DHAKA: Central leaders of the ruling Awami League (AL) will meet their party chief and also prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday.They are scheduled to meet the PM at her official residence Ganabhaban on Thursday evening.Sources confirmed the matter to banglanews.According to the

DHAKA: Members of Islami Chhatra Shibir of Jagannath University unit brought out a brisk procession in city’s Dholaikhal area and blasted a series of cocktails.The incident took place at 1:15pm on Thursday.Police and witnesses said that a group of Shibir activists of Jagannath

LONDON: Pro-Awami League lawyers, living in the UK, lodged a complaint against BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman at the UK Home Office for ‘provoking’ violence in the British-Bangladeshi community.The lawyers requested the authorities concerned “to take necessary actions

DHAKA: Police on Thursday unlocked the main gate of Gulshan political office where BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been confined for last couple of days.The gate was unlocked at 11:45am while the north gate is still locked.However Officer-in-Charge of Gulshan Thana Rafiqul Islam said,

GAZIPUR: District BNP leaders requested BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to withdraw or relax blockade ahead of Biswa Ijtema that going to be started on January 9 at Tongi.Kaliakoir Municipality Mayor, also member of BNP central committee Mujubur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews

DHAKA: The day-long hartal, called by Jessore unit of BNP, is progressing in the district on Thursday amid stray incidents of vandalism, picketing. The party-men are observing the shutdown in protest against filing case against 49 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat.Hartal supporters

DHAKA: Chhatra Shibir activists blasted three cocktails and vandalized some human haulers and auto-rickshaws at Banasreee area in the capital on Thursday as 20-party’s non-stop blockade underway.Earlier, a group of Shibir activists led by Dhaka East Shibir president Rezaul Haq brought

DHAKA:  Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia’s condition has improved, said her adviser Sabih Uddin Ahmed. He disclosed the update of Khaleda Zia’s health condition while talking to the reporters after coming out of her Gulshan office at 11:30pm Wednesday.

MOULVIBAZAR: Blockaders allegedly removed fishplates of rail track in Kulaura upazila of the district early Thursday, causing derailment of fives bogies and engine of Udayan Express that left over 100 people injured.The derailment took place amid the third day of nationwide blockade in

DHAKA: A local leader was killed and nine others were injured in a clash between two groups over establishing supremacy at Kaliganj upazila of the district on Wednesday evening.The deceased was identified as Ananda Mohan Ghosh, 25, president of Kula Union Awami League and son of Fatik

DHAKA: A youth was injured critically as miscreants blasted four cocktails in Rayerbagh area of the city on Wednesday evening.The injured is M Arif, 25, conductor of a bus.M Arif told banglanews that he along with passengers of the bus tried to escape listening to the rumour that

DHAKA: Miscreants torched five vehicles in Madhya Badda, Paltan, Azimpur, Sadarghat and Mirpur areas of the city on Wednesday evening, on the second day of nationwide blockade imposed by BNP-led 20-party alliance.Miscreants torched a passenger bus of Projapoti Paribahan in the evening,

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Wednesday called a half-day hartal in Manikganj district for Thursday protesting the confinement of party chief Khaleda Zia.BNP’s district unit will be observe the hartal from 6:00am to 12:00 noon on the day, said a press release signed by

DHAKA: At least 27 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islam were held by the law enforcers in Moulvibazar and Chandpur districts from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning.Our Moulvibazar correspondent said that police held 16 BNP and Jamaat men in special drives in the district

DHAKA: On behalf of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, party joint general secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Wednesday urged the BNP-led 20-party men to continue their countrywide blockade.He made the call through a video-message from an unknown place in the afternoon.Rizvi said, “Khaleda Zia is

DHAKA:  A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to jail in a case filed with Paltan Thana on charge of instigating violence.Metropolitan Magistrate passed the order after Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police produced

NETROKONA: Police on Wednesday nabbed Mojibur Rahman Chowdhury, BNP secretary of Madan upazila of the district.He was held around 9:30am during picketing from Puran Thana intersection area of the upazila on the second day of the nationwide indefinite rail-road-waterway blockade sponsored

RAJSHAHI: Some 11 activists of Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, were detained from different areas of the district for attacking policemen and snatching their firearms.The detainees are Masud Rana, Mostafijur Rahman, Rabiul Islam, Naiar, Jony, Ramzan,

MANIKGANJ: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called a half-day hartal in the district for Thursday protesting the confinement of party chief Khaleda Zia.The strike, declared by BNP’s district unit, will be observed from 6:00am to 12:00 noon on the day, said a press release

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail for four weeks to five pro-BNP lawyers, including Barrister Khandaker Mahbub Hossain and Advocate Sanaullah Miah, in an attempt to murder of police case.A HC bench of Justice Syed A. B. Mahmudul Huq and Justice Kashefa