Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif on Wednesday asked the Deputy Commissioners (DCs) of all the districts to give earnest efforts to reduce the harassment of the people at local land offices. The minister came up with the call while talking…
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BNP doubts whether all 9 people were reality militants
Dhaka-A senior BNP leader has expressed his doubt whether all the nine militants killed during the police raid at their den at Kallayanpur in the city in the hourly hours of yesterday were in the reality militants.
PM Hasina asks Awami League MPs to get ready for general election
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked Awami League lawmakers to get ready for the next national election.She gave the order in a meeting of Awami League Parliamentary Party on Tuesday.“Two and half years of the government’s tenure has passed. The…
It’s BNP not AL who destroyed democracy with militancy: Asad
Dhaka – Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said that all information about the recent acts of terrorism and militancy have come to the hands of the members of law enforcing agencies.
Democratic Party chair resigns in wake of email leak
Embattled Democratic Party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Sunday she is resigning, following a leak of emails suggesting an insider attempt to hobble the campaign of Hillary Clinton’s rival in the White House primaries Bernie Sanders.Wasserman Schultz will step down…
3 Jamaat-Shibir men among 48 held in Satkhira
Dhaka – Police in a regular drive arrested 48 people including three Jamaat-Shibir men from eight upazilas in Satkhira Monday on charges of sabotage,UNB News Agency Reported.
Rizvi, 8 other BNP-men face arrest in explosives case
Dhaka – A Dhaka Court on Monday issued an arrest warrant against nine BNP leaders including BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi in an explosive substances case filed with Dhaka’s Pallabi Police Station, UNB news agency reported.
BNP’s half-day hartal in Bogra passes off
Bogra – The half-day hartal, enforced by the local unit of BNP to protest the conviction of party’s senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in a money-laundering case, is going on peacefully in the district on Monday. The shutdown begun at 6.00…
‘Sentencing senior vice-chairman Tarique aimed to destroy BNP’
The BNP yesterday termed sentencing party senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman for seven years in a money laundering case as last step of destroying the party.
Barapukuria mine case, Khaleda asked to appear
Dhaka-The Special Judge Court-2 of Dhaka on Sunday fixed August 10 as the next date of the case filed in connection with Barapukuria coal mine graft and asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to appear in the court physically.
We have no time to stay idle at home:Fakhrul
Mirza Alamgir said the verdict against Tarique Rahman proved that the government has struck the very heart of the BNP.
BNP calls half day hartal in Bogra for Monday
Dhaka – Local unit of BNP on Sunday called a half day hartal in Bogra for Monday protesting party’s senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman’s conviction in a money-laundering case.The shutdown will remain in force from 6 am to 12 pm.Saiful Islam, president…
BNP to face Tarique’s conviction legally, politically: Fakhrul
Dhaka – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said they would face the money laundering case against senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman legally and politically. “The money laundering case against Tarique Rahman and development centering it is political. We…
Militancy to be contained, reaffirms PM
Reiterating her government’s zero tolerance stance to rein in terrorism, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government will contain militancy and terrorism by any means.”We’ll surely eradicate militancy and terrorism whatever the name it takes. We won’t allow…
Hillary chooses Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as running mate
Tampa(AP/UNB) – Hillary Clinton named Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate Friday, adding a centrist former governor of a crucial battleground state to the Democratic ticket. In a text message to supporters, the presumptive Democratic nominee…
11 female activists of opposition Jamaat-Shibir held in Laxmipur
Dhaka – Police in a drive arrested 11 female activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir along with some jihadi (religious uprising) books at Munshiganj in sadar upazila of Laxmipur district on Friday evening.
Trump pledging ‘Americanism, not globalism’
Donald Trump has officially accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president of the United States, pledging to champion “Americanism, not globalism” if he is elected to the White House and accusing his likely Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, of a legacy…
Khaleda in emergency meeting with BNP senior leaders
Dhaka-Following the High Court verdict punishing her eldest son Tarique Rahman in a money laundering case, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia sat in an emergency meeting with her party’s senior leaders tonight (Thursday night).
Tarique acquittal scrapped, given seven years in jail
Dhaka – Scrapping his acquittal in a money laundering case, the High Court on Thursday sentenced BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman to seven years’ imprisonment and fined him Tk 20 crore, UNB news agency reported. An HC bench of Justice…
12 BNP leaders detained from in front of their Naya Paltan office
Police detained 12 leaders and activists of BNP from in front of their Naya Paltan office in Dhaka on Thursday morning.
Tarique verdict was meant to please government, BNP says
The High Court has reversed the lower court’s verdict on Tarique Rahman’s money laundering case to ‘please the government’, says the BNP.”He was not involved in any way with money laundering , there was no evidence to back those charges,”…
11 BNP men held in city
Dhaka -Police arrested 11 leaders and activists of BNP from near the party’s Nayapaltan central office in the city on Thursday morning. Morshed Alam, officer-in-charge of Paltan Police Station, said law enforcers arrested the 11 BNP men, including party’s assistant office…
Turkey coup: Charges against 99 generals, admirals
Turkey has formally charged 99 generals and admirals in connection with the weekend’s thwarted coup attempt – just under a third of the country’s 356 top military officers.President Erdogan is meeting with loyal commanders and his cabinet in Ankara.Authorities have…
PM making a mistake, says BNP
BNP senior leader Abdullah Al Noman on Tuesday said the Prime Minister’s remark on their proposed national unity will divide the nation instead of making them united to tackle a serious national problem like militancy. “The Prime Minister is making…
Stay alert against 1975-type incident: Ashraf
Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Tuesday called upon freedom fighters to remain alert to make sure that the incident of 1975 is not repeated.“We’ve achieved independence through the Liberation War. We failed to save the leader under whose…
Pro- and anti-Trump forces hold dueling rallies in Cleveland
Cleveland (AP/UNB) – With police on edge in this summer of bloodshed, hundreds of Donald Trump supporters and foes held dueling rallies a half-mile apart Monday in a tense but mostly peaceful start to the four-day Republican National Convention. About…
BNP pushes for unity of all parties
Claiming that the Prime Minister’s rejection of its call for a unity has made the nation upset and aggrieved, BNP on Monday said the unity of only pro-government parties or the opposition ones cannot resolve the country’s growing militancy problem.…
BNP may go for anti-terrorism unity without Jamaat: Hannan Shah
BNP senior leader ASM Hannan Shah on Sunday dropped a broad hint at keeping aside Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in the interest in forging a national unity to tackle terrorism and militancy.
Nation to pay heavy price without unity, bemoans BNP
BNP on Sunday cautioned that the entire nation may pay a heavy price for the government’s denial to forge a national unity to tackle the growing militancy and terrorism.
No unity with those involved in terrorism, militancy: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday ruled out the possibility of forging any national unity to curb terrorism and militancy with those involved in terrorism, militancy and war crimes. “A national consensus among the mass people has developed after the…