Category: Lead News

The BNP has demanded an international investigation into “mass killing” in evicting the activists of Hifazat-e Islam in the city’s Motijheel on Sunday night.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the political and religious leaders in Bangladesh to engage in constructive dialogue and help defuse tensions.

Sixteen cases have so far been filed in connection with the May 5 city violence unleashed by Hefajat-e-Islam activists.

Terming the predawn crackdown by law enforcers on Hefajat-e-Islam activists at Motijheel Shapla Chattar, the main business district of capital Dhaka, a planned genocide, opposition BNP Monday claimed that over a thousand people were killed while hundreds of bodies concealed…

At least 22 people, including two policemen and a member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), were killed and over 200 others injured, 100 with bullets, in a series of clashes between the activists of Hefajat-e-Islam and police in Sadar upazila…

In a pre-dawn drive, law-enforcers, including police, BGB and Rab personnel, on Monday removed Hefajat-e-Islam activists from the city’s Shapla Chattar area. According to different agencies 37 persons died in the action at dead of night. Hefajat sources claimed at…

DHAKA: Ameer of Hefajat-e-Islam Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi has been  sent to Hathazari in Chittagong from his Dhaka city office at Lalbagh in the city on Monday afternoon. Police earlier raided his office and cut off his communication with followers.

The government has knocked off the air Diganta and Islami Televisions with citing any reason, an official of the private station said.

Amid the escalating violence, the massive rally of Hefajat-e-Islam at the city’s Shapla Chattar continued on Sunday with a threat to continue it until its 13-point demand is met.

The death toll rose to 626 in Savar Rana Plaza collapse with the recovery of 57 more bodies the debris till 9:00pm Sunday on the 12th day of the incident.

Turning down the BNP chief’s 48-hour ultimatum, Awami League general secretary Syed Ahsraful Islam on Sunday categorically said they will not accept the opposition’s demand for restoration of the non-party caretaker government system.

At least three person were killed and 200 others hospitalised with bullet injuries, 40 of them with critical wounds, in clash of police and Awami League activists with Hefazat-e-Islam activists at the Paltan intersection throughout yesterday. Thousands of shots were…

DHAKA: Hefajat-e-Islam has blockaded Dhaka from the early hours of Sunday to press home their 13-point demand including trial of atheist bloggers.

Leader of the Opposition Begum Khaleda Zia on Saturday gave the government a 48-hour ultimatum to clearly announce that the next general election will be held under a non-party administration or face tougher programmes.

The death toll from the disastrous Rana Plaza collapse at Savar reached 514 on Friday evening with the recovery of six more bodies from the ruins of the collapsed building in the last five hours commencing from 3:30 pm.

The government on Friday permitted the BNP-led 18-party alliance to hold its Saturday’s rally at Shapla Chattar in the city’s business hub Motijheel area.

Leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Friday vowed to make its scheduled May 5 ‘Dhaka Siege’ programme defying all odds.

Rescuers retrieved 16 more bodies from the wreckage of Rana Plaza on Thursday as the 2nd phase of the rescue operation continued for the third consecutive day, raising the death toll to 433.

Some 68 schoolgirls were admitted to hospital with stomach pain in Shibaloy Upazila of the district on Thursday morning.

A five-member core committee, headed by Chairman of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipaksha (RAJUK) Engr Nurul Huda to identify risky mills and factories with the Rajuk area, BGMEA president M Atiqul Islam said here on Thursday.

Terming the current regime a wicked one, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday said this government started its journey with blood by killing 57 army officers in February, 2009 and set to complete its tenure with the blood of workers.

Twenty more bodies were recovered from the wreckage of the collapsed Rana Plaza on Wednesday as rescuers continued their 2nd phase rescue operation for the second consecutive day, raising the death toll to 411.

Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned as “slave labour” the conditions for hundreds of workers killed in a factory collapse in Bangladesh and urged political leaders to fight unemployment in a sweeping critique of “selfish profit”.

A fire broke out at the laboratory centre of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMUH) on Wednesday afternoon.

Terming the Savar tragedy a manmade disaster, the opposition BNP on Tuesday alleged that the government is trying to cover it up like its previous scandals as ruling party men are responsible for the catastrophe.

Opposition BNP-led 18-party called off the May 2 hartal in response to the call of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and for the sake of Savar tragedy.