DHAKA: All bars have been removed from BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office early Monday. Member of law enforcement agencies have been withdrawn. After 16 day’s of her ‘confinement’, she can come out of her office.Additional police, water cannon and police van left the

BOGRA: District police in several drives detained a total of 79 people, including 11 BNP-Jamaat men, from different areas of Bogra district.Identities of the detainees could not be known immediately, sources told banglanews.According to them, the drives were held between 6:00am of Friday

DHAKA: Police attempted several times to break lock of BNP central office in city’s Naya Paltan area, claimed the party’s joint secretary general Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.The BNP leader, who has been staying inside the office along with some other BNP leaders and activists by

DHAKA: Rejecting the possibilities of talks and midterm polls, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Saturday said necessary steps would be taken if anyone takes laws into their own hands.The minister made the assertion while talking to journalists about the situation of last year’s

FENI: Police arrested at least 55 activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in a case following a clash with police.Feni town police outpost in-charge Sub-Inspector (SI) Kalam Hossain on Saturday filed the case with Feni Model

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to hold a meeting with senior leaders of the party, including acting secretary general, standing committee members and top leaders of Dhaka city BNP committee on Wednesday night.Party media wing sources said the meeting would commence at

DHAKA: A mobile court awarded two years imprisonment to a young man for torching the vehicle of MP Chhabi while he was going to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).Executive Magistrate Sarwar Alam passed the order on Wednesday afternoon.The convict is Afzal Hossain, 22, a third year

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League MP (Netrokona-1) Chhabi Biswas was injured as miscreants attacked him and set fire to his vehicle in front of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday.Sources said the Durgapur-Kalmakanda constituency lawmaker is undergoing treatment at DMCH as he

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta on Saturday categorically said that the Dhaka City Corporations elections will be held within the next two or three months. All the parties, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), will join the polls, he added.

KANCHPUR (NARAYANGANJ): Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia threatened to wage a tougher movement if the prices of gas, electricity and fuel are increased.“The tougher movement will be enforced from the day after the government will hike the prices of energy,

NARAYANGANJ: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said ruling Awami League government is a burden to countrymen.“The government is torturing, abducting and killing people. They have no right to stay in power as they have become burden to people for wrong doings,” she said.She

NARAYANGANJ: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has reached the Narayanganj rally venue at 3:45pm to whip up public support for the demand of immediate election under non-party government.She will address the mass rally, organized by 20-party alliance, within few minutes on Saturday

SAVAR: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is threatening for mass upsurge as she experienced repeated failure to get responses from people.The minister was addressing the inaugural ceremony of extended building of Visitor

NARAYANGANJ: Activists of two factions of local BNP locked into chase and counter chase just after the rally of 20-party-alliance started at 12:30pm Saturday at Kanchpur Balurmath in Sonargaon.   Witnesses said that supporters of Sonargaon BNP general secretary Azharul Islam Mannan and

FROM NARAYANGANJ: A mass rally, organized by 20-party alliance, has begun with the recitation from the holy Quran at Kanchpur Balurmath in Sonargaon upazila of the district Saturday noon. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson and also the alliance leader Khaleda Zia is expected

DUBAI: A speedy pick-up collided with a private car on Sharjah-Fujairah-Maliha highway of Sharjah in United Arab Emirates (UAE) Friday morning, killing a man and injuring two others. The deceased was identified as Shafiqul Islam, general secretary of Awami League’s (AL) Ajman unit in

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia on Friday categorically said there is no alternative of mass upsurge to get rid of incumbent government. He further said they have to prove themselves to people as reliable and stage mass movement against the government.

KUSHTIA: Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu on Friday categorically said that Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is recognized as war criminal party.He made the remark while talking to journalists before attending a meeting of the recruitment committee of Bheramara Degree College in the

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance will stage rallies in upazilas aiming to uphold their position to the nation and prevent the conspiracy of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami. The decision came after an alliance meeting at AL president Sheikh Hasina’s political office in city’s

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed February 12 as a date of charge framing hearing against Quader Siddique in a defamation case for calling former Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir a Razakar. Additional Judge of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court Ali Masud Sheikh fixed the