DHAKA: Opposition BNP Vice-Chairman Sadek Hossain Khoka, also city BNP convener, was detained at Uttara in the city on Wednesday night.A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police picked up the BNP leader around 10:00pm.Personal Assistant of the leader Monir Hossain confirmed the

DHAKA: Visiting foreign affairs secretary of India Sujatha Singh on Wednesday categorically said her country wants political stability and uninterrupted democracy in Bangladesh.She came up with the assertion at a meeting with opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan residence

FENI: A Jubo Dal leader was killed and 50 others were injured in a clash with cops after blockaders attacked police outpost at SSK Road of the district on Wednesday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Harun, 32, vice president of Nogor Union Jubo Dal.Resident Medical Officer of Feni

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel entered Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad’s house while additional forces of police were standing guard outside.       Sources said a team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) entered his house in the evening immediately after the JP boss

COX’S BAZAR: Opposition BNP called dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district for Thursday protesting arrest of some BNP leaders including Swechchhasebak Dal president Azizur Rahman. District BNP office secretary Yusuf Badri confirmed the matter to banglanews on Wednesday.The shutdown will

DHAKA: Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad said his party would not participate in the upcoming election if participation of all political parties is not ensured.He said, “All ministers who are in all party government have been asked to resign. All nomination aspirants who submitted

MYMENSINGH: A Swechhasebak League leader was chopped to death in Siddique Master Road area of the city around on Wednesday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Arman Islam, 29.Officer-in-Charge of Kotwali Model Thana Golam Sarwar told banglanews that Arman might have been killed over

COMILLA: Law enforcers nabbed 47 people including Barura Municipality mayor and upazila Jubo Dal secretary Jasim Uddin Patoary during a secret meeting from a local hotel in the cantonment area on Wednesday afternoon.Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) of Katwali Thana Shamsuzzaman Khan told

MANIKGANJ: Opposition BNP called dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district for Thursday protesting exclusion of senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman’s from voter list and arrests of central leaders. The district BNP leaders announced the hartal programme after a protest rally on Wednesday.The

DHAKA: Land, Disaster Management and Relief Minister Amir Hossian Amu claimed that the law-order-situation is improving day by day.The minister came up with the observation Wednesday afternoon while talking to journalists after first meeting of cabinet committee on law orders.Amu said,

DHAKA: The hartal, called by opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance, is underway in seven upazilas of Chittagong and Sirajganj, Chapainawabganj, Magura and Bhola districts on Wednesday.The alliance is enforcing the shutdown in protest against government actions and killing of opposition men

DHAKA: Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, also former President of the country, summoned candidates and senior leaders of the party.The senior leaders and candidates were asked to appear in front of the ‘President Park’, the residence of HM Ershad, in city’s Baridhara area on

DHAKA: A Dhaka court rejected the 10-day remand prayer for interrogating BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed in a case filing for petrol bomb attack at Shahbagh.Metropolitan magistrate MA Salam of the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court passed the order on

DHAKA: Chhatra Dal men blasted eight cocktails in city’s Mirpur area on Wednesday morning, the fifth day of 131-hour roads-railways and waterways blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance.Law enforcers, however, nabbed four blockaders from the spot with petrol at around 7:30

GAIBANDHA: Five people were killed and 40 others injured after derailment of an express train as miscreants removed fishplates of rail line near to Bonarpara rail station in the district early Wednesday. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Railway sources said

DHAKA: The fifth day of the countrywide 131-hour road-rail-waterway blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, is progressing amid disruption of rail services in several districts.Meanwhile, due to the blockade, the rail and road communications around the country are being

GAZIPUR: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday alleged that that the blockaders are plotting to sink launches and ferries to destabilize the country in the name of movement.“As per information there are directives to blockaders to sink launches and ferries on river rout,” she

SATKHIRA: District Jamaat called dawn-to-dusk hartal for Wednesday in the district protesting killing of two Shibir activists.The announcement of the shutdown came from a press release of the party on Tuesday.District Jamaat publicity secretary Azizur Rahman confirmed the matter to

DHAKA: The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed, urged the two major political parties of the country to reach in consensus as the time is running towards the polls.The CEC made the plea in response to a query while talking to journalists at Election Commission (EC)

SATKHIRA: A Juba League activist was beaten to death by blockaders in Mahmudpur area under Sadar upazila of the district on Tuesday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Giash Uddin, 30, a Juba League activist of Itagachha union under the upazila.Sources said Giash and his one friend