DHAKA: A 48-hour countrywide hartal, enforced by the Jammat-e-Islami, is relaxed and ended on 6:00pm Monday due to the Ashura.Previously, hartal was declared to last till 6:00am Tuesday as a protest of Jamaat ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami’s death sentence.Now, it has been relaxed for 12

DHAKA: Local government, rural development and co-operative minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Monday categorically said the four national leaders were killed after the order of BNP founding leader Ziaur Rahman.The minister made this assertion after paying his tribute to the four leaders

MOULVIBAZAR: Law enforcers on Monday detained president and secretary of Rajnagar upazila unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir when they were picketing in Konigram area of the upazila.The detainees were identified as of Rajnagar upazila unit Shibir president Misbaul Hasan, 38 and secretary

DHAKA: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has declared countrywide fresh hartal for Wednesday.However, as another hartal was announced earlier by Jamaat for Thursday, the strike will be observed till 6:00am Friday ultimately, beginning from 6:00am Wednesday.Deputy of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

DHAKA: The 48-hour countrywide hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami protesting its Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami’s death sentence, is underway.Jamaat marked the first phase of the strike across the country amid stray incidents of picketing, beginning from 6:00am Thursday to

DKAKA: The Supreme Court is set to deliver its verdict on Monday on an appeal filed by Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman challenging death penalty awarded by International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).Kamaruzzaman has been enlisted in Monday’s cause list of the verdict of the Appellate

DHAKA: Miscreants torched a passenger bus in city’s Dhanmondi-15 area on Sunday night.Witnesses said pro-hartal activists set a bus on fire in the area around 7:30pm.However, none was reportedly injured in the incident.Earlier, on Wednesday, Jamaat-e-Islami enforced a 72-hour

DHAKA: Miscreants vandalized vehicles and blasted cocktails during hartal hours in city’s Nayapaltan and Roysaheb Bazar areas on Sunday evening.Witnesses said some 30/40 people brought out a sudden procession in Roysaheb Bazar area and blasted 7-8 cocktails; later, they vandalized

DHAKA: Miscreants vandalized vehicles and blasted cocktails during hartal hours in city’s Nayapaltan and Roysaheb Bazar areas on Sunday evening.Witnesses said some 30/40 people brought out a sudden procession in Roysaheb Bazar area and blasted 7-8 cocktails; later, they vandalized

DHAKA: BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Ahmed Rizvi on Sunday said it was a mysterious matter that the country experienced 12-hour blackout Saturday.“This was a plot of the incumbent government,” he said.Rizvi made the allegation while addressing a press conference at BNP’s

DHAKA: Law enforcers, in several special drives, detained 183 people, including 56 Jamaat-e-Islami activists, from eight districts to prevent anarchy during the 48-hour countrywide hartal.Police nabbed them from Jessore, Kurigram, Bhola, Satkhira, Feni, Pabna, Noakhali, and Tangail

DHAKA: Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali, who was awarded death sentence by International Crime Tribunal (ICT)-2 on Sunday, said all these incidents and depositions are false. He also said the falsity will be defeated and the truth will triumph shortly. Mir Quashem Ali made the assertions

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami has called countrywide 24-hour hartal from Thursday morning protesting the death sentence to Mir Quasem Ali for war crimes.Earlier in the day, International Crimes Tribunal-2 awarded death sentence to top financier of Jamaat and intellectuals’ killer Mir

DHAKA: Police in several night-long drives detained over 75 Jamaat-Shibir activists and recovered 24 bombs raiding in Pabna, Noakhali, Tangail and Feni districts till Sunday morning. Officer-in-Charge of Special Branch of Pabna police Abdul Hannan said 45 Jamaat-Shibir men were arrested

DHAKA: Power supply across country became normal on Saturday midnight after over 12 hours-long outages due to collapses on national grid. The grid was collapsed at least twice, first at around 12:00 in the noon and secondly in the evening on Saturday. The whole country faced power

DHAKA: The second phase of countrywide 72-hour hartal, called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami protesting its Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami’s death sentence, is underway from Sunday dawn. However, the 48-hour shutdown, beginning from 6:00am, will end on Tuesday morning. Earlier, Jamaat

DHAKA: Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, activists brought out sudden processions, vandalized vehicles and blasted cocktails in city’s Shahjahanpur and Lalbagh areas on Saturday evening.Sources said that a group of Shibir activists brought out the procession at

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami will observe the 48-hour second phase hartal from 6:00am Sunday to 6:00am Tuesday protesting death penalty to party’s Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami.Earlier, Jamaat marked the 1st phase of three-day hartal across the country amid stray incidents of picketing,

KHULNA: Jamaat-e-Islami on Saturday announced that Khulna city would remain out of purview of hartal for Monday due to the second test cricket match between Bangladesh and visiting Zimbabwe.City Jamaat unit Ameer Maulana Abu Kalam Azad made the announcement on Saturday evening.On

FROM NATORE: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said the incumbent government has become detached from people.He was addressing a mass rally, organized by 20-party alliance at Nabab Siraj-ud-Doula Government College