Dhaka – A case has been filed in connection with the killing of Hindu tailor Nikhil Chandra Joarder, Unb mews agency reported. Victim’s wife Aroti Rani Joardar filed the case against three unidentified people with Gopalpur Police Station on Saturday…
Dhaka – At least 15 people were injured in two separate incidents of clashes centering electioneering ahead of the union parishad (UP) election in Sadar upazila of Jhenidah district in southwest Bangladesh on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Dhaka – Reiterating her call to the ruling party for engaging in talks with opposition parties without delay, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said this regime will not be able to hang on to power for long depending on…
Reiterating her call to the ruling party for engaging in talks with opposition parties without delay, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said this regime will not be able to hang on to power for long depending on the power…
BNP’s workers’ front Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal is all set to hold its workers’ rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city on Sunday, marking ay Day.
The BNP has finally got permission from Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) authorities to hold its workers rally at Suhrawardy Udyan to mark the International Labour Day tomorrow. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will address the rally to be organised by BNP’s…
The BNP Wednesday alleged that incidents of killing and enforced disappearance are rising in the country in absence of democracy. “The incidents of killing and forced disappearance are occurring one after another as there is no democracy and people’s rights…
Dhaka City unit BNP convener Mirza Abbas on Wednesday said they are expecting the largest-ever gathering at their chairperson Khaleda Zia’s May Day rally in the city on Sunday. “Don’t think it’ll be only a rally of Sramik Dal. We…
Dhaka – The 54th death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Haque is being observed today (Wednesday) with due respect, unb news agency has reported. Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque, popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla, died on April 27, 1962.
Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has reportedly taken responsibility for killing Bangladeshi gay-rights activist Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy. SITE, a US-based intelligence site, published a report on Tuesday, a day after the two were hacked…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday expressed deep concern over the killings of USAID official Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, and prison guard of Kashimpur jail Rustom Ali.
BNP has blamed a ‘culture of impunity’ for the murder of Rajshahi University teacher Prof Rezaul Karim Siddiquee. The party’s General Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in a statement issued over 36 hours after Saturday’s murder, said, “The miscreants are…
Dhaka – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday said a vested quarter is conspiring to destabilise the country by killing people, including bloggers and university teachers, unb news agency reported. Responding to a question from Jasod MP Nazmul Huq Pradhan…
Dhaka, – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday accused the BNP-Jamaat clique of carrying out killings like Kalabagan double murder saying they are doing this to destabilise the country, unb news agency reported. “Everybody knows who were behind such killing…the…
Dhaka – Two days after the murder of a Rajshahi University teacher in the same style, two people, including a USAID staff, were hacked to death at an apartment in the capital’s Kalabagan area on Monday evening, unb news agency…
STAFF REPORTER Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad yesterday said that his wife’s Sunday’s statement regarding him was beyond her jurisdiction as per party constitution.
Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Monday alleged that his wife and party senior presidium member Raushon Ershad has belittled the party by making some statements out of her jurisdiction. In a statement, he also turned down Raushon’s request for…
Dhaka – Voicing deep concern over the growing incidents of killing and other criminal activities, BNP on Monday alleged that the law and order situation in the country has collapsed, unb news agency reported, unb news agency reported. Speaking at…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will not appear before a Dhaka court Monday in a Zia Charitable Trust graft case hearing as her two petitions are now pending before the High Court for disposal. “She will not be able to appear…
STAFF REPORTER BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will address a May Day rally of workers at Suhrawardy Udyan. Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, a front organisaiton of BNP, will organise the rally to mark the historic May Day.
Court Correspondent A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred the date for submission of report in a case filed against BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tareque Rahman for maligning Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to August 23.
BNP on Saturday alleged that ruling party men played a vote rigging game in the third phases of Union Parishad elections.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Saturday questioned the government’s silence about transaction of $300 million as mentioned in US court documents of the case involving prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.”The people [of Bangladesh] want to know the…
Dhaka – A court on Friday put eminent journalist Shafik Rehman on a fresh five-day remand for further interrogation in a case filed over an alleged plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, unb news agency…
Dhaka – BNP senior leader Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman on Friday said the Prime Minister’s instruction to the Election Commission (EC) to check irregularities and faults in the remaining phases of Union Parishad polls has manifested the Commission’s weakness…
Dhaka – Some 614 Union Parishads (UPs) in 48 districts across the country are going to polls on Saturday in the third phase of the election to the lowest tier of the local government body. The voting will be held…
STAFF REPORTER Former minister Barrister Nazmul Huda yesterday announced a 71-member central of committee of his newly floated political party—Trinomool BNP (Grass-root BNP) headed by him.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said Bangladesh government should urgently remove legal and practical obstacles to unionisation in its readymade garment industry. “Garment workers face daunting challenges to unionization, and remain at risk of interference and threats by factories three…
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Thursday at 11 am granted bail to seven BNP leaders, including the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas, in a sabotage case filed with Ramna…
As the lawyers of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, could not complete cross-examining complainant Harun-or-Rashid, Deputy Director of Anti Corruption Commission on Thursday, the court fixed April 28 for further cross-examination.