JHENAIDAH: Police have detained six activists, including two women of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and their student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from Jhenaidah sadar town early Monday. District additional police super Azbahar Ali Sheikh told banglanews that the six were arrested in

KHAGRACHARI: Three Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) districts, Khagrachhari, Rangamati and Bandarban, observed a dawn to dusk hartal demanding the repeal of the Chittagong Land Dispute Settlement Commission Amended Act 2016 and protesting the one-sided meeting of Jana Shanghati Samiti (JSS).

RANGPUR: Police arrested three activists of Jamaat-e-Islami among 55 people in drives conducted in several areas in the district. The drives were conducted from Saturday (September 3) night to early Sunday (September 4). Rangpur Division Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP)

DHAKA: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called a half-day hartal across the country for Monday (September 5) in protest against the execution of its leader and war criminal Mir Quasem Ali. Immediately after the execution on Saturday night, the party website said the hartal would continue

DHAKA: A joint meeting of central leaders of the ruling Awami League (AL) and its associate bodies on its national council is scheduled to be held on September 6. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will chair the meeting to be held at her official residence Ganabhaban in city around 7:00pm.

JESSORE: Miscreants killed newly elected Union Parishad (UP) chairman of Pashapole Union under Chaugachha upazila of the district. The deceased M Abul Qashem was also Pashapole unit president of ruling Awami League (AL). The family identified the body on Saturday evening (September

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has left Dhaka Saturday morning (September 3) for Singapore. BNP chairperson press wing official Shayrul Kabir Khan told Banglanews that Mirza Fakhrul left Dhaka in a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines with his wife Rahat Ara at

GAZIPUR: Family members met Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, a convict of sentence to death for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. Six members of his family met with him around 12:00 pm on Friday (September 02) in Kashimpur prison-2. They are

RANGPUR: A member of Jamaat-e-Islam affiliated Islami Chhatra Shibir’s Majlish-e-Shura was arrested from Changmari area under Gangachara upazila on Friday (September 02). Mahmud Hasan Swapon, 19, son of Makbul Hossain was Shura member of Gangachar upazila and remained fugitive of a

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) detained 38 men including four Jamaat-e-Islami men from different areas of the district. The law enforcers of Boalia, Rajpara, Motihar and Shah Makhdum thanas and DB police conducted the joint drives from Wednesday night (August 31) to early

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia paid tribute to former president and also founder of the party Ziaur Rahman by placing floral wreaths at his grave in city on Thursday morning (September 1). She paid the tribute on the occasion of 38th founding anniversary of the party. BNP

KHULNA: Miscreants chopped an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League, front organization of ruling Awami League, to death in Khulna early Thursday (September 1). The deceased was identified as Saikat Hasan Rohan, 25, an activist of Majid Memorial City College unit BCL and hailed from

DHAKA: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami observed a dawn-to-dusk hartal across the country from Wednesday morning (August 31). They imposed the strike as a protest of the death sentence of its leader Mir Quasem Ali upheld by the Supreme Court. However, the hartal was seen ineffective as

KHULNA: Police arrested 45 people including five activists of Jamaat-e-Islami in a drive in several areas of the district. The drive was conducted from Tuesday night (30 August) to early Wednesday (31 August). Additional deputy assistant commissioner of Khulna Metropolitan Police

DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam protesting the death sentence of its leader Mir Quasem Ali upheld by the Supreme Court, is underway across the country from Wednesday morning (August 31). However, the hartal was seen ineffective as many passenger

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) set up several programs to mark its 38th founding anniversary on Thursday (September 1). BNP chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia along with central leaders will place wreath to the tomb of late President Ziaur Rahman around

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) set up several programs to mark its 38th founding anniversary on Thursday (September 1). BNP chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia along with central leaders will place wreath to the tomb of late President Ziaur Rahman around

DHAKA: Expressing concern about her security during the hartal, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will not appear before the court on Wednesday (August 31). She was asked to appear before court in Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases but denied on Tuesday (August 30)

DHAKA: A city court on Tuesday (August 30) summoned BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia over her false birthday documents case. Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Mazharul Islam passed the summon order after taking the case in cognizance. Earlier in the day, Dhaka Union of Journalists former

DHAKA: A case has been filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on an allegation of harming many people by celebrating her birthday on the basis of fake documents. Former joint general secretary of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) Gazi Zahirul Islam filed the case with Dhaka Chief