JESSORE: Police arrested Jessore’s Manirampur upazila unit Jamaat-i-Islami ameer Liaquat Ali (40) on early Monday (June 27). Liaquat, son of late Bareq Moral and an assistant teacher of Biprakona Dakhil Madrasa, was arrested from Amrajhuta village of the upazila. Manirampur Thana

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of police detained two members of outlaw militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team from city’s Kamrangichar area. The detainees were identified as Nayeem alias Saiful alias Saad and Sohel alias Suvel. DB (south) informed the matter to the media by sending

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed alleged that the incidents of kidnapping, extrajudicial killing and militancy are taking place as the ruling government has no accountability to the nation. BNP senior leader came up with this assertion while speaking at a discussion at

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Lieutenant General (retd) Mahbubur Rahman and his wife were injured in a road accident while going to Syedpur Airport in Nilphamary from Thakurgaon district. They are currently admitted at Dinajpur Heart Foundation Hospital. Confirming the matter

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday (June 25) alleged incumbent government is now busy to suppress the voice of BNP instead uprooting extremism from the country. He further said the government is filing cases against everyone who entertains opposing

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday (June 25) alleged incumbent government is now busy to suppress the voice of BNP instead uprooting extremism from the country. He further said the government is filing cases against everyone who entertains opposing

DHAKA: The next deposition of Zia Orphanage Trust case will be held on July 14 while BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s defense hearing in Zia Charitable Trust graft case deferred to August 11. A makeshift court of 3rd special judge Abu Ahmed Zamadar, set up on the premises of jail

GAIBANDHA: Police arrested nine people including three BNP-Jamaat activists conducting a special drive at seven upazilas of the district. The drive was conducted from Wednesday (June 22) night to Thursday (June 23) morning. In the meantime, one BNP man and two Jamaat men were held

SYLHET: Miscreants chopped a union level leader of ruling Awami League (AL) and injured another at Charkhai union under Biyanibazar upazila of the district on Wednesday afternoon (June 22). The deceased was identified as Mahtab Uddin, 35, agriculture affairs secretary at Charkhai

HILI (DINAJPUR): Detective Branch (DB) of police members detained three members of outlaw militant outfit Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Hili land port area of the district on Wednesday (June 22). The detainees were identified as Galibur Rahim (23), son of one Harunur Rashid

GAZIPUR: Journalist Shawkat Mahmud was released on bail from Kashimpur Central Jail in the district on Wednesday afternoon (June 22). Kashimpur Central Jail Part-2 jailer Nasir Hossain told banglanews that the journalist has come out of the jail around 4:30pm. According to him, the

DHAKA: Supreme Court fixed July 25 for hearing on review plea of Jamaat financer Mir Quasem Ali against his death penalty for war crimes. Chamber Judge Hasan Foyej Siddique passed the order on Tuesday (June 21). In his review petition, Mir Quasem has sought his acquittal showing 14

PABNA: Police arrested the Pabna town unit secretary of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, in a sabotage and vandalism case. The arrestee was identified as Badiuzzaman, son of one Yasin Ali Master, from Manoharpur village under sadar upazila. Pabna

CHITTAGONG: The court has ordered to send BNP joint secretary Aslam Choudhury to prison showing arrest in fraudulence of cheque worth Tk 36.8 crores.  Chittagong Metropolitan Judge Abduk Quader passed the order on Monday (June 20). Metropolitan judge court bench assistant Kafil

DHAKA: The Awami League (AL)-led 14-party ruling alliance will observe mass resistance week across the country from July 15 as protest of secret killing, kidnapping, vandalism and militancy of BNP and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami. The declaration came from a human-chain program

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday (June 19) demanded the judicial investigation of all recent assassinations. He made the demand at a press conference at party central office in city’s Nayapaltan area this afternoon. Moreover, Mirza Fakhrul

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) will deliver its verdict any day in war crimes cases against eight razakars of Jamalpur including Al-Badr Bahini founder Muhammad Ashraf Hossain. A three-member ICT, led by Justice M Anwarul Haque, kept the judgment waiting (CAV- Curia

DHAKA: War crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali has filed a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict that upheld his death sentence awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal for his crimes against humanity during the liberation war in 1971. His lawyers submitted the plea to

DHAKA: The Awami League-led 14-party alliance will form a huge human-chain from Gabtali to Jatrabari in capital from 3 pm to 4 pm Sunday (June 19) in protest against recent secret killings, terrorism and anti-state conspiracies. Leaders of the 14-pary alliance said the human-chain will

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia alleged that the ruling Awami League government failed to try any murder incident happened during their tenure. The party chief came up with this assertion while speaking at an iftar mahfil, organized by National Democratic Party, in city’s Hotel