DHAKA: Detective Branch (DB) of police detained BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Mosaddek Ali Falu Sunday night.Sources told banglanews that the law enforcers held him around 7:45pm from the BNP chief’s Gulshan office gate in the capital.He has been taken away to DB police office,

DHAKA: BNP threatened the government of nonstop hartal if phone, cable TV and internet connections of Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office are not restored immediately.A press release signed by party’s joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed made the forewarning on Sunday

FENI: Police in a drive on Sunday detained 12 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student affiliate of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, along with bomb-making materials. Among the detainees, four are examinees of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations, set to begin from February

DHAKA: Food Minister Advocate Qamrul Islam on Sunday claimed that BNP-enforced nationwide road-water-railway blockade, which lacks people’s support, is based on outsourcing.The acts of sabotage during hartal-blockade were being carried out hiring people from outside the party, he

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday placed BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on a 3-day remand in a case filed for vandalism, attempt to murder and arson attack. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir Raj passed the order after Sub-Inspector (SI) Mosharraf Hossain

DHAKA: The first day of the 72-hour hartal, called by BNP led 20-party alliance, is being marked on Sunday across the country amid stray incidents of blasts, vandalism and arson attacks, supplemented by nonstop blockade. The alliance called the shutdown protesting threats by ruling Awami

BRAHMANBARIA: Leaders and activists of BNP locked into a clash with police after a cocktail was hurled at Subarna Express Train on Sunday noon.Witnesses said BNP men hurled the cocktail, but none was hurt as all doors and windows of the train were closed.On information police rushed to

DHAKA: Two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, were caught red-handed while they attempted to set fire to vehicles in city’s Mirpur area.The incident took place at 8:00am on Sunday.Witnesses Alamgir Hossain and Sohrab Mia said that a group of

FENI: Pickets set fire to two vehicles and vandalized 10 more in the district town on Sunday morning, first day of the BNP-led 20-party alliance-enforced countrywide 72-hour hartal.Witnesses said that a group of the alliance supporters brought out a brisk procession on Trunk Road of the

DHAKA:  Law enforcers, in separate drives, detained at least 346 people, including 124 leaders-activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, in the capital and 10 districts across the country apprehending subversive activities during nationwide hartal.  In capital, police, in a 24-hour drive,

DHAKA: Police in a daylong drive detained 32 leaders and activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in the city in accusation of creating violence. The detainees include BNP cultural wing Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (JASAS) joint secretary. Dhaka Metropolitan Police

MEHERPUR: Miscreants exploded four hand-made bombs at the neighboring houses of two leaders of BNP and its major ally Jamaat-e-Islami at Jorapukuria village under Gangni upazila of the district early Saturday. The explosion occurred around 2:00am at the houses of BNP leaders Tagar Ali

DHAKA: First day of the 72-hour hartal, called by BNP led 20-party alliance, is being marked on Sunday across the country protesting threats by ruling Awami League leaders to arrest BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and uproot her Gulshan political office. The fresh program of hartal started

COMILLA: Two passenger buses were torched by hartal-blockade supporters in Syedpur area under Burichong upazila of the district on early Sunday.Locals said that the hartal and blockade supporters set fire to two passenger buses in the area around 12:30am.The anarchists also blasted

SAVAR (DHAKA): At least 20 people were injured while two received burn injuries as hartal supporters torched a passenger bus in Ulail in Savar on Saturday night.The passengers of the bus said that a group of blockaders and hartal supporters set fire to the bus, Bikash Paribahan, in

DHAKA: Miscreants torched a passenger bus in city’s New Market area on Saturday night amid the ongoing blockade led by BNP-led 20-party alliance.Fire Service sources said that a group of miscreants set fire to a passenger bus in the area around 7:45pm but no one was reportedly

GAZIPUR: The blockaders torched a covered-van in Tongi-Cheragali area of the district on Saturday night.Witnesses said that a gang of blockaders hurled a petrol bomb aiming at a covered-van in the area around 6:30pm.The van was caught fire and gutted soon.On information, the fire fighters

DHAKA: Police detained 13 female activists of BNP including six pro-BNP female lawyers from the gate of BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan political office on Saturday evening.Sources said that six pro-BNP lawyers were detained from the area around 6:30pm while they were coming out

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel handed over BNP joint secretary general Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed to Badda Thana police on Saturday afternoon.RAB media wing assistant director Maqsudul Haque told banglanews that RAB-1 handed over Rizvi to law enforcers around

DHAKA: Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Saturday observed that effective dialogue is the only way to get rid of the prevailing political crisis.The former President made the observation while addressing a discussion meeting titled ‘National Talks to