DHAKA: Miscreants chopped a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader of Gulshan Thana on Wednesday noon. The injured is Riaz Sikder Kochi, organizing secretary of Gulshan Thana Chhatra League. Source said some local goons attacked Kochi at 2:00pm when he was sitting near

DHAKA: Jatiya Party participated in general elections, held on January 5, to bring peace in the country, said incumbent parliament opposition leader Roushan Ershad. The JP leader said on Wednesday at the National Parliament’s media centre adding that it was a time when people were

DHAKA: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for continuing a illegal-asset earning case against BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed filed by Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). On Wednesday, the 4-member appellate division bench headed by Chief Justice M Mozzammel Hossian

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Wednesday deferred the recording of prosecution witness’ (PW) deposition in the Zia Orphanage Trust embezzlement case and Zia Charitable Trust case till June 19. Justice Bashudeb Roy of Dhaka Special Judge Court-3 passed the deferment order in response to a time

RAJSHAHI: BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed threatened the government that wildfires would spread out if an inclusive national election is not held. “The government should declare national election without delay with the participation of all political parties

DHAKA: The High Court will pass its order, on May 25, over the writ petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the appointment of judges who framed charges of Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases. An HC bench comprising Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice

DHAKA: Bangladesh Sammilita Peshajibi Parishad, an organization for different professionals, formed a human chain in front of the National Press Club on Tuesday protesting the deteriorated law-and-order situation in the country. Advisor to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, journalist Shawkat

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) vice-chairman and its Dhaka city unit convener Sadek Hossain Khoka urged Army to take back their personnel from country’s elite law enforcer Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to avert controversy. He came up with the urge in a protest rally at

CHITTAGONG: A court on Tuesday order to show former lawmaker and city Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shamsul Islam arrested in Juba Lague activist M Hasam killing case. Chittagong District Judicial magistrate Masud Pervaz handed down the order in presence of the accused after Satkania thana

KHULNA: Local unit of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami announced a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Terokhada upazila of the district for Thursday. The announcement was made through a press release signed by Khulna Dokkhin Zila Jamaat assistant secretary Moulana Moinul Islam on Tuesday night. Jamaat is

KHULNA: Local unit of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami announced a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Terokhada upazila of the district for Thursday. The announcement was made through a press release signed by Khulna Dokkhin Zila Jamaat assistant secretary Moulana Moinul Islam on Tuesday night. Jamaat is

RANGPUR: Three people were killed and injured 15 others in a road accident on Kurigram reginal highway in Kawnia upazila of the district on Wednesday morning.  Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.  Witnesses said a Kurigram-bound passenger bus of Shyamoli Paribahan

DHAKA: Newly formed Dhaka City Bangladesh National Party (BNP) committee will sit in a meeting on Wednesday afternoon.Member secretary of the committee Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel issued a pressed release in this regard on Tuesday.The news release said the meeting would be held in Bhashani

DHAKA: Local Government Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Tuesday said BNP is a harmful power rather than a political party.The information minister came up with assertion at city’s Institution of Engineers in the afternoon.He said BNP is a

FENI: BNP called half-day hartal in the Sadar upazila of the district for Thursday protesting murder of Monir Hossain, general secretary of Baligaon union Swechhasebak Dal.District Swechhasebak Dal President Kopil Uddin Mamun declared the hartal in a rally before the Namaz-e-Janaja of

COMILLA: A local Awami League leader was killed by miscreants after abduction in Laxmipur village under Chauddagram Upazila of the district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Noor-e-Alam, Alkara Union Parisad member and local Awami League leader. Confirming the matter,

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went to secretariat on Sunday morning aiming to visit two ministries in city. The premier arrived there around 10:35am.  At first, she visited Posts and Tele-Communications Ministry of Information & Communication Technology and talked to the

DHAKA: The Supreme Court on Sunday re-fixed July 21 and 24 for hearing of two appeals made by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the rejection order of two writ petitions by the High Court in Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable graft cases.    A five-member SC full bench headed

FROM PARLIAMENT: Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Thursday said BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is ready to sell Bangladesh to India.The industries minister made the remark while talking on the last day of budget session on point of order in the parliament indicating a remark of

DHAKA: The government is going to formulate anti-formalin act keeping provision of life-time imprisonment. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed made the disclosure at a press conference at secretariat in the capital Sunday. On November 4 of last year, cabinet approved principally the draft of