DINAJPUR: Police, in separate drives, arrested 24 Jamaat-e-Islami members from different places in the district early Tuesday (January 3). Assistant sub inspector (ASI) of Dinajpur police control room Harunur Rashid informed Banglanews that the arrestees are facing arrest warrants.

DHAKA: AL got the schedule of President Abdul Hamid for January 11 to discuss over the reformation of Election Commission (EC). Confirming the matter to the media on Monday evening (January 2), President’s press secretary M Joynal Abedin said that the meeting with AL will be held at

DHAKA: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that the incumbent government has failed to protect its people. She said: “The murder of lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton from Gaibandha-1 constituency proves that the government has failed to ensure people’s safety.”

GAIBANDHA: A dawn to dusk hartal, enforced by the Sundarganj Upazila Awami League unit, has been observed in municipal area of the district on Sunday (January 1) protesting Gaibandha-1 (Sundarganj) MP Manjurul Islam Liton murder. The protesters halted the Shantahar-bound Bogra mail

SYEDPUR (NILPHAMARI): Three Jamaat-e-Islami leaders were detained from Aisdhal village under Syedpur upazila of the district early Sunday (January 1). They are identified as former upazilla Jamaat unit Amir Mahmudul Hasan, 45, his brother former president of Bangladesh Labor Welfare

RANGPUR: A probe committee was formed on Sunday (January 01) over the autopsy of the slain Gaibandha MP Manjurul Islam Liton. Rangpur Medical College (RMC) Professor Animesh Roy confirmed the matter to Banglanews. Headed by the RMC Forensic Department professor Narayan Chandra Saha,

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said that the people will prevent BNP holding programs on January 5. He made the assertion while addressing a joint meeting as chief guest at the Diploma Engineers Institute Auditorium Friday morning (December

DHAKA: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to prove her allegation of ‘underhand’ plots in Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) polls. Road Transport and Bridges minister came up with this assertion while speaking at an AL joint meeting in

DHAKA: Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury sent emails to the MPs and ministers urging to leave their constituencies to prevent party influences on District Council polls. The speakers issued the email on Tuesday (December 27) following the instruction of election commission issued on

DHAKA: Election Commission has sent a letter to the Speaker asking to make sure that local MPs are complying with the code of conduct in the upcoming district council election.  Election commissioner Mohammad Shahnewaz made the disclosure to journalists at Election Commission office

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) General Secretary and also Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has warned party men to not violate the code of conduct in the December 28 District Council Election. He made the remarks while talking to journalists at secretariat on Tuesday

DHAKA: Bangladesh National Party (BNP) has asked the government to scrap the decision to raise gas price from January of 2017. Party’s senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the call from a press conference, organized at its Nayapaltan central office on Monday

DHAKA: Health Minister, also presidium member of ruling Awami League, Mohammad Nasim asked the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to leave the company of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. The AL-led 14-party alliance spokesperson also remarked that the election of Narayanganj City

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia has greeted the Christian community of the country ahead of the Christmas to be observed on Sunday (December 25). Chairperson’s media wing sent a release in this regard on Saturday (December 24). She congratulated

NARAYANGANJ: Selina Hayat Ivy has dedicated her victory in the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) polls to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. She made the dedication in presence of her supporters at her own house on Thursday night (December 22)

NARAYANGANJ: Ruling Awami League sponsored candidate Selina Hayat Ivy has won the much-talked-about Narayaganj City Corporation (NCC) mayoral election for the second time on the trot. As per unofficial results, Ivy secured 174,602 votes while her nearest candidate archrival BNP-backed

DHAKA: Awami League sponsored candidate Selina Hayat Ivy secured 105,461 votes while archrival BNP-backed candidate Shakhawat Hossain Khan got 58,131 votes in 105 centers out of 174 on Thursday. The unofficial results from 105 centers came to Banglanews24.com’s newsroom by 8:30 pm.

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday (December 22) has fixed January 5 as the next date of hearing the statement of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage graft cases.  Earlier Khaleda appeared before the court of third special Judge Abu Ahmed Jomader in

NARAYANGANJ: Ballot counting has begun as voting ended at Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) mayoral polls on Thursday (December 22) afternoon amid tight security. People of Narayanganj started voting at 8:00am and continued till 4:00 pm to elect their next city corporation mayor and

DHAKA: The voting in the mayoral election in Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) is set to begin on Thursday morning (December 22). The voting will begin at 8:00 am and continue till 4:00 pm without any break. The number of voters in NCC area is 474,931 who would cast their votes in