DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday granted 10-day remand for Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna rejecting his bail appeal in a case filed for instigating armed forces to revolt.Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman passed the order in the afternoon when Detective Branch

DHAKA: The Dhaka Special Court-3 on Wednesday asked BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman to appear before it on March 4 in Zia Charitable and Orphanage Trusts graft cases.The judge, Abu Ahmed Jamadar, passed the order asking Tarique’s lawyer advocate Sanaullah Mia to produce his

DHAKA: Police, in last 24-hour drives, rounded up 12 people, including a member of banned outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), at different places of capital.Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) media center confirmed the matter on Wednesday morning through an SMS.According to the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued arrest warrant against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and two others in Zia Orphanage and Charitable Trusts Graft cases.Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 at capital’s Bakshibazar passed the order canceling bail for

DHAKA: The extended hartal of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance has got underway across the country since Wednesday Morning.Sabotages were reported to some extent in the city and elsewhere of the city on Tuesday night. A truck was torched in Siranjganj.The

DHAKA: Three persons were injured as miscreants blasted cocktails in two separate places of the city on Tuesday evening.A rickshaw-puller was injured in a cocktail blast in Shegun Bagicha area at 7:30pm, locals said.On the other hand, a 50-year old person and a youth were injured as a

DHAKA: BNP asked the government to send Nagarik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna back to his family.BNP joint-secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed came up with the demand in a statement sent to the media on Tuesday.The BNP leader along with Manna’s wife Meher Nigar claimed that a

SAVAR (DHAKA): Birulia Union Parishad Chairman Haji Mahmudul Hasan Alal, also BNP Savar thana unit president, was detained on Tuesday.Sources said Savar Model Thana police nabbed him from a house in Birulia at noon on charge of killing people over setting fire to vehicles during

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued arrest warrant against five BNP leaders, including BNP standing committee member and also former housing and public works minister Mirza Abbas, on charge of irregularities in plot allocation among journalists.Dhaka Senior Special Judge's Court

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance has extended the ongoing 72-hour hartal till 6:00am Friday (February 27) protesting “false” cases against the party leaders, including BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed made the disclosure through a press release

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), in several drives, detained 13 men of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and its students wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from different places of the capital on Tuesday.Of the detainees, four are activists of Jamaat and Shibir while nine are BNP men.Police picked

GAZIPUR: Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) mayor Professor M A Mannan was shown arrested in another case filed with Sripur Thana.Mannan’s lawyer Advocate Manjur Hossain Prince told banglanews that there were three cases filed against him during his arrest.Of those, Mannan got bail release

DHAKA: The fresh 72-hour hartal, sponsored by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance, has entered the third day across the country on Tuesday.Began at 6:00am on Sunday, the shutdown will continue till 6:00am on Wednesday, coupled with a nationwide road-rail-waterway

DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police detained Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna from the city’s Banani area early Tuesday. His wife Meher Nigar confirmed the matter to banglanews saying a plainclothes team of DB picked up him from his niece’s house on

DHAKA: Two cocktails were blasted in city’s Malibagh Rail Gate area on Monday night.No one was reportedly injured in the blasts.However, the incident took place around 7:00pm in the area.On information, Rampura Thana police rushed to the place but could not nab anyone as the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday placed BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on a three-day remand in a case of arson attack filed with Mohammadpur Thana in city.Metropolitan Magistrate Maruf Hossain passed the remand order in the afternoon when Mohammadpur Thana Sub-Inspector

FENI: Law enforcers detained three BNP leaders from a pro-hartal procession brought out on Monday noon in Phulgazi upazila sadar in the district.The detainees include upazila BNP general secretary Nur Nabi Master, Jubo Dal convener M Swapon and Chhatra Dal president Kamal Hossain.Sources

DHAKA: A five-member medical team Monday noon entered BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in city’s Gulshan area where she has been staying since January 5.Sources said that the medical team led by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) former vice-chancellor

DHAKA: A five-member medical team Monday noon entered BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in city’s Gulshan area where she has been staying since January 5.Sources said that the medical team led by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) former

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday approved the proposals for holding the polls of two city corporations of Dhaka.Sheikh Hasina made the approval when Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Minister Syed Ashraful Islam placed the proposals before premier at the