SATKHIRA: At least 51 people including 4 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir have been arrested in a special crackdown in the district.    Police arrested them from different places in eight upazilas of the district in the

SATKHIRA: Miscreants shot to death a local unit leader of ruling Awami League in Satkhira sadar upazila on Monday night (April 10). The deceased was identified as Rasel Kabir, organizing secretary of Agardari union unit of Jubo League, a front organization of Awami League. Rasel’s

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is set to address media at party’s Nayapaltan headquarters on Tuesday afternoon (April 11) after the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s press briefing on her four-day state visit to India. BNP took the decision at a meeting of Standing

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned the country, wrapping up her four-day state tour to India. The VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, BG-1098, carrying the prime minister and the members of her entourage landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka

SIRAJGANJ: A district court on Monday (April 10) has sent BNP central committee vice-chairman and former state minister for power Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku to jail in a case filed for torching a train in Sirajganj. Sirajganj District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Zafrul Hasan passed the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday (April 10) shifted the hearing on framing charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in 11 cases to April 25. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Kamrul Hossain Molla passed the order after Khaleda Zia’s counsels submitted time petition.

Dhaka: The High Court on Sunday (April 09) stayed the trial proceedings of two arson cases filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia. The HC also issued rule in the cases. The HC bench of Justice Miftah Uddin Chowdhury and Justice ANM Bashir Ullah issued the order following two

DHAKA: Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has said that people of the country has the right to know about the international treaties related to national security interest. Chairperson of the TIB’s trusty board Advocate Sultana Kamal commented that hiding the deals is

DHAKA: Execution of Harkat-ul-Jihad (HuJi) top leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and two other militants could happen any day as all the preparations have been completed in this regard. Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said this while talking to the journalists at his office in the

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has visited the Ajmer dargah, the shrine of great Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, in Rajasthan in India. The PM paid her obeisance at Ajmir Sharif on Sunday morning (April 09), the third day of her state-visit to India. She along

Dhaka: Quorum crisis wasted 48 hours and 26 minutes from seventh session to 13th session of the 10th parliament, causing a waste of over Tk 47 crore.   A new study conducted by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) found it. The TIB revealed findings of the study at a

DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Saturday made a joint statement in New Delhi with an aim to take their bilateral relation to a new height. The full text of the joint statement is as follows: 1. At the invitation of H.E. Shri

DHAKA: Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokon has said that Dhaka will stand beside the holy places-- Makkah and Medina if requires. He said this while inaugurating the building of the Jamyeet-e-Ahle Hadith Bangladesh at Jatrabari in the city on Saturday (April 08).

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh has honored Indian martyrs, who sacrificed during Bangladesh War of Liberation in 1971. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is now currently visiting India, conferred the honors to the relatives of the Indian martyrs at a function at the Manekshaw centre in New

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have jointly inaugurated a street in Indian capital New Delhi that was renamed after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. They inaugurated the street after holding the tête-à-tête and bilateral

SYLHET: Police claimed to have detained at least seven leaders and workers of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student of the Jamaat-e-Islami, from a clandestine meeting in Sylhet. Shibir’s district unit president is among the detainees. Additional superintendent of police (ASP) of

THAKURGAON: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir smells rats at the initiative of singing defense treaty with India during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ongoing New Delhi visit. “If India is our friend country, why it requires of signing defense treaty? Does India

SATKHIRA: Police early Saturday (April 8) arrested Satkhira district BNP organizing secretary Ashraf Hossain from his residence in Kalaroa upazila of the district. Kalaroa police station officer-in-charge (OC) Biplab Kumar Nath told Banglanews that they arrested him from his residence

BHOLA: Jatiya Party Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad said that aside from party politics, views and ideologies, he wants to work in unity with a goal to achieve prosperity and development for Bangladesh. He made the remarks while addressing as the chief guest at the biannual conference

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir commented that no other deal or agreement rather than deal on Teesta will be accepted to the people. Fakhrul said these to reporters after paying homage to the memorial of BNP Founder Ziaur Rahman in the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla