DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened a meeting with members of the party's standing committee, the highest policy-making body of the party, on Sunday evening (April 02). The meeting would be held at her political office at Gulshan in the city at 8:00 pm. BNP

DHAKA: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal pointed out that the militants are now using home-made explosives. He said: “We are investigating the sources from where the militants are collecting the domestic explosives.” The minister was talking to reporters after inaugurating a

TANGAIL: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained two alleged members of an extremist organization from Daina area in Tangail Sadar upazila on Saturday (April 1). The arrestees were identified as Md Sobhan, hails from Kathua Jugni village and Joynal from Daina Uttor Para. A foreign

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon MPs of the world as well as the global leaders to face the new crisis like militancy together. “Militancy is a global challenge. We have to face the challenge collectively,” she has said. She was addressing the inaugural session

DHAKA: Some 81.8 per cent women MPs across the world are the victim of harassment and oppression anyway. Of them, 44.4 per cent face sexual harassment. Many of the women MPs even receive threat of death and kidnap. The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) revealed the research study on the

DHAKA: Some 81.8 per cent women MPs across the world are the victim of harassment and oppression anyway. Of them, 44.4 per cent face sexual harassment. Many of the women MPs even receive threat of death and kidnap. The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) revealed the research study on the

GAZIPUR: An additional superintendent of police (ASP) and at least nine others have been injured in a clash between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Bhawal Badre Alam Government College in Gazipur. ASP Sakhawat Hossain is the injured. Police have arrested at least 12

DINAJPUR: Police on Saturday (April 01) arrested ameer of Dinajpur district unit of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and another Jamaat leader from Haripur Bazar under Nawabganj upazila in the district.   Officer-in-charge (OC) of Nawabganj police station Abdul Hakim said that they arrested

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