DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami observed a dawn to dusk hartal across the country for Wednesday.No picketing or unexpected incident was reported during the hartal.Earlier on Tuesday, Jamaat called the nationwide shutdown protesting the Supreme Court (SC) verdict that upheld the death sentence to

DHAKA: The Supreme Court Appellate Division on Wednesday fixed June 22 (Sunday) as the next date of hearing on appeal of the death row convict BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.The appeal hearing started at the four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha

DHAKA: The High Court will deliver its decision on its long-pending rule asking the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to explain why the GATCO graft case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and others should not be quashed.The bench comprising Justice M Nuruzzaman and Justice Abdur

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Wednesday said Bangladesh had lived in dark days during last tenure of BNP-Jamaat government.The minister was addressing the inaugural session of the “Workshop on Capacity Building for the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light

DHAKA: The High Court will deliver its order on Thursday on its long-pending rule asking the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to explain why the Niko graft case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and others should not be quashed.The bench comprising Justice M Nuruzzaman and Justice

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to appear before the court on Thursday to attend the hearing in Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust cases.Advocate Sanaullah Miah, a counsel for Khaleda, confirmed the matter to banglanews around 12:00pm on Wednesday.Hearing in the Zia

DHAKA: Police has detained 31 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in Khulna and Gazipur districts till Wednesday morning.The drives were conducted during last 24 hours till 8:00am, and 31 Jamaat-Shibin men were detained apprehending to

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami has started observing a 24-hour hartal across the country since Wednesday morning.Began at 6:00am, the shutdown will end at 6:00am on Thursday.No picketing or unexpected incidents were reported till filing of the report.Earlier on Tuesday, Jamaat called the

FENI: A district court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for his remarks that demeaned Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The court of Feni Senior Judicial Magistrate Alamgir Muhammad Faruque passed the order in the afternoon.Court sources

DHAKA: A court on Tuesday sent BNP leader and also former MP Syeda Asifa Ashrafi Papia to jail in nine cases of torching and sabotage.Metropolitan Magistrates Mostafizur Rahman, Maruf Hossain and Mahbubur Rahman passed the order separately after the hearing in the afternoon.Earlier, Papia

DHAKA: Police, in special drives, arrested 41 Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Chhatra Shibir men from Gaibandha and Rangpur districts on Tuesday.Gaibandha correspondent said 30 Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists among 46 people were arrested in the drive in several areas of the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday denied the bail plea of Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of Pinu Khan of ruling Awami League lawmaker from reserved women’s seats and also general secretary of the party’s women wing, in a double murder case.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul Haque gave the

DHAKA: The appeal hearing of death row convict BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury adjourned till Wednesday.The hearing started on Tuesday at the four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha.The other members of the SC bench are Justice Nazmun Ara

CHITTAGONG: Police arrested at least 103 persons including seven activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in special drives in different areas of Chittagong district.Moreover, 68 liters of liquor and 113 pieces of yaba tablets were also seized during the

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 24-hour hartal countrywide from 6:00am Wednesday as Supreme Court upheld death penalty to their leader Ali Ahsan Mojahid for war crimes.A press release signed by party’s acting Ameer Mokbul Ahmed made the disclosure on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, SC

SATKHIRA: Police arrested district Jamaat Ameed Maolana Abdul Khalek alias jollad Khalek with a foreign pistol and two round bullets from a secret meeting at a Madrasa in Sadar upazila early Tuesday.He is accused of several cases including two of murders and war crimes during Liberation

MAGURA: Police recovered a total of 35 live bombs from a madrasha, run by Jammat-e-Islami, in Dari Magura area under Sadar Uazila of the district early Tuesday.Police sources said acting on a tip-off, police raided Al-Aaim Trust Dakhil Madarasha and Orphanage of the area and recovred the

JHENAIDAH: Police arrested the Kotchandpur Upazila vice chairman Moabia Hossain, 55, of the district on Friday night.Moabia Hossain, son of late Mohammad Ali of Bon Bibhag Para of district town, is also the general secretary of the upazila unit of Jamaat-e-Islami.Police sources said,

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia met the visiting 7-member delegation of Communist Party of Chinese (CPC) at her Gulshan residence in city.The hour-long meeting started around 4:15pm. The delegation led by vice-minister of the international department of CPC central committee Guo

DHAKA: ‘Missing’ Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal former central organizing secretary Anisur Rahman Talukdar Khokon has been found on Monday afternoon.Khokon along with two other JCD activists, Jony and Babu, had been handed over to Kotwali Thana in Faridpur district.BNP chairperson’s media