DHAKA: Five people were killed, including one passerby and a leader of Juba League, Swechhasebak League, two BNP men including one Jubo Dal leader and 131 people injured in sporadic clashes across the country on Tuesday, the first day of 48-hour 18-party called blockade.The deceased were

DHAKA: Opposition BNP standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah was held from Natunbazar intersection under Bhatara Thana of the city on Monday night.A team of Detective Branch (DB) of Police held him around 9:00pm. Assistant Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Abu Yusuf

DHAKA: Supporters of BNP-led 18-party alliance started blasting cocktails across the country, including Dhaka city, immediately after the announcement of the 10th parliamentary election schedule on Monday evening.Sources said some miscreants blasted cocktails at a police vehicle front of

DHAKA: Opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance called 48-hour blockade across the country from Tuesday 6:00am to Thursday 6:00pm.Acting secretary of opposition BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announcement at a press conference on Monday night immediate after chief election

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC) announced the 10th parliamentary election schedule on Monday evening amid boycotting of BNP-led 18-party alliance in the all-party government.As per the election schedule, the polls will be held on January 5.Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi

DHAKA: Opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance decided to mull three-day long nonstop hartal and blockade from Tuesday.The hartal and blockade programme will be announced after the election schedule announcement on Monday evening.BNP wants to paralyze the country after the announcement of

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong BNP called daylong hartal for Tuesday in Chittagong protesting the attack on the house of Mostafa Kamal Pasha MP and bullet injury sustained by his son. Metropolitan BNP president Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, in a press conference on Monday morning, made the

DHAKA: Terming the all-party polls-time interim government as ‘new grand alliance government’ and elections under them as ‘farcical’, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh said they would come down on roads with their own agenda.Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh joint secretary general of Mahi B

DHAKA: Senior members of US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations expressed their satisfaction over the role of Jatiya Party (JP) for holding the next general elections fairly.The matter was disclosed in a press release on Sunday.While holding a meeting with Bobby Hajjaj, special envoy of

CHITTAGONG: Son of a lawmaker was shot and the house of them was vandalized during a daylong violence between Awami League and BNP activists at Swandip upazila of the district on Sunday.The victim is Iqbal Pasha Javed, son of local Chittagong-13 Member of Parliament for BNP Mostafa Kamal

CHITTAGONG: Hefajat-e Islam has announced fresh movement programmes to press home their 13-point demand in port city Chittagong and capital city Dhaka.Secretary General of the organization Junaid Babunagari made the announcement in a press conference at Hathazari of the port city on

DHAKA: Chhatra Shibir, front organization of Jamaat-e-Islami, activists blasted five cocktails from a procession at capital’s Bijoynagar on Sunday afternoon.Witness said 5/6 Shibir men brought out a sudden procession around 4:00pm and blasted five cocktails.On information, police rushed

CHITTAGONG: The dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, observed in the port city and upazilas of the district on Sunday amid tight security.The organization observed the shutdown in protest against killing of its activists of Mirsarai upazila.Our correspondents report

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also Awami League President, on Sunday asked leaders and activists to work altogether for the party nominated candidate.The premier came up with the plea while addressing a view exchange meeting with party’s candidacy aspirants for 10th national

DHAKA: Opposition BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will hold a meeting with Bikalpadhara at her Gulshan office on Sunday night.The meeting is scheduled to begin at 8.30pm. Party Chairperson’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter to banglanews.He said, Bikalpadhara

DHAKA: Noted Industrialist Abdul Awal Mintoo’s son Tabith Awal sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s intervention to release of his father immediately.In a statement sent to the press, Tabith Awal claimed Abdul Awal Mintoo is a respectable industrialist and community leader. He also

DHAKA: A Dhaka court placed Barrister Fakhrul Islam, a lawyer of convicted war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, on a four-day remand for police interrogation.Metropolitan Magistrate Md Emdadul Haque passed the order in connection with a case filed for leaking out the draft verdict in

DHAKA: Ruling Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam and opposition BNP Acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had a meeting secretly on Saturday midnight over the ongoing political crisis.Sources said that they held the talks at a Banani residence in the capital

CHITTAGONG: The dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, is underway in the port city and upazilas of the district on Sunday amid stray incidents of violence.The organization is observing the shutdown in protest against killing of its activists of Mirsarai upazila.Our

DHAKA: Opposition BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir opined that that election commissioners has forgotten their oath of holding neutral polls.The BNP leader came up with the assertion while addressing an event to unveil a book titled ‘The political thought of