DHAKA: Voting of Madhabdi municipality in Narsindi district will be held on January 12.It was postponed earlier on December 30.Besides, the Election Commission (EC) will arrange vote in 39 centers in different upazilas that was suspended on the same day.EC election management wing

DHAKA: A court in Dhaka on Wednesday sent BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas to jail upon surrender in two cases filed with Motijheel and Paltan thanas.Metropolitan Magistrate M Mahbubur Rahman passed the order rejecting the bail petition of Mirza Abbas. Earlier in the day, the

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami has called dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday (January 7) protesting the upheld of death penalty of its ameer war criminal Matiur Rahman Nizami.In a press statement, party’s acting ameer Makbul Ahmad and acting secretary general Dr Shafikur Rahman declared the

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday set February 2 to begin the hearing on appeal filed challenging the death penalty for war crimes convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali.A 4-member full bench of the Appellate Division headed-by Chief Justice SK

DHAKA: The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami on charge of killing intellectuals, mass killing and rape.The 4-member Appellate Division bench of the Supreme Court led-by Chief Justice SK Sinha gave the verdict

DHAKA: A defamation case has been filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and its standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy for their controversial remarks about the role of Bangabandhu and the number of martyr’s in the Liberation War in 1971.Jananetri Parishad, a front

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) authority on Monday gave permissions to both ruling Awami League (AL) and opposition BNP to organize rallies in front of their respective party headquarters on January 5, the second anniversary of 10th general elections.DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman

DHAKA: BNP chairperson will sit with top leaders of the party on Monday (January 4) night to fix next course of action in ongoing situation ahead of January 5 program.The meeting is scheduled to be held at party chairperson’s political office in city’s Gulshan area around 8:30pm, said

DHAKA: Five Jamaat leaders, who were arrested earlier from city’s Banasree area, are remanded for 10 days each.Metropolitan magistrate Yousof Hossain on Sunday (January 3) granted 10 days remand for each in two cases responding to the 20-day remand plea.Earlier, Rampura Thana police

DHAKA: The full verdict of the war crimes case and other related documents of convict and also senior Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee have reached Dhaka Central Jail in city Sunday afternoon (January 03).The verdict will also be sent from International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)

DHAKA: The International Crime Tribunal has received the full verdict of the war crimes case involving senior Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee. Appellate Division assistant Registrar Mehedi Hasan  delivered the coy to tribunal registrar’s  personal assistant Jahurul Islam

GAIBANDHA: Police, in ongoing special drives, arrested 23 people, including two activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, from different places of the district.The drives were conducted in seven upazilas between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Gaibandha additional police super Faruk Hossain

COXSBAZAR: Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain lodged a case against 30 Chhatra League activists, mentioning two names, for vandalizing his hotel in Cox’s Bazar.The case was filed on Saturday night on allegation of vandalizing minister’s hotel named Hotel

MYMENSINGH: Newly elected mayor (Awami League rebel candidate) of Trishal municipality ABM Asaduzzaman was made prime accused in Jubo League activist Parvez murder case.Victim’s father Mohammad Ibrahim filed the case around 10:30pm of Saturday (January 2), accusing 15 people. Trishal

DHAKA: Police detained five leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami from city’s Banashri area on Saturday afternoon.The detainees were identified as Giasuddin, Aminur Rahman, Abul Hashem, Sohel and Osman Gani.Moreover, materials for creating violence and over Tk1-crore were seized from their

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday commented that the attack on party’s leaders and activists in front of its Nayapaltan central office was a blueprint of government’s conspiracy.The senior BNP leader made the comment while addressing a press conference

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) will organize a procession on January 5 to celebrate the second anniversary of 10th parliamentary election.AL organizing secretary AFM Bahauddin Nazim and office secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap told banglanews Saturday evening.They said that their party

DHAKA: A clash between the BNP men and leaders and activists of ‘Asal BNP’ occurred centering the occupation of BNP headquarters in city’s Nayapaltan area on Saturday.Scores were injured in the incident that took place in front of the BNP central office around 4:00pm.Moreover,

KHULNA: The namaz-e-janaza of former mayor of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) and former forest and environment affairs secretary of BNP advocate Sheikh Tayebur Rahman was held on Saturday.The first namaz-e-janaza of Tayebur Rahman was arranged at Shaheed Hadis Park in Khulna around

DHAKA: BNP will arrange mass rally at Suhrawardi Udyan in city on Tuesday to mark January 5 as ‘Democracy Killing Day’.The party also declared program of staging mass rally at district towns across the country on the day.BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made