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

LAXMIPUR: At least five people received bullets injury in a clash between law enforcers and BNP activists in the district town on Thursday morning.Later, district unit of BNP called dawn-to-dusk hartal for Saturday in the district in protest against the incident.The injures are- District

DHAKA: Sajib Wajed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said that BNP and Jamaat have both declared war on Bangladesh. He came up with the comment in his facebook status update at around 11:15 pm Wednesday.The post reads as below—“It appears that the BNP and Jamaat have both

DHAKA: A six-member Chinese delegation met opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan residence on Wednesday night.The delegation led by Director General of the Department of Asian Affairs Luo Zhaohui reached at her residence around 8:10pm.Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li

DHAKA: opposition BNP warned that the movement would continue if the government does not pay heed to the demands of non-party caretaker government during the polls-time.Standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan came up with the forewarning in a press briefing at the chairperson’s

GAIBANDA: Opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance called dawn-to-dusk hartal at Sadar upazila for Thursday protesting arson at business institutions of BNP a leader.District BNP president and 18-party convener Anisuzzaman Khan Babu and general secretary Gawsul Azam Dolar made announcement in

COMILLA: At least 20 people, including five police men, were injured in a clash between Jamaat-Shibir men and police in Syedpur under Burichang upazila of the district on the 5th day of blockade and 3rd day of hartal called by Jamaat (Wednesday) morning.The injured police were identified

DHAKA: The scheduled meeting for Wednesday between UN Assistant Secretary General Taranco and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was cancelled for their busy schedule.Media Adviser to the premier Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury made the disclosure while talking to journalists.He said, “Both Taranco

DHAKA: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami decided to call daylong hartal across the country for Thursday in protest against the government move to execute the death penalty of Jamaat leader Quader Mollah.The party sources said they would declare the shutdown formally on Wednesday evening.The

COMILLA: Three police men were beaten by Jamaat-Shibir men and nine others were injured during a clash with law enforcers near Haydarpul area at Chouddagram upazila under the district on Wednesday.Local sources said police barred a procession of Jamaat-Shibir at around 9.45am in Haydarpul

SYLHET: Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district for Thursday protesting vandalism and raid in party office by police. Sylhet city unit  Shibir president Anwarul Wadud Tipu announced the hartal for Thursday in a pro-hartal rally on

DHAKA: At least 25 people, including police man, were injured in separate clashes between Shibir men and police in Dinajpur and Sylhet districts on Wednesday.Our Dinajpur correspondent reports: At least 10 people were injured in a clash between Shibir, Chhatra League and police in Hazi

DHAKA: Quader Mollah, the convicted war criminal, will not be executed on Wednesday as the Supreme Court adjourned till Thursday the hearing on whether Mollah to be allowed to file review petition challenging the verdict.The five-member full bench led by Chief Justice M Mojammel Hossen

CHITTAGONG: Police held three activists of Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami with petrol from Chandgoan residential area in the port city on Wednesday morning.The detainees are- Jasim, 24, Nazmul, 22 and Masum Billah, 25.Confirming the matter, Chandgoan Thana

DHAKA: The hearing on whether convicted war criminal Quader Mollah to allow filing review petition began on 11:30am Wednesday. Earlier in the morning, the hearing on the stay order in the execution of Jamaat leader Quader Mollah, convicted in war crime cases was held in the full bench of

DHAKA: Activists of Chhatra Shibir clashed with police in front of Judge Court at old Dhaka on Wednesday morning. Shibir claimed that their five activists sustained bullet injuries in police firing but police denied the allegation. Sources said that Jagannath University’s Shibir