DHAKA: Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) chairperson Advocate Sultana Kamal said police now have become hostage to ruling party and they are using as tools to fulfill the political parties’ interest.  She said this while addressing a report releasing program at Brac Inn

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is likely to hold a gathering of the family members of those people, who had became victims of murder, forced disappearance and abductions nationwide. Members of home and foreign human rights organizations and civil society, eminent personalities

BARISAL: Police arrested Barisal metropolitan unit of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Advocate Moazzem Hossain Helal from Brown compound area of the town Tuesday midnight. A team of Kotwali Model Thana police conducted raid Helal’s house at 11:45pm. Sensing their presence, Helal took shelter his

CHITTAGONG: The daylong hartal, call by Jamaat-e-Islami, is underway in Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar and three hill districts peacefully Wednesday. Additional law enforcers including Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were deployed in the districts to avert

DHAKA: Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Congress Party Ian Jun Ki met with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night. BNP sources said the delegation team met with Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office around 8:00pm. BDST: 2120 HRS, MAY 13, 2014

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday opined that Jamaat-e-Islami is doing democratic politics. “Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has their political ideology and principles. The party is doing politics democratically,” he said. The spokesperson for

JHENIDAH: The district BNP has called daylong hartal for Thursday in Kaliganj upazila in protest against the murder of its local leader Ismail Hossain. Local BNP leader and former Municipal Mayor Mahbubur Rahman made the announcement at a mass rally in the upazila on Tuesday. He said

JHENIDAH: The district BNP has called daylong hartal for Thursday in Kaliganj upazila in protest against the murder of its local leader Ismail Hossain. Local BNP leader and former Municipal Mayor Mahbubur Rahman made the announcement at a mass rally in the upazila on Tuesday. He said

DHAKA: A Chittagong court on Tuesday sent 21 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists, including port city Jamaat Ameer ANM Shamsul Islam and Secretary Nazrul Islam on Tuesday. The court also fixed May 18 as hearing date on police’s seven-day remand plea of them. Chittagong Metropolitan

FROM NARAYANGANG: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia demanded resignation of the government blaming it for sensational Narayanganj seven murders.     “RAB and Awami League are responsible for seven murders in Narayanganj. So, the government must step down immediately,” she said.      

CHITTAGONG: A case was filed against 21 Jamaat men, including port city Jamaat Ameer ANM Shamsul Islam and Secretary Nazrul Islam, under Anti-terrorism Act.           Kotwali Thana sub-inspector Imam Hossian filed the case on Monday late night.     Police also decided to seek

JHENIDAH: Miscreants hacked to death a local leader of BNP in Kaliganj upazila of the district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Ismail Hossin, 48, son of former mayor Abdul Mannan of Chapali area of the district town. Ismail was the president of Ward No.1 unit of Kaliganj

CHITTAGONG: Port city Jamaat called dawn-to-dusk hartal in greater Chittagong for Wednesday protesting the arrest of city Jamaat Ameer and secretary.           Besides, the party will stage rally at all upazilas and thanas on Tuesday.   Chittagong Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer M Ahsan

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has challenged the indictment against her in Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases. On behalf of Khaleda, her lawyer Advocate Asaduzzaman filed the writ Monday. On March 19, Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 indicted Khaleda Zia, her

DHAKA: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the stayed bail order to Hefazat-e-Islam leader Mufti Mohammad Wakkas in a police case over May 5 mayhem in 2013. A five-member bench headed by chief justice Mohammad Mozammel Hossain passed the order on Monday dismissing leave to

BRAHMANBARIA: The road communications on Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Sylhet routes halted from Monday noon after indefinite strike called by Brahmanbaria District Transport Owners Association. The strike was enforced to press home their demands to stop plying of the locally-made shallow

DHAKA: The Supreme Court asked Jamaat-e-Islami leader Tofail Ahmed to surrender before a lower court by four-week on Monday. Tofail, also Bandarban’s Naikkhangchari upazila Parishad Chairman, is the prime accused of the 2012 Ramu violence, which refers to a series of attacks on

BAGERHAT: An Awami League activist was killed in mob beating in Bagerhat soon after he stabbed a BNP man to death in Gemarta Madrasa Bazar area under Sadar upazila of the district on Monday. The deceased were identified as Abul Kalam Azad, 25, JCD union Joint - General Secretary and

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday has extended bail to BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and another top four leaders till June 17. Metropolitan Magistrate Anwar Sadat passed the order after Fakhrul and four others appear before the court and sought bail extension.

DHAKA: Vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of China’s  National People’s Congress Yan Junqi is scheduled to meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night. The meeting will be held at Khaleda’s Gulshan political office in the city at 8:30pm.  BNP Chairperson’s Media