GAZIPUR: The chiefs of the country’s two top political rival parties - Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are set to visit the district this week.Leaders and activists are running campaigns in full-fledge to make their party heads’ visits successful.According

DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal, farmers' wing of BNP, Saturday declared an eight-day programme to press home their 13-point demands. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announcement at press conference at its Nayapaltan central office around 12

KOLKATA: India Prime Minister Norendra Modi said that he felt proud in getting the opportunity of welcoming Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid who is also a freedom fighter.Modi made the remarks while meeting Bangladesh president on Friday in New Delhi.He expressed his eagerness to work

BRAMHANBARIA: Police arrested District Jamaat-e-Islami secretary Yakub Ali, 50, Friday afternoon in sabotage case.Brahmanbaria Sadar Thana Officer-in-charge (OC) Akul Chandra Biswas said to banglanews that being tipped off police arrested him from his residence in West Medda of the

RAJSHAHI: Veteran politician and former minister Sardar Amjad Hossain died at Apollo Hospital in Dhaka on Friday afternoon due to old age complexity.He was 75. Sardar Amjad started his political career joining Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in 1964 and he was elected as publicity

DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) will stage demonstration on Sunday across the country protesting the arrest warrant against Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman.JCD office secretary M Abdus Sattar Patwari, in this regard, issued a press release

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta warned Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Khaleda Zia for her offensive speeches on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.He also said that Awami League will reply the ‘audacity’ of Khaleda on street.He came up with

DHAKA: Health and family welfare minister Mohammad Nasim asked Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia not to issue threat of movements to the incumbent government. He made the statement Friday noon while addressing the national conference of Ganatantri Party as chief

DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal will stage demonstration across the country protesting issuance of arrest warrant against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman.Giasuddin Mamun, central leader of Jubo Dal, confirmed the matter to banglanews.On Thursday, the court of metropolitan

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia claimed that the government officials are panic-stricken regarding their jobs as it is now in vulnerable position.Khaleda made the remarks while speaking as chief guest on ‘90’s DUCSU (Dhaka University Central Students

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said the remarks of his party’s senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman were ‘tit for tat’ for ruling Awami League.He came up with the assertion at the auditorium of

DHAKA: International Crime Tribunal-(ICT)-1 deferred until February 18 the over on contempt of court case of Barrister Fakhrul Islam, lawyer of convicted war criminal BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury.A three-member team, led by ICT chairman Justice M Enayetur

DHAKA: A court here issued arrest warrant against BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman for terming Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujubur Rahman a ‘Razakar’.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Yunus Khan passed the order after hearing in a case on Thursday noon.Earlier, several cases were

DHAKA: A court on Thursday asked police to submit probe report in a case against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia relating to demeaning religious sentiment by January 20.Magistrate Shamsul Arefin of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) deferred the date of report submission as the

DHAKA: Several cases have been filed against BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman for terming Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujubur Rahman a ‘Razakar’.Lawyer of Dhaka Bar Mostafizur Rahman Dulal filed a case brining allegation of sedation and defamation and general secretary of Hawkers

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal-2 framed charge against Forkan Mollik of Patuakhali for his alleged involvement in five counts of crimes against humanity during war of liberation.The five charges include genocide, murder, rape, conversion, looting and arson committed in

DHAKA: A Dhaka court summoned BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a defamation case.Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court’s magistrate Amit Kumar Dey passed the order on Thursday.Bangladesh Awami Motsyajibi League vice-president Nure Alam Siddique filed the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court asked BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to appear before it on January 22 in a defamation case for terming Awami League a ‘killer party’ and its chief Sheikh Hasina a ‘killer’.Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court’s magistrate

DHAKA: A Case has been filed against BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman for terming Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujubur Rahman a ‘Razakar’.Nurul Azim Roni, general secretary of Chittagong city Chhatra League, filed the case with Chief Metropolitan Court on Thursday morning.Judge

DHAKA: The judge for trying Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases against BNP chairperson and others, has been changed Thursday. The law and justice division’s joint secretary (opinion) Abu Ahmed has been replaced the incumbent judge of the Special Judge’s