DHAKA: Three cocktails were thrown aiming the car of Local Government & Rural Development, and Cooperative Minister Sayed Ashraful Islam by miscreants in the Hossain Market area under Tongi Thana of the district on Monday morning.Sources said that three cocktails were chucked to MP

DHAKA: The third day of the nationwide 72-hour road-rail-waterway blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, is underway that was suddenly called by BNP’s joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.The blockade was enforced from 6:00am Monday to press home their demand for

JHENAIDAH: Mohespur Upazila Awami League called dawn-to-dusk hartal for Monday as immediate past lawmaker Shafiqul Azam Khan Chanchal did not get party nomination.Supporters of Shafiqul also blasted cocktails at Awami League leader Principal Nabi Newaz’s house as he got AL ticket for

DHAKA: Blockaders torched a passenger bus of Bandhu Paribahan in front of Karnaphuli Garden City at Kakrail in the city on Sunday night.The incident took place around 8:30pm.Confirming the matter, Ramna Thana sub-inspector Azizul Islam told banglanews that some blockaders torched the bus

MAGURA: Three police men and another one were injured as miscreants blasted bombs at district election commission office on Sunday evening.The injured sub-inspector Humaiyun Kabir said some miscreants hurled petrol and hand bombs at election commission office at around 7:00pm, leaving

DHAKA: Opposition BNP joint secretary general Salah Uddin Ahmed on Sunday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is acting arrogantly sitting on power.The spokesperson for the party came up with the allegation in a statement issued in the evening while 18-party 72-hour countrywide

DHAKA: The hartal called by BNP-led 18-party alliance, in Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, five upazilas of Sylhet, two upazilas of Jhenidah, one upazila of Laxmipur and Dinajpur districts on Sunday observed amid stray incidents.Banglanews Chittagong bureau reports: The hartal observed amid

GAIBANDHA: Opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance called dawn-to-dusk hartal alongside the blockade in the district for Monday.The 18-party alliance coordinator and district BNP president Anisuzzaman Khan Babu made the disclosure to banglanews.The alliance called the shutdown protesting

SYLHET: Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Sunday said the parliamentary polls would not affect if even European Union (EU) does not send observers. “There will be no affect in the next parliamentary elections   if the European Union does not send observers,” he said Muhith came up

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (JP) on Sunday placed a six-point demand ahead of the 10th general polls.A JP delegation led by senior leaders reached election commission (EC) secretariat around 3.00pm. Sources said the party placed their six-point demands to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi

MYMENSINGH: At least 20 leaders-activists, six by bullet, were injured including Bhaluka upazila BNP president Fakhruddin Bachu in a clash with law enforcers in the upazila on Sunday, the second day of 72-hour blockade.Protesting this incident, upazila unit BNP called daylong hartal in

DHAKA: Some 17 people including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir were sued in the incident of killing a man in Saturday’s petrol bomb attack in city’s Malibagh area.Ramna than Sub-Inspector Jahurul Haque filed the case with the thana on Saturday night accusing

DHAKA: The hartal and 72-hour blockade is underway simultaneously, called by BNP-led 18-party alliance, in Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, five upazilas of Sylhet, two upazilas of Jhenidah, one upazila of Laxmipur and Dinajpur districts on Sunday.Banglanews Chittagong bureau reports: The

LAXMIPUR: The daylong hartal, called by Ramganj upazila unit Juba Dal, is underway in the upazila on Sunday.The alliance is enforcing the shutdown protesting the killing of a Juba Dal leader M Munir Hossain.Earlier on Friday, miscreants kidnapped Munir Hossain, 35, and then killed him

DHAKA: The second day of the nationwide 72-hour road-rail-waterway blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, is underway under a minimum supervision of the law enforcers.The whole city except BNP’s Naya Paltan central office area has not had a noticeable patrolling by the law

DHAKA: Activists of Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, blasted 13 cocktails and locked into clashes with law enforcers in separate places of the city on Sunday morning, the second day of 72-hour blockade called by 18-party alliance.  In Khilgaon, Shibir men brought out a

DHAKA: A man was killed and three others were injured as a bus rammed pedestrians as pickets chased with petrol bomb on Saturday evening during 18-party called nationwide 72-hour blockade. The deceased was identified as Habibur Rahaman, 35. Sources said a passenger bus driver lost its

PABNA (ISHWARDI): A Jubo Dal activist was killed and at least 10 others injured as a rashly driven truck rammed them during blockade hour Chand Alir Mor area of Chholimpur union under Ishwardi upazila of the district on Saturday evening.The deceased was identified as Mahabul Hossain, 40,

JESSORE: At least 20 people, including Jessore-5 constituency lawmaker Khan Tipu Sulatan, Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO), Officer-in-Charge, were injured in an attack of pickets during nationwide blockade on Saturday.The incident took place near Chalkidanga area of the Monirampur Upazila

DHAKA: Bangladesh Chhatra League central committee dissolved its Dhaka College unit BCL committee on Saturday. Apart from this, seven BCL leaders, including president and general secretary, of the committee were also expelled for violating discipline of the party.The disclosure came from