DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan has been taken to the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) prison cell from Dhaka Central Jail at 8:50am on Wednesday. ICT-2 headed-by its chairman Justice Obaidul Hasan is set to pronounce its verdict this morning in war crimes case against

RAJSHAHI: Cadres of Islami Chhatra Shibir allegedly cut the tendons of the legs of a leader of Juba League (JL), youth front of Awami League, and an activist of Chhatra League in Binodpur Bazar of the city on Tuesday night.The victims are Mehedi Hasan Yamin, 35, president of Matihar

DHAKA: The extended hartal sponsored by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance has rolled into the fourth day on Wednesday. The shutdown began at 6:00am on Sunday, coupled with a nationwide road-rail-waterway blockade for indefinite period.  Later on Tuesday, the

DHAKA: A nine-member delegation of the European Union (EU) parliamentary sub-committee for human rights met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday evening.The meeting, started at 6:32pm, was held at Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan political office, where she has been staying since January 3.But,

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to stop the politics of killing general people.The premier also forwarded her question to Khaleda saying that if politics kills people, what kind of politics it is and being done for whom.She made the

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance has extended their ongoing hartal till 6:00am Friday.A press release signed by BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed made the declaration on Tuesday noon.Earlier on Saturday, he, on behalf of his party chairperson Khaleda Zia and the alliance,

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been sued for instigating a bomb attack on a procession, led by Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan on Monday, on its way to besiege her Gulshan office.Gulshan Thana police filed the case on Monday night accusing 13 more 20-party leaders and

CHITTAGONG: Police detained 14 activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in nightlong derives in different areas in the district on Tuesday.The detainees include four from BNP, and 10 from Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir.Chittagong district additional police

DHAKA: A group of miscreants consecutively blasted six cocktails on Johnson Road in city’s older section on Tuesday morning.No one was reportedly injured in the incident.Witnesses said that the blasts took place in front of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court on Johnson Road

GAIBANDHA: A Chhatra Shibir activist was killed in a gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Polashbari on Tuesday morning.The deceased was identified as Mostofa Monjil, 32.Confirming the matter to banglanews, assistant director of Rab-13 Ashraf Hossain Siddik said the gunfight

DHAKA: Law enforcers, in different drives in the last 24-hour, detained 16 leaders and activists of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir from various areas of the city.They were detained over alleged sabotage charges during hartal and blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-party.Deputy

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi city unit Chhatra Shibir claimed that law enforcers detained three of its leaders including city president from Paba College intersection area on Monday night.The detainees are city unit Chhatra Shibir president Dr Anwarul Islam, secretary Nafis Raiyan and social

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

DHAKA: BNP joint-secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed on Monday categorically said countrywide indefinite blockade and hartal will continue till the ‘mass’ demands are met.The top demand is holding of a general election under non-party caretaker government.The BNP leader made the

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted four cocktails in front of Dhaka National Medical College on Johnson Road in city Monday evening.Police sources said that a group of miscreants blasted four cocktails in the area around 6:15pm.No one was reportedly injured in the incident.On information, police

DHAKA: Bangladeshi film actor Helal Khan, also producer, was detained from city’s Judge Court area on Monday afternoon. Acting on a tip off, a team of Detective Branch (DB) police conducted a special drive in the area and nabbed him. DMP Media Center Assistant Commissioner

DINAJPUR: A Dinajpur court on Monday sent district BNP president Lutfur Rahman Mintu to jail rejecting his bail plea in a vandalism case and obstructing police from discharging government duties.Chief Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Syed Kamal Hossain passed the order when he

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday sent Mosaddek Ali Falu, adviser to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and former lawmaker, to jail after a 13-day remand in three phases.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tareq Mahbubur Rahman issued the order.Earlier on February 2, Falu was remanded for five days in

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday placed BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed on a three-day remand in an arson a case filed with Jatrabari Thana in the city.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Maruf Hossain passed the order after a hearing as investigation officer (IO) of the

SYLHET: At least four persons, including 18-month-old twin brothers, were injured following the blasts of a petrol bomb and three cocktails in Sylhet town on Monday.The twin brothers Nasir and Hafiz, sons of Mahbubur Rahman, hailing from Gobindaganj village under Chatak upazila of