DHAKA: Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Annisul Huq, who was admitted to a hospital in London after falling ill seriously, is still now unchanged. AKM Mizanur Rahman, a personal secretary of the mayor, on Thursday (August 17) told Banglanews that Annisul Huq is still now at

DHAKA: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has said that the Election Commission (EC) won’t play role to take all the political parties in the 11th Parliamentary polls, as ‘it is not duty of the commission’.   He made the comment at second day of the two-day dialogue

SHERPUR: Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman former President HM Ershad has said that his party is now factor in the politics. Ershad, also Prime Minister's special envoy, said this at a function organized for relief distribution among flood victims at Nandi Bazaar area under Sherpur sadar

DHAKA: The senior journalists have suggested the Election Commission (EC) for ensuring atmosphere of participatory polls so that all the political parties take part in the next general elections.     The journalists made the suggestion at the talks of the EC held at the conference

DHAKA: Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq was admitted to a hospital in United States as he fell sick seriously. Sources close to the mayor told Banglanews on Wednesday (August 16) that Annisul is taking treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the hospital in

SYLHET: Police arrested at least eight leaders of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of the BNP, in Sylhet on Tuesday (August 15). Police arrested the JCD leaders from the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) in Sylhet city in the evening. The detainees are- JCD’s

DHAKA: The BNP has sharply criticized the ruling Awami League for its move to change the Supreme Court’s verdict on the 16th constitutional amendment that created heated debate in the political arena.   BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed at a press conference

DINAJPUR: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has distributed relief materials among flood victims in Bangibechi area of Dinajpur town. Dinajpur district unit BNP arranged the distribution program on Tuesday noon (Aug 15). The flood situation of the country is

DHAKA: Law Minister Anisul Huq has said that they (government) will deal with the Supreme Court’s verdict on 16th constitutional amendment through legal procedures. The minister made the comment while talking to the local journalists after joining a rally at Akhaura in Brahmanbaria

DHAKA: Awami League general secretary and Road Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader has ruled out the possibility of a dialogue between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia. After paying tribute to Bangabandhu’s portrait in Dhanmondi on the National

MAGURA: An Awami League activist was hacked to death by some unknown miscreants at Shablat village in Shalikha upazila of the district.  The deceased, identified as Abdur Rahman, came under attack while returning to his home from a local bazaar around 8:30pm on Monday (Aug 14).

DHAKA: The opposition leader of the parliament and lawmaker of Mymensingh-4 constituency Rowshan Ershad said that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bengali of all time, was an iconic symbol of national unity, inspiration and liberty.  She made the remarks in a statement

THAKURGOAN: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that the 16th constitutional amendment verdict proved invalidity of Awami League government. He made this remark after distribution of relief among the flood victims in Thakurgaon on Monday (August 14). “Some

DHAKA: Awami League general secretary and Road Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader has met with the President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Monday (Aug 14). Quader went to President’s official residence Bangabhaban around 12:00pm. The meeting was held for an hour and Quader

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has voiced concern over deterioration of flood situation in the country, and accused the government of doing nothing other than lip service for the flood victims. In a statement issued on Sunday (August 13), the BNP chief asked her party leaders and

DHAKA: Awami League general secretary and also Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has met with Chief Justice SK Sinha to brief him about party’s stance on the SC verdict scrapping the 16th amendment to the constitution. According AL sources, Quader met with Chief

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the government of Canada to return Noor Chowdhury, the man who killed Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15 in 1975.  Sheikh Hasina reiterated the call to outgoing Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Benoit- Pierre Laramee as he

JHENAIDAH: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members detained a regional commander of the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Jhenaidah town on Saturday night (August 12). Khandakar Rafiqul Islam, commanding officer of RAB-6, gave this information at a press

DHAKA: Law Minister Anisul Huq has commented that the history was distorted through the 16th constitutional amendment verdict that created heated debate in the political arena as well as the country.     He made the comment while speaking at a ‘Meet the Press’, organized by the

DHAKA UNIVERSITY: Leaders-activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) handed over to police seven students of Dhaka University (DU) as suspected members of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir. BCL men rounded them up from different halls of the university on Saturday night (Aug 12) and