DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami has called countrywide 24-hour hartal from Thursday morning protesting the death sentence to Mir Quasem Ali for war crimes.Earlier in the day, International Crimes Tribunal-2 awarded death sentence to top financier of Jamaat and intellectuals’ killer Mir

DHAKA: Police in several night-long drives detained over 75 Jamaat-Shibir activists and recovered 24 bombs raiding in Pabna, Noakhali, Tangail and Feni districts till Sunday morning. Officer-in-Charge of Special Branch of Pabna police Abdul Hannan said 45 Jamaat-Shibir men were arrested

DHAKA: Power supply across country became normal on Saturday midnight after over 12 hours-long outages due to collapses on national grid. The grid was collapsed at least twice, first at around 12:00 in the noon and secondly in the evening on Saturday. The whole country faced power

DHAKA: The second phase of countrywide 72-hour hartal, called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami protesting its Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami’s death sentence, is underway from Sunday dawn. However, the 48-hour shutdown, beginning from 6:00am, will end on Tuesday morning. Earlier, Jamaat

DHAKA: Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, activists brought out sudden processions, vandalized vehicles and blasted cocktails in city’s Shahjahanpur and Lalbagh areas on Saturday evening.Sources said that a group of Shibir activists brought out the procession at

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami will observe the 48-hour second phase hartal from 6:00am Sunday to 6:00am Tuesday protesting death penalty to party’s Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami.Earlier, Jamaat marked the 1st phase of three-day hartal across the country amid stray incidents of picketing,

KHULNA: Jamaat-e-Islami on Saturday announced that Khulna city would remain out of purview of hartal for Monday due to the second test cricket match between Bangladesh and visiting Zimbabwe.City Jamaat unit Ameer Maulana Abu Kalam Azad made the announcement on Saturday evening.On

FROM NATORE: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said the incumbent government has become detached from people.He was addressing a mass rally, organized by 20-party alliance at Nabab Siraj-ud-Doula Government College

FROM NATORE: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has claimed that the government is using law enforcers for “political murders”. The BNP chairperson made the allegation while addressing a mass rally at Siraj-Ud-Daula College ground on Saturday afternoon.Khaleda Zia also termed incumbent

FROM NATORE: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has claimed that the government is using law enforcers for “political murders”. The BNP chairperson made the allegation while addressing a mass rally at Siraj-Ud-Daula College ground on Saturday afternoon.Khaleda Zia also termed incumbent

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League will hold the “biggest-ever” grand rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city on Monday marking the ‘Jail Killing Day’. Presidium Member of the party Mohammad Nasim, also Health and Family Welfare minister, made the announcement at an extended meeting at

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has left her Gulshan residence to participate in a rally at Natore on Saturday afternoon. Sources told banglanews that Khaleda, accompanied by senior party leaders, left her residence around 10:30am. The BNP chairperson’s motorcade is expected to

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir termed mysterious the fire incident at BSEC (Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation building) Bhaban at city’s Karwan Bazar area Friday.  He came up with this assertion while talking

NATORE: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit the district on Saturday to address a mass rally.  She is expected to reach the rally venue at Nawab Siraj-Ud-Daulah Government College ground around 3:00am, said party sources. Leaders and activists of the BNP and allies are in a cheerful

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami is likely to announce another spell of two-day countrywide hartal for Wednesday and Thursday, if the verdict of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in the war crimes case against its leader Mir Quasem Ali goes against him. The party has taken the decision on hartal

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami is likely to announce another spell of two-day countrywide hartal for Wednesday and Thursday, if the verdict of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in the war crimes case against its leader Mir Quasem Ali goes against him. The party has taken the decision on hartal

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami marked the 1st phase of three-day hartal across the country amid stray incidents of picketing, beginning from 6:00am Thursday to 6:00am Friday. Leaders and activists of Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chhattra Shibir brought out processions in Rampura and Chawk

DHAKA: Incumbent Awami League on Thursday sent a letter of expulsion of former minister Abdul Latif Siddique from the party to his permanent address.Office Secretary of the party Abdus Sobhan Golap confirmed the matter to banglanews.On October 24, former Posts, Telecommunication and

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted some cocktails in city’s Paltan area during hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday.Witnesses said some miscreants blasted 10-12 cocktails near the National Mosque Baitul Mukarram and Paltan intersection in the evening.On information, police rushed to

DHAKA: A joint meeting of BNP will be held at Nayapaltan central office of the city on Friday.BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will preside over the meeting.Joint secretary general, organizing secretary and president and general secretaries of the front and associate