DHAKA: Outgoing India high commissioner Pankaj Saran met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan political office in city Thursday evening.The India envoy reached the BNP chair’s office around 6:50pm and left the place around 7:45pm.He did not talk to the media after the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court set December 21 for further hearing on Zia Orphanage and Charitable Trust graft cases against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and others.Judge Abu Ahmed Jomadar of the Special Judge's Court-3 setup on Alia Madrasa premises at Bakshibazar in city fixed the date on

SATKHIRA: Police, in overnight drives, detained 42 including 12 leaders and activists of local units of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir from eight thanas of the district.Sub-Inspector (SI) of Satkhira district special branch (SB) of police Enamul Haque said 11 Jamaat men and one

DHAKA: Outgoing High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran will call on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan political office in city Thursday night.Chairperson’s media wing member Shamsuddin Didar confirmed the matter to banglanews.Pankaj Saran, who took charge in

DHAKA: Election Commission (EC) secretary Sirajul Islam on Wednesday said that they have found out some clerical mistakes in the conduct of election rules of approaching municipal elections.The EC secretary further said symbols will be allocated among the candidates after rectifying the

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) has stayed the expulsion order of Dinajpur municipal mayor Syed Jahangir Alam for one month.An HC bench of Justice Obaidul Hasan and Justice SH Mohammad Nurul Huda Jaigirdar passed the order on Wednesday following a hearing on Jahangir Alam’s plea.On December

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia called for a meeting of the party’s standing committee members on Thursday night.The meeting is scheduled to begin at her Gulshan political office in city at 8:30pm.BNP press wing member Shairul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter to banglanews.BDST: 1831

DHAKA: Election Commission (EC) secretary Sirajul Islam said that no mayoral campaign with symbol is permitted before December 14.Sirajul Islam made this assertion after a meeting in EC to the reporters on Wednesday (December 9).EC secretary said, "It will be a matter of discrimination

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh has called nationwide hartal for Wednesday after Supreme Court upheld death penalty to war criminal Mir Quasem Ali.In a press release, the party made the disclosure on Tuesday demanding release of all of its leaders, detained for war crimes.Earlier in the

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Professor MK Anwar released on bail on Friday (February 19).BNP leader Professor Aminul Islam confirmed the matter to banglanews.He further said Professor Anwar was under treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in city before

SUNAMGANJ: Police detained eight member of Jamaat-e-Islami, including its Chhatak upazila unit ameer and secretary, while they were holding a clandestine meeting at Gobindaganj area on Wednesday afternoon.Chhatak Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Asheq Suja Mamun confirmed the matter

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will not appear the special court at Bakshi Bazar in Dhaka for the hearing of Zia Charitable and Orphanage Trust Graft cases slated for Thursday. The hearing will be held at the Special Judge’s Court-3 of Judge Abu Ahmed Jomadar setup on Alia Madrasa

SATKHIRA: Joint forces arrested 39 people, including five activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from eight thanas of Satkhira district on allegation of sabotage plan.Of the arrestees, five are activists of Jamaat and 34 are accused in regular cases.They have been sent to court this morning,

DHAKA: Death row convict war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami’s lawyer Khandakar Mahbub Hossain categorically said “Nizami does not have a clean sheet in relation to war crimes committed during liberation war in 1971”.Mahbub, also BNP standing committee member,

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that his party is take part in the approaching municipal polls despite questions over its fairness.He was addressing the media after a party joint meeting held at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan political office in city on

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to hold a meeting with senior party leaders on Tuesday night to decide their preparations and strategy for the imminent polls in 234 municipalities scheduled slated to be held on December 30.The meeting will be held at party chairperson’s

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC), in its primary scrutiny, announced 80 percent of independent candidates disqualified in the forthcoming municipal polls.Sources concerned informed banglanews that out of 505 independent candidates from 234 municipal areas, returning officers declared

DHAKA: The verdict of the appeal hearing of death row convict war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami will be pronounced on January 6.The 4-member Appellate Division bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice SK Sinha fixed the date for giving the verdict.The other

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC) has instructed Ministry of Planning not to send sanctions for any new projects in municipalities that are going into voting.EC deputy secretary Md Shamsul Islam confirmed the matter banglanews on Monday evening.The instruction has been delivered to the

GAZIPUR: BNP joint secretary general Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was released on bail from Kashimpur Central Jail (part-2) in Gazipur district on Monday afternoon.Kashimpur Central Jail super Prasanta Kumar Banik said that they received release orders at noon.“We released him around