PATUAKHALI: A Juba league leader was killed in a road accident in Salehiyakhanka area under Mirzaganj upazila of the district Friday night.The deceased was identified as Juba league vice-president Khairul Kabir Khokon, 35.Traffic Inspector Faruk Hossain of Patuakhali confirmed the matter

DINAJPUR: A local leader of Jubo Dal (JCD) was shot to death in a clash between villagers and law enforcers in Tulsipur area under Punoti union in Chirirbandar Upazila of the district on Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Rezwan, 25, a local Jubo Dal leader and son of local

DHAKA: Top US diplomat for South Asia on Thursday said her country hopes due process will be followed after an anti-corruption court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants for former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia.  Nisha Biswal, assistant secretary of state for South

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Friday placed BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on four-day fresh remand in a case filed for vandalism during ongoing blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance.Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque passed the order at noon in response of the

DHAKA: Food Minister Advocate Quamrul Islam said that no dialogue will be held with ‘inhuman’ BNP as they are ‘killing’ people by hurling petrol bombs in the country.Even the foreigners’ call for arranging a dialogue with BNP would not be good enough to sit with the party,

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance has called fresh 72-hour hartal from 6am Sunday to 6am Wednesday.Besides, they will brought out processions in all districts, upazilas, municipalities, Thanas and every ward of city corporations on Sunday. A statement signed by BNP joint secretary

JESSORE: Police, in nightlong special drives, arrested a total of 38 accused in several cases in the district.    They will be produced before court on Friday afternoon, said control room official of Jessore district police.The official added: Teams of police conducted drives at

SUNAMGANJ: Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith termed BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia as an enemy of the country.He also said that Khaleda is leading her party by creating terrorism in the country.So, she is the ‘queen of terrors’, the minister added.He came up with the comment in a

DHAKA: BNP joint-secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed Thursday forewarned the government saying that they would go for tougher movements from March 1 if it does not step down to pave the way to an inclusive general election under non-party caretaker government.He made the call in a

DHAKA: A student of Chartered Accounting (CA) was injured as miscreants blasted a cocktail in front of city’s National Press Club on Thursday afternoon.The injured is identified Hendry Milu.The victim said that he received injuries on his arm as miscreants blasted a cocktail while he

KHULNA: Awami League joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif MP said that Khaleda Zia's politics is dead and she would have to spend her rest of life in the prison.The spokesperson for the party came up with the forewarning while addressing first session of triennial conference of

DHAKA: Awami League (AL)-led 14-party alliance will hold a meeting on Friday to discuss the prevailing political situation of the country.The meeting will begin at 11:00am at the AL president Sheikh Hasina’s political office in city’s Dhanmondi area.AL office secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan

DHAKA: An unidentified pedestrian was hurt as two cocktails were blasted in front of city’s National Eidgah area on Thursday. Witnesses said that miscreants blasted two cocktails in the area around 3:50pm, leaving a pedestrian injured. On information, law enforcers rushed to the spot

DHAKA: Jatiya Party Secretary General Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu on Thursday categorically said the so called civil society is plotting to kill the people of the country. “The civil society people utter the words of democracy in the talk-show but they are plotting to kill people secretly,”

BOGRA: A truck-driver was hurt as a group of miscreants hurled petrol bomb on his truck on Dupchanchia-Akkelpur road in Bogra on Wednesday midnight.The victim is identified as Jamal Hossain Sagar.After visitng the place on Thursday Dupchanchia Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) Abdus Sabur said

JESSORE: Police, in nightlong drives, arrested 56 people including a Jamaat-e-Islami activist from eight upazilas of the district till Thursday morning.District Police Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Reshma Sharmin confirmed the matter to banglanews.She said the law enforcers

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch of Police in drives held two leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) with 20 petrol bombs from the city early Thursday.The detainees were identified as Jahangirnagar University unit Chhatra Dal president, also central unit assistant

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained 13 activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami from different places of the city in the last twenty four hours till Thursday morning.Of the detainees, ten are BNP activists and three are Jamaat men.DMP assistant

DHAKA: The 120-hour hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance, has rolled into the fifth and last day across the country on Thursday.The shutdown began at 6:00am on Sunday and set to end at 6:00am on Wednesday, which was later extended to 6:00am

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted a cocktail targeting a passenger bus in city’s Gulshan area Wednesday evening.The incident took place at Gulshan-1 around 7:30pm.Gulshan Thana Sub-Inspector (SI) Nazimuddin told banglanews that they sent additional forces to search the area.BDST: 2114 HRS, FEB