Sunday, 19 Jan, 2025

Politics

Cocktail blasts at Shaheed Minar, TSC injure 5 students

DHAKA: At least five students were injured in several cocktails blast in Central Shaheed Minar and Teacher-Student Center (TSC) areas on Dhaka University (DU) campus Sunday evening.The injured are Imdadul Haque Imon, 22, DU student of History Department; Sabjia Sampa, 20, student of

Satkhira Jamaat chief arrested

SATKHIRA: Law enforcers arrested district unit Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer and also former lawmaker Abdul Khaleque Mandal.He was arrested from Khalilnagar village of Satkhira Sadar upazila on Sunday evening.Confirming the matter to banglanews, Sadar Thana Officer-in-Charge Golam Rahman said

Infighting kills Juba League man in Bogra

BOGRA: A Juba League activist was killed in a clash between two groups over establishing supremacy in Fultala area of Shahjahanpur upazila of the district on Sunday.The deceased was identified as Ranju Pramanik, 40, son of late Shukur Ali of the area.Shahjahanpur Thana Officer-in-Charge

Jubo Dal leader chopped dead in Patuakhali

PATUAKHALI: Miscreants chopped a BNP affiliate Jubo Dal leader to death in Chakamaiya Bazar area under Kalapara upazila of the district Sunday afternoon. The victim was identified as M Monir Hossain Talukder, 35, general secretary of Chakamaiya Union Parishad Jubo Dal unit. Kalapara

14-party demands tougher actions against violence

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League (AL)-led 14-party alliance asked the government to take tougher actions against BNP-led 20-party alliance for killing people during the ongoing hartal and blockade.They made the plea Sunday afternoon while forming a human chain in the capital as part of the

‘Electricity to be sold like hawkers’

DHAKA: Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury has claimed that if the incumbent government completes its present tenure, the electricity will be so much available that it would be sold like hawkers.The minister came up with this assertion while addressing a seminar titled ‘Biotism Crops

Shamsher, Dudu on fresh remand

DHAKA: Two Dhaka courts on Sunday granted four-day remand to Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, vice-chairman of BNP and Shamsuzzaman Dudu, adviser to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrates Jahangir Hossain and Hasibul Haque passed the orders in respective courts in this

16 BNP-Jamaat men detained in Chittagong

CHITTAGONG: Police in a nightlong drive arrested 16 leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in Chittagong.Among the detainees, three were BNP activists and 13 from Jamaat and its student affiliate Islami Chhatra Shibir.District additional police super (special

Transport workers demand Khaleda’s arrest

DHAKA: Members of Bangladesh Transport Workers League on Sunday demanded the government to arrest BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.The rally was organized in front of National Press Club in the city as a part of the protest against ongoing nationwide hartal and blockade.Speakers at the

5 Shibir men held with petrol bombs

KHULNA: Five activists of Islami Chhata Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islam, were held with four petrol bombs from a hostel of Khulna Alia Madrasa early Sunday. Confirming the matter to banglanews, Officer-in-Charge of Sadar Thana Sukumar Biswas said police held from acting on

23 BNP-Jamaat men held in city

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained a total of 23 people during separate drives across the city in the last 24 hours till Sunday morning.Of the detainees, 13 are the leaders-activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and 10 are leaders-activists of Jamaat-e-Islami.DMP

Fresh 72hr hartal underway

DHAKA: A fresh 72-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) 20-party alliance, has begun across the country since Sunday morning.No acts of sabotages and arson attacks have yet been reported in the city since the shutdown has started from 6:00am.However,

Passenger bus torched in Feni

FENI: The hartal and blockade supporters set fire to a passenger bus in Pachhgachhia area of the district on Saturday late night.Feni Fire Service Station Officer Jahangir Alam said that blockaders torched a bus in the area around 11:30pm.The bus was almost gutted before the fire

Barbed wires-refrigerator at Khaleda’s office

DHAKA: Barbed wires and a large refrigerator were brought at the political office of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night.The barbed wires were brought around 6:00pm while the refrigerator was brought around 9:00pm at her Gulshan office in the city.Confirming the matter to

3 burnt in Mymensingh arson attack

MYMENSINGH: At least three persons received burn injuries as blockade and hartal supporters hurled petrol bomb aiming at a passenger bus in Kachijhuli-Shahartali area of the district on Saturday night.The injured are--- Oshad, Alamgir and Shahidul.Local and police sources said a

Barguna Shibir president held

BARGUNA: Police held Barguna district unit Shibir president Iftekhar Hasan Farid and another activist of the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami from the district town on Saturday night. Police sources said that the law enforcers held the duo during a raid in the town around 8:00pm. The

3 burnt in Bogra arson attacks

BOGRA: At least three people sustained burn injuries as two trucks were torched by miscreants in two different places of the district on Saturday night.Witnesses said that a group of blockaders set fire to a truck on Natore-Bogra highway in Rupihar area under Shajahanpur upazila

2 buses torched in city

DHAKA: Miscreants torched two passenger buses in city’s Rayerbagh and Tejgaon industrial areas Saturday night.No casualty was reported in the incidents as the passengers managed to get down from the buses immediately.Fire Service Duty Officer Bhojon Sarker told banglanews that a gang

Jubo Dal leader held with gunpowder in city

DHAKA: A Jubo Dal leader was held with gunpowder and bomb making materials from city’s Mouchak-Malibagh area on Saturday night.The detainee is joint general secretary of Ward No-53 Jubo Dal Ramna Thana Dulal Chandra Sheel alias Bulu.Police sources said, acting on a tip off, police

14 suspected anarchists held in city

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained a total of 14 people, including three members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, during separate drives across the capital. Of the detainees, 10 are the activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), three are the members of Hizb ut-Tahrir and one