RANGAMATI: A dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by Parbatya Jubo Front, a platform of Bangali youths, who are living in hill tracts area, is underway in the district on Thursday. The strike is being observed demanding the release of three forest officials, kidnapped from Langadu on November

DHAKA: Krishak Shramik Janata League (KSJL) President Abdul Kader Siddique on Wednesday said he is waiting for moments when police would come to arrest him.   He came up with the assertion while talking to journalists in a press conference at his residence at Mohammadpur of the

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 has fixed November 16 as the date of presenting arguments against Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Abdus Subhan on legal points as the prosecution’s arguments on allegations completed on Wednesday. The three-member tribunal led by Justice

KISHOREGANJ: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is addressing a mass rally organized by the 20-party alliance at Gurudoyal College ground in the district on Wednesday afternoon. The BNP chief took seat on stage as the chief guest of the rally around 3:45pm. She is expected to address the

DHAKA: The fourth session of the 10th parliament will sit on Thursday.On October 28, President M Abdul Hamid called the fourth session as per section 72 (1) of the constitution.The 10th Parliament came into being after the January 5 general elections. The lawmakers sworn in on January

SHERPUR: At least 10 people were injured as two groups of Awami League locked into a clash on Sribordy upazila of the district on Tuesday centering forming AL committee.Police sources said that supporters of upazila chairman Ashraf Hossain Khoka and Sherpur-3 constituency lawmaker

DHAKA:  Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliament Affairs Ministry ordered to finish all activities of August 21 grenade attack case by 2015.The decision came from a standing committee meeting in the Parliament on Tuesday evening.The committee chairman Suranjit

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said the relation between Bangladesh and China is very strong and it will be stronger in future.“The existing relation will help expand business between the two countries and it will strengthen the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against Krishak Sramik Janata League president Abdul Quader Siddique on a defamation case.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh issued the arrest warrant as he failed to appear before the court for long time

JESSORE: A Jessore court on Tuesday sent 18 leaders and activists, including general secretary Munir Ahmed Siddiki Bacchu, of district BNP unit to jail in a case filed under Anti-Terrorism Act and Explosives and Substances Act.District senior judicial magistrate Abu Idrahim handed

RANGPUR: A Juba League leader was allegedly chopped dead in an infighting at Satmatha area of Sadar town early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Imran. Sources said, Imran’s opponents within the party chopped him at Satmatha, leaving him critically injured. Locals rushed him to

DHAKA: The newly formed Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) central committee on Monday suspended three leaders of the rebel group.The suspended leaders are former JCD vice-president Abu Syed, former organizing secretary Anisur Rahman Talukder Khokon and incumbent

CHITTAGONG: Islami Chhatra Shibir President of Chittagong North unit was detained again on Monday.Sources told banglanews that the detainee, Kutubuddin Shibli, was held around 2:30pm from in front of Chittagong Central Jail just after he was freed.However, this time he was held by a

SHERPUR: Another sedition case has been filed against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for making derogatory remarks on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.District Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) president Monirul Islam Liton filed the lawsuit with the court of District Chief

DHAKA: A Dhaka court has deferred until December 15 the recording of deposition in the case against 147 BNP and 18-party men including BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and former chief whip Zainul Abedin Farroque over vandalism in front of BNP’s Naya Paltan central

DHAKA: Two rival groups of ruling Awami League (AL) locked into a clash centering sitting at a rally at city’s Bangabandhu Avenue on Monday afternoon.Sources said members of 56 Ward Awami League unit (Ramna) and the followers of Elias Uddin Molla of Mirpur locked into the clash.The

DHAKA: BNP acting general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday categorically said information minister Hasanul Haque Inu and his accomplices tried to oust the then Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman led government after liberation war.Fakhrul made the remarks while

GAZIPUR: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday categorically said that there would be no dialogue with BNP whose hands are colored with the blood of martyrs.The ruling Awami League lawmaker came up with the assertion while addressing a rally at Tongi on the occasion of 64th

DHAKA: The former president and Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad urged people to observe November 10 as ‘Democracy Day’.He made the assertion in a statement Sunday afternoon.According to the statement, Ershad, who is also a special envoy to the Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina, claimed

GAZIPUR: At least 30 people, including six bullet-hit, were injured in a clash between law enforcers and BNP men in the city on Sunday.The six bullet-hit injured are counselor Shirin Chaklader of Gazipur City Corporation, BNP activists Jahangir Alam, Yunus Mia, Rasheda Begum,