FENI: Law enforcers detained district unit Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer AKM Samsuddin from court premises of the district on Monday.Police sources said the Jamaat leader was held around 1:30pm on charge of vandalism and violence.Feni Model Thana Officer-in-Charge Mahbub Morshed confirmed the

DHAKA: The border market, locally known as haat, set up on the Indo-Bangla border at Chhagalnaiya of Feni and Tripura of India is going to be opened on Tuesday.Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed and the Indian Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman will jointly

DHAKA: The rally of ruling Awami League (AL) began at Suhrawardy Udyan marking Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s homecoming day.With AL presidium member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury in the chair, the rally started in presence of hundreds of leaders and activists of the party at the

DHAKA: Miscreants blasted three cocktails near to the city’s Suhrawardi Udyan, where ruling Awami League (AL) is scheduled to hold its rally on Monday afternoon.The sabotage took place in the area around 2:10pm. Another cocktail remained unexploded. Officer-in-charge Sirajul Islam of

SUNAMGANJ: BNP-led 20-party alliance called dawn-to-dusk hatal in the district for Tuesday protesting the confinement of BNP chief Khaleda Zia to her Gulshan office and detention of senior BNP leaders.Convener of district alliance and BNP Nasir Uddin Chowdhury made the announcement in a

DHAKA: Miscreants torched a bus in Nadda Bus stand area of the city on Monday.Witnesses said the Tongi-bound bus from Jatrabari was set afire presumably by blockaders in the area around 11:15am. However, none was reportedly injured as the passengers get down from the bus immediate after

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT) has issued show-cause notice to five leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir along with their lawyer Advocate Tajul Islam in accusation of contempt of court.A three-member ICT team, headed by its chairman M

DHAKA: The dawn-to-dusk hartal called by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has laxly been observing in Dhaka and 13 other adjoining districts on Monday.The districts include Narayanganj, Gazipur, Tangail, Narsingdi, Munshiganj, Manikganj,

DHAKA: Law enforcers detained BNP joint secretary general Mohammad Shahjahan along with another party activist from Gulshan in the capital on Monday morning.He has been taken to the headquarters of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).BDST: 1044 HRS, JAN 12, 2015

DHAKA: Miscreants hurled a petrol bomb to a cement-laden covered van in Rail Gate area of Gazipur district on Monday morning.Joydebpur Town Sub-Inspector (TSI) Shahidul Islam confirmed the matter to banglanews.A car also torched in Cherag Ali area of Tongi in the morning.However, none was

DHAKA: Miscreants hurled a petrol bomb to a cement-laden covered van in Rail Gate area of Gazipur district on Monday morning.Joydebpur Town Sub-Inspector (TSI) Shahidul Islam confirmed the matter to banglanews.A car also torched in Cherag Ali area of Tongi in the morning.However, none was

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has given permission to Awami League for holding its pre-scheduled rally on eleven conditions withdrawing ban on all kind of rallies, processions and gatherings. DMP additional deputy commissioner(media) Saidur Rahman confirmed the matter to

GAIBANDHA: A man was run over by a truck when he jumped out of a passenger bus to escape petrol bomb attack in Kalitola area under Gobindaganj upazila on Rangpur-Dhaka highway Sunday late night. Three other passengers of the bus sustained burn injuries in the attack presumably by

DHAKA: Miscreants torched a bus in Shewrapara bus stand area of the city on Sunday afternoon.Fire service control room operator Ziaur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said some miscreants set fire to a passenger bus of ‘Zabal-e-Nur’ transport service, in the area around

DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP, called daylong hartal for Monday Dhaka and 13 other adjoining districts in protest against confinement of their Chairperson Khaleda Zia.The other districts are Narayanganj, Gazipur, Tangail, Narsinghdi, Munshiganj, Manikganj,

DHAKA: District BNP units separately called a daylong hartal for Monday in Gazipur, Tangail, Narayanganj, Manikganj, Munshiganj, Comilla, Bogra and Noakhali (Chatkhil upazila) districts amid the nonstop countrywide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.Banglanews

DHAKA: New trucks with mud, bricks and sand have been kept in front of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in city’s Gulshan area.Seven trucks were seen parked in the area at 12:45pm while the report was filed.Five trucks are positioned in

SYLHET: An activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student affiliate of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, was killed in Sadar upazila after a mini-truck knocked him down while he was vandalizing vehicles on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Shariful Islam Sharif, 25, son of a

DHAKA: Local units of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have separately been observing hartal in four districts and an upazila since Sunday morning amid the BNP called nationwide indefinite blockade.BNP is observing dawn-to-dusk hartal in Sirajganj, Lalmonirhat, and Patuakhli

GAZIPUR: BNP-led alliance called a dawn-to-dusk hatal in the district for Monday protesting the confinement of its chief Khaleda Zia to her Gulshan office and detention of senior BNP leaders.BNP central committee organizing secretary AKM Fazlul Haque Milon, also Gazipur district BNP