CHITTAGONG: Police detained 10 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in drives conducted at Government Haji Mohammad Mohsin College and its adjescent areas in Chittagong on Wednesday.The port city Detective Branch of Police additional deputy

MOULVIBAZAR: Miscreants chopped an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami to death in Kathaltoli Bazar under Borolekha Upazila of the district on Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Jalal Ahmed, 33, son of late Mortofa Ali of BOC Kheshrigul village of the upazila. Victim’s sister Minira Begum

KURIGRAM: Police nabbed 16 female activists of Jamaat-e-Islami Suicide Squad from Baguarchar village Upazila Rowmari Upazila of the district. Mohammad Tabarak Ullah, Kurigram Superintendent of Police (SP), confirmed the matter to banglanews. Police sources said a team of police

JESSORE: Police detained 78 persons conducting overnight drives in different parts of the district on Wednesday.Confirming the matter Jessore district police control room sources said that the detainees were accused of several cases.They will be produced to the court soon, the sources

DHAKA: State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal claimed that BNP joint-secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed is in hiding.Asaduzzaman came up with this assertion while speaking at a discussion organized on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth anniversary in city’s

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained at least 106 persons in special drives conducted in Jessore, Dinajpur and Satkhira districts on Tuesday.Jessore police control room sources said that the detainees are accused of several.Moreover, 41 persons including three Jamaat-Shibir activists were held

LALMONIRHAT: Police in a secret drive detained 12 men of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from a training den in Rahamatpur Shifar Kama area of Patgram upazila on Tuesday.Officer-in-charge (OC) Rezal Karim of Patgram Thana confirmed the matter.He said, acting

FROM GULSHAN: Two alleged Chhatra Dal activists were detained from in front of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in city’s Gulshan area on Tuesday.The detainees were identified as Nasir Uddin Ahmed and Jewel Khan, students of International University of Bangladesh

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance on Tuesday announced that it has extended the ongoing 72-hour hartal till 6:00am Friday (March 20).BNP joint secretary general Barkat Ullah Bulu made the announcement issuing a press statement in the afternoon.Began on Sunday 6:00am, the nationwide

KURIGRAM: Five people including three policemen were injured in an attack from a procession of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir at Bhogdanga Bazar area under sadar upazila of the district Tuesday morning.The injured cops were identified as assistant sub-inspector

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained at least 65 persons in special drives conducted in Jessore and Dinajpur on early Tuesday.Jessore police control room sources said that the detainees are accused of several cases and they will be sent to court soon.Besides, twenty people were held in Dinajpur

JESSORE: Law enforcers, in separate drives, arrested 45 accused from eight upazilas of the district Monday night.District police control room sources confirmed the matter to banglanews.The arrestees will be sent to the court within noon, sources added.BDST: 1211 HRS, MAR 17, 2015

BRAHMANBARIA: A district court on Monday asked former planning minister Air Vice Marshal (retd) AK Khandaker before it in person on June 25 in a defamation suit.Chief Judicial Magistrate of Brahmanbaria, Munira Sultana gave the order for his derogatory write-ups about Bangabandhu

DHAKA: Two people, including a police constable, were injured as miscreants blasted five cocktails at Teacher-Student Center (TSC) and in front of Nilkhet Police Outpost on Dhaka University campus Monday evening.Nilkhet Police Outpost Sub-Inspector (SI) Wahiduzzaman told banglanews

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, wife and two daughters of Arafat Rahman Koko were made accused in Dandy Dyeing loan default case as he died. Acting Judge of Dhaka Money Loan Court-1 Rokshana Aktar Happy passed the order on Monday following a plea of Sonali Bank lawyer Jahangir

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League’s (AL) advisory committee member Suranjit Sengupta termed the ‘missing’ of BNP joint-secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed for a week a ‘bad sign’ for politics. He came up with this assertion while addressing a discussion held at Institution of Diploma

CHITTAGONG: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized seven petrol bombs from Chotto Kumira area under Sitakunda upazila of the district early Monday.Major Tanvir Mahmood, deputy commander of BGB-28 Battalion, told banglanews that, on tip-off, they conducted a drive at a bush

DHAKA: A Court here asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and all other accused in the Barapukuria coal mine graft case to appear before it on April 13.Hosne Ara Begum, Judge of Dhaka-2 Special Judges Court, passed the order Monday.In 2008 during a state of emergency, the anti graft body

DHAKA: A fresh 72-hour hartal, sponsored by BNP-led 20-party alliance, is underway on Monday protesting the arrest of BNP joint secretary general Salauddin Ahmed.The hartal began o Sunday 6:00am and is set to continue till Wednesday6:00am, coupled with a nationwide road-rail-waterway

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday denied the bail pleas of BNP acting secretary general Mira Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s advisor Mosaddeq Ali Falu. Judge Imrul Kayes of Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court  passed