DHAKA: At least 33 leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami were detained in nightlong drives in three districts.Banglanews district correspondents report from Mymensingh, Chittagong and Sirajganj on Monday.Mymensingh: Police detained 15 leaders and activists of

DHAKA: A number of labor organizations including ruling Awami League's labour front Jatiya Sramik League took position surrounding the political office of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in city’s Gulshan area on Monday.The organizations arranged the sit-in program at noon protesting the

DHAKA: Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal president ASM Abdur Rab on Saturday asked the government to solve the problem through talks saying “the ball is in government’s court”. “The ball is in government’s court and the government should take initiative for a dialogue to end the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Saturday granted three-day fresh remand against Mosaddek Ali Falu, adviser to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, in car vandalism and arson attack cases filed with Badda Police Station.Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman passed the remand order in the afternoon

DHAKA: The top leaders of ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance said that no dialogue would be held with BNP before 2019.The next national polls will be held in 2019, they added.The 14-party leaders came up with the assertion while addressing a rally in city protesting the ongoing

LAXMIPUR: Miscreants vandalized at least eight CNG-run auto-rickshaws and torched a motorcycle in different areas of the district on Tuesday.Locals said some miscreants vandalized five CNG-run auto-rickshaws on Ramgati-Laxmipur highway in Hazirhat and Laurence areas of Kamalnagar

FENI: Law enforcers detained some 24 leaders and activists of BNP and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam from several places of the district on Tuesday on charge of vandalizing vehicles and creating violence during hartal.Police sources said that 24 BNP-Jamaat men were held in several drives

DHAKA: After the removal of additional police, water cannon and police van on early Monday, six vehicles of Chairperson’s Security Force (CSF) have been placed surrounding BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan political office.The vehicles of CSF, the private security force of

NARAYANGANJ: At least 10 people, including a child, sustained burn injuries as miscreants set a passenger bus alight in city’s Chashara area on Sunday night.Six of injured are Dr Saiful Islam, her wife Dr Sharmin Siddique, their two-and- half-year-old son Shafin, Mizanur Rahman, Iman

DHAKA: BNP central committee special secretary Nadim Mostafa, also Rajshahi district unit president, was detained from his Gulshan residence of the city early Monday.The joint team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Detective Branch (DB) of police conducted a drive in Nadim’s

DHAKA: All bars have been removed from BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office early Monday. Member of law enforcement agencies have been withdrawn. After 16 day’s of her ‘confinement’, she can come out of her office.Additional police, water cannon and police van left the

BOGRA: District police in several drives detained a total of 79 people, including 11 BNP-Jamaat men, from different areas of Bogra district.Identities of the detainees could not be known immediately, sources told banglanews.According to them, the drives were held between 6:00am of Friday

DHAKA: Police attempted several times to break lock of BNP central office in city’s Naya Paltan area, claimed the party’s joint secretary general Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.The BNP leader, who has been staying inside the office along with some other BNP leaders and activists by

DHAKA: Rejecting the possibilities of talks and midterm polls, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Saturday said necessary steps would be taken if anyone takes laws into their own hands.The minister made the assertion while talking to journalists about the situation of last year’s

FENI: Police arrested at least 55 activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in a case following a clash with police.Feni town police outpost in-charge Sub-Inspector (SI) Kalam Hossain on Saturday filed the case with Feni Model

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to hold a meeting with senior leaders of the party, including acting secretary general, standing committee members and top leaders of Dhaka city BNP committee on Wednesday night.Party media wing sources said the meeting would commence at

DHAKA: A mobile court awarded two years imprisonment to a young man for torching the vehicle of MP Chhabi while he was going to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).Executive Magistrate Sarwar Alam passed the order on Wednesday afternoon.The convict is Afzal Hossain, 22, a third year

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League MP (Netrokona-1) Chhabi Biswas was injured as miscreants attacked him and set fire to his vehicle in front of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday.Sources said the Durgapur-Kalmakanda constituency lawmaker is undergoing treatment at DMCH as he

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta on Saturday categorically said that the Dhaka City Corporations elections will be held within the next two or three months. All the parties, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), will join the polls, he added.

KANCHPUR (NARAYANGANJ): Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia threatened to wage a tougher movement if the prices of gas, electricity and fuel are increased.“The tougher movement will be enforced from the day after the government will hike the prices of energy,