DHAKA: Railway Minister Mujibul Haque on Tuesday categorically said Kaleda Zia’s directions made the country’s railway under threat. The minister made the allegation while addressing an inaugural programme of newly innovated ‘train information display system’ at city’s Kamalapur

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also Awami League president, met with the President Abdul M Hamid for one and half an hour on Tuesday afternoon.The meeting was held at Bangabhaban, the official residence of the President, at around 4:15pm and it continued till 5:50pm.Press secretary

RAMGANJ (LAXMIPUR): Seven cases were filed against some 2,000 leaders and activists of BNP-led 18-party alliance on Tuesday on charge of creating violence at Ramganj upazila of the district during the 10th parliamentary polls.Sources said police filed the cases with Ramganj Sadar Thana

DHAKA: BNP vice-chairman Selima Rahman was picked up by law enforcers hours after she declared to extend 48-hour by 12-hour.Detectives held the BNP leader from her residence at Gulshan in the capital on Tuesday evening.  2 BNP central leaders held BDST: 1925 HRS, JAN 07, 2013Edited by:

SYLHET: The law enforcement agency arrested district (North) Jamaat Ameer Anwar Hossain and secretary Islam Uddin on Tuesday evening.Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Police detained them from Anwar’s residence in city’s Pathantula area around 5.00pm.  Family sources confirmed the

DHAKA: Warning opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance, ruling Awami League presidium member Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said if the opposition parties don’t stop violence, the government would go on hard line.The communications minister came up with the forewarning in a press conference at

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also Awami League president, will hold a meeting with 14-party leaders on Tuesday evening.The meeting will be held at premier’s official residence at   Ganobhaban at 6:00pm.Sheikh Hasina has already met with President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban

BHOLA: District Jubo Dal has called daylong hartal for Wednesday protesting the arrest of Bhola district Jubo Dal president Yarul Alam Liton.Executive member of central Jubo Dal Abdul Kader told banglanews that police arrested Yarul Alam Liton from Government Boys High School area around

JESSORE: Joint forces, in separate drives, held 85 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami from different places of the district for their alleged involvement in violence during the 10th parliamentary polls.Sources said they were held from Sadar, Monirampur, Chaugachha and

DHAKA: Two central leaders of the opposition BNP were held by Detective Branch (DB) of Police on Tuesday afternoon.The detainees are Fazlul Haque Milon and Shirin Sultana.Sources said they were picked up from a house of Baridhara area in the capital. Khandaker Mahbub held BDST:  1530

DHAKA: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hasan Mahmud Khandaker on Tuesday termed the prevailing political violence an separate incident.The police chief also claimed people got normal life as law enforcers performed their duty perfectly. He came up with the observation after visiting the

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, also chief of 18-party alliance, will meet the press on Wednesday.A competent source from the party confirmed the matter to banglanews.According to the source, she will meet the press at her Gulshan office or her residence if she is obstructed by the

DHAKA: A man was burnt alive and another injured after miscreants hurled petrol bomb at a covered van on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Lemua Bridge area of the district early Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Shah Alam, 30, the diver of the covered van.Locals said a Dhaka-bound

DHAKA:  BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia said her party preprared for dialogue and she thinks the ongoing political crisis has to be solved through dialogue. The BNP chief came up with the assertion in an exclusive interview with BBC Bangla.Regarding the Prime Minister`s call for leaving the

DHAKA: Alan Berry, South Asia Bureau Chief and Political Editor of US based The New York Times, met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her residence for an interview on Monday night. Earlier, German Ambassador to Bangladesh Albrecht Conze had an hour-long meeting with BNP chief.Berry was

DHAKA: Terming the 10th national poll as farcical, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday said the illegal government would not last long. Khaleda Zia, also former prime minister, made the observation in a statement issued on Monday evening, hours after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s

GAIBANDHA: At least 12 people were injured, including three police personnel, in a clash between law enforcers and 18-party activists at Mirganj village under Sundarganj upazila of the district on Monday afternoon.Witnesses said activists of 18-party alliance brought out a procession

DHAKA: Jatiya Party presidium member and elected lawmaker from Dhaka-6 constituency Kazi Firoz Rashid said Party’s senior presidium member Rawsan Ershad would be the opposition leader of 10th parliamentary government.He came up with the observation while talking to journalists at Rawsan

DHAKA: After a day of 10th parliamentary elections, now Awami League wants to make consensus with BNP before completion of new government’s tenure.Forest and Environment Minister Hasan Mahmud hinted about this quoting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a human chain at in front of Awami

DHAKA: Pro-BNP-Jamaat lawyers brought out a procession Monday in Supreme Court premises supporting 18-party’s hartal and rejecting Sunday’s polls.Sources said the procession started from Supreme Court Bar Association Bhaban around 12:00pm and ended in front of the Bar Bhaban after