KHULNA: District Jamaat-e-Islami called daylong hartal at Koyra and Paikgachha upazilas for Sunday in protest against the arrest of district (South) unit Ameer Maulana AKM Tamiz Uddin, also Koyra upazila chairman.  District (South) Unit secretary of the party Maulana Golam Sarwar

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday placed 10 Jamaat leaders, including former president of Shibir Dr Shafiqul Islam Masud, on a fresh two-day remand.Metropolitan Magistrate Ataul Haque passed the remand order in response to fresh remand plea filed by police.After completion of four-day

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) submitted their audit reports to the secretariat of the Election Commission (EC) on Thursday, the last extended date for submission of the report for last fiscal year. Earlier, the party failed to submit the report by July 31 and prayed to the EC

DHAKA: The leaders and activists of ruling Awami League’s political rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are getting packed with the piles of lawsuit, mostly filed by the government. Scores of stalwarts, including BNP chairperson, its standing committee members, Dhaka city unit’s

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) indicted former Jatiya Party (JP) lawmaker Abdul Jabbar for crimes against humanity during Liberation War in 1971. ICT-1 passed the order Thursday bringing five war crimes charges including killing, mass killing, looting and forced conversion.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Dhaka City Unit Committee Convener Mirza Abbas on Wednesday categorically said the movement against the Awami League led government would be peaceful. He added: “The movement will be peaceful but the government becomes panicked,” he said.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia greeted Turkey’s newly elected president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In a letter, the BNP chief thanked Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader for his win in the popular election for Presidency for the first time in

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina categorically said that our boys and girls will dominate the world and we are working to attain this target.The premier came up with the assertion while exchanging views with the high officials of education sector at Ganabhaban in city on Wednesday

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday deferred the charge framing hearing of BNP standing Committee Member MK Anwar till September 15 in a case under Information Technology and Communication Act.The court of Senior Special Judge of Dhaka Justice M Zahurul Haq passed the order in response

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance will hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city on August 19 protesting government’s National Broadcast Policy-2014.The alliance will bring out black flag-procession across the country on August 16, beginning in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan office

DHAKA: Communications minster Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said many people are violating traffic rules labeling the Member of Parliament’s (MP) stickers on their vehicles, they act like MP, but traffic police can check them whether they are real or fake.He came up with the remarks

KHULNA: Law enforcers arrested Terakhada Upazila Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Kabirul Islam with arms early Tuesday. He was arrested from Atulia Madrasa of the upazila. Officer-in-Charge of Terakhada Thana Harendranath Sarker confirmed the matter to banglanews. We have recovered a foreign

DHAKA: Dr Zobaida Rahman, wife of BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman, has been dismissed from the government job due to absence for more than five years and ten months. The dismissal order was issued as per section 34 of the service rules of government. Despite her dismissal,

DHAKA: A Dhaka Court Tuesday deferred the hearing on charge framing against BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 45 other BNP leaders in vehicle torching case. Metropolitan Magistrate Tarek Mainul Islam Bhuiyan fixed September 4 when Advocate Sanaullah

SHERPUR: Election Commissioner Brigadier General (retd) M Jabed Ali on Monday said the election was not well accepted to the mass people due to three reasons.He made the observations after inaugurating newly built server station building in Chalk Pathak area of the district.He also

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) student affairs secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie was granted bail after he surrendered before the court.Earlier on Sunday, an arrest warrant was issued against Annie and some BNP leaders.The BNP leader said he could not appear before the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court here on Monday deferred the hearing on charge framing against 38 BNP top leaders, including party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, till October 30.The Second Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh issued the order in the

JESSORE: A BNP activist has been slaughtered by unknown assailants in Putkhali under Benapole Port Thana of the district on Sunday late night. The deceased was identified as Shamim, 35, residing in that village. Locals told banglanews that there were a long dispute between some locals

DHAKA: Police arrested two Jamaat-e-Islami activists from a protest possession at Nabisko in Tejgaon Industrial area of the capital on Monday morning.Acting Secretary General Shafiqur Rahman of Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday, in a statement, called countrywide demonstration for Monday

DHAKA: Protesting the formulation of national broadcast policy, which might allegedly snatch the freedom of press, the BNP-led 20-party alliance will stage demonstration in the capital on August 19. Besides, demanding scrap of the broadcast policy, the alliance will also hold a silent