DHAKA: Jatiya Party Chief HM Ershad and three others have been acquitted of charges in a radar purchase corruption case filed 24 years ago. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court’s Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah pronounced the verdict on Wednesday (April) in presence of the

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that they would forge anti-government movement soon, and it will now be successful under the newly announced committees of the two units of Dhaka city.   The BNP leader said this while responding to a question of

DHAKA: Awami League presidium member and health and family welfare minister Mohammed Nasim has said that the next elections will be held under Sheikh Hasina. Addressing a meeting on Wednesday (April 19), the spokesperson of the Awami League-led 14-party alliance said that Sheikh Hasina

DHAKA: Islami Andolon Bangladesh called a rally Friday (April 21) at North gate of Baitul Mukarram mosque, demanding removal of Greek goddess Themis’s idol in front of Supreme Court premise. Islami Andolon Bangladesh chief, known as Charmonai Pir, Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim has

COMILLA: Two people were killed and at least 15 others injured in a clash between two rival groups of Awami League in Muradnagar upazila in Comilla Tuesday (April 18). The deceased were identified as—Faruq Mia, 28, and M Saidur Rahman, 26. The incident took place at Rahimpur area

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) formed committees for Dhaka Metropolitan North and South units. MA Kaiyum, joint convener of Dhaka North unit BNP has been made president of it while Habib Un Nabi Khan Sohel, joint secretary general of Dhaka South unit has been made president

DHAKA: Norwegian ambassador to Bangladesh Sidsel Bleken hold a courtesy meeting with the BNP chief Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan residence on Tuesday evening (April 18). Sources said, apart from bilateral issues, they were engaged in a two-hour long lively discussion on human rights,

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday (April 18) issued an arrest warrant against newly elected mayor of Comilla City Corporation (CCC) Monirul Haque Sakku in a graft case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Mohammad Kamrul

DHAKA: The polls to 156 Union Parishads (UPs) in the country has ended amid sporadic violence and report of irregularities in some areas.   The officials started counting ballots of the polls after voting closed at 4:00 pm on Sunday (April 16). Voting to the UPs began at 8:00 am

DHAKA: The BNP leaders at a rally have said that their party does politics for the change. The party leads for the change and it will reach its destination with success, they said. The BNP leaders were speaking at a protest rally at the Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital city on

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has commented that the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed in a bid to ruin the spirit of the Liberation War in 1971.   She was addressing a function at Agargoan in the city on Sunday (April 16) on the occasion of

NOAKHALI: Police on Sunday (April 16) recovered the slit-throat body of an Awami League activist who went into missing following infighting between two groups of the ruling party in Hatia upazila of the district on April 13. The deceased was identified as Bahar Sarder, 50, son of Ali

DHAKA: Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday (April 15) said that there is no chance of joking about mid-term polls. He rejected any possibility of the mid-term elections in the country. The incumbent government has no any

CHITTAGONG: The transport owners of greater Chittagong are going to forge movement protesting the decision of stopping 20 years old vehicles plying on the roads. They will announce the program of movement through a press conference on Sunday morning (April 16). Secretary general of

DHAKA: Some 156 Union Parishads (UPs) in the country will go to the polls on Sunday (April 16). Voting to the UPs will begin at 8:00 am and it will continue until 4:00 pm without any break The Election Commission (EC) has already sent all materials related to the elections to the

SATKHIRA: Police claimed to have arrested three teachers, who are also workers of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, from a clandestine meeting in Satkhira on Thursday (April 13). Officer-in-charge (OC) of Syamnagar police station Syed Mannan Ali told Bangalnews that they arrested the Jamaat

DHAKA: The High Court has stayed for six months the government order suspending mayor of Gazipur City Corporation Prof MA Mannan from his position.   The HC bench of Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice Md Ataur Rahman Khan passed the order on Thursday (April 13)

DHAKA: Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said his party did not compromise with the ideology of Hefajat-e-Islam. He made the remark at press briefing in city’s Dhanmodi office of AL president Sheikh Hasina on Thursday morning (April

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia expressed no-confidence to the newly appointed judge in handling the judicial process of Zia charitable trust graft case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). Khaleda’s lawyer Barrister Jamiruddin Sircar

DHAKA: The High Court on Thursday (April 13) gave a stay order on the proceedings of four sabotage cases filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. An HC bench comprising Justice M Miftah Uddin Chowdhury and Justice ANM Basir Ullah pronounced the order. The court also issued a rule