DHAKA: An extended meeting of Jatiya Party (Ershad) will be held at Engineers’ Institution auditorium here on Sunday. The meeting will begin at 11am with its chairman HM Ershad in the chair, a press release said.Leaders and activists of the party were requested to attend the meeting,

DHAKA: Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahasan Mohammad Mojaheed was sent to jail after his three-day remand in a case filed against him under an anti-terrorism act with Kadamtali police station. Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Minhaz-Um-Munira came up with the order as

DHAKA: Opposition leader and BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia Saturday hosted an iftar party for eminent personalities of the country. Leaders of different organizations, teachers, social workers, artists attended the iftar at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, party sources

DHAKA: The opposition BNP plans to launch a fresh anti-government movement after the Ramadan lull, with a sure-fire neo-strategy.  “BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will announce new strategy of its movement to topple the government after the month of Ramadan,” said party standing

KHULNA: State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian Saturday accused a section of bureaucrats in the administration of plotting trouble and embarrass the government. “A section of bureaucrats who were privileged during the BNP-Jamaat alliance regime was out to

DHAKA: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal called a countrywide demonstration on Sunday protesting the government decision canceling parole of Koko, the younger son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.The announcement came from a demonstration in front of party central office in city’s Nayan Paltan

DHAKA: Two activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of ruling Awami League, were injured in a factional clash at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Hall of Dhaka University early Saturday.The fighting groups also ransacked three rooms during the clash—a latest eruption of internal

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League asked opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia to prove the government’s failures she alleged Thursday in demanding that it quit.“In which sectors the government has failed to run has to be proved by Khaleda Zia with evidences,” said Awami League Joint

DHAKA: Taking a swipe at the current spell of litigation in the country, BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Friday called upon the youth to stand united to face the situation he defined as ‘case terrorism’. The Senior Joint Secretary-General of the opposition party made the call

DHAKA: Opposition BNP is taking preparation to challenge legally the government decision canceling Koko’s parole.“Such government action is a manifestation of government’s hostile and indecent attitude,” it was stated in a midnight meeting of BNP’s panel of lawyers on Thursday

DHAKA: The government cancelled the parole of ex-PM Khaleda Zia’s younger son Arafat Rahman Koko and called him back home, as there are cases pending against him. The Ministry of Home Affairs took the decision on grounds that he “broke the terms and conditions” of his release on

DHAKA: Opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia Thursday said the government should quit for what she said its inefficiency in running the country. "The government is a failure in all respects. They have become incompetent to rule the country and so they should step down from power," said the

DHAKA: A court here Thursday issued arrest warrants against Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee and party leader Mir Kashem Ali in separate tax-dodging cases.Senior special judge of the district court Ismail Hossain passed the arrest orders shortly after the two were

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Secretary-General Khandaker Delwar Hossain Thursday fired a broadside at their political foes as he alleged that the government is busy executing “hidden deals” with a neighbouring country."The Awami League government did not give anything new to the nation but

DHAKA: State Minister for Law Advocate Qamrul Islam said top brass of the then BNP-Jamaat alliance government involved in August 21 grenade attack would be brought to book for further investigation.“The investigation into the case is on. Names of all the bigwigs of the then government

DHAKA: Ruling party’s general secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam dismissed opposition BNP leader Khandaker Delwar Hossain’s remarks over Bangabandhu as an “old man’s fits of delirium”.      In a statement issued Wednesday, Syed Ashraf made the comment a day

SAVAR: Police on Wednesday held 12 Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists from a press conference here. Police also seized a good number of sticks from the conference venue.Police said, Ashulia thana unit JCD and Savar University College unit committee arranged the press conference

MADARIPUR: At least 10 persons were injured in a clash between two rival groups of Madaripur Government Nazimuddin University College unit Chhatra League Wednesday.Seriously injured Rakib Hawlader, 24, and Kanan Sharif, 24, were admitted to Madaripur Sadar Hospital.Witnesses said the one

DHAKA: Opposition leader and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia hosted an iftar party for diplomats working in Bangladesh on Wednesday. Diplomats from some 30 countries including USA, UK, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan joined the party.Begum Khaleda Zia reached the venue at around 5:30pm and

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Wednesday extended the time for hearing on the tax-evasion case against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s younger son Arafat Rahman Koko.Acting Judge of Senior Special Judge Court Ismail Hossain issued the order deferring the date to October 6 after Koko’s