Tag: politics

A local activist of Jamaat-e-Islami was killed reportedly in a lynch-mob attack at Deltar Crossing in Debhata upazila early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Aktar Hossain Aku, 48, son of Faizul Islam of Kulia village in the upazila. Jalal…

A Juba Dal activist has been shot dead in Lakshmipur Sadar Upazila. Relatives of ‘Ripon’, 22, have accused Bangakha Union Juba League general secretary ‘Shahjahan’ of the killing. The Juba Dal is the youth affiliate of the BNP. Ripon’s mother…

Police in a drive arrested nine local leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from a meeting allegedly they were holding secretly at Shologhar in Srinagar upazila on Thursday night.

Jatiya Party MP from Narayanganj-5 constituency Nasim Osman died at a hospital in India early Wednesday. He was 65. Sources said Nasim had been admitted to a hospital in India’s Deradun with acidity problems on April 27. He breathed his…

The High Court on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to form a medical board for the health check-up of detained BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain. The court also asked the Vice Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU)…

BNP vice chairman Abdullah Al Noman on Tuesday warned that the government’s ‘growing repressive acts’ cannot suppress their movement as it will only hasten the Awami League regime’s fall. “It’s not possible to suppress a movement with arms and repressive…

A local Jubo League (JL) leader was killed and five people, including women, were injured in an attack by robbers at Hilalpur village in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Nazrul Islam, 36, science and technology affairs…

Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, the workers’ front of BNP, is all set to stage a rally in the city’s historic Suhrawardy Udyan on Thursday, marking the May Day. “We’ve completed all the necessary preparations for arranging the rally at Suhrawardy Udyan…

Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Monday dismissed report of his resignation from the party terming it mere a rumour. “To whom I’ll tender my resignation? Who is this great man? Why should I resign when I am the supreme…

Rashed Khan Menon and Fazle Hossain Badsha have been respectively elected President and General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Bangladesh for the 2014-15 term. A 75-member new committee was formally announced at the closing sessions of the 9th congress…

BNP’s Dhaka city unit will hold its rally after its scheduled demonstration programme in front of the Jatiya Press Club on Monday if it is not allowed to stage it at Suhrawardy Udyan. “We’ve sought permission from the Dhaka Metropolitan…

The High Court on Sunday once again denied bail to detained BNP senior leader Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case. An HC bench comprising Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed rejected the bail petition of Mosharraf,…

Jatiya Party chief HM Ershad, who had unilaterally taken important party decisions in the past, has stressed running the organisation with everyone’s help. The party currently sits on the opposition in Parliament. Ershad said the Jatiya Party was now more organised.…

Police have recovered the bullet-ridden body of a Juba Dal leader in Lakshmipur Sadar two days after he was picked up from Dhaka’s Uttara by a group of people claiming to be from security forces. Md Shamsul Islam Solaiman, a…

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Friday visited his party’s ailing senior leader ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader at a city hospital. The Jatiya Party chief went to United Hospital around 11am and spent some time beside Howlader, a Presidium Council…

A man was killed and 20 others were injured as two factions of Awami League clashed at Kholsedubi village in Saltha upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Babu Matobbor, 30.

State Minister for Home Assaduzzaman Khan on Thursday said terrorism has become a global threat and it should be tackled internationally. “The world has to unite in order to face this growing threat of terrorism,” he said addressing the concluding…

The BNP has ended its two-day long march towards the Teesta Barrage with a call of tougher movements if the government fails to ensure Bangladesh’s legitimate share of Teesta river waters from neighbouring India. Led by the party’s Acting Secretary…

The half-day hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the arrest of Sadar upazila chairman and Jamaat leader Mokhlesur Rahman, was progressing  peacefully in the district on Wednesday. Pickets vandalised a BRTC bus at Bailtala in Shibganj upazila in the morning. A…

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Tajul Islam passed the order when Abdul Hai surrendered before his court seeking bail in three cases. The court granted him bail in a case and rejected the bail petitions in the two other cases.

Two people, including a policeman, were injured in a gunfight between police and Jamaat-Shibir men at Jhumjhumpur Moylakhana area in sadar upazila early Tuesday. The injured were identified as constable Bulbul, 28, and Mushahid, 30, an activist of Fatehpur union…

A Juba League leader has been injured when an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami opened fire on him in Chittagong’s Satkania. The incident took place on Monday afternoon, said Satkania Police Station Officer-in Charge Khaled Hossain. Injured Abul Kalam, 35, was admitted to…

The BNP leaders were shown arrested in a murder case filed with Rampura police station for killing capital’s Dhakkin Khan unit Chhatra Shibir President. A Dhaka court has sent BNP leaders Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and Amanullah Aman to jail in…

Gano Forum chief Dr Kamal Hossain has called those who created rift between Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Tajuddin Ahmed ‘enemy of the country’ and said it was the ‘most unfortunate incident’ in Bangladesh’s history. The member of Bangabandhu’s cabinet…

“Dictators and frauds” have tried to rewrite the history of Bangladesh, but have not succeeded, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has said. Joy made the remark in a Facebook status on the occasion of Mujibnagar Day.…

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) on Thursday declared three ministers persona non grata on the university campus for their derogatory remarks against the Zia family, including former president and BNP founder Ziaur…

Eminent poet and writer Farhad Mazhar on Thursday expressed his suspecion that there could be a hand of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of India in the abduction of Rizwana Hasan’s husband Abu Bakar Siddique. He expressed the doubt while…