RANGPUR: Law enforcers early Thursday filed a case under explosives act against 69 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations for blasting cocktails in various areas and vandalizing vehicles.Sub-Inspector of Kotwali Thana Saifur Rahman filed the lawsuit mentioning names of

DHAKA: Separate sedition cases were filed against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and Ekushey Television (ETV) chairman Abdus Salam on Thursday. Second officer of Tejgaon Thana sub-inspector Borhanuddin filed the case with the police station at noon. Deputy Police Commissioner

NOAKHALI: Police sued 3,500 mentioning the names of 217 people under speedy trial act following a clash with BNP-Jamaat men in Chowmuhani Bazar in Begumganj upazila of the district.Begumganj Thana sub-inspector (SI) Jisan Ahmed filed the lawsuit for killing, creating violence and

GAZIPUR: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was brought to Kashimpur Jail (Dhaka Central Jail Part-2) from Dhaka Central Jail.The prison van carrying Fakhrul reached at Kashimpur Jail around 4:43pm.Senior jail super of the jail Jahangir Kabir confirmed the matter to

GAIBANDHA: Blockaders vandalized some 50 vehicles in Maheshpur area under Palashbari upazila of the district on Thursday, the third day of the nationwide indefinite rail-road-waterway blockade, called by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.Witnesses said the picketers hurled brickbats and chips

DHAKA: Central leaders of the ruling Awami League (AL) will meet their party chief and also prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday.They are scheduled to meet the PM at her official residence Ganabhaban on Thursday evening.Sources confirmed the matter to banglanews.According to the

DHAKA: Members of Islami Chhatra Shibir of Jagannath University unit brought out a brisk procession in city’s Dholaikhal area and blasted a series of cocktails.The incident took place at 1:15pm on Thursday.Police and witnesses said that a group of Shibir activists of Jagannath

LONDON: Pro-Awami League lawyers, living in the UK, lodged a complaint against BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman at the UK Home Office for ‘provoking’ violence in the British-Bangladeshi community.The lawyers requested the authorities concerned “to take necessary actions

DHAKA: Police on Thursday unlocked the main gate of Gulshan political office where BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been confined for last couple of days.The gate was unlocked at 11:45am while the north gate is still locked.However Officer-in-Charge of Gulshan Thana Rafiqul Islam said,

GAZIPUR: District BNP leaders requested BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to withdraw or relax blockade ahead of Biswa Ijtema that going to be started on January 9 at Tongi.Kaliakoir Municipality Mayor, also member of BNP central committee Mujubur Rahman confirmed the matter to banglanews

DHAKA: The day-long hartal, called by Jessore unit of BNP, is progressing in the district on Thursday amid stray incidents of vandalism, picketing. The party-men are observing the shutdown in protest against filing case against 49 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat.Hartal supporters

DHAKA: Chhatra Shibir activists blasted three cocktails and vandalized some human haulers and auto-rickshaws at Banasreee area in the capital on Thursday as 20-party’s non-stop blockade underway.Earlier, a group of Shibir activists led by Dhaka East Shibir president Rezaul Haq brought

DHAKA:  Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia’s condition has improved, said her adviser Sabih Uddin Ahmed. He disclosed the update of Khaleda Zia’s health condition while talking to the reporters after coming out of her Gulshan office at 11:30pm Wednesday.

MOULVIBAZAR: Blockaders allegedly removed fishplates of rail track in Kulaura upazila of the district early Thursday, causing derailment of fives bogies and engine of Udayan Express that left over 100 people injured.The derailment took place amid the third day of nationwide blockade in

DHAKA: A local leader was killed and nine others were injured in a clash between two groups over establishing supremacy at Kaliganj upazila of the district on Wednesday evening.The deceased was identified as Ananda Mohan Ghosh, 25, president of Kula Union Awami League and son of Fatik

DHAKA: A youth was injured critically as miscreants blasted four cocktails in Rayerbagh area of the city on Wednesday evening.The injured is M Arif, 25, conductor of a bus.M Arif told banglanews that he along with passengers of the bus tried to escape listening to the rumour that

DHAKA: Miscreants torched five vehicles in Madhya Badda, Paltan, Azimpur, Sadarghat and Mirpur areas of the city on Wednesday evening, on the second day of nationwide blockade imposed by BNP-led 20-party alliance.Miscreants torched a passenger bus of Projapoti Paribahan in the evening,

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Wednesday called a half-day hartal in Manikganj district for Thursday protesting the confinement of party chief Khaleda Zia.BNP’s district unit will be observe the hartal from 6:00am to 12:00 noon on the day, said a press release signed by

DHAKA: At least 27 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islam were held by the law enforcers in Moulvibazar and Chandpur districts from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning.Our Moulvibazar correspondent said that police held 16 BNP and Jamaat men in special drives in the district

DHAKA: On behalf of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, party joint general secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Wednesday urged the BNP-led 20-party men to continue their countrywide blockade.He made the call through a video-message from an unknown place in the afternoon.Rizvi said, “Khaleda Zia is