DHAKA: The former president and Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad urged people to observe November 10 as ‘Democracy Day’.He made the assertion in a statement Sunday afternoon.According to the statement, Ershad, who is also a special envoy to the Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina, claimed

GAZIPUR: At least 30 people, including six bullet-hit, were injured in a clash between law enforcers and BNP men in the city on Sunday.The six bullet-hit injured are counselor Shirin Chaklader of Gazipur City Corporation, BNP activists Jahangir Alam, Yunus Mia, Rasheda Begum,

DHAKA: A legal notice was issued against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for making derogatory remarks over Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.The SC Bar Association former secretary and also Awami League central committee member Advocate Momtaz Uddin Ahmed Mehedi sent the

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has reached the make-shift court at Bakshi Bazar in the capital for hearing in Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases. Sources told banglanews that the BNP chief reached there around 11:00am following set out from her Gulshan residence

DHAKA: BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before the make-shift court at Alia Madrasa ground in the city on Sunday morning in Zia Orphanage and Zia Charitable Trust cases. BNP chairperson’s media wing member Shamsuddin Didar confirmed the matter to banglanews. The BNP chief will

SYLHET: Bangladesh Nationalist Party announced its Sylhet city committee on Saturday making Dr Shariar Hossain and Badruzzan Selim as convener and member secretary respectively.BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the 33-member committee in the

SHERPUR (BOGRA): Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Saturday said BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman is enough for the debacle of his party.He was addressing a fresher reception program of Sherpur Town Club Public Library College in the district.The ruling Awami League lawmaker also

DHAKA: BNP called for a countrywide protest for Sunday as it did not get permission to hold rally at Suhrawardy Uddyan marking the ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’. Acting Secretary General of the party Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announcement from a press briefing

DHAKA: Awami League (AL) general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam termed BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman unwise and ignorant. He came up with the remark in reply to a query of the reporters at AL president Sheikh Hasina’s Dhanmondi political office on Friday. Sheikh Hasina

BOGRA: Law enforcers, in separate drives in different upazilas from Thursday night to early Friday, arrested 18 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir in arson and vandalism cases. Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police of the district Ujjal Kumar Roy disclosed

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League secretary of publicity and publication Affairs Hasan Mahmood on Friday termed BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman as a precocious boy and coward.Hasan Mahmood made the assertion in a press conference arranged at AL office at Dhanmondi protesting

RANGPUR: Law enforcers, in ongoing drives, arrested 1,200 people from the eights districts of the division sometimes between Monday evening and Thursday to prevent anarchy.Of the arrestees, around three hundred people are leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has chalked out 10-day long programs marking ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’ that falls on November 7.BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Ahmed Rizvi announced the program schedule at party headquarters in city’s Nayapaltan

DHAKA: BNP joint general secretary Ruhul Kabir Ahmed Rizvi on Thursday claimed that Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of Awami League, killed at least 26 people in the last four years.The BNP senior leader came up with the allegation while declaring his party’s programs

DHAKA: The second-day hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, protesting its two leaders’ death sentence, is underway across the country on Thursday amid sporadic violence. Sources told banglanews that the members of Chhatra Shibir, student affiliate of Jamaat, brought out

DHAKA: The 48-hour hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami protesting Supreme Court verdict upholding death penalty to its leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, entered the second day. The fresh shutdown began at 6:00am Wednesday and will end at 6:00am Friday. Security measures have been

DHAKA: The activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, a student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, allegedly blasted eight cocktails in Nayabazar area of old Dhaka and Shahzadpur area on Wednesday evening in support of hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami.Witnesses said some 15-20 Shibir activists

PABNA: At least 25 people were injured in a factional clash between two groups of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) in Paikpara and Dephalchara villages of Chatmohar upazila of the district on Wednesday.Chatmohar Thana Officer-in-charge (OC) Subrata Kumar Sarkar said to banglanews that

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed operation wing chief of banned Harkat-ul-Jihad (HUJI) Khairul Bashar alias Ibrahim on a six-day remand.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court Judge Mollah Saiful Alam placed the remand order after Sub-inspector (SI) SM Raisul of Detective

RANGPUR: Law enforcers, in separate drives, arrested 255 people, including 31 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhattra Shibir across Rangpur division to prevent possible violence during hartal.Police nabbed them from different areas of the division