DHAKA: Rajib Ahsan, president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of the BNP, was detained in the afternoon on Thursday (February 08). Police detained the JCD president from a procession in front of the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office in the capital city at about 4:45

DHAKA: BNP has called countrywide demonstration for Friday (February 8) as court sentenced BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to five years imprisonment in a graft case. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the demonstration program in protest of the verdict at BNP’s

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has termed the verdict in Zia Orphanage case against Khaleda Zia as conspiratorial. “This is pure conspiracy. The verdict was given to keep Khaleda away from politics and polls”, he said. The senior BNP leader made the

DHAKA: BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman will lead the party as her mother BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has landed in jail in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, said Standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan. Tarique and four others were also given 10-years in jail each while

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia will file appeal challenging the five years imprisonment awarded by a special court of Dhaka on Thursday (February 08). The lawyers of the BNP chief have already filed a petition seeking certified copy of the verdict. They

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has been landed in the old Central Jail in city’s Nazimuddin Road after she was jailed for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. The BNP chief, accompanied by her domestic help Fatema, was taken to the central

DHAKA: BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the verdict in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against Khaleda Zia is a reflection of vengeance by the government and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.  He made the reaction at a press conference on Thursday afternoon (Feb

DHAKA: BNP supporters in United Kingdom have staged demonstration and vandalized the Bangladesh embassy in London centering the verdict in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against Khaleda Zia. Police arrested Swecchasebak Dal UK unit president Nasir Ahmed over the incident.  BNP

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has been jailed for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. The Special Court-5 of Dhaka, set up on the premises of Madrasa-e-Alia Dhaka in city’s Bakshibazar area, delivered the verdict in much-talked-about case

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia reached the special court in Dhaka’s Bakshibazar, to hear the verdict against her in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case Thursday (February 8). The BNP Chief’s motorcade reached at the court installed in prison department’s parade ground in

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia left her Gulshan home for a special court in Dhaka’s Bakshibazar, to hear the verdict against her in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case Thursday (February 8). Thousands of BNP activists flocked to the street, to accompany the motorcade of Khaleda Zia.

DHAKA: The government created panic in public psyche revolving the verdict against Khaleda Zia, said BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.    “The government have fall into disorder and therefore, created panic in every aspects”, he said. Rizvi was talking to

DHAKA:  Former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is getting verdict on corruption charges nearly 10 years after the filing of Zia Orphanage Trust case accusing her and five others of misappropriating over Tk 2.1 crore. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Special Court-5 in

Dhaka: Two prisons have been kept ready for Khaleda Zia if she is convicted in the Zia orphanage trust graft case. One is Dhaka old prison and the other is Kasimpur female prison. Meanwhile Kasimpur female prison has been made neat and clean after proper washing and swapping. The

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday said her party does not believe in terrorism while Awami League (AL) unleashes a reign of terror openly across the country. She was addressing a press conference held at her political office in Dhaka's Gulshan this afternoon a day

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to speak at a press conference Wednesday (February 7) amid growing concerns centering the verdict against her in a graft case. The media briefing will be held at the BNP chief’s Gulshan political office at 5:00pm, said BNP Senior Joint

DHAKA: Awami League senior leader and Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said that the leaders and activists of the ruling party won’t take the streets marking the verdict against BNP chief Khaleda Zia Thursday (February 8).  “Police will be deployed on the streets on the day of

DHAKA: BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi claimed that his party’s joint secretary general and Dhaka Metropolitan South unit president Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel was picked up by DB police.  He made the allegation at a press conference in city’s Naya paltan central

DHAKA: Police detained BNP Joint Secretary General also Dhaka Metropolitan South Unit President Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel, said Jubo Dal central committee member Amirul Islam. Sohel was detained from Malibagh area of the capital city Monday night (February 5), said Amirul Tuesday

KURIGRAM: Police, in separate drives, detained six leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh in Kurigram.  Four of the detainees are of Jammat while the rest are from BNP.   Their identities couldn’t be known immediately. Kurigram Police Station