RAJSHAHI: Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Saturday termed Jamaat-e-Islami and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) masked devil.The minister came up with the assertion while addressing a program of Rajshahi Awami League tri-annual council as chief guest at Dr Kaisar

DHAKA: Jubo Dal President Moazzem Hossain Alal has been taken to the Detective Branch (DB) office in city, said a competent source.Declining the information, the thana sources said the youth leader is still in police custody.Mohammadpur Thana Officer-in-Charge Azizul Haque told

DHAKA: Six cocktails had been exploded Saturday in city’s Baitul Mukarram National Mosque area where war criminal Ghulam Azam’s body was taken for namaz-e-Janaza. Law-enforcers could not immediately confirm the people behind the blasts. On duty Banglanews Team said two cocktails

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina telling lies against BNP Senior vice Chairman Tarique Rahman.  The senior BNP leader condemned and protested the PM’s remarks, what he said lies, in a press briefing at BNP

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and its nayeeb-e-ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee are unlikely to have parole to lead the namaz-e-janaza of war crime convict Ghulam Azam.Azam, former Jamaat chief, died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University at 10:15pm on

DHAKA: BNP has convened an urgent press conference for Friday at its chairperson’s Gulshan office.Party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will brief media at 4:00pm, said Shairul Kabir Khan, media wing member of BNP chairperson.He told banglanews that the press

DHAKA: BNP has convened an urgent press conference for Friday at its chairperson’s Gulshan office.Party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will brief media at 4:00pm, said Shairul Kabir Khan, media wing member of BNP chairperson.He told banglanews that the press

DHAKA: A meeting of the ruling Awami League’s Central Working Committee (ALCWC) has been scheduled to be held on Friday evening.The meeting, however, will be held at Ganobhaban, Prime Minister’s official residence in city.Sheikh Hasina, also the President of the party, will chair the

LONDON: BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman’s human rights adviser Barrister MA Sayem resigned on Thursday.He, at a press conference held in an East London restaurant declared the decision in the noon.Sayem said there that UK Border Agency took him to quiz regarding his professional

DHAKA: Indicating anti-government movement of BNP, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said none would be spared if they make any harm of the country’s people. The premier, also ruling Awami League president, came up with the forewarning in response to a question of a journalist

SYLHET: Law enforcers detained some 169 people in several drives in four districts of Sylhet division from Wednesday 8:00am to Thursday 8:00am. The arrestees were accused of different cases, police claimed. A press release issued by Sylhet Range Police said that 47 were arrested from

NILPHAMARI: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, also 20-party alliance chief, on Thursday warned of tougher movement to press home their demand of holding general election under non-partisan caretaker government.  “We will return home after ousting the incumbent illegal Awami League

BOGRA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia left Bogra Circuit house to address a rally in Nilphamari demanding mid term election under non-party caretaker government.She started her journey from Bogra around 12:00pm on Thursday.Earlier, Khaleda reached Bogra Circuit House around 9:00pm and

DUBAI: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will arrive in United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sunday on a two-day official visit, escalating the hope of a number of good news among Bangladeshi expatriates.  The premier will pay the visit at the invitation of her UAE counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia left Dhaka for Nilphamari on Wednesday. She started his journey from her Gulshan residence around 4:20pm. The BNP chief is scheduled to address a rally in Nilphamari organized by 20-party alliance. BNP chairperson’s

NILPHAMARI: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will address a public rally in the district on Thursday demanding mid-term election under caretaker government.The program will be held at town club premises in the afternoon.On the other hand, local unit of BNP have taken all-out preparation to

DHAKA: More than five hundreds BNP leaders and activists Wednesday appeared before Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court in different cases including vandalizing, torching and bombing. BNP men include-- Barrister Moudud Ahmed, Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia, ASM Hannan Shah, BNP joint

DHAKA: An alliance of the Islami political parties has called countrywide daylong hartal for Sunday (October 26) as Latif Siddique was not arrested within their given ultimatum.Zafrullah Khan, secretary general of the alliance, made the hartal announcement at a briefing in city’s

DHAKA: BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed appeared before court on Wednesday in six cases filed for several charges including corruption case. He appeared before the Dhaka Senior Special Judge and the metropolitan magistrate court on Wednesday morning.Moudud’s lawyer Taherul

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday warned of mass movement if the fake case against Khaleda Zia, chairperson of the party, is not withdrawn.The spokesperson for the party made the forewarning on Tuesday through a press release signed by BNP