JESSORE: Miscreants shot a Godkhali Union Parishad (UP) member to death in Jhikargacha upazila of the district on Thursday morning (October 13). The deceased was identified as Rahajjan Sardar, 40, a local leader of ruling Awami League, hailed from Mathbari-Gadkhali village of the

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday (October 10) expressed her greetings to Hindu community on Durga Puja. A message, signed by party joint-secretary general Advocate Moazzem Hossain Alal, expressed the greetings on the eve of Bijaya-Dashamai. In the message, BNP chief

GAIBANDHA: Police detained four neo-JMB members from Sadar upazila of the district Sunday (October 9). They were identified as Faisal Khan Fagoon (17), son of Yusuf Khan; Nazrul Islam Khan (35), son of Abdul Wahab; Ashiqul Islam (16), son of Abdul Hamid Mia and Shahid Mia (11), son of

DHAKA: Major (retd) Zia, the main mastermind of the terrorist attack at Holey Artisan Bakery restaurant in Dhaka, is under close observation of the government as and will be arrested at anytime. Bangladesh home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal made the observation during a cloth

GAZIPUR: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said as much as 78,000 BNP activists were sent to jail in last two years while 1,000 activists shot to death by police. More than 5,000 activists including BNP leader Ilias Ali, Laksam MP Parvez went missing for a long time and

JHENAIDAH: Police arrested five activists of Jamaat-e-Islam in sabotage case in Kotchandpur upazila of the district on Thursday (October 5). Kotchandpur Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Ahmed Kabir told Banglanews that acting on a tip-off police conducted the drives in several places under

DHAKA NORTH BUREAU (SAVAR): Police recovered body of an activist of local unit Jubo League, an associate body of ruling Awami League, from Savar upazila, on the outskirts of Bangladesh capital early Thursday (October 6). The deceased was identified as Al Arafat Sajal, 22, son of a

NETROKONA: Detective Branches (DB) of police detained four members of extremist outfit Hizb-ut Tauhid from Netrokona municipality area early Tuesday (October 4). The detainees were identified as Moniruzzaman, 33, hailed from Shariatpur district sadar and his wife Sumaiya Akhter, 23,

DINAJPUR: Police detained at least 55 people including a Jamaat-e-Islami local unit leader and seven drug peddlers in overnight drives in several places of the district on Tuesday (October 4). They also seized 255 bottles phynsidyl, two bottles foreign liquor, 235 liters local liquor

SIRAJGANJ: District Detective Branch (DB) of police detained three brothers from Hatikumrul Goalchattar area of Shalanga Thana of the district on the wee hour of Tuesday (October 4). The trios are the member of banned militant outfit Jamaatul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). The

RANGPUR: Jatiya Party (JP) chairman and also former president HM Ershad said that his party started campaign for upcoming national election on October 2. He made the disclosure to the media at Rangpur Circuit House in the district on Monday (October 3). “The campaign has begun

SIRAJGANJ: Police arrested Sirajganj municipality BNP general secretary, Munshi Alam, from Railgate area of the district Sadar on Monday (October 3) in cases filed on charge of deterring police from discharging their duties and creating sabotage. Munshi Alam is the son of one late

MEHERPUR: Younger brother of a local BNP leader was allegedly chopped to death by rival groups over a longstanding clash in Gangni upazila of Meherpur district early Monday (October 3). The deceased was identified as Abul Khair, 35, younger brother of Gangni municipality panel mayor

DHAKA: Dhaka metropolitan unit of BNP announced a two-day program to protest arrest warrant against party’s senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman. Standing committee member Mirza Abbas, also Dhaka metropolitan BNP convener, made the announcement at party’s joint meeting at Bhashani

GAZIPUR: BNP standing committee member Brigadier General (Retd) ASM Hannan Shah has been buried on his home-yard in Kapasia upazila of the district on Friday afternoon (September 30). He was buried after the eighth namaz-e-janaza, held at 5:00pm at his village. Born on October 11 in

DHAKA: A city court has issued an arrest warrant against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and private television channel Ekushey Television (ETV) chief reporter Mahathir Faruki in a sedition case filed with city’s Tejgaon Thana. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sarafuzzaman

DHAKA: The first namaj-e-janaza of BNP standing committee member Brig. Gen. (retd) ASM Hannan Shah was held at Mahakhali DOHS Jame Mosque Thursday morning (September 29). Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President Badruddoza Chowdhury, LDP chairman Colonel Oli Ahmed, Liberation War

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Brig. Gen. (retd) ASM Hannan Shah’s body will arrive in Dhaka on Wednesday (September 28). A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the body is scheduled to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city around 5:00pm and will be kept

DHAKA: A city court on Tuesday (September 27) framed charges against six members of banned extremist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir, including its chief coordinator Mohiuddin Ahmed, in a case under anti-terrorism act. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge M Qamrul Hossain Molla framed

GAIBANDHA: Police, in an overnight drive, arrested five people including an activist of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from several places of the district. The drive was conducted from Monday night (September 26) to Tuesday morning (September 27). The JMB man has been