SIRAJGANJ: Miscreants hacked a local leader of ruling Awami League (AL) to death in Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj following internal feud over nomination for UP polls on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Korban Ali, 42, general secretary of kayempur Union AL, son of Abdul ziz

DHAKA: A city court on Monday (February 29) granted bail of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s advisor Abdul Awal Mintoo in seven cases filed with Paltan, Ramna and Shahbagh thanas for carrying out subversive attacks during the BNP-led strike and blockade in January 2015.The court of

HABIGANJ: A district court ordered to confiscate the property of Haris Chowdhury, political advisor of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, among 10 accused on former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder and explosives cases.District and Session Judge Mohammad Atab Ullah passed the order

DHAKA: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday (February 29) asked the BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to surrender at trial court within 15 days in three sabotage cases filed with Paltan Thana in city.A five-member full bench, led by Chief Justice

DHAKA: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday (February 29) put a stay order on bail of SC lawyer Barrister Shakila Farzana by the High Court (HC).A five-member bench led by chief justice (CJ) SK Sinha pronounced the order in the morning.The bench also asked the government

DHAKA: Election Commission (EC) has re-fixed March 20 for voting in Tangail-4 by-polls.EC secretary Shamsul Alam confirmed the matter to banglanews Sunday (February 28).‘No need to submit new nomination,’ he added.Earlier, Supreme Court (SC) postponed for two weeks following a plea of

PANCHAGARH: A court in Panchagarh placed three members of Jama'at-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) each on 18-day remand in the case of killing a priest in Debiganj upazila of Panchagarh district.Senior judicial magistrate Marjia Khatun of Debiganj Amoli Adalat passed the order on Saturday

JHENAIDAH: Police on Saturday (February 27) arrested Matiur Rahman (50), ameer of Jhenaidah upazila unit Jamaat-e-Islami in the Jhenaidah district.He was arrested from his house in Surot village of the upazila this morning.Jhenaidah Sadar Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Hasan Hafizur Rahman

MEHERPUR: A leader of Juba League, youth wing of ruling Awami League, was found dead at Brahmandi Nishipur village of Gangni upazila of Meherpur on Saturday.The deceased was Shukur Ali, 50, publicity secretary of Nishipur ward Juba League.Locals recovered the body of Shukur from a pond of

DHAKA: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court set March 8 for pronouncing its verdict on appeal of war crimes convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali.A 5-member full bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, re-fixed the date on Wednesday (February 24)

DHAKA: Police detained two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student front of Jamaat-e-Islami, with 55 cocktails from a house in city’s Mirpur area on Tuesday afternoon (February 23).Police also seized jihadist books from the arrestees’ possession.The detainees have been identified

DHAKA: Law enforcers have arrested four members of outlaw militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) by conducting drives in city’s Hatirjheel area.Members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) counter terrorism and transnational crime unit also seized a laptop, six cell phone

BHOLA: Police detained 35 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir from Lalmohan upazila of Bhola district on Tuesday morning.Lalmohan Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Akhtaruzzaman told banglanews that a group of Jamaat-Shibir men were conducting

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed alleged leaders and activists of ruling Awami League and its front organizations were barring BNP candidates from submitting their nomination papers for the impending union parisad (UP) polls.Rizvi made the allegations in a press

DHAKA: A Court here on Tuesday asked BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and 12 others to surrender before it by April 13 in GATCO graft case, filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).Earlier in the day, ACC lawyer Mosharraf Hossain Kajal submitted full-verdict before Dhaka Special Judges

DHAKA: Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student-wing of ruling Awami League, announced a 301-member full-fledged central committee on Monday night.BCL president Saifur Rahman Sohag confirmed the matter to banglanews.The central conference of Chhatra League was held on July 25-26 last

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL)-led 14-party alliance has called off their countrywide human chain program scheduled for February 24.The program has been cancelled due to upcoming Union Parishad (UP) elections.A press release, signed by AL deputy office secretary Mrinal Kanti Das,

DHAKA: BNP chairperson and also former premier Khaleda Zia commented that authoritarian forces in the country have been trying to keep the nation subjugated.She made this remark in a message issued on the eve of Language Martyrs Day and also International Mother Language Day that falls on

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) has finalized nomination of chairman aspirants for 739 union parisads in the upcoming elections, slated for March 22.The AL president’s political office at Dhanmondi has published the list of chaiman nominees for first phase election on Friday

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will pay her tribute to language movement martyrs at Central Shaheed Minar in city in wee hours of Sunday (February 21).Party leaders-activists will accompany her during the time, said a press release of BNP sent on Friday (February 19).BNP