DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Thursday kicked off weeklong countrywide demonstrations demanding release of its detained leaders and activists, the top four of them now facing war-crime trial.On Wednesday, Jamaat acting secretary-general ATM Azharul Islam announced the program at a

BANDARBAN: President and general secretary of the district Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) committee were selected before its council scheduled to be held on Friday next. According to the district JCD leaders and activists, Sabikur Rahman Jewel was selected as president and Doulatul Kabir

DHAKA: BNP Secretary-General Khandaker Delwar Hossain said Mannan Bhuiyan, his dissident predecessor in the party, is now beyond everything and that the countrymen and history would evaluate his political career in future.He made the guarded remark after attending the second janaza for

DHAKA: Police Tuesday detained a leader of the banned Islamist outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir who is also a university teacher who teaches business know-how.Mahmudul Hasan Fayeji, Lecturer of Marketing of Jagannath University, was held on the Dhaka University campus.      Dr Saiful Islam

DHAKA: Opposition BNP will stage a mass procession in the capital on August 9 as part of its ongoing anti-government movement.Party chairperson and opposition leader Khaleda Zia will lead the march that will kick-start from Paltan Maidan, the historic ground that was made off-limits to

DHAKA:  Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh threatened the ruling Awami League to disclose the names of AL leaders who were on wartime Peace Committee in 1971, now that its top leaders are in the dock on war-crime charges.The top leaders of Jamaat made the comment at an opinion-exchange meeting

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday issued arrest warrant against 21 fugitives from the case of mutiny-time carnage at Pilkhana BDR headquarters, as the trial is underway. It also ordered confiscation of their property. Metropolitan Magistrate SK Tofail Hassan passed the orders taking into

DHAKA: The High Court Monday granted ad-interim bail for three months to BNP MP Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annee in the four cases. The HC bench comprising Justice Syed Mohammad Dastagir Hossain and Justice AKM Zahirul Haque passed the order after four separate bail petitions were filed by

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday placed Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman Mizami and Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed on three days remand in a terrorism case filed with Kadamtali thana in the capital.Metropolitan Magistrate Roksana Begum Happy issued the order after the investigation

GAIBANDHA: Police took 24 operatives of the banned Islamist outfit ‘Allahr Dal’ on a three-day remand Monday.Judicial magistrate Jalal Uddin passed the order on Sunday after Sadar thana police produced them before a court with a 10-day remand prayer.OC of the Sadar thana Akbar Hossain

DHAKA: BNP leaders Sunday deplored that the government goes great guns to amend the constitution trying to cling to power, as the main opposition party staged a demonstration in the capital against the government’s various measures.The criticism came from a protest rally organized by

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami Sunday asked the government to try the Pakistani Army members for war crimes instead of putting in the dock leaders and workers of the party for their alleged involvement in ‘crime against humanity’ during the 1971 liberation war. “If you dare, try to catch

DHAKA: A successful surgical operation was done on the windpipe of former BNP secretary-general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan Sunday for healing his breathing problems.Confirming the operation Bhuiyan’s personal physician Dr Bazlul Gani Bhuiyan said a nine-member medical team led by Dr Sanwar

DHAKA:  Opposition BNP has taken up initiative to gear up divisional and district level leaders and activists of the party and its front organization. Party’s joint secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir sat with the joint secretary generals and organizing secretaries of the

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong Metropolitan BNP President Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury Saturday said none involved with BNP or Awami League politics could create anarchy in the CCC over tender distribution.“There was opportunity of corruption during the regime of last army-backed caretaker

DHAKA: Physicians refrained from doing surgical operation on the malfunctioning windpipe of former BNP secretary-general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan Saturday.They had to postpone the operation as there was not enough platelet in his blood, said Mannan’s personal physician Bazlul Gani Bhuiyan.

CHITTAGONG: Gono Forum president and constitutional expert Dr Kamal Hossain said amendment to the constitution should be brought on the basis of national consensus and advised the recalcitrant opposition to reverse their boycott stance. “National consensus is a must if changes

DHAKA: BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed MP said the party would join the special committee formed for processing the constitutional amendment if there be equal representation from the opposition.He told a press conference at his chamber Saturday that without equal number of

NATORE: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel detained two Jubo League men with firearms in Naldanga upazila on Friday night, police said.The detained were identified as Mahbub Hossain, 40, ward no, 5 Jubo League president of Biprobelgharia union under the upazila, and party activist

DHAKA: The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is likely to opt for tougher programmes like hartal ahead of Ramadan, party’s senior leaders said, as the holy month of fasting and festivals usually brings a lull on the outdoor political arena.Majority leaders and workers of