosives act against 69 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations for blasting cocktails in various areas and vandalizing vehicles.Sub-Inspector of Kotwali Thana Saifur Rahman filed the lawsuit mentioning names of

DHAKA: Separate sedition cases were filed against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and Ekushey Television (ETV) chairman Abdus Salam on Thursday. Second officer of Tejgaon Thana sub-inspector Borhanuddin filed the case with the police station at noon. Deputy Police Commissioner

NOAKHALI: Police sued 3,500 mentioning the names of 217 people under speedy trial act following a clash with BNP-Jamaat men in Chowmuhani Bazar in Begumganj upazila of the district.Begumganj Thana sub-inspector (SI) Jisan Ahmed filed the lawsuit for killing, creating violence and

GAZIPUR: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was brought to Kashimpur Jail (Dhaka Central Jail Part-2) from Dhaka Central Jail.The prison van carrying Fakhrul reached at Kashimpur Jail around 4:43pm.Senior jail super of the jail Jahangir Kabir confirmed the matter to

GAIBANDHA: Blockaders vandalized some 50 vehicles in Maheshpur area under Palashbari upazila of the district on Thursday, the third day of the nationwide indefinite rail-road-waterway blockade, called by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.Witnesses said the picketers hurled brickbats and chips