DHAKA: Saira Mohsin, widow of social welfare minister Syed Mohsin Ali, has been nominated as Awami League (AL) candidate for Moulvibazar-3 by election, scheduled to be held on December 8.The nomination has been finalized after an interview with Awami League Parliamentary Board (ALPB) held

DHAKA: BNP’s student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) announced a two-day protest program over the arrest warrant issued against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman.As part of the program, rallies and demonstrations will be held in district towns, metropolitan cities and

DHAKA: At least 71 leaders and activists of BNP and its major ally Jamaat-e-Islami and the latter’s student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir conducting drives in five districts on Sunday.Banglanews Joypurhat district correspondent said that law enforcers arrested 21 BNP-Jamaat men in the case

DHAKA: The High Court (HC) on Sunday granted bail to sacked mayor of Gazipur City Corporation professor MA Mannan in two sabotage cases.Defense counsels said after today’s bail order, there is no bar for their client to get release from imprisonment.The HC bench of Justices Farid Ahmad

GAIBANDHA: A district court on Sunday granted interim bail to Member of Parliament (MP) Manjurul Islam Liton in case for attempting to murder a child Sourav by shooting.Gaibandha additional chief judicial magistrate Mainul Hasan Yusuf passed the order at 11:45am.The ruling Awami League

DHAKA:  A city court on Sunday issued an arrest warrant against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in the case for propagation against the state.Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Lutfar Rahman Shishir passed the order, taking the investigation report of the

DHAKA: BNP will participate in the upcoming municipality elections, says party’s standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed.The BNP senior leader came up with assertion while talking to reporters on Saturday after paying tribute at party founder Ziaur Rahman’s tomb in the city

DHAKA: Detectives detained seven people on suspicion of members of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), including four Pakistani citizens, from Shahjalal International Airport area in the city.Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan police (DMP) deputy commissioner (media)

DHAKA:  BNP and its associate organizations paid rich tributes to party founder late President Ziaur Rahman to mark November 7 as the Revolution and Solidarity Day.Hundreds of leaders and activists started thronging to Chandrima Udyan adjacent to Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban to place floral

CHITTAGONG: Police, in overnight special drive, detained 481 people, including 24 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Chhatra Shibir at different places of the district.During the drive, a light gun (LG), two pistols and six rounds of bullet have been recovered from

SATKHIRA: Joint Forces, in special drives, have detained  53 activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami from different places of the district.The joint operation conducted between Friday night and Saturday down in eight upazilas of Satkhira.Of the detainee, one is the activist of BNP while

DHAKA: Detectives detained seven people on suspicion of members of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Shahjalal International Airport area in the city.Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan police deputy commissioner (media) Muntasirul Islam informed banglanews about the

FARIDPUR: Police detained 15 leaders-activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Chhatra Shibir, including its upazila and municipality unit Amirs, from different places of the district.Bhanga Thana officer-in-charge (OC) M Nazmul Islam said that in a nighttime drive, Sadar Upazila

DHAKA: Police detained five members of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Chhatra Shibir with cocktails and party books from city’s Khilgaon area.Acting on tip off, a team of Khilgaon Thana police raided a building located at block-c of Khilgaon area around 12:30am of Friday. 

KHULNA: Associate of Bangabandhu and one of the organizers of the country’s war of independence Sheikh Ali Ahmmad passed away on Thursday.He was 84.He breathed his last at Gazi Medical Hospital in Khulna city around 7:00am.The war veteran left behind wife, daughter, son, grandson,

DHAKA: Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker commented that not only the safety of an individual, security of the state is now questionable.He made this comment to the media after handing over a memorandum to the home minister at the secretariat in city on Thursday.Earlier in the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court set November 12 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 fixed the date on Thursday.During

DHAKA: Law minister Anisul Huq said that BNP-Jamaat top the suspicion list regarding the murders of bloggers and publishers.He made this disclosure at a discussion on trial of war criminals at VWA auditorium in city’s Dhanmondi area on Wednesday.The speeches of BNP-Jamaat and the

DHAKA: Pro-liberation youth platform Ganajagaran Mancha will organize a coffin-procession from Shahbagh intersection towards the home ministry Thursday morning protesting murder of a publisher and attempted murder of publisher-writer and bloggers and others.Mancha spokesperson Imran H

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will return home from London on November 10.She will land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the afternoon.Reliable sources from BNP said this.According to the sources, BNP chairperson, who is currently staying in the UK for medical treatment,