DHAKA: The dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the execution of its leader Ali Ahsan Mujahid, is underway in a relaxed manner.The shutdown started at 6:00am Monday. No picketing and procession in support of hartal has been reported in Dhaka, elsewhere

FARIDPUR: Jamaat-e-Islami has called a daylong countrywide hartal as a part of the post-execution protest program of its secretary general and also war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid.Jamaat central sura member and also Faridpur unit Jamaat ameer Professor Abdut Tawab told banglanews

DHAKA: BNP chairperson and former premier Khaleda Zia has returned home from London on Saturday evening.She reached her Gulshan residence around 7:30pm.Around 5:10pm, a flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the BNP leader landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city.Several

DHAKA: BNP has sent a letter to police seeking necessary security for its chairperson and also former premier Khaleda Zia.A press release, sent by BNP assistant office secretary Asadul Karim Shahin, said on Saturday afternoon.According to the release, the letter was handed over to Dhaka

GAZIPUR: Police arrested BNP’s Tongi Thana unit president and also former Upazila Parishad chairman Shen Shah Alam.Tongi Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Mohammad Firoz Talukdar informed banglanews on Saturday morning.The BNP leader was arrested from his house around 11:00pm on Friday as he

DHAKA: War criminals Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mujahid filed petitions seeking presidential clemency on their death penalties.On Saturday morning, two magistrates met Chowdhury and Mujahid at Dhaka Central Jail to know whether they would seek presidential mercy.Earlier, the

DHAKA: Wife of death row war criminal and also Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid sought the President’s consent as the convict considers the later as the country’s constitutional guardian.Tamanna-e-Jahan made this assertion at a press conference held at the

GAZIPUR:  Former state minister for home Lutfuzzaman Babar has been taken to Dhaka for treatment from Kashimpur jail in Gazipur on Saturday. He was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in an ambulance around 8:30am.Kashimpur jail part-1 superintendent Subrata Bala said Babar has

DHAKA: Barrister Nazmul Huda has announced formation of a new political party named Trinamool BNP.He made the announcement in a program at Westin Hotel of the capital on Friday morning.In 2010, national standing committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) expelled Nazmul Huda from the

DHAKA: The full and final verdicts of death row war crimes convicts BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdury and Jamaat-e-Isalmi secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid have been taken to the central jail in city on Thursday night.International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) deputy registrar

DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the upheld of death penalty for war criminal party’s secretary general leader Ali Ahsan Mujahid, ended Thursday evening.No effect of the shutdown was seen in the city as a large number of public transports

FROM CENTRAL JAIL: Family members on Thursday met death row war crimes convict and also Jamaat secretary general Ali Hasan Mohammad Mujahid at Central Jail in city.A 12-member team, including the convict’s wife and children, reached the jail around 1:45pm and after one-hour they left

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is expected to return Bangladesh on Saturday completing her treatment in UK.Two lawyers of Khaleda Zia -- Advocate Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Advocate Sanaullah Mia -- informed the matter to journalists on Thursday.BNP chairperson’s press wing officer

DHAKA: The family members of death row convict war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury met him at Dhaka Central Jail Thursday.They met him in the afternoon following the permission from jail authorities to meet the convict here.The 15-member family include Salauddin’s wife Farhat Quader

DINAJPUR: Police detained 53 leaders and activists of BNP and its major ally Jamaat-e-Islami from different parts of Dinajpur district on Thursday.The arrest drive was conducted from Wednesday night to Thursday morning.Dinajpur police super (SP) Ruhul Amin told banglanews among the

DHAKA: The family members of death row convict war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid sought permission to the authorities of Dhaka Central Jail in city to meet him here.On behalf of the family, Mujahid’s son Ali Ahmad Mabrur carried the

DHAKA: The family members of death row convict war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury reached Dhaka Central Jail in city on Thursday afternoon following the permission from jail authorities to meet the convict here.A 14-member group was meeting the jail authorities while filing the

DHAKA: The authority of Dhaka Central Jail on Thursday gave permission to the family members of death row convict war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to meet him at the jail.The family sources of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury confirmed the matter to banglanews.The source also said two

MEHERPUR: Police, in an overnight drive, detained eight local leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami from Gangni Upazila of the district.Of the detainees, seven were BNP men and one was a Jamaat man.Confirming the matter, Gangni police station officer-in-charge (OC) Akram

DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the upheld of death penalty for war criminal party’s secretary general leader Ali Ahsan Mujahid, is underway from Thursday morning.No effect of the shutdown was seen in the city as a large number of public