DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday paid homage to father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the 65th founding anniversary of Awami League. The premier, also AL president, placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu at Dhanmondi 32 in the city at

DHAKA: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said the door of the dialogue with the BNP and like minded parties is always open to hold next general election before January 29 of 2019.  The ruling Awami League lawmaker made the assertion at a press conference  at secretariat in the city. 

FROM THE RALLY (JOYPURHAT): Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday demanded to disband Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) as the elite force is involved in many misdeeds. The former prime minster of the country came up with the plea while delivering an hour-long

FROM THE RALLY (JOYPURHAT): BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday said her party would wage movement after Eid-ul-Fitre to oust the government. “The illegal government is involved in all sorts of misdeeds. We will wage the movement to oust the government after Eid through the

FROM JOYPURHAT:  Amid heavy rainfall and rush atmosphere in Joypurhat, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) started a rally Sunday where party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia will address. The rally started in local Ramdeo Government Bazla School ground at 2:30 pm. District president of BNP

FROM KHALEDA’S MOTORCADE: The Joypurhat rally of BNP is depending on weather as it was raining heavily from Saturday. Locals said that if such bad weather continues then it would be impossible to hold BNP’s rally. But BNP leaders claimed that the rally will be held by hook or crook

DHAKA: Maruf Kamal Khan, press secretary to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, was injured in a road accident in Koddar intersection area of Sirajgaj district in the evening.Shairul Kabir Khan, media wing member of BNP’s Gulshan office, confirmed the matter to banglanews.Shairul Kabir Khan

DHAKA: Newly elected lawmaker from Barisal-5 constituency Jebunnessa Afroz, widow of late Awami League lawmaker Shawkat Hossain Hiron, will take oath on Sunday. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will administer the oath ceremony at the parliament at 10:00am. The constituency fell vacant

RAJSHAHI: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, also special envoy to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday said people in the country have become panicked apprehending being kidnapped at any moment. “There is no justice in the country at this moment. Police do not file cases if even

DHAKA: BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged President Abdul Hamid betrayed the nation refusing the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s proposal to give mid-term elections.   He made the allegation while addressing a workshop at a city hotel on

JAMALPUR: An activist of Juba League received bullet injury in an attack by miscreants in Islampur municipal area of the district on Friday night. The injured is- Julhash, 30, an activist of Juba League. Locals said that at least four to five youths attacked Julhash and opened fire

DHAKA: BNP standard Committee member Nazrul Islam Khan categorically said dialogue would be took place only on the issue of restoration of Caretaker Government System. Nazrul made the remarks after paying wreath on the grave of late President Zaiur Rahman in capital’s Sher-e-Bangla

JOYPURHAT: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia set her first visit after 10th parliamentary election to Joypurhat. She will also visit 16 districts in the northern part of the country and she chose Joypurhat to visit first as the activists of the district played a

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday sent 24 activists of Bangladesh Islami Chhatri Sangstha, female students’ wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, to jail rejecting remand and bail pleas. The court also ordered that the women police members could interrogate the accused in jail gate during four

BARGUNA: A Barguna court sent some 47 BNP leaders and activists to jail on Thursday. Magistrate Baijoyanti Biswas passed the order when the defendants, reporting before the court, pleaded for a bail release in a case filed in 2013. On November 28, 2013, local BNP leaders and activists

DHAKA: The High Court on Thursday rejected the writ petition filed by Khaleda Zia challenging legality of judge appointment of Zia Charitable Trust and Orphanage Trust graft cases.  An HC single bench of Justice Kazi Reza-ul Haque rejected the writ after two days hearing in the noon. 

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the nation to take two children in a family ignoring the slogan of one child preferable. She on Thursday told the health ministry officials during her visit to the ministry. With the references of the population scenario in the developed

DHAKA: The High Court Thursday rejected the writ, filed challenging the legality of an electoral rule which allows lawmakers to be elected uncontested. An HC bench comprising Justice Mirza Hossain Hyder and Justice Muhammod Khurshid Alam passed the order. Lawyers said that 154

DHAKA: A Dhaka court deferred to July 9 the recording of deposition in Zia Charitable and Orphanage Trust graft cases against BNP chief Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahnam and six others. The deposition in the two cases was scheduled to begin on Thursday. Special Judge-3 Basudeb Roy

DHAKA: Former president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Enamul Haque Shamim, also central committee member of Awami League, sustained bullet wound in an attack by miscreants on Thursday morning.  The incident took place at 10:00am in capital’s Dhanmondi area. Ramna Zone DC Maruf