DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to hold a meeting with senior leaders of the party, including acting secretary general, standing committee members and top leaders of Dhaka city BNP committee on Wednesday night.Party media wing sources said the meeting would commence at

DHAKA: A mobile court awarded two years imprisonment to a young man for torching the vehicle of MP Chhabi while he was going to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).Executive Magistrate Sarwar Alam passed the order on Wednesday afternoon.The convict is Afzal Hossain, 22, a third year

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League MP (Netrokona-1) Chhabi Biswas was injured as miscreants attacked him and set fire to his vehicle in front of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday.Sources said the Durgapur-Kalmakanda constituency lawmaker is undergoing treatment at DMCH as he

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta on Saturday categorically said that the Dhaka City Corporations elections will be held within the next two or three months. All the parties, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), will join the polls, he added.

KANCHPUR (NARAYANGANJ): Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia threatened to wage a tougher movement if the prices of gas, electricity and fuel are increased.“The tougher movement will be enforced from the day after the government will hike the prices of energy,

NARAYANGANJ: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said ruling Awami League government is a burden to countrymen.“The government is torturing, abducting and killing people. They have no right to stay in power as they have become burden to people for wrong doings,” she said.She

NARAYANGANJ: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has reached the Narayanganj rally venue at 3:45pm to whip up public support for the demand of immediate election under non-party government.She will address the mass rally, organized by 20-party alliance, within few minutes on Saturday

SAVAR: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is threatening for mass upsurge as she experienced repeated failure to get responses from people.The minister was addressing the inaugural ceremony of extended building of Visitor

NARAYANGANJ: Activists of two factions of local BNP locked into chase and counter chase just after the rally of 20-party-alliance started at 12:30pm Saturday at Kanchpur Balurmath in Sonargaon.   Witnesses said that supporters of Sonargaon BNP general secretary Azharul Islam Mannan and

FROM NARAYANGANJ: A mass rally, organized by 20-party alliance, has begun with the recitation from the holy Quran at Kanchpur Balurmath in Sonargaon upazila of the district Saturday noon. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson and also the alliance leader Khaleda Zia is expected

DUBAI: A speedy pick-up collided with a private car on Sharjah-Fujairah-Maliha highway of Sharjah in United Arab Emirates (UAE) Friday morning, killing a man and injuring two others. The deceased was identified as Shafiqul Islam, general secretary of Awami League’s (AL) Ajman unit in

DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia on Friday categorically said there is no alternative of mass upsurge to get rid of incumbent government. He further said they have to prove themselves to people as reliable and stage mass movement against the government.

KUSHTIA: Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu on Friday categorically said that Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is recognized as war criminal party.He made the remark while talking to journalists before attending a meeting of the recruitment committee of Bheramara Degree College in the

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance will stage rallies in upazilas aiming to uphold their position to the nation and prevent the conspiracy of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami. The decision came after an alliance meeting at AL president Sheikh Hasina’s political office in city’s

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed February 12 as a date of charge framing hearing against Quader Siddique in a defamation case for calling former Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir a Razakar. Additional Judge of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court Ali Masud Sheikh fixed the

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed February 12 as a date of charge framing hearing against Quader Siddique in a defamation case for calling former Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir a Razakar. Additional Judge of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court Ali Masud Sheikh fixed the

DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal, a front organization of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), will organize a grand rally in city on December 21. The program will be held at Engineers’ Institute auditorium in the city. Muktijoddha Dal president Ishtiaq Aziz Ulfat told banglanews

MYMENSINGH: Former State Minister for Energy Affairs AKM Mosharraf Hossain, also district (south) BNP president, on Thursday alleged that the incumbent government has killed democracy in country. He also alleged that the government is fearful about the popularity of Tarique Rahman and

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday postponed her visit to Jhenidah on December 23 due to fog and cold wave. Chairperson’s press wing officer Shairul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter to banglanews. Khaleda was scheduled to address a rally, organised by BNP-led 20-party on

DHAKA:  The International Crimes Tribunal-2 farmed charges against Mahidur Rahman and Afsar Hossain Chutu of Chapainawabganj for their alleged involvement in crimes during the country’s war of independence.The three-member ICT-2, headed by Justice Obaidul Hasan, passed the order. The