DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is determined to join the January 5 street movement ignoring all kind of government restrictions. She will come out of her Gulshan residence this time and join the programme, said a competent source of the party. Khaleda Zia wants to stay besides the

DHAKA: The leaders of pro-BNP lawyers’ platform Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum (JAF), UK unit are apparently disobeying the orders of BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman on formation of a full committee of JAP. Tarique, also elder son of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, asked the leaders

CHITTAGONG: An Awami League (AL) activist was shot dead by miscreants in Kanchana Fultala area under Satkania upazila on Friday.The deceased was identified as Jamal Uddin, 32, son of Badi Alam.Officer-in-charge (OC) of Satkania Thana Khaled Hossain told banglanews that four miscreants

FENI: At least 20 people including local traders were injured in a clash between Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and law enforcement agency personnel on Friday afternoon.Traffic plying on Shahid Shahidullah Kaiser road was halted for around two and a half hours due to the clash.Witnesses

DHAKA: Terming BNP leaders and activists as “Paper Tigers” incumbent Awami League (AL) joint general secretary Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif on Friday said they would not be in the field on January 5 though they are now threatening the government.He made the assertion while briefing the

SYLHET: Miscreants threw cocktails aiming the vehicle of former mayor of Sylhet City Corporation Badar uddin Ahmed Kamran, who is also metropolitan Awami League president, in Pathantula area of the town on Friday.Kamran told banglanews that some miscreants who were riding motorcycles

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Dr Abdul Moin Khan on Friday categorically said that the BNP-led 20-party leaders and activists will stay on street even if they do not get permission for holding rally. He made the observation after placing floral wreaths to Zia’s grave at

DHAKA: Gono Forum president, also constitution maker Dr Kamal Hossain said he will write to the Chief Justice to stop irregularities in court after investigation. He came up with this assertion in a discussion titled ‘43rd Victory Day and Human Rights Situation of Bangladesh’

DHAKA: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Khandker Mahbub Hossain on Saturday warned government of facing the “final game’ on January 5 unless seven-point demand of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is met.Mahbub said that under Khaleda’s seven-point demand, declare fresh

DHAKA:  State minister for home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal Friday said that BNP will not let to hold rally on January 5 if sabotage alarm remained.He said “We will think about the issue of giving permission to the party to hold the rally if the matter of sabotage is not feared.” The

MANAMA: Awami League Bahrain unit warned of showing zero tolerance to the slanderers of Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.The chief advisor of the unit Engineer Abul Kalam Azad was addressing a discussion at a hotel in Manama, capital city of Bahrain, organized by local

DHAKA: A joint meeting of ruling Awami League will be held at party president Sheikh Hasina’s political office in city’s Dhanmondi area on Friday.The members of parliament (MPs) of the metropolitans will attend the meeting slated to be held around 4:00pm.Thana level presidents and

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday sent Juba Dal president Moazzem Hossain Alal to jail after a five-day remand in two phases in a case over Bakshibazar clash. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Masud Ali Sheikh passed the order around 3:30pm.The court also denied the bail plea sought by

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad on Thursday claimed he did not snatch power after the murder of General Ziaur Rahman, the founder of BNP.“The power was bestowed on me to rule the country, I did not snatch it,” Ershad reiterated.He made the observations in a grand rally of

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday dismissed the defamation case filed against state minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki for her remarks against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and its senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman.The Judge of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM)

DHAKA: Chhatra Shibir activists hurled a petrol bomb in a passenger bus at Gabtoli in the capital as Jamaat enforced day-2 hartal on Thursday.Witnesses said Shibir activists brought out a sudden procession in the area at 10:10am and hurled a petrol bomb in a bus that left the bus on

DHAKA: Sylhet City Corporation mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury has been admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) early Thursday as he suddenly fell sick at Habiganj prison. Earlier on Wednesday, the detained mayor was admitted at Habiganj Sadar Adhunik Hospital around

DHAKA: The second-day’s daylong hartal, called by Jamaat-e-Islami is underway across the country in a relaxed mood on Thursday. The party, one of the key allies of BNP-led alliance,  is observing the shutdown protesting the death sentence awarded to its acting secretary general ATM

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday claimed that the national crisis created by the January 5 national elections is grave now.“The January 5 national election has turned into the greatest farce in the history of the country. The problem that was created through that election

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday alleged that the national crisis that was created by the January 5 national election is grave now.She made the allegation while addressing a press conference, the third after the January 5 general election, at her Gulshan political office in