DHAKA: The High Court exonerated two former ministers--Anwar Hossain Manju and Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin—from conviction on charges of corruption, overturning the rash justice of the emergency times.An HC division bench scrapped the jail sentences against former minister Anwar Hossain

DHAKA: The Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 on Tuesday sentenced wife of JMB second in-command Bangla Bhai and two others to 20 years jail for possessing explosive substances.Tribunal Judge Mohammad Rezaul Islam fined the convicts Tk 25,000 each, in default, to serve one year more in jail. The

JHENIDAH: One person was killed and 30 others were wounded in a factional fight of the ruling Awami League’s local unit at Achintapur in Shailakupa upazila of the district on Tuesday morning following rivalry for respective supremacy over the village. The victim, Rusdar Ali, was a

DHAKA: The High Court gave BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed MP anticipatory bail in a sedition case filed in Khulna till charge framing.An HC bench comprising Justice Dastagir Ahmed and MK Jahirul Haq passed the order following a petition filed by Moudud Monday seeking bail in the

DHAKA: The High Court Monday granted anticipatory bail to BNP leaders Shah Moazzem Hossain and barrister Rafiqul Islam Mian in a raft of nine sedition cases they are entangled in for their “threatening” speeches against the Prime Minister.An HC bench comprising Justice Mohammad

DHAKA: Significant changes are on the cards in leadership of ultra-right Jamaat-e-Islami party against the backdrop of most top brass of the party in jail with war crimes charges.   The second-tier of the leadership has been brought to the forefront who are comparatively junior to those

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday rejected the bail petitions of four top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, who are now facing trial in the war-crime tribunal, in separate other cases.They are Party Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee, and assistant

DHAKA: Opposition leader Khaleda Zia Monday led a mass march through the capital, asking the government to scrap the latest agreements with India that principally envisages transit to the neighbouring country.The procession of thousands of slogan-chanting activists, with the ex-PM and BNP

RAJSHAHI: Police arrested acting secretary of Rajshahi city Jamaat Abdul Malek from his house in Chhoto Bangram Uttarpara area of the city Monday morning.Boalia model thana OC Sahadat Hossain said the Jamaat leader was arrested in a specific case. He was an accused of a case filed by

DHAKA: BNP lawmaker Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee was barred from going abroad at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Sunday midnight. Anee told banglanews24.com.bd from the airport that immigration authorities obstructed him from taking a flight to Singapore for

DHAKA: The opposition BNP will bring out a mass procession in the capital on Monday as part of its ongoing anti-government movement.Party chairperson and opposition leader Khaleda Zia will lead the march that will start from the historic Paltan ground that was made off-limits to them for

DHAKA: BNP’s standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Sunday said the agreement with India poses a major security threat for the country.“India is one of the powerful states in the world. We will keep relationship with India but not sacrificing everything,” he said while

DHAKA: Opposition BNP`s Standing Committee Member Nazrul Islam Khan Sunday accused Awami League government of hatching conspiracy against peaceful demonstration by the party. “The government is hatching conspiracy against our peaceful demonstration of mass procession," he said after

DHAKA: BNP Standing Committee member Dr Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain Sunday termed Bangladesh’s latest credit agreement with an Indian bank “unequal and disgraceful” for the country.“The government signed the agreement with a private bank of India which is disgraceful for the

DHAKA: The main opposition BNP Sunday morning continued its mass contact and leaflet distribution for the second day to make its scheduled mass march August 9 a success, with central leaders lading at different points of the capital. Under the 2-day warm-up move, leaders and activists are

KHULNA: A sedition case was filed against BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed and former Jamaat MP Dr Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher here Sunday for delivering “provocative” speeches against the government.  Additional Public Prosecutor Advocate MM Sazzad Ali filed the

DHAKA: Awami League presidium member Begum Matia Chowdhury Saturday said BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has been hatching conspiracy against the country from her Cantonment resident. “Khaleda Zia will be ousted from her cantonment resident through legal procedure. Law will go on its

DHAKA: The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Saturday announced their plan to go for movement to compel the Awami League-led grand alliance government to cancel all the deals with India that “go against Bangladesh’s interest”.     “In order to cling to power, the

DHAKA: Opposition BNP leader and former minister Mirza Abbas was Saturday taken on a fresh three-day remand in a case of his alleged involvement in torching vehicles during the June 27 hartal.Metropolitan Magistrate Abdullah-al-Mamun passed the order giving him to police for grilling over

DHAKA: Barisal BNP’s simmering inner-conflict erupted into a factional clash at party’s Naya Paltan central office Saturday, leaving at least 10 wounded, including former mayor Mujibur Rahman Sarwar.Asadul Karim Shahin, assistant office secretary of the central BNP, was also injured