DHAKA: At least seven cocktails were blasted by activists of Jamaat-Shibir in Lalmatia area of the capital on Saturday afternoon.Witnesses said a group of Jamaat-Shibir men blasted seven cocktails from a sudden procession in the area around 4:00pm and fled the scene.On information, police

GAIBANDHA: Miscreants torched some eight polling centres in the district a day before the 10th parliamentary elections. The incidents took place around 11.00pm Friday to 1:00pm on Saturday.The tainted polling centres are Tindaho Primary School and Bangabandhu Girls’ High School of Sadar

DHAKA: A passenger bus was torched by miscreants at Gabtoli Bus Terminal in the capital on Saturday afternoon.Witnesses said a group of miscreants set fire at a parked passenger bus in the area around 2:30pm and fled the scene.Within a short span of time, the locals and law enforcers

BHOLA: At least 10 people were injured in a clash between law enforcers and hartal-blockade supporters in Charnoabad and Homeopath College area of the district on Saturday morning.Witnesses said that hartal-blockade supporters brought out a procession in the area and set fire to tyres on

LALMONIRHAT: A leader of union Swechhasebok Dal was killed in a clash with Awami League activists over controlling a polling center in Patgram upazila of the district on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Mobarok Hossain, 35, president of Baura Union Swechhasebok

DHAKA UNIVERSITY: Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of Awami League, is celebrating its 66th founding anniversary with cutting cake at Carzon Hall of Dhaka University early Saturday.Leaders and activists of DU unit BCL cut a big size cake at 12:01am marking the

DHAKA: Polling materials and manpower for the 10th national election are being sent from Saturday morning.Respective assistant returning officer will hand over the materials and manpower along with law enforcers to presiding officer. Later, these equipments and manpower will be sent all

DHAKA: The 48-hour hartal and indefinite blockade, called by BNP led 18-party alliance, is underway simultaneously protesting unilateral polls in the country amid stray incidents of violence.Blockade supporters torched several polling centers and set fire to vehicles and blasted cocktails

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Friday categorically said that the country`s people want to join election and no one can foil the national election scheduled for January 5.   He said, "The election would surely be held on January 5 in Bangladesh in a free, fair and neutral manner

DHAKA: Terming the upcoming 10th parliamentary polls as farce one, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia urged countrymen to boycott the elections.   She made the plea in a written statement through mass media on Friday afternoon. Khaleda said, “People of the country are democratic and they

DHAKA: Miscreants torched a passenger bus at Abdullapur of capital’s Uttara at around 6:00pm Friday.Witnesses said that some youths halted a passenger bus at Abdullapur and torched it pouring petrol.On information police and fire fighting unit rushed to the spot and doused the fire.

CHITTAGONG: Police arrested Satkania Upazila Jamaat Ameer Moulana Abul Foyez on Friday afternoon.He was arrested from Mousumi Residential Area of Kotwali Thana of the port city and later sent to Bakolia Thana.City police additional deputy commissioner Manzur Murshed confirmed the matter

GAIBANDHA: At least six police personnel including an OC were injured as 18-party men attacked on them at Palashbari upazila of the district on Friday.Witnesses said that the police team was going to Barisal union to supervise a polling center. On the way around 4:00pm, BNP and

DHAKA: Opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance has called 48-hour monstop hartal (shutdown) across the country from Saturday morning to Monday morning protesting ‘one-party’ polls.Dr Osman Faruk, Adviser to Opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, made the announcement at a press

DHAKA: A delegation of BNP Parliamentary Party met with President Abdul M Hamid and asked him to intervene to free Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia from ‘confinement’ at her residence.The BNP lawmakers asked the President to clear the matter whether the Opposition Leader was arrested or

DHAKA: Apprehending subversive activities after Juma prayer, security measures were beefed up across the country, including the capital, to maintain law-and-order on Friday. Law enforcers were kept on alert adjacent areas of countrywide mosques to avert any untoward situation.In previous

BOGRA: The law enforcers held eight people, including a Chhatra Shibir leader, who was injured in an explosion during making cocktails, from a hospital of the district town on Friday noon.The detainee is Jewel Sarker, President of Azizul Haque College unit Chhatra Shibir, the front

DHAKA: Environment and Forests Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud categorically said that within two weeks after forming new government terrorism would be uprooted from the country.He came up with the assertion while addressing commemoration meeting of late Awami League Presidium Member Abdur

FARIDPUR: District Sechhasebak Dal called daylong hartal for Saturday in protest against the ‘confinement’ of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at her residence and release of its Kotwali Thana unit president Abdullah Sarder Babu.Advocate Habibur Rahman, senior joint convener of district

DHAKA: Opposition BNP called hartal in Rajshahi and Joypurhat for Saturday and Sunday protesting the January 5 parliamentary election.Our Joypurhat correspondent reports, Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal and Peshajibi Parishad called 48-hour hartal in the district in protest against the