The United States has expressed its interest to know about 13-point demands of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh and the qaumi madrasha education. US embassy political officer Kathleen Gibilisco and assistant political expert Lubain Chowdhury Masum expressed the interest during a meeting with…
Chittagong – A court here on Wednesday indicted suspended general manager of Bangladesh Railway (East) Yusuf Ali Mridha and four others in a graft case filed over corruption in the railway recruitment. The four other accused are Railway additional chief…
A Tangail Court has sent Md Rasel bin Sattar, arrested for circulating al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri’s audio message in Bangladesh, to 10-day police custody for interrogation. Judicial Magistrate Court judge Shahadat Hossain on Wednesday granted police the remand in one…
A delegation of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has visited the Election Commission to lodge the complaint that it is not playing its appropriate role in the Upazila elections. Although the election is being held on a non-party basis, BNP-backed…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has withdrawn a stay on a defamation case against former army chief Gen Moeen U Ahmed.A full bench headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain issued the order on Tuesday after hearing an…
Dhaka – Awami League publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday alleged that BNP-Jamaat alliance is trying to create anarchy in the country by joining hands with al-Qaeda. “The BNP-Jamaat alliance has long been enforcing militant programmes. We…
“Opposition activists are being abducted and killed in Lakshmipur and elsewhere. They are being arrested in false cases,” acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a rally on Tuesday. The meet was held at the National Press Club…
Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Dr Mizanur Rahman on Tuesday said the law enforcers crossed their limit by making attacks on a recent peaceful rally of Rajshahi University students. “Members of the law enforcement agencies crossed their…
Dhaka – Stressing the upazila polls’ local essence, party’s Publicity and Publications Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud said on Tuesday evening that important as they are, “there is no scope for drawing conclusions regarding a party’s popularity at the national level…
A total of 97 upazilas in 40 districts are going to polls on Wednesday in the first of the staggered local body elections. The voting will open at 8am and continue till 4pm without any break. The Election Commission has…
Dhaka – Members of elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained a youth from Tangail on charge of spreading so-called audiovisual message of al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri on the internet. Director (media and legal wing) at the Rab headquarters Wing…
The government knows where al-Qaeda’s message was transmitted from, Tarique Ahmed Siddique, the Prime Minister’s Adviser for Security Affairs, said yesterday. “We know where it was transmitted from, but we are yet to know who is responsible for it,” Siddique,…
In the wake of al-Qaeda’s reported threat to Bangladesh, the government plans to strengthen the security of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “We’re specially considering about further beefing up the security of the Prime Minister,” said her security adviser Maj Gen…
Dhaka – BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman on Monday alleged that the current government buried democracy through the January 5 elections. “A crisis of democracy has been created in the country. The incumbent government buried democracy…
Secretary of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) M Faizur Rahman Chowdhury on Monday claimed that the ongoing probe into the wealth of sitting and former ministers and lawmakers is not an eyewash. “You (journalists) will see the results of our inquiry. We…
Jessore – Accusing the government of harassing its probable candidates, BNP on Monday threatened to boycott the upazila polls in Khulna division. “The BNP-backed aspirants and key leaders are being harassed, repressed and arrested. Some senior party leaders are being…
BNP has said the government’s statements linking it with terrorist organisation al-Qaeda’s recent audio message is politically motivated and a ploy to win over US and world to its side. BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday…
The government has decided to extend the term of the Speedy Trial Act by five more years. The weekly cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday approved the final draft of the Law and Order Disrupting Crime…
The US is aware of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri’s audio message which has called for jihad against anti-Islam forces in Bangladesh. A State Department spokesperson told bdnews24.com on Sunday that it rejected al-Qaeda and the use of violence for political…
Dhaka – The Bangladesh Bar Council on Sunday demanded formation a high-level inquiry committee to probe the alleged incidents of extrajudicial killings across the country. Addressing a press conference, Khandker Mahbub Hossain, vice-chairman of the lawyers’ statutory regulating body, came…
Now the country is governed at the dictate of just one person, not by the rule of law, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi alleged on Sunday. “The country is governed by the order of a single person, not…
The High Court on Sunday stayed for three months the proceedings of two cases filed against four bloggers under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. The HC bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mohammad Ullah also issued…
Prime Minister’s International Affairs adviser Gowher Rizvi has reminded foreign diplomats of a contradiction — the call to hold fresh elections soonest possible creates the “very instability” that the Jan 5 elections put an end to. Rizvi said the government…
Ruling party lawmakers have termed the audio message of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri as a new conspiracy against the independence and sovereignty of the country. Addressing the House on point of order on Sunday, they said the message of…
Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir have no relation with al-Qaeda, the Islamist party said Sunday. Its assertion comes after al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri reportedly called for jihad in Bangladesh to resist ‘anti-Islam forces’ in an audio message…
The Bangladesh government is investigating the origin of the alleged audio-message by Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Kamal Khan said on Sunday. He told journalists at the Secretariat that Bangladesh was capable of handling threats posed…
A audio-message said to be from Al-Qaeda’s current chief Dr Ayman Al-Zawahiri has called on Muslims in Bangladesh to resist the evil plans of the ‘leading criminals in the subcontinent and the West against Islam.’ The entire message with video…
Hefazat-e-Islami Bangladesh (HIB) has refuted its link with audio message of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri. Ameer of HIB Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi and secretary general Allama Hafez Muhammad Junayed Babunagori in a joint statement issued on Saturday said that…
Dhaka – BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday demanded an exemplary punishment of the law enforcers who allegedly killed its activist Jahangir Hossain of Mohanpur village in Sirajganj after his enforced disappearance. In a statement, Alamgir…
BNP chairperson’s adviser and Bangladesh Bar Council vice-chairman Khandaker Mahbub Hossain on Saturday urged the government to arrange a referendum to test its popularity. “The government doesn’t believe in people’s power …it hasn’t been elected through people’s votes. The government…