DHAKA: Ruling Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said not a single country could prosper through the way of democracy. He made the remark while addressing a seminar at city’s Water Development Board auditorium on Friday noon arranged by its Sramik Kormachari

DHAKA: BNP joint secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday said law enforcement agencies has besieged the BNP’s central office confined in order to keep the party confine in a cage.Rezvi, in a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan office in the morning, claimed his party ‘the biggest

DHAKA: Security at the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office of the city has been beefed up on Friday morning. Additional police forces in uniform and plainclothes have been deployed in the area.Members of Rapid Action Battalion are patrolling the area. Armored personnel carrier, water

GOPALGANJ: Former Member of Parliament of Gopalganj-1 constituency Kazi Abdur Rashid passed away at his residence in the capital on Thursday night. He was 83. The former MP breathed his last around 10:10pm at his Kalyanpur residence due to old age complexities.Gopalganj-2 constituency

BARISAL: Police, in a drive, detained 20 Jamaat men, including its district unit Ameer and Nayeb-e-Ameer, from a building in South Alekanda area of the district on Thursday night.The detainees are- Barisal Metropolitan Jamaat Ameer Advocate Muyazzem Hossain Helal, Nayeb-e-Ameer

DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia celebrated her 70th birthday at Gulshan party office in city on Friday morning.Leaders and activists of the party were present there.BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir among others attended in the party.  After cutting the cake,

DHAKA: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday approved charge-sheet against Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain over money laundering case.ACC director Nasim Anwar submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

GAZIPUR: At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two groups of BNP over distribution of saplings on the eve of birthday of the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia.The clash took place over a trifling matter while distributing plants after a discussion jointly organized by

KHULNA: District Jamaat-e-Islami called daylong hartal at Koyra and Paikgachha upazilas for Sunday in protest against the arrest of district (South) unit Ameer Maulana AKM Tamiz Uddin, also Koyra upazila chairman.  District (South) Unit secretary of the party Maulana Golam Sarwar

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday placed 10 Jamaat leaders, including former president of Shibir Dr Shafiqul Islam Masud, on a fresh two-day remand.Metropolitan Magistrate Ataul Haque passed the remand order in response to fresh remand plea filed by police.After completion of four-day

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) submitted their audit reports to the secretariat of the Election Commission (EC) on Thursday, the last extended date for submission of the report for last fiscal year. Earlier, the party failed to submit the report by July 31 and prayed to the EC

DHAKA: The leaders and activists of ruling Awami League’s political rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are getting packed with the piles of lawsuit, mostly filed by the government. Scores of stalwarts, including BNP chairperson, its standing committee members, Dhaka city unit’s

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) indicted former Jatiya Party (JP) lawmaker Abdul Jabbar for crimes against humanity during Liberation War in 1971. ICT-1 passed the order Thursday bringing five war crimes charges including killing, mass killing, looting and forced conversion.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Dhaka City Unit Committee Convener Mirza Abbas on Wednesday categorically said the movement against the Awami League led government would be peaceful. He added: “The movement will be peaceful but the government becomes panicked,” he said.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia greeted Turkey’s newly elected president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In a letter, the BNP chief thanked Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader for his win in the popular election for Presidency for the first time in

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina categorically said that our boys and girls will dominate the world and we are working to attain this target.The premier came up with the assertion while exchanging views with the high officials of education sector at Ganabhaban in city on Wednesday

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday deferred the charge framing hearing of BNP standing Committee Member MK Anwar till September 15 in a case under Information Technology and Communication Act.The court of Senior Special Judge of Dhaka Justice M Zahurul Haq passed the order in response

DHAKA: BNP-led 20-party alliance will hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city on August 19 protesting government’s National Broadcast Policy-2014.The alliance will bring out black flag-procession across the country on August 16, beginning in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan office

DHAKA: Communications minster Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said many people are violating traffic rules labeling the Member of Parliament’s (MP) stickers on their vehicles, they act like MP, but traffic police can check them whether they are real or fake.He came up with the remarks

KHULNA: Law enforcers arrested Terakhada Upazila Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Kabirul Islam with arms early Tuesday. He was arrested from Atulia Madrasa of the upazila. Officer-in-Charge of Terakhada Thana Harendranath Sarker confirmed the matter to banglanews. We have recovered a foreign