DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son also her advisor for ICT affairs (Information and Communication Technology) Sajeeb Wazed Joy will visit the construction work of Padma Bridge. Joy said this while speaking at a workshop for the MPs (Member of Parliament) at the Awami League

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son also her advisor for ICT affairs (Information and Communication Technology) Sajeeb Wazed Joy will visit the construction work of Padma Bridge. Joy said this while speaking at a workshop for the MPs (Member of Parliament) at the Awami League

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia called a meeting of its National standing committee, the highest policy-making body of the party, on Monday (May 8). The meeting is scheduled to hold at the BNP chief’s Gulshan Political Office at 8:30 pm Monday, said her press wing Shairul

DHAKA: National Peoples’ Party (NPP) and National Democratic Front (NDF), an alliance of 11 political parties, Chairman Sheikh Shawkat Hossain Nilu died at a city hospital Saturday night (May 6). He was 65. Nilu was battling with cancer for a prolonged period.  He breathed

DHAKA: Bangladesh National Peoples’ Party (NPP) and National Democratic Front (NDF), an alliance of 11 political parties, Chairman Sheikh Shawkat Hossain Nilu died at a city hospital Saturday night (May 4). He was 65. Nilu was battling with cancer for a prolonged period.  He

COX'S BAZAR: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has attacked Ziaur Rahman-led the-then BNP government, Ershad-led Jatiya Party government and Khaleda Zia-led BNP governments for failing to settle the longstanding issues with India.   “Awami League always works for realizing the rights

DHAKA: Awami Olama League has demanded removal of Chief Justice SK Sinha and Greek idol erected on the Supreme Court premises before the upcoming Ramzan. Leaders of the associate body of the ruling Awami League made the demand at a human chain in front of the National Press Club in the

DHAKA: With a promise of innovative political tactics to elevate the country, BNP chief Khaleda Zia will hold a press conference on May 10 to unveil party’s future plan called “vision 2030”. The press conference is expected to be held around 4:00pm in city’s Westin Hotel, said

DHAKA: A Dhaka court has sent BNP joint secretary general Khairul Kabir Khokon to jail after he surrendered before the court. The BNP leader surrendered before a lower court of Dhaka on Thursday (May 04) and prayed bail for some cases filed against him. The court rejected his bail plea

DHAKA: The BNP on Thursday (May 04) termed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s speech delivered in the Parliament on Wednesday (May 03) as the ‘suppression of truth’.   In reaction to Sheikh Hasina's speech that the ‘democracy is being practiced in the country’, BNP secretary

DHAKA: Law minister Anisul Haq on Thursday (May 4) said he is agreed with the Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha’s comment that the judicial department has no conflict with the government.   Law minister was talking to the reporters after attending a program in a city hotel on

KHULNA: Police detained a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of the ruling party, and recovered some yaba pills from his possession in the town Wednesday (April 3). Rakibul Islam, organizational secretary of BCL’s Khalishpur thana unit, was held from Khalishpur

CHITTAGONG: A pre-scheduled rally of the Chittagong south district unit of BNP was foiled because of infighting between two groups of the party on Wednesday (May 03), a day after such an incident in the north district unit. The incident took place at about 4:00 pm at Patia upazila

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that the ruling Awami League government has created the Constitution a party-paper. He made the comment while addressing a discussion meeting at the auditorium of Shishu Kalyan Parishad in city’s Topkhana Road on

DHAKA: Members of Rapid action battalion (Rab) detained a member of banned militant outfit Hizb ut Tahrir from Dhaka on Wednesday night (May 2). The detained was identified as M Tomal Uddin. Rab-2 Operations officer Feroz Kawsar told Banglanews that Tomal Uddin, a warrant accused,

CHITTAGONG: A pre-scheduled rally of the Chittagong north district unit of BNP has been foiled because of infighting between two groups of the party.   The incident took place at about 3:00 pm on Tuesday (May 02) at the BNP’s city unit office at Nasimon Bhaban in Chittagong.

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that his party is ready to go for the next polls if government paves the way to make that fair. He made the comment to reporters after placing floral wreath at the tomb of BNP founder and former president Ziaur Rahman in

KHULNA: Police in separate raids detained 18 people including 13 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in Khulna. The raids were carried out in eight upazilas of the districts and a student dormitory of Khulna University of Engineering and

NARAIL: Thirty-six female activists of Jamaat-e-islami including district female ameer Hosneara Banu, arrested from Vowakhali area of the town in Narail yesterday, were sent to jail on Monday noon (May 1). Narail Police Super (SP) Sardar Rakibul Islam told Banglanews that, acting on

LAKSHMIPUR: Four leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of ruling Awami League, were expelled for allegedly breaching party regulations in Lakshmipur.  A press release signed by Rakib Hossain Lotus, general secretary of Lakshmipur Chhatra League and Chowdhury