DHAKA: Opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Friday expressed concern over the burning of the holy Quran.  She urged the US government to be careful so that no citizens of the United States of America can do such activities like burning the holy book of Islam.The concern came through

DHAKA: Opposition BNP sees Thursday`s government restriction holding back party leaders and activists from getting in to receive their chairperson Khaleda Zia at the airport  as part of its attempt to "enforce Baksal system once again". “The government is trying to execute

NATORE: The freed 14 out of 20 death-row convicts in the sensational Gama killing case, all local leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League, were given a mass reception Thursday.Local Awami League arranged the reception at Amtali School Field under Naldanga upazila in the district

DHAKA: Opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia returned home Thursday from Saudi Arabia after performing Umrah. An Emirates Airways flight carrying the former prime minister and her entourage landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at about 2:30pm.Senior leaders of the

DHAKA: Opposition BNP thinks that exonerating the 20 condemned convicts by presidential pardon may make an important institution the presidency controversial.BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mian made the remark at a press conference at the party central office in

DHAKA: BNP`s Standing Committee Member Barrister Moudud Ahmed came under a broadside fired by his party comrade and another barrister, Nazmul Huda, who called him power-monger, opportunist and selfish. "Moudud is a man of opportunist character and he is abusing the BNP for reaping

DHAKA:  A change in the Secretary-General post of the Jatiya Party, the second-largest partner of the grand alliance, is likely in no time, said reliable sources. The party also informed that JP founder-chairman and ex-president HM Ershad does not want to see Ruhul Amin Howlader anymore

DHAKA: State Minister for Law Advocate Qamrul Islam Tuesday said ex-PM Khaleda Zia’s eldest son Tarique Rahman has been in self-exile showing the thumb to the law.“Neither anyone obstructs him (Tarique) from coming home nor any petition was filed for canceling his bail,” he told a

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner AKM Shahidul Haque said Awami League MP Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon is not an offender under the Arms Act, but he failed to keep the licensed gun in his possession safely. The city police boss came up with the comment in a press briefing at the

DHAKA: The Supreme Court Monday upheld the High Court`s order granting bail to former State Minister for Education Ehsanul Haque Milon in an extortion case filed in Chandpur, as the government move for a stay didn’t stand.“There is no bar to his release from jail following the order

DHAKA: A Dhaka court sent Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Maulana Delawar Hossain Sayedee to jail again after his three-day remand in a case filed under the anti-terrorism act with Kadamtali police station. Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Emdadul Haque passed the order as Metropolitan Detective

DHAKA: The Supreme Court set September 30 for the hearing on a petition filed by detained BNP Standing Committee member and ex-minister Mirza Abbas challenging the SC order of stay on his High Court-granted bail in a murder case.Setting the date, SC chamber judge ABM Khairul Haque sent

DHAKA: The Opposition BNP Monday came up with the presumption that Awami League is bent on reviving Baksal, the one-party system of government introduced under socialist model after the independence.Acting General Secretary of the ruling party Mahbubul Alam Hanif Sunday clearly stated

DHAKA: The main opposition BNP observed the first death anniversary of former Finance Minister and party’s standing committee member M Saifur Rahman through milad mehfil and discussion meeting Monday at the city’s Nayapaltan central office.The veteran BNP leader died in a road

DHAKA: The committee on withdrawal of harassing and politically motivated cases recommended withdrawal of another bunch of 178 “politically motivated” cases.Committee president State Minister for Law Advocate Qamrul Islam informed that the decision was taken at a meeting held at the

DHAKA: A senior BNP leader Sunday alleged that the ruling Awami League is treating the opposition party as ‘enemy’, not competitor.Party standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan came up with the comment while addressing a discussion in the city’s Diploma Engineers Institute

CHANDPUR: Home Minister Sahara Khatun Sunday claimed that different quarters are out to save the war criminals and said the “fangs of the evil forces have to be broken off”.“Some vested quarters are cooking up conspiracy against the trial of war criminals. They are even threatening

DHAKA: Opposition Leader and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Sunday sent greetings to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, in an exchange of niceties between the two inveterate political rivals.Khaleda Zia’s APS M Suratuzzaman went to the Prime Minister’s Office at

NARAYANGANJ: At least 50 people were injured and several houses ransacked during an internecine clash between local Mohila League and Chhatra League of the ruling party in Rupganj Thana on Saturday night. Locals said the clash took place at about 8pm between Shahin group led by Chan Mia,

COMILLA: The local administration Sunday imposed section 144 in Daudkandi upazila to avert outbreaks of violence as rival Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and Bangladesh Chhatra League took a collision course arranging iftar mahfil at the same place and same time.Daudkandi thana OC SM Kawsar