DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia claimed that the country now lacks democracy and rule of law at present.   ‘Moreover, the ruling party has not only snatched people’s voting rights but also their properties,’ she added.   The BNP chairperson made this assertion while

COMILLA: Police seized 15 cocktails from a home near Dertiti Primary School polling center of Abra union under Barura upazila of the district on Thursday morning (March 31).   Muradnagar Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Mizanur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews. He also said

DHAKA: Counting of votes in 639 union parishads (UP) of the country is underway on Thursday morning (March 31) amid tight security. The elections started at 8:00am and continued till 4:00pm. Over 1.12-crore voters exercised their franchise rights in 6,205 polling centers on the day.

JESSORE: A septuagenarian man was shot to death and 10 others injured as supporters of two candidates exchanged firing at a polling center of Chanchra union parishad of Jessore sadar upazila on Thursday (March 31). The deceased was identified as Golam Babu, a nut vendor, hailed from

DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday (March 31) termed the issuance of arrest warrant against party Chairperson Khaleda Zia as ‘politically motivated’.   He came up with the allegation while addressing a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan

DHAKA: Voting in 639 union parishads (UP) of the country are underway on Thursday morning (March 31) amid tight security. The elections started at 8:00am and will continue till 4:00pm. Over 1.12-crore voters are exercising their franchise rights in 6,205 polling centers on the day.

DHAKA: A city court granted the bail of BNP secretary general Fakhrul Islam Alamgir replying to a review plea on Wednesday afternoon (March 30).   Three-hours earlier, the court ordered to send the BNP leader to jail by canceling his bail appeal.   At 12:45pm, court of

DHAKA: A city court has issued an arrest warrant against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia among 28 fugitive leaders. The warrant has been issued in a case of killing passengers by hurling petrol bomb in a bus in city’s Jatrabari area. BDST: 1648 HRS, MAR 30, 2016 RR/SMS

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday (March 30) sent BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to jail rejecting his bail plea in two sabotage cases filed with Paltan Thana in city. Chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) court judge Golam Nabi made the pronouncement in the morning

DHAKA: Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been declared BNP Secretary General after 11 days of party council. Besides, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was made senior joint secretary general and industrialist Mizanur Rahman Sinha as treasurer of the party. Ruhul Kabir Rizvi himself made the

JESSORE: Miscreants shot a local BNP leader to death in Satmail area under Sadar upazila on Tuesday evening (March 29).   The deceased was identified as Idris Ali, 45, joint secretary of Kashempur union BNP of the upazila. Jessore Kotowali Model Thana officer-in-charge (OC)

DHAKA: BNP has called an emergency press conference at the party chief Khaleda Zia’s political office in city’s Gulshan area on Tuesday (March 29). The conference is set to be held at 11:00am on the day. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other senior

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami has withdrawn its daylong hartal for Monday (March 28) following the High Court (HC) order of rejecting the rule that challenged Islam as the country’s state religion. The HC order has made legality of inclusion of Islam as country’s state religion in the

DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the ‘conspiracy’ of canceling Islam as state religion from constitution, is underway across the country on Monday (March 28). Party acting secretary general Dr Shafiqur Rahman announced the hartal, said a media

DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the ‘conspiracy’ of canceling Islam as state religion from constitution, is underway across the country on Monday (March 28). Party acting secretary general Dr Shafiqur Rahman announced the hartal, said a media

DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the ‘conspiracy’ of canceling Islam as state religion from constitution, is underway across the country on Monday (March 28). Party acting secretary general Dr Shafiqur Rahman announced the hartal, said a media

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami has called a daylong hartal across the country as a protest of the ‘conspiracy’ against canceling Islam as state religion from constitution. The party informed the media by sending release on Sunday. BDST: 1541 HRS, MAR 27, 2016 RR/SMS

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia paid her tribute to the valiant son of the soil by placing floral wreath at National Memorial at Savar, at the outskirt of Dhaka, on Saturday morning (March 26), the 46th Independence and National Day. The BNP leader placed the wreath along with

DHAKA: BNP will organize a colorful procession in city on the occasion of country’s Independence Day on March 26. It will be brought out from the party’s central office at 3:00pm on the day. The party’s standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy told the media after a

DHAKA: At least nine people were killed and scores injured in four districts in clashes during the first phase of union parishad, lowest tier of local government, elections and over ballot counting in four districts on Tuesday night (March 22). Of the deceased, five were in Pirojpur,