DHAKA: Former state minster for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan was sued for demeaning Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman damaging his photo and trampled it.  President of Jananetri Parishad AB Siddiqui on Monday filed the case with Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.

DHAKA: Chhatra Dal activists blasted four cocktails in BIRDEM lane at Segunbagicha in the capital on Monday.Witnesses said some 10-12 activists of Chhatra Dal brought out a procession in the area and blasted the cocktails at 10:30am.However, police could not arrest any of the picketers.

NOAKHALI: A female school teacher was killed as a brick hit her in Noakhali while she was returning home during first hours of hartal of 20-party alliance on Monday.The deceased was identified as Shamsunnahar, 35, teacher of Tawhid Laboratory School in Dhaka. She hailed from Ramgoti

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the 20-party alliance is observing the countrywide hartal against the fascist incumbent government aimed at restoring the people’s franchise.The BNP senior leader made the remark in front of main gate in BNP central office in

DHAKA:  The countrywide daylong hartal, called by the BNP-led 20-party alliance, was observed amid stray incidents of blasts, picketing, killing and detention.The alliance observed the shutdown protesting the occupying of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gazipur rally place by Chhatra

RUPGANJ, NARAYANGANJ: Awami League backed candidate Abu Hosssin Bhuiyan Ranu elected Rupganj Sadar UP election on Sunday.Ranu got 11,705 votes with the symbol of ‘pineapple’. He had been serving as chairman for 16 years.His opponent advocate Kabir Hossain got 9,951 votes with

DHAKA: Juba Dal president Moazzem Hossain Alal has been sent to the emergency unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) as he fell sick in Chawkbazar Thana on Sunday.Officer-in-charge (OC) of Chawkbazar Thana Azizul Haque confirmed the matter. Attending Doctor Resma Akhter told

DHAKA: Three members of a family were burned as some miscreants had thrown a petrol bomb in a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in city’s Mirpur area on Sunday evening. Moreover, a rickshaw-puller was injured as a cocktail blasted near Teacher-Student Center (TSC) intersection in Dhaka University

DHAKA: Hartal supporters set fire to a bus of the secretariat at city’s Paltan area on Sunday evening on the eve of 20-party’s Monday’s hartal. Sources told banglanews that the incident took place around 6:25pm in front of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) office. However, the bus

DHAKA: A court Sunday deferred the hearing of charge framing against 23 Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders and activists including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir until January 20 next year. They are accused of vandalism and arson. The court of Dhaka

DHAKA: Food minister Qamrul Islam warned the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) saying that all of the party’s leaders will be held if they create any violence during the upcoming hartal. The minister, in the Awami League (AL) extended meeting organized by its metropolitan

DHAKA: A court on Sunday placed Juba Dal president Moazzem Hossain Alal on 3-day remand in a case over Bakshibazar clash.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh passed the order around 3:00pm in response to 10-day remand plea sought by police Inspector (investigation)

HABIGANJ: At least 30 people, including Habiganj Sadar Thana Officer-in-Charge (OC), were injured in a clash held between local BNP men and police on Sunday.Sources told banglanews that the BNP men locked into the clash with the law enforcers following a district court sent the

DHAKA: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet the opposition leader Rowshan Ershad at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in city on Monday morning.Wang Yi arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a three-day visit at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterpart AH Mahmood Ali.The Chinese minister had

DHAKA: Chhatra Dal activist Kawser Hossain, 35, regained consciousness on Saturday after he had been critically injured in Bakshibazar clash on December 24 and undergoing treatment at a Mohakhali hospital.  Hospital sources said doctors will conduct a surgical operation of the activist

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday issued an arrest warrant against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in a defamation case filed for calling Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujubur Rahman a ‘Razakar’.Dhaka district Chhatra League assistant General secretary Abdul Aziz lodged the lawsuit with

JHENAIDAH: One killed and 15 others injured in a clash between two factions of Awami League over establishing supremacy in East Gopalpur village under Shailkupa Sunday.The deceased was identified as Abdul Kuddus, 55.BDST: 1243 HRS, DEC 28, 2014

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi condemned the arrest of Gayeshwar Chanda Roy and Moazzem Hossain Alal. In a press briefing at party’s Nayapaltan central office on Sunday morning, the BNP leader also demanded immediate non-conditional release of the detained top

RUPGANJ, NARAYANGANJ: Polling in the Rupganj union parishad (UP) elections is underway on Sunday some 11 years after the last polls amid tight security. The voting began at 8:00am and will continue till 4:00pm at a stretch. Sources concerned of election office said a total of 28,566

DHAKA: Police detained Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, president of BNP's youth wing Jubo Dal, from his residence at Lalmatia in the city Saturday night. In a joint drive, Detective Branch of police and Mohammadpur Thana picked up Alal around 11:30am and later took him to the thana. BNP