DHAKA: Demanding release of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, opposition BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that the government had detained him to hold planned election.He came up with the observation through a statement Friday.Mirza Fakhrul said, “Ruling

FENI: At least 35 passengers were injured as Jamaat-Shibir men vandalized 20 vehicles in Mohipal of the district town on Friday morning protesting war criminal Quader Mollah’s execution. Sources said that Jamaat-Shibir men vandalized 20 vehicles in the area at around 11:00am and the

NOAKHALI: A vendor was killed and a rickshaw puller sustained bullet injury in a clash between law enforcers and Jamaat-Shibir men in Afania bazaar under Begaumganj upazila early Friday.The deceased was identified as Khorshed Alam, 45, a Chotpoti seller. Witnesses said Jamaat-Shibir men

JESSORE: A Jamaat activist was killed as a trucked rammed him when he tried to torch the truck in Bagharpara upazula of the district on Friday morning.The deceased was identified as Ashraful, 20, son of Mokbul of Mohiron village of the same upazila.Local sources said that a group of

SATKHIRA: Jamaat-Shibir activists chopped and beat two leaders of ruling Awami League to death in Kolaroa of the district early Friday.The deceased were identified as Azizur Rahman Azu, 53 and Mehedi Hasan Zoz Mia, 35, of the same upazila.Family sources of deceased said that some 20/25

FARIDPUR: Police in several drives held 44 Jamaat-Shibir men from various spots of the district on Friday morning apprehending subversive act.The identity of the detainees could not be known immediately.Assistant Police Super Kamruzzaman confirmed the matter to banglanews.Earlier on

DHAKA: The law enforcing agency arrested ten Jamaat leaders and activists from its central office in city’s Mogbazar area immediately after the execution of Jamaat leader Quader Mollah on Thursday night.Confirming the matter assistant commissioner of police of Ramna Zone Shibli Noman

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel took Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) from his Banani’s residence on Thursday night.RAB personnel picked him up at around 11:30pm on Thursday.Earlier in the day, a 10-memebrs police team

DHAKA: The law enforcement agency arrested younger son and brother-in-law of Quader Mollah who was executed Thursday night for committing crimes against humanity in the country’s liberation war in 1971. The arrestees are identified as Mollah’s son Hasan Moudud and brother-in-law Mir

DHAKA: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called dawn-to dusk hartal across the country for Sunday protesting execution of the war crimes convict Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah,.Acting Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Maqbul Ahmed announced the hartal in a statement immediately after the execution of

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday urged the government to walk on the pathway of peace and compromise avoiding obstinacy.The Leader of the Opposition came up with the plea in a statement signed by her press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan in the evening.She also asked

DHAKA: Acting Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Maqbul Ahmed on Thursday urged the countrymen to stage a peaceful protest against the conspiracy of political killing of war crimes convict Quader Mollah.The Jamaat leader came up with the plea in a statement in the afternoon.He also called upon the all

DHAKA: A meeting was held between US ambassador to Dhaka Dan W Mozena and BNP Standing Committee Member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan.The hour long meeting held at Mozena’s Gulshan residence from 2:00 to 3:00pm on Thursday.During the parley, they discussed various bilateral interests and

DHAKA: Rana Plaza tragedy got the seventh position in list of the Top Ten International news stories of 2013, published in Time Magazine on Wednesday.The story is as follows: Time Magazine has put together a list of itsTop Ten International news stories this year.One significant story

MOULAVIBAZAR: Police held a leader Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, for his alleged involvement in the fire incident of the Supreme Court Justice SK Sinha’s village home.The detainee is Saifur Rahman, 25, Joint Secretary of Upazila unit Chhatra Shibir.  Sources said

DHAKA: United Kingdom’s Senior Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Sayeeda Warsi is holding a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed on Thursday noon.The British Minister entered the election commission secretariat at 1:15pm.  

SYLHET: At least 15 people, including an assistant sub-inspector of police, were injured in a clash between Jamaat Shibir activists and police during hartal hours in divisional city’s Osmani Medical College road area on Thursday morning. Sources said that Shibir activists brought out

DHAKA: Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jun met Jatiyo Party chairman HM Ershad on Thursday morning.The Chinese ambassador entered ‘President Park’, the residence of former President of the country Ershad at 11:40am.After hour-long meeting Li Jun told to journalists that they

DHAKA: There was no legal bar to execute war crimes convict Quader Mollah as the full bench of the Supreme Court appellate division Thursday rejected the plea to file a review petition challenging the verdict.Attorney General Mahbubey Alam informed the press immediately after the apex

DHAKA: United Kingdom’s Senior Minister of state at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Sayeeda Warsi is scheduled to meet opposition Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday afternoon.The meeting would be held at around 4:00pm in Chairperson’s Gulshan office.As per the British High