DHAKA: Ruling Awami League (AL) ruled out the possibility of any dialogue on prevailing political situations with its political rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).  A meeting of AL’s executive committee unanimously decided that the party would hold no dialogue with BNP.  Prime

DHAKA: Pro-blockaders blasted eight cocktails at various areas in city Friday night.  Of those, four were blasted in front of Malibagh Super Market, one at Ramna and three at Gulshan-2 areas of the city. However, no one was reportedly injured in this connection. Rampura Thana

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party on Friday called countrywide 72-hour hartal starting from Sunday morning. The hartal will be enforced from 6:00am of Sunday to 6:00am Wednesday. BDST: 2108 HRS, FEB 06, 2015** Shibir calls countrywide hartal for Sunday  

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party vowed to continue their countrywide blockade until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina steps down from power. BNP vice chairman Major (retd) Hafiz made the announcement at a press conference at BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office Friday. He said, “BNP

COMILLA: Islami Chhatra Shibir on Friday called two day hartal in the division starting from Sunday protesting death of Chauddagram upazila unit Shibir president Sahab Uddin Patwari in a gunfight with law enforcers on Thursday night.Comilla town unit Shibir president Shah Alam

DHAKA: Leaders and activists of different organizations staged demonstration in front of National Press Club in the capital on Friday protesting sabotages and arson attacks during BNP-led 20-party alliance-sponsored blockade and hartal. They also burnt the effigy of BNP chairperson

DHAKA: Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami has called a dawn-to-dusk shutdown across the country for Sunday.The hartal was enforced protesting ‘killing, forced disappearance, vandalizing houses, arresting of the party people’.Shibir president Abdul Jabbar and

DHAKA: Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) started mass sit-in in front of National Press Club in the capital on Friday.They are observing the program protesting the killing by petrol bomb attack during ongoing hartal, blockade called by BNP-led

RAJSHAHI: Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, has called a 48-hour hartal from Sunday morning in the division.Rajshahi Metropolitan’s Publicity Secretary of Shibir Asaduzzaman made the disclosure through a press release around 11:30am on Friday.The press release

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate drives detained 16 leaders-activists BNP and Chhatra Shibir from different areas of the capital between Thursday morning and Friday morning.DMP sources said as part of ongoing drives to prevent sabotage during the BNP led 20-party

SATKHIRA: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal’s Kolaroa poura unit president sustained bullet injuries in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Thakurbari area of the upazila early Friday.The injured Abdul Majid, one of the BNP-Shibir men who fled from police custody in Sharsha Upazila Thursday

RAJSHAHI: A leader of Rajshahi University unit Chhatra Shibir was killed in a clash with police in Shamsadpur area of the city early Friday.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Shahabuddin, information and technology affairs secretary of RU unit Shibir and student of department of Crop

KISHOREGANJ: Miscreants torched a parked bus in front of sub-registry office under Hossainpur upazila of the district Thursday night.Officer-in-charge (OC) M Nannu Miah of Hossainpur Thana confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said a bus of Borna Paribahan was set ablaze by suspected

DHAKA: Members of the parliamentary standing committee on law, justice and parliamentary affairs told European Union (EU) ambassador to Bangladesh that dialogue between the two parties is possible, if only BNP leaves the violent activities.They made the comment Thursday night at the

BOGRA: At least 55 allegedly anarchists, including 24 Jamaat-Shibir men, were held in Bogra in the last 24-hour.Assistant Superintendent of Police of the district (Sadar) Gaziur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews on Thursday evening.Gaziur Rahman said that 55 perpetrators were

DHAKA: The leaders of 14-party alliance led by ruling Awami League on Friday will exchange views with the leaders of different socio-cultural organizations. The organizations include Muktijoddha Sangsad, Sammilita Sangskritik Jote, Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote, Awami Sangskritik Forum

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted five cocktails in city’s Gulshan and Banani areas on Thursday afternoon. One of the witnesses, Abdullah Al Zobayer said that a gang of hartal and blockade supporters hurled two cocktails in front of DCC market at Gulshan-2 around 5:15pm. On information,

DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP, has urged the SSC examinees and other students to besiege Ganabhaban, the official residence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Central JCD president Rajib Ahsan and its general secretary Mohammad Akramul Hasan made the plea in a

GAZIPUR: Law enforcers on Thursday filed a law suit against 39 people, including the mayor of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) MA Mannan, for an arson attack in a passenger bus that burnt eight people on Wednesday night.Special Branch (SB) Inspector of the district M Sirajul Islam

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has urged the nation to participate in the ongoing movement for the sake of democracy. A statement signed by BNP vice-chairman Selima Rahman, made the disclosure on Thursday afternoon. According to the statement, everyone is involved in the prevailing