DHAKA: Hailing the government efforts to rescue noted columnist, poet and political commentator Farhad Mazhar, Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh congratulated the government in a message on Thursday (July 6). Hefazat conveyed thanks to the government, law enforcers including police, and Prime

DHAKA: Prime Minister also Awami League President Sheikh Hasina said that Awami Leauge doesn’t forget about the electoral manifesto issued during the election.  Moreover, her party-led government contemplates over to execute more development works beyond the promise made in the

GAZIPUR: A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-1) in a drive detained three active members of banned extremist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from a house in Nandail area under Joydebpur thana in Gazipur. The detainees are- Mohammad Azizul Hakim, 34, Mohammad Hasan Ali, 36

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has accused the government of staging drama over the kidnapping of poet and columnist Farhad Mazhar. Mirza Fakhrul on Wednesday (July 05) said that the government has created the Farhad Mazhar issue to hide its failure in the

FENI: Police detained Ameer of Jammat-e-Islami’s Sonagazi upazila unit on Wednesday noon (July 05).   Md. Mostafa, 45, son of Shofee Ullah of Chorkhuaj village of Sonagazi Sadar union in Feni and a teacher of Khadijatul Kubra Girl Madrasa, was arrested from in front of the madrasa.

NILPHAMARI: Police in a special drive have detained at least 32 people, including 13 Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists, in Nilphamari district.   The drive was conducted from Tuesday night (July 04) to Wednesday morning (July 05) in various places the district. The detained

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the attack on party people and office in Munshiganj’s Lohajang upazila is a part of a bigger plot to destroy opposition parties including BNP.  Condemning Tuesday’s attack, Fakhrul said the ruling party Awami League has

JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY: 56 students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) appeared before the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) on Tuesday (July 04). General secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra Union of JU unit Nazir Amin Chowdhury Joy said that the students appeared before the

GAZIPUR: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir expressed profound shock at the deaths in a blast in Multifabs Ltd in Gazipur that claimed 10 lives till Tuesday (July 4). The BNP leader, in a message, said, “I’m deeply afflicted and shocked like the relatives of the

DHAKA: Welcoming the Supreme Court verdict that declared the 16th amendment illegal, BNP spokesperson senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the decision is a victory of the people. He made the remarks to a press briefing at the party office in city’s Nayapaltan area

DHAKA: Law Minister Anisul Huq on Monday (July 03) in a comment favored the 16th amendment to the Constitution, saying that the amendment was modeled following other democratic nations. The minister, however, refrained from making formal reaction over the verdict of the Appellate

DHAKA: Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon has sharply reacted to the verdict of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court that upheld the decision of the High Court on 16th amendment to the Constitution. Menon in his reaction on Monday (July 03) commented that the

FENI: Ruti Sohel, a wanted terrorist in Feni who is accused in several cases including Fulgazi Upazila chairman Ekram murder case, was killed in a reported gunfight with RAB in the early hours on Monday (July 03). The incident of ‘gunfight’ took place at the home of Shamsul Haque

DHAKA: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is set to return home from Australia on Monday (July 3) after celebrating Eid al-Fitr with his family members in there.  He is likely to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in a Singapore Airlines flight around

NATORE: BNP Chief Khaleda Zia’s advisor Habibur Rahman Habib, 60 and four of his family members were injured in road crash as their private car collided head-on with a truck in Gurudaspur upazila of Natore on Sunday afternoon (July 2). Aside from Habib, other injured persons are- his

DHAKA: The Appellate Division on Sunday (July 2) upheld a High Court order that rejected a petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking for re-investigation into a part of Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against her filed by the ACC. A four-member SC bench headed by Chief

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday (July 2) ordered to send BNP leader and Begum Khaleda Zia’s advisor Joynal Abedin Faruk to jail, in four separate sabotage cases filed against him. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court-Dhaka Nur Nahar Yasmin passed the order after rejecting bail

DHAKA: The High Court on Sunday (July 2) granted six months interim bail to BNP vice-chairman Barkatullah Bulu in seven sabotage cases. An HC bench comprising Justices Mohammad Miftahuddin Chowdhury and ANM Basirullah granted the bail to him in seven cases filed with Paltan,

DHAKA: Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader has said that the Election Commission (EC) will deploy the army as striking force seven days before the general elections. He said this at a post-Eid-ul-Fitr meeting organized at the conference room of the road transport and

BOGRA: Police have arrested a leader of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of the BNP, at Dhunat upazila in Bogra on charge of sabotage. JCD leader Shaheen Alam, 28, was arrested from Biswaharigachha Bazar area under Dhunat upazila in the district on Saturday noon