SUNAMGANJ:  Dr Joya Sengupta, wife of former veteran leader of the ruling Awami League Suranjit Sengupta, has won the by-polls of Sunamgaj-2 (Dirai-Shalla) by a large margin of votes. According to the unofficial result announced on Thursday evening (March 30), Joya Sengupta got 95,959

COMILLA: BNP nominated mayor candidate Monirul Haque Sakku has again won the Comilla City Corporation (CCC) polls. He defeated Awami League nominated candidate Anjum Sultana Seema by a margin of over ten thousand votes. According to the unofficial result announced by the returning

DHAKA: Vote counting begins as soon as voting ended peacefully in Comilla City Corporation (CCC) election in Comilla on Thursday (March 30).  The voting began at 8:00am and continued till 4:00pm across the municipality. No irregularities and violence was reported during the polls

DHAKA: The visiting Canadian delegation will call on BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia this evening on Thursday (March 30). Shairul Kabir Khan, a media wing member of the BNP chairperson, confirmed the matter to the Banglanews.  The delegation led by Canadian MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith

DHAKA: The High Court has stayed for six months the proceedings of the sedition case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia following her comment over the number of martyrs in the 1971 Liberation War. An HC bench comprising Justices Miftah Uddin Choudhury and ANM Bashir Ullah passed

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday (March 28) adjourned till April 10 the hearing of framing charges on BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s 11 cases, including a sedition case. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah passed the order after Khaleda Zia’s counsels

DHAKA: Police have detained four suspected militants from Senpara area under Mirpur model thana in Dhaka on Monday (March 27). The identities of the detainees could not be known till filling the report. Confirming the matter, Mirpur model thana officer-in-charge (OC) Mohammad Nazrul

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia paid her tributes to the martyrs at the National Mausoleum in Savar on Sunday morning (March 26), the 47th Independence Day. The BNP chief along with her party leaders placed wreaths at about 9:30 am.  BNP’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam

DHAKA: Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader said that politicians should engage in politics with ideals of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He made the call while speaking at the inauguration of a three-day

KUSHTIA: Awami League joint secretary general Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif alleged that BNP’s hostile reaction against government’s anti-militant operations proves that they have connections with all these militant organizations. He made the allegation to journalists at his home in Kushtia

DHAKA: The Awami League-supported ‘White Panel’ faced debacle in the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections as the BNP-supported ‘Blue Panel’ won a landslide victory in the polls. According to the result, the “Blue Panel’ under the banner of Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) has ordered to send all the records of corruption case of former president and Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad to the Chief Justice.  The HC bench of Justice Ruhul Quddus issued the order on Thursday (March 22), as the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) also

DHAKA: The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the lower court to resume the trial proceedings against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Niko graft case. The three-member bench of Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha scrapped a High Court order that stayed the

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld the High Court order that stayed the government suspension decision of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury. The HC’s order upheld through a decision of the three-member bench of the Appellate

NAOGAON: Police detained a listed member of the banned extremist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a fugitive in five cases including kidnapping, killing and extortion, from Atrai upazila of the district on Wednesday (March 22). The detainee, Mohammad Abdus Sattar, 55, son

GAZIPUR: The copy of the Supreme Court’s verdict that rejected Harkatul Jihad top leader Mufti Abdul Hannan’s review petition against his death penalty has reached the Kashimpur High Security Jail. The prison’s superintendent Mizanur Rahman on Wednesday (March 22) informed that

DHAKA: Officer-in-charge (OC) of Comilla Sadar South model police station Nazrul Islam was withdrawn from the duty over the allegation of electoral irregularities. The announcement was made through a press release of the Election Commission (EC) issued on Sunday (March 19).   The

CHITTAGONG: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Dhan Bikash Chakma, leader of a faction of Jana Samhati Samiti (JSS) of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), along with his two aides.  The RAB members arrested the JSS men from Hathazari upazila in Chittagnong early on Sunday (March 19). The

DINAJPUR: Police arrested a BNP leader from Dinajpur district town on Saturday (March 18) night. The arrestee is Bakhtiar Ahmed Kachi, 38, son of Dinajpur district association’s president Advocate Md. Khatib Uddn.    Bakhtiar Ahmed Kachi is convener of town unit of the

DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday cancelled the bail of local BNP leader Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury alias Minar Chowdhury, the prime accused in Feni’s Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque Ekram murder case. The Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice