Police in their overnight drives have arrested 30 people, including 18 Jamaat-Shibir men, from Satkania and Lohagarah upazilas. During the drives from Friday night to early Saturday, 18 people were held in Satkania upazila. Of them, six are activists of…
Congratulating the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on its landslide victory in the Lok Sabha election, BNP on Friday hoped that the new government in New Delhi will take initiatives for resolving various long-pending bilateral issues like Teesta Water…
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran on Friday said Bangladesh and India should work jointly as they need to ‘grow and prosper’ together as next door neighbours. “We’ve made considerable progress in the last few years and we hope,…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia applied for a machine readable passport (MRP) to Agargaon passport office on Thursday. Khaleda, who had long been using red passport for holding the portfolios of the prime minister thrice and leader of the opposition in…
Kazi Zafar Ahmed, Chairman of Jatiya Party (Zafar) was taken to intensive care unit (ICU) of United Hospital Thursday afternoon following deterioration of his health, according to hospital and family sources. He was admitted to the hospital on May 11…
An activist of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami was stabbed to death by some unidentified miscreants at Thutiapukur in Palashbari upazila early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Rustom Ali, a resident of the village. Gopal Chandra, officer-in-charge of Palashbari Police Station, said…
Leaders of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) at a protest rally on Wednesday voiced their concern over the government’s failure to arrest the main culprits of seven murders of Narayanganj although 17 days have…
A daylong hartal, enforced by the local unit of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the arrest of its 21 leaders and activists, is progressing without any untoward incidents in greater Chittagong today (Wednesday). No procession or picketing was seen in support of…
Jamaat-e-Islami’s Chittagong unit chief ANM Shamsul Islam and 20 other activists have been sent to jail in an anti-terrorism case. Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Tuesday accepted a bail petition from the leaders as well as a remand petition from…
Local Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday called a daylong hartal in greater Chittagong for Wednesday protesting the arrest of its 21 leaders and activists. City Jamaat nayeb-e-ameer Prof Ahsan Ullah told UNB that they would enforce the shutdown in Chittagong, Bandarban,…
Senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta has called for reforming the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), but dismissed BNP’s demand that the elite anti-crime force be disbanded. Suranjit’s remarks came amid allegation that three RAB officials played a role in the…
The trial of Mufti Jasihmuddin Rahmani, the chief of extremist ‘Ansarullah Bangla Team’ began on Monday. Thirty others are also up in the dock facing trial with him. Additional District and Sessions Judge of Barguna District Court Abu Shamim started…
A Dhaka court on Monday extended bail to BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other four leaders till June 17. Metropolitan Magistrate Md Anwar Sadat passed the order after Fakhrul and four others appear to the court…
A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred the hearing of charge framing against 12 BNP leader and activists including Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to October 8 in a case filed for explosion of cocktail. Dhaka’s Additional Metropolitan Sessions…
The Dhaka University authorities on Sunday suspended four of its students, who are also BCL men, for their involvement in kidnapping a Flexiload trader. The action was taken against them under section 52 (2) of the Proctorial Rules, said a…
BNP vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury on Saturday said the country’s overall security will be at stake if the ‘democratic system is not restored’. “It’s not the government of people …people have no confidence in it …even the regime has lost…
Hefazat-e Islam chief Ahmad Shah Shafi has been hospitalised. Hefazat organising secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi said that 93-year old Shafi has been admitted to the Khidmah Hospital in Dhaka’s Malibagh on Saturday.
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has expelled its four members, including a central leader, for allegedly abducting a businessman for ransom. The ruling party’s student front announced the decision in a circular issued on Saturday. The expelled BCL members are –…
BNP standing committee member MK Anwar yesterday claimed that it is Awami League (AL) which is involved in seven murders in Narayanganj not BNP. “Awami League, Juba League and Chhatra league people are involved in Narayanganj incident and no people…
Terming the present government ‘undemocratic’, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh President Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Thursday said the incidents of forced disappearance, kidnapping and killing have marked an alarming rise due to its undemocratic behaviour. He made the remarks while addressing…
Bangladesh Awami League on Thursday nominated Zebunnesa Afroz, wife of late Shawkat Hossain Hiron MP as its candidate to contest the by-election to Barisal-5 constituency, which is slated for June 12. The nomination was finalized at a meeting of the…
The trial of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable and Orphanage Trust and graft case pending with the Special Judge Court-3 has been shifted to makeshift court on the premises of Bakshibazar Alia Madrasha from Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judges…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit Narayanganj on May 14 to console the family members of the seven people brutally killed after abduction there recently. Khaleda, also former prime minister, is likely to address a public rally in front the…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has chalked out a 14-day programme to mark the 33rd death anniversary of its founder Ziaur Rahman. The observance of the death anniversary of Zia will begin on May 27 and end on June 9. On…
A local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami was killed in a ‘shootout’ with police at Bhadrakhali in Kaliganj upazila early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Ashraful Islam, general secretary of Kushulia union unit of Jamaat and son of Adam Ali of…
Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal president Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel was released on bail on Tuesday. Sohel walked out of Kashipur High Security Central Jail around 5:30pm. Local leaders of BNP, Swechchhasebak Dal and other front organisations of BNP, and relatives received Sohel…
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said the law enforcement agencies’ negligence of duty in investigation and arresting the accused of the recent abductions and killing of seven people in Narayanganj has contributed to the worsening human rights situation…
The Narayanganj district administration has revoked the licences of all 11 weapons belonging to Nur Hossain and his associates. The Narayanganj Awami League leader is among the prime suspects in the abduction and murder of Councillor Nazrul Islam and six…
Accusing the government of trying to cling to power through resorting to killings and abductions, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said people are counting days to get rid of the ‘barbaric rule’ of Awami League.…
Terming state minister for home Asaduzzaman Khan a fool for his recent remarks on law and order and Narayanganj killings, BNP vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka urged the Prime Minister to replace him with an eligible person. “It’s known to…